We burned this Satya Jasmine Blossom earlier in the year when doing our Jasmine v Jasmine burn off. We found it a pleasant and attractive burn, but weren't that impressed. Our summary was: "Quite pleasant floral jasmine. Rather soft, not much impact, but does gently and attractively inform the room with a floral aroma," and we gave it a score of 28. Reburning it now some months later, I'm not sure I'm that much more impressed. In presents in every way like a perfumed incense. I've had over the years a number of incense houses or distributors argue that just because a stick is machine-extruded and uses a proportion of synthetic perfume or only a thimbleful of essential oil in bucket of DEP, that doesn't mean it's not a good incense (Paul Eagle of Happy Hari would argue this in regards to those sticks of his which were machine made and/or relied very obviously on synthetic perfumes). And to a large extent I agree. But it does mean that it has moved so far along the scale from "natural" to "processed" that it is difficult to feel a genuine natural affinity with such a stick.
These sticks are in a 15g gram oblong cardboard box with the distributor brother, Nagraj Setty,'s Mumbai logo. The sticks are 8 inches, with 6 inches of machine extruded paste which contain a perfume, very much weighed as synthetic. The scent is floral, with a cool blast of menthol volatility melded with pine disinfectant and shoe polish. When lit there is a bold flame producing black smoke. When blown out the stick smoulders gently with a middling amount of quiet grey smoke. It's a gentle burn - the scent never really making much of an impact. Some folks like a gentle incense, I prefer my incense bold and bright as brass. When wafted, there is a sweet jasmine scent, but it's not doing much, and it's not in any significant way different to any everyday perfumed incense jasmine scent. The sticks burn for approx 50 minutes. Overall this is acceptable as an everyday jasmine, but it's nothing special, and somewhat disappointing for a house with the reputation of Satya.
These sticks are in a 15g gram oblong cardboard box with the distributor brother, Nagraj Setty,'s Mumbai logo. The sticks are 8 inches, with 6 inches of machine extruded paste which contain a perfume, very much weighed as synthetic. The scent is floral, with a cool blast of menthol volatility melded with pine disinfectant and shoe polish. When lit there is a bold flame producing black smoke. When blown out the stick smoulders gently with a middling amount of quiet grey smoke. It's a gentle burn - the scent never really making much of an impact. Some folks like a gentle incense, I prefer my incense bold and bright as brass. When wafted, there is a sweet jasmine scent, but it's not doing much, and it's not in any significant way different to any everyday perfumed incense jasmine scent. The sticks burn for approx 50 minutes. Overall this is acceptable as an everyday jasmine, but it's nothing special, and somewhat disappointing for a house with the reputation of Satya.
Date: Oct 2023 Score: 29
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