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| Second review - scroll down for earlier |
I first and last reviewed this Nature's Paritatha in 2017. I have a fresh pack, and I still have the pack from 2017. Both inner sleeves are in the same pack, and I don't know which is the fresher one. The sticks in the one pack have a paler finishing powder, and a softer, more delicate fragrance. There are more sticks in this pack, so my assumption initially was that this was the newer pack, but then I note from my photo in 2017, that those sticks are also pale The scent is roughly the same on both - sandalwood base with lively and youthful florals and fruit, some fresh acidity - but the darker sticks have a greater pungency, more weight on the sandalwood, are less delicate and less delightful. Both are good. But I'm favouring the paler sticks as being more delicate and balanced.
I light up the paler sticks first. There is a very gentle scent on the burn. Perhaps a little too gentle. Woody notes tend to outweigh the florals. The darker stick on the burn is more balanced, delicate, floral, beautiful, and gives enough of itself to be noticeable without being overbearing. Oooh, it is lovely. I move them around the house, and change rooms, and my experience starts to shift and then merge, until I find that there is no essential difference. Both alter as they burn - sometimes focused more on the woody, base notes, and then more balanced and floral. I end up liking both about the same.
Date: March 2025 Score: 37
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| First review |
Oooh, this has a nostalgic note. Open the box and a lovely fresh fragrance comes out, with distinct hints of tangerine among the summer flower petals. It's a lively, invigorating aroma spiked with sharp lemony-tinged civet and jasmine. Quite floral, but in a fresh citric manner. On burning the base sandalwood notes come in providing a warm base for the citric floral higher notes. Parijatha is sometimes written parijata, and is a night-scented jasmine, which has significance in Hindu mythology as the sacred tree of life.
On the whole this is a warm fragrance, which grounds a room, but in an invigorating manner. Great as a scent any time.
Date: Feb 2017 Score: 35
On the whole this is a warm fragrance, which grounds a room, but in an invigorating manner. Great as a scent any time.
Date: Feb 2017 Score: 35
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| Goloka |
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| Best jasmine incense |
https://ratnagandh.wordpress.com/2024/01/13/goloka-parijatha/. My goloka parijatha pack is different then the one you have. It’s still my favorite incense.i bit the 100g incense for cheap, it costs 160 rs which is 1.5 pounds. Did not get the civet note in it but still will try it again if it has that civet note.
ReplyDeleteSeveral people have told me that Goloka has not been so good recently, and there are rumours that they no longer make the incense themselves. I haven't bought a box for several years as I have Goloka boxes which I haven't reviewed yet. I reckon it's going to be at least two years of solid work on my backlog before I can consider getting a fresh pack of Goloka to see how they are these days.
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