A fresh box of Satya Rose. Oooh. This is lovely. Sugar sweet. Delicate floral rose - not heavy and old fashioned, but light and playful and a little bit sexy with hints of strawberries. Really like this one. Lifts the room, lifts the mood. An incense to make you smile and if you're young to dream ahead and hope, while if you're old, to reminisce of old romances....
Checking the box, I note that it is an older style box with the old Satya family logo, and the old website address of nagchampa.co.in (now taken over by a Chinese company). The incense smells really fresh - not like stock dating from before 2014 (when the brothers split up, and the logos changed).
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| The logo on the box is the pre-2014 one |
It is a highly perfumed incense, and I feel that the perfume would have evaporated if kept in storage for at least six years. I wonder if this is a fake? Next time I buy some incense I'll get another box of the Satya Rose and see what logo is used. Fake or not, this is a very attractive cone!
Date: Dec 2020 Score: 40
OK. I have a sample box of the Satya rose cones I burned last year, and I've popped one into a cute looking, but totally impracticable Chinese jade burner I bought off eBay many years ago. They are still listed there - thousands of them - usually listed as vintage jade or vintage silver. They can be bought very cheap, but they can also go up to silly prices because they look so cute. But they are not genuine, they are not old, and they are not incense burners. They are purely ornamental. In order to get them to burn incense you have to make holes in the bottom in order to get an air flow, otherwise the cones just goes out. Also, you need to put the cones on a heat resistant stand (you often get free stands in a cone packet - either a metal one, or ceramic, or clay) before putting it in the burner, otherwise the burner gets VERY HOT! Even with that, it is advisable to put the burner on a heat resistant surface.
Anyway - the rose incense. It's a delicate floral scent, hints of strawberry in with the rose. It is a pleasant scent - quite soft, delicate, and light, so if you don't want a rich, heady rose scent, then this is a good alternative. Rose is not one of my favourite scents, so I'm not inclined to get this again, but it is quite nice.
Date: Feb 2017 Score: 28
Tatty little box of cones found near the bottom of my incense collection. The seal had been broken, so I've burned these in the past, and the remainder have been exposed to the air, so they are not fresh. I'm not getting any of the high floral notes, just the basic base notes. Really no point in giving a score as they are not as they should be. Put this here as a marker to remind me to get some fresh cones to rate.
Date: July 2016 Score: NA
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| Satya Shrinivas Sugandhalaya of Bangalore |
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| Best rose incense |
