One Aromatics Cedarwood

Sometimes what I fancy is some woody, serious incense. Something a bit dark and sombre, outdoorsy, a little masculine. Cedarwood is the sort of thing. I've burned a few of these One Aromatics Cedarwood recently, and find I quite like them when a sombre, woodsy sort of scent is called for.  I was burning one today, and recalled a couple of other cedarwood incense I had, and dug them out. One is Sifcon Cinnamon Cedarwood, which is remarkably similar, though in our household we felt the Sifcon to be the more woodsy. However, the girls preferred this One Aromatics as it was more smoky and friendly.   We also compared the Nippon Morning Star Cedarwood, something I hadn't been that kind to when I first reviewed it,  and found it to be a remarkably pleasant scent, if not exactly cedarwood or even that woodsy - there is wood present, but there's also oranges and tea, and seaweed and jasmine. I am more inclined to the Morning Star than on previous visits, but not necessarily as a cedarwood scent.  All in all I'm moving One Aromatics Cedarwood up out of the top end of the Everyday Incense group to just nudge into our Decent Stuff group.


Date: June 2018   Score: 30↑

There's an initial promise on the stick of marzipan, fruit, violets, and band-aid - quite interesting. This is a charcoal stick rolled with a thin powder, and then perfume-dipped. The perfume solvent makes itself known on burning, and it's more of a sense of burning solvent rather than the exquisite fragrance of cedarwood, or any of the other promising scents on the stick Through the solvent we do get, eventually, some pencil shavings, but it's all a bit late and a bit modest. That's not to say that this is an unpleasant incense - far from it. It's a decent enough everyday scent. Better than a toilet cleaner, but not heavenly enough to transport me, or to burn when visitors come round.

It's fairly cleansing, though mostly emotionally neutral. There's dark sombre tones amongst the cleansing notes, but it's not a depressing scent - nothing to bring you down. Could be used for sombre moments. Perhaps when you want a scent, but don't want to be distracted. There are sharp notes that would keep you alert, so perhaps useful for when studying or concentrating or just simply reading and not wanting to fall asleep. Yeah. Could be useful.


Date: June 2017   Score: 27

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One Aromatics

A cedarwood sampling