Blue Pearl Sandalwood

  

Third review - scroll down for earlier

A fresh pack, a fresh year, and perhaps a fresh attitude to these machine-extruded perfumed-charcoal sticks made by a white label incense house in India for the Blue Pearl brand in America. 

The scent on the stick is standard synthetic sandalwood room-freshener fragrance. It's a little sharp and cool, but has a warm woody awareness of sandalwood about it. I'm not offended. I like synthetic sandalwood. But I'm not delighted. I'm just sort of "meh". It's a familiar and unambitious scent. But it is clean and fresh. Ho hum. Onto the burn. 

The scent on the burn is mild, and mildly pleasant. It's not offensive, and it's not smoky. It's on the other side of the room from me, and the scent drifts pleasantly across. It's not a shy scent - it makes itself known, but neither is it rude. I am aware of it without it dominating the moment. There is a sort of soft everyday sandalwood soap scent wafting around. Yes, there is a tad awareness of smoke and burning within the scent, but it's not actively smoky. It's kind of what you'd expect a cheap, everyday perfumed-charcoal sandalwood incense to smell like. No goal, but no foul. Wiped its face. 

Date: May 2025   Score: 25 

Second review

We've used them up in the outhouse. Our view of them has reduced. They have nothing to commend them, while they are mostly just generic perfumed-incense, too often the smoke is just a tad too much which does make them sub-par. 


Date: Sept 2023   Score: 18

First review

Machine made perfumed-charcoal incense sticks with the brand name Blue Pearl, sold and distributed in the US by Lotus Brands.  Made in India by an unknown manufacturer to help raise money and awareness for the SYDA Foundation. 

I really liked the Blue Pearl Classic Champa, a masala incense, so thought I would explore more Blue Pearl branded incense, but I've been somewhat disappointed at how ordinary they are. This is a pretty average perfumed incense. There's nothing remarkable about it at all. Bog standard. Doesn't even smell of sandalwood. I mean, it's OK. It's not offensive. But it is just generic perfumed incense to freshen up a room. 

Date: Aug 2023   Score: 23  

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Sandalwood

Blue Pearl

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