Dense oily perfume on the stick - quite damp and weighty, fairly floral. Not really a sandalwood aroma, though some comes through deep inside - as with the Satya Mumbai Sandalwood, there is some cedar wood quality to the wood scent. There is a lot of fragrant dust on the stick - rather more than on the Mumbai - and a fair amount of this drifts off on handling. The scent is a little soapy, and a little herbal, some fruit, some floral, not a lot of wood, let alone sandalwood. There is an odd touch of stale washed clothing - that scent when clothing has been washed, but not aired properly. It sounds bad, but it's not. It's curious. The scent is on the whole sort of interesting or intriguing rather than pleasant or unpleasant.
Comparing Satya (Mumbai) Sandalwood with this sandalwood it's difficult to compare like for like as neither of them seem to have tackled the sandalwood straight on. This "natural" version is certainly more interesting, while the Sandalwood is more conventional and pleasant, but somewhat modest and inconsistent. Neither of them are good examples of sandalwood. Indeed, neither of them are good examples of incense, but are kind of acceptable everyday incenses in their own right. You can burn them in your house as a standard daytime room freshener, they are not unpleasant, but don't expect more than that from them.
Date: Sept 2020 Score: 25
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