Koya's Bajrangi Darshan Premium Incense Sticks

 

This is quite an insistent and smoky dry, herbal incense where, for me, the scent does not compensate for the rather heavy intrusion. If someone likes the dry herbal incenses of Tibet, they might favour this. But we don't get on with it in our house - our preference being for lighter, sweeter scents, or for richer, musky seductive  aromas, or something that changes or offers some kind of interest. This blunders off in one direction and doesn't deviate or change until it dies or is put out - I've only once burned a stick all the way through, and we were all suffering as one stick can penetrate deeply through the house creating something of a headachy fug. Now, if someone favours this sort of earthy, herbal incense, they might well regard the intensity of the incense, and the length of the burn as a generous positive. It's all a personal judgement. There is nothing wrong with the quality of this - it's just not for us. 

Bajrangi means strongly built or a fighter - often someone who fights for good. Darshan is a little more complicated, it mostly seems to mean viewing a god and also being seen by a god, so there is a sense of revelation about the word. So in a sense Bajrangi Darshan could mean something like masculine revelation or awareness of strength. Koya's webpage on the incense says this: "Bajrangi Darshan just simply showcases how powerful and strong even a tender flower could be that it could inflict upon men the irresistible attraction towards floral aroma." Though, while I don't doubt that there are flower parts ground into the incense (it's a dry charcoal and woody masala paste rolled around a bamboo stick dyed pink), I'm not picking up much in the way of an actual floral aroma. 

Date: Jan 2022    Score: 23 

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