Vijayshree Golden Nag Chandan Seven Chakra Masala Agarbathi

 

This is pleasant - just what you'd expect of a decent masala. It has an attractive scent: sweet, creamy, woody (sandalwood with a touch of cedar and beech), sherbet, with a touch of marine. There's a scratchy lambs wool element which indicates to me the presence of halmaddi, but in moderate proportions. The presence of halmaddi indicates that this is more intended for the Western market than the domestic. Well, the halmaddi, plus that this is a masala (the domestic market is more orientated to perfumed incense - where the domestic market does go for masala, it tends to be for well established existing brands).  Hand rolled with a soft charcoal masala paste coated with a woody melnoorva to prevent the fresh pasted sticks from gluing together as they dry. All in all a promising start, but well within expectations for a standard decent everyday masala. 

We've been burning this a fair bit over the past few days, and what stands out is that it is an attractive everyday masala; it doesn't draw attention to itself (either in a bad way or a good way). It burns reasonably modestly in the background, gently informing a room, and leaving a pleasant, cleansing, moderately uplifting, slightly citric, slightly marine, faintly fresh, young sandalwood scent in the air.  We like it, but there's not a lot here to get excited about. It's an incense that does the job without shouting about it, and that's pretty much what you'd want from an everyday incense.  It's modest, but very likeable. 

Date: Dec 2022   Score: 37 

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