Fair Trade Om Dragons Blood

This is another incense I picked up in the Yin Yang shop in Glastonbury by a company which at first I appeared not to know. I like to explore as many incense companies as I can, so I bought some. The price was just £1.65 for 15 grams - a bloody bargain! The omincenseworks.com address on the packet redirects to omnagchampa.com which turns out to be Bombay Incense - a British based company who do most of their business in America, and who import Nitiraj incense which I have reviewed in Original and Red formats, and found them decent masala sticks. Nothing outstanding, but decent undemanding everyday stuff that you can burn in the background. 

The delightful Yin Yang shop in Glastonbury

Bombay Incense import the incense, but further research revealed that Om is manufactured by Fair Trade Incense Works in Mumbai, India, who also make the Nitiraj incenses. From this website message in July 2018, it appears that Bombay Incense has either taken over Fair Trade Incense, or it was the same company all along, but using different names for different divisions. Anyway, as of April 2018, all UK distribution of Nitiraj and Om incense will be done by the well meaning but slightly inept Ian Snow. (See my review of Zodiac Scents for the reason I feel Ian Snow are well meaning but inept).

Like the Nitiraj incenses this is a masala incense, and smells quite yummy on the stick - sweet and with some warm woolly notes of halmaddi. It burns quite lightly, and at times it can be hard to detect anything, but it does gently inform the room with vanilla and white chocolate, or church incense, or pear and cooked apple, or just smoke, depending on who is smelling the fragrance. Essentially this is a gentle and gently pleasant incense with a subtle, but essentially gently yummy scent. It's likeable rather than heavenly.  This could certainly be used to prepare a room for visitors, as it is a clean, gentle, and attractive scent, but is not heavy. People may not even notice you have been burning incense, but would subtly pick up appealing and yummy scents in your home.  If there is a complaint its that for me, with my halmaddi aversion, prolonged exposure can give me some of the negative responses I get to halmaddi - headache, dry eyes, tickly throat - without the corresponding delight of a heady or heavenly aroma. For me, this is one to burn and leave the room or house....

Date: April 2018    Score:  28

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Dragon's blood

Fair Trade Incense Works