Goloka Nature's Rose

A soft, crumbly charcoal paste hand rolled round a machine-cut, orange dyed bamboo splint, then coated in a soft brown woody melnoorva powder. The scent on the stick is quite powerful, delivered by some form of liquid fragrance. It's quite heady and rose-floral with elements of a creamy sandalwood and informed by some softly sharp notes like cucumber, with hints of  herbs, spice, and honey. Interesting. There's a lot going on here - it's fun to sniff and pick up different scent combinations each time. It is a fresh and attractive scent combination - the heady floral notes cut by the other, not easily identifiable elements, which serve to balance and add interest to the floral. 

The burn replicates much of the olfactory experience of the stick, though leans more on the sandalwood and herbs, giving a woodier and greener ambiance. The scent gently but firmly informs the room - not too heavy, not too light. Just there. I like this, though not quite as much as on my last review.  Returning to my original score of 39. 

The blurb on the box says: "a unique blend of rare Herbs, Flowers, Honey, Resins and Oils".  The fragrant oils appear to me to be doing much of the lifting, so I'm classing this as a Perfumed Masala. 

Date: April 2023    Score: 39 

This is a gorgeous scent - part of Goloka's Nature series. It is sweet and sultry and floral all at once creating a summer salad of freshness and light to fill the room with sunshine and happiness, and just enough sex and desire to keep things interesting. It is a very feminine scent - confident, alluring, bright, happy, and very sultry. Naked in a transparent floral summer dress. Wow! Love it.

The full set of Nature appears to be 11 different scents, which are available in the UK here for £12.99 [update 2023 - offer no longer available] including postage, plus a pack of Satya's Nag Champa.  Exotic Incense in America carries six of the scents, including Nature's Rose.

I've just noticed that there are 12 different scents, and all 12 are available from Amazon UK for £11 [update 2023 - price now £12.50].

Date: July 2018   Score: 42

There's a sultry and heady aroma on the sticks which emerges immediately the pack is open, and grabs the attention. It's very honey sweet yet prickled with camphor which prevents it becoming cloying.  On burning, the damp wool notes of halmaddi come forward, perhaps a bit too sharply for my taste. As the aroma settles there are some very attractive notes that come forth - a sort of tangerine jelly, fresh cut grass, spearmint, damp leather, fresh rain. A range of  shifting and mesmerising aromas - some that tease, just out of reach of recognition, yet so familiar. A memory of pleasing aromas. The more this burns the more I love it.

Date: March 2016   Score: 39

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Goloka

Best rose incense

/457 - 463