Balaji World Premium Incense Sticks

  

Second review - scroll down for earlier

I've returned to this after a year. It remains a mass produced, machine-extruded everyday perfumed incense. Though I'm finding it kinda interesting, and I'm liking it more now than I did last year - it is a perfume fragrance, slightly musky, slightly floral, with an accord of sweet tobacco, rather like the old children's sweet (which is still sold, either as Sweet Tobacco or Spanish Gold). Yes, it is vague, and it is clunky, and it is a bit smoky and heady (made more for the hot and vibrant Indian market than the cold and grey UK), but it has its charm. Yeah - different day, different moment, different mood. 


Date: Oct 2023   Score: 29
 

First review

This is a low-end everyday perfumed-charcoal incense. The scent is fairly generic perfumed incense. Slightly acidic. Fairly vague. Not attractive or interesting enough for me to bother with working out what it actually smells like. It's not dreadful, but it's not great either. It's sort of - meh.  

It's a rather decent packet - quite large, with a range of images from around the world. The packet is probably the best thing about it. Cost 30 Rupees (approx 30p) for 15 sticks in India. 75p from Popat Stores in the UK (or you could splash out and treat yourself by paying £2.99 for the same thing from eBay, or £2.69 from IndiaBazaar). 

Date: Oct 2022   Score: 21

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Balaji Agarbatti Company