Balarama Tangy Gifts Black Coconut

I bought this online from Head In The Clouds, a hippy shop in Norwich which has been going since 1971.  It looks just like the old head shops I used to visit in Portobello Road back in the day. Tangy Gifts are a trade supplier to hippy shops and dope shops. The sticks are the same as Zam Zam - it's just another trading name.

This is a darker, more sombre, and less appealing scent that most of the other foil wrapped incense I've been trying. It's kind of interesting, but is failing for me. There's a sort of damp mould combined with old paint smell from this. On the stick there is a sort of hairy coconut scent, combined with paint and turpentine. Hmmm. On the whole I'm not getting into this. It's not ugly or offensive - and there is something compelling and intriguing about the darker and less usual scents coming from this, but it's not for me.

[Added 2024]: These sticks are made by Balarama of Thailand, who are quite possibly also the source for Kuumba incense.


Date: Jan 2018   Score: 22

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Balarama Foil-wrapped

Coconut incense