Goloka Blessings Incense Courage (Night Queen & Sandalwood)

Another Blessings Incense. I tried the Rose incense a couple of months back, and found it a modest everyday incense. Blessings is a budget masala series by Goloka, sold in traditional hexagonal boxes. There appear to be twelve scents in the series, with wishful names such as Courage, Prosperity, Courage, Good Health, etc. It is quite common for incenses to be sold with such wishful names in the belief that burning them will bring the desired blessings. There is often a sense with such incense that the aesthetic qualities of the scent doesn't really matter, so they can be said to fall within the scope of spiritual or ritual incense, I got this from the IanSnow online shop in a clearance sale. When I looked  in Nov 2018 none of the Blessings series appears to be available in the UK, though they are on sale in Australia and the US.

This Night Queen & Sandalwood is, like the Rose, a very modest incense with little awareness of the intended scents. There's a modest amount of smoke producing a modest aroma of "masala incense" - you know, that vague warm woody scent tinged with damp lamb's wool and barnyard straw. This is clearly a budget incense - there is almost as much bamboo stick as fragrant ingredients. I removed some of the powder coating the stick, and crumbled it up. It is moist with an essential oil. When fresh out of the pack, the sticks have the oily, petrol tang of an essential oil. The sticks appear to be  machine made - very evenly applied paste, and a very even burn.

These are OK modest everyday incense, but are clearly budget, quite possibly an experiment by Goloka, and not to be confused with their regular output.


Date: Jan 2019   Score: 28

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