Sage Spirit are a company founded in 1995 by a Native American tribe, the Jicarilla Apache, who live on the Jicarilla reservation in New Mexico, not far from the border with Colorado. Burning sage smudge sticks is part of Native American rituals, and the company make and sell traditional sage smudges, but have also branched out into making Asian style incense sticks. Blue Corn Flower is part of the company's Nature Spirit range, and I bought these for £2.88 for 12 sticks from www.holisticshop.co.uk - not cheap, but they are decent quality, and somewhat unusual, being made by Apaches.
I still do like this incense, but after two years in my Top 10 I am dropping it down. While it is an attractive, subtle, pleasant, and intriguing scent - and it has the added attraction of being made by Apache Indians, I do feel the soft nature of the scent limits its use, and there are other scents to which I more readily turn these days. So I am moving it out of my Top 10 listing.
Date: March 2015 Score: 38
Two years after I first reviewed these in 2013, and I'm revisiting these sticks to see how much I still like them. There is a small amount of black charcoal paste with a volatile perfume soaked into it. The perfume is delicate and very attractive. It's not a huge fragrance, but it does illuminate and lift a room. This would work well to welcome people, and to create a relaxing mood. It's definitely a bedroom or living room scent rather than bathroom or kitchen. As these sticks are now quite old, the scent when getting close to the stick is more of the sharp base notes than the subtle perfume, but the subtle perfume does work well at a distance. As I liked these so much when I first tried them, and I still like them now two years later, I'm going to try more of the Sage Spirit range, and I'm pleased to see that the price today is slightly lower at £2.64.
Date: Feb 2015 Score: 38
As soon as you take them out of the packet there is an engaging flowery aroma - deep scented rose petal and white grape. Very relaxing, very calming, very feminine. The sticks burn with little smoke; the scent as the stick burns is soft, gentle, sensual, and mildly perfumed. It's subtle and alluring. While there are wood burning notes, and a touch of base sandalwood and charcoal, the majority of the aroma is of a gentle, feminine, flowery perfume. The scent left behind in the room is clean, fragrant, pleasant and mild. It freshens the room with subtle hints. It is a soothing and meditative incense.
Date: March 2013 Score: 41
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ReplyDeleteThe above comments are from Sarathi who trade under the Tulasi brand name. Tulasi have been marketing themselves quite strongly in the UK with cheap everyday perfumed incense, positioning themselves as competitors to HEM. They're OK if buying very cheap, but these days the pound stores are selling decent quality perfumed incense much cheaper than HEM or Tulasi, so better deals are available if just looking for a cheap everyday incense.