SAC Vanilla Strawberry Incense Sticks

Second review - scroll down for earlier

Synthetic fruit and vanilla scent on the stick. Smells more like apple than strawberry. Pleasant citric notes. Some parma violet. There's fruit and a bit of Vick's VapourRub - lemony lavender. I'm not getting strawberry. Some cherry cough sweets. Ha! I'm going round the world of artificial fruit flavours, but not settling on strawberry at all. The burn is pretty much the same as on the stick, though warmer, and with some charcoal ash. It's modest stuff, but quite acceptable as a fairly bright and fun room freshener. 

Date: Feb 2024   Score: 23

First review

Small 8 pack of perfumed-incense sticks, 90p from the charming, but slightly inept TerracottaSenses (they may not have all that they list, and they may not be clear about what they are substituting, so difficult to recommend). SAC are a capable low cost perfumed incense company who also make some useful but not brilliant masala. They are not an incense company I'd ever see myself enthusing over, but the scents are acceptable, everyday stuff. These are hand rolled perfumed-charcoal sticks. The perfume on the stick is pleasant - slightly acidic with a fruity note that could be strawberry or could be blueberry or even parma violet. Meh. It's pleasant, but not exciting. 

The scent on the burn, as is usual with perfumed incense, is not as sharp and sweet as on the stick, though is similar enough to be quite acceptable. The vanilla now makes itself known, and the fruit element takes a back seat. 

It's an acceptable everyday perfumed-incense. Nothing more. Nothing less.  But very pleasant. And it has grown on us...

Date: Nov 2022   Score: 28

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SAC (Sandesh)