San Miguel Arcangel (or Arcangel Miguel, as it appears in my set) is one of a set of 7 Arcangels - seven archangel themed incenses sold by SAC, either individually or as part of a set of seven.
The scent is "Arruda", which is the herb common rue, which has a variety of uses, including as a food flavouring, a folk medicine used as an antidote for snake poison, or to improve eyesight, as a symbol of virginity and purity, and as an insect repellent. When reduced to an essential oil, the active ingredient is 2-Undecanone, which is used in perfumery to support floral notes.
It's a pleasant everyday scent. The aroma is familiar, but I can't quite pin it down. It's not highly floral or woody - it's quite a mineral scent, fairly neutral. Some suggestion of lavender. Quite cleansing and invigorating. A good scent for the start of the day.
Date: April 2021 Score: 25
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SAC (Sandesh) |
I like Satya. Decent quality masala incense, easily available and sold at good prices. They have had some flack from certain incense fans who speculate about the diminishing quality due to not using halmaddi any more, but that is a misunderstanding. After the father died, the two brothers took over the company. The brother who was in control of distribution decided to break out on his own. The other brother keeping the factory. As the distribution brother did not have the factory, and knew little about the making of incense, for a while quality did drop in the incense he was selling (mostly in America where he had the contacts - there was less of an impact in the UK and other parts of the world). The brother with the factory then took him to court because he was bringing down the reputation of the family name. The brothers came to an agreement, and all the Satya incense is now back to the quality it has always been. The quality of the incense from the brother with the factory never diminished. It had nothing to do with supplies of Halmaddi, as - even though the Indian government banned the harvesting of halmaddi in certain plantations for a while (now relaxed), halmaddi was still available to import.
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