Satya (BNG) Frankincense

This is very pleasant. Sweet, slightly vanilla like, and with a mild sense of halmaddi. It is a traditional masala incense, so if you like traditional masala, you'll like this. It's fairly middle of the road, there's nothing special about it, but nothing bad either. Some masala halmaddi enthusiasts may find it a little bland, but nobody should actively dislike it. It has a pleasant oily quality - a warm sensual essential oil scent, sweet, woody, and more toward sandalwood than frankincense, though it has some orange oil and church incense notes as well, which for me are key ingredients in frankincense. It smells better on the stick than it does when burned, though I find this is fairly common to most incenses. On the whole I find this "very nice" rather than "wow!", and while a pleasant example of frankincense,  not for me a defining example, which tends to be the resin itself.

This is made by Balkrishna Setty, the brother who has the original Satya factory in Bangalore, and uses the original Satya production methods and recipes,


Date: July 2019    Score:   39

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Satya (Shrinivas Sugandhalaya)

Frankincense