Vijayshree Golden Hit Masala Agarbathi

Vijayshree was founded in 1990, and has three sites in Bangalore.  They use all natural ingredients, such as halmaddi (allanthus manbarca), nagchampa (mesua ferrea linn), sandalwood, and loban (boswellia sernata roxb). I have loved two previous Vijayshree incense I have tried, Golden Nag Chandan and Golden Nag Champa Masala Cones. I really like this one as well, good quality masala incense, but it doesn't rock my world. This is a good quality but fairly generic masala incense that is likely to fall somewhere in the middle of most people's appreciation. It's all good, pleasant stuff, with a particular but not excessive focus on halmaddi as a fragrant ingredient so it is a little vanilla scented and a little bit vanilla in character. The halmaddi is gently sweet, with that distinctive warm wool scent, and sharp little prickles (which are not offensive here). But there's not a lot else going on. Having said that, I have burned this a lot since getting it (from a small incense trader in The Loft Ladder, Southampton), and it is very much top of my everyday incense list at the moment!


Date: Sept 2019  Score:  39

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