Got this and one other Fleur De Vie pack while buying some Berk Holy Smokes incense on the German website Aqasha.com. There are cheaper places in Europe to get them - most are 2 euros or less, such as PilgrimsBazaar on eBay,
There isn't an incense company called Fleur De Vie - it's a trading name used by the Dutch distributor Eastern-Trading Ltd. The sticks are made by the large and successful DHPH (Mysore Deep Perfumery House) company founded and run by the Agrawal family. DHPH own the Zed Black incense brand, which has been promoting itself a lot recently (most of my blog's spam can be accounted for by sellers of Zed Black).
These are pretty straightforward machine made perfumed incense sticks. Despite the name and the picture, this has little to do with sage. Indeed, it smells nothing like sage. This is a bog standard rose scent. Run of the mill, vaguely pleasant rose incense. The scent is sweeter and more pleasant on the stick. Some of the top note gets burned off on the burn, and too much of the cruder base note comes through.
This feels very corporate and commercial. Little care or skill has gone into this, other than ways of making incense sticks quicker and cheaper. Well, the way the stick burns, this looks to be a charcoal free incense, so is better for the environment. Points for that. But, on the whole, this is close to bargain basement incense. Nothing to see here. Move along.....
Date: June 2023 Score: 20
There isn't an incense company called Fleur De Vie - it's a trading name used by the Dutch distributor Eastern-Trading Ltd. The sticks are made by the large and successful DHPH (Mysore Deep Perfumery House) company founded and run by the Agrawal family. DHPH own the Zed Black incense brand, which has been promoting itself a lot recently (most of my blog's spam can be accounted for by sellers of Zed Black).
These are pretty straightforward machine made perfumed incense sticks. Despite the name and the picture, this has little to do with sage. Indeed, it smells nothing like sage. This is a bog standard rose scent. Run of the mill, vaguely pleasant rose incense. The scent is sweeter and more pleasant on the stick. Some of the top note gets burned off on the burn, and too much of the cruder base note comes through.
This feels very corporate and commercial. Little care or skill has gone into this, other than ways of making incense sticks quicker and cheaper. Well, the way the stick burns, this looks to be a charcoal free incense, so is better for the environment. Points for that. But, on the whole, this is close to bargain basement incense. Nothing to see here. Move along.....
Date: June 2023 Score: 20
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