Yadalam Vaastu Champa Dhoop (out of business)

Second review - scroll down for earlier review

A more recent review is at Yadalam Vaastu Champa Thick Dhoop

These Vaastu dhoops are modest, but rather pleasant.

Date: Nov 2018  Score: 37*

Bought from JustAromatherapy  for around a £1. These are great value and quite attractive dhoop sticks. They are chunky and well made - burning slowly and evenly, and releasing a very pleasant sweet aroma - base notes of sandalwood and top notes of jasmine. There's also some herby notes - burnt leaves - which sometimes linger at the edges, but mostly it is the very sweet and pleasant fragrance that I experience. The Champa name appears to refer to plumeria or frangipani, a fragrant flowering shrub, rather than the champaca of Nag Champa, which is a plant in the magnolia family.

Champa (or frangipani)

The box contains a dhoop stick holder (as the dhoop sticks are thicker than joss sticks), and a small box of 10 mini dhoop sticks (see Sree Yadalam Gomaathaa Dhoop Bathi). The free holder also has holes for the mini dhoops. It's a good package. The sticks take a little more effort to light as they are so thick - and it helps to blow gently when they catch to encourage the glow to take hold.

I have enjoyed these, and the price is very reasonable, so I went back to Just Aromatherapy to order another box, and more fragrances in the same range. Then I paused, and did a Google search for Vaastu Champa Dhoop, and found that TheAsianCookshop do the same range for about 20% less, so that's where I shall be buying them!

[Update, Oct 2018, The Asian Cookshop no longer sell Vaastu, but Just Aromatherapy still have them for £1.05 a pack] 

[Update 2024:] Nobody sells this any more. 

The dhoops were made by Yadalam (Sree Yadalam Dhoops Industries) of Bangalore, under their Gomaathaa trademark. Gomaatha is the Indian name for the cow as the holy mother. The company went bankrupt last year (2012), with the Central Bank of India selling off  some of the companies assets. However, as of 2018, they appear to still be trading.


Date: July 2013   Score: 32*

[*Score is over five years old so may not be reliable]

***

Yadalam / Gomaathaa
(out of business)

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