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| Second review - scroll down for earlier |
The scent on the stick ("cool throw") is bloody glorious. Quite perfumed, but a beautiful blend. I've had a couple of poor experiences with Vijayshree recently, so questioned the quality of the scent on the burn. I scraped off the perfumed wood powder on the stick for the Golden Nag Mantra, and just burned the charcoal paste. It had almost no scent. So my assumption was that Vijayshree were using charcoal blanks, and all the scent was being added to the wood powder on the stick in a perfume-dipped manner. I have done the same with this Chandan - scrapped off the fragrant powder (usually called melnoorva or masala powder) for the first inch or so, leaving the powder on the rest of the stick.
There is a gentle aroma of pleasant soft sandalwood. But very faint, and it could be me still smelling the powder in the room. When the burn gets to the powder on the stick, the aroma is slightly stronger. On the whole the burn scent is attractive, soft, creamy sandalwood. Light, gently sweet, hints of floral. Quite clean, fresh, and perfumed. I like it. But it is gentle. And it's not as scintillating as the scent on the stick. However, it does leave the room with a clean, fresh, scraped white wood aroma. I'm not sure where I am with this company right now.
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| The fragrant powder scraped off at the top |
There is a gentle aroma of pleasant soft sandalwood. But very faint, and it could be me still smelling the powder in the room. When the burn gets to the powder on the stick, the aroma is slightly stronger. On the whole the burn scent is attractive, soft, creamy sandalwood. Light, gently sweet, hints of floral. Quite clean, fresh, and perfumed. I like it. But it is gentle. And it's not as scintillating as the scent on the stick. However, it does leave the room with a clean, fresh, scraped white wood aroma. I'm not sure where I am with this company right now.
Date: Jan 2025 Score: 32
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| First review |
Ooh, this is yummy. My sort of incense. Creamy and dreamy scent on the stick. Beautiful sandalwood - a sweet woodiness edging toward floral, with some hints of a woolly magnolia halmaddi. It's all so fresh and natural smelling.
The burn is honest, being very close to the scent on the stick. I don't know if the burn scent comes from dried masala ingredients - true resins and woods, or from perfumes or oils, but it does present as natural. My main complaint is that it's rather a fast, hot burn. However, it does gently envelope the room. I feel comfortably embraced by a brilliant sandalwood scent. Oh, this is heavenly!
And this can be bought at a stunning price - £10 for twelve 15g packets (total 180g) from Amazon. Individual packets can be bought from MindBodySpirit for £2 a pack, or TerracottaSenses for £1.60 a pack.
Date: Nov 2022 Score: 41
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| Vijayshree Fragrance |
This is also one of my most favorite Sandalwood scents, I think I've grown to like it even more than the one from Goloka (Premium) but quality wise they're on the same level for me. I think it is a little bit "darker", I suspect it has a small quantitiy of Patchouli. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteIf you are curious to explore the brand further: I wonder how you would like Nag Breuzinho. Breuzinho is a type of Copal but the sticks smell nothing like it. To me, it smells soft, creamy kinda milky-fruity with a very special top note. It reminds me more of a rare Australian resin called Balga.
The aftersmell remind me of Satya Reiki - that's why I only burn it outside (I can't stand it) but I know Reiki is among your favorites.
Nag Seven Chakra has a huge similarity to Parimal - Yatra. But Yatra felt way superiour when I compared them directly. I would suggest it to people who want to try Yatra but can't find it where they live.
We seem to like the same incense!
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