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| Second review - scroll down for earlier |
This is a hex box of Bharath Darshan by Asoka Trading. [2024 comment: Asoka are now trading under the Bharath Darshan name.]
I love this incense. It's musky and sweet with vanilla and some highly perfumed floral notes which apparently come from kewda, a distillation of the fragrant male flower of the pandanus plant. I want to explore more incense by this company as it's the sort of stuff I love for everyday incense burning.
Date: March 2017 Score: 37↑
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| First review |
Part of a pack of six different boxes each containing eight sticks, bought cheaply from a gift shop. The boxes do not give any information of the maker, though the inside wrapper says Asoka Trading Co. One of the boxes says Made in China, though Asoka are based in Bangalore. One of the boxes is trade marked as Shashi Industries. The sticks are all made the same - very neatly rolled charcoal and sandalwood paste onto pink dyed bamboo sticks, and then dipped in perfume. These are your standard everyday budget sticks in which there is little sense of the named scent, and what you mainly get is the aroma of the burning base material.
According to The Incense Man, the name means Pilgrimage to Ancient India. There is camphor and bees wax furniture polish aromas on the stick, along with some floral, mainly rose, notes. Ooh, this is pleasant when lit. Coconut and vanilla. Quite creamy and sweet and inviting. This is their own scent mix, and it appears to be their most popular stick. The aroma is certainly the best of the pack, and is flexible enough to be used in various places at various times. It can be used as a cheerful daytime scent to waken up and refresh a room. It's good stuff.
Date: May 2015 Score: 28
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New information: I mistakenly said that Asoka sources incense from darshan but now I learnt that Darshan International has bought the Asoka Incenses along with Aparanji in the year 2000, I’ve edited the information on my review on this incense- https://ratnagandh.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/asoka-darshan-bharath-darshan/
ReplyDeleteKindly please edit the information.
Cool. I removed that statement. It had appeared for a while that they were the same company.
DeleteDarshan hasn't bought Asoka. They are the same company. They've just changed their trading name to that of their best known product.
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