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| Second review - scroll down for earlier |
I wasn't impressed with Phool (well, I love the packaging, and I love the eco-friendly approach, it's just the scents I didn't like - and this seems to be the fairly common response in the West), so I emptied the cones into our toilet freshener bowl, and just kept the boxes because they are useful for storage. I wasn't really that interested in re-reviewing them. This box got overlooked, so I thought I'd have another go. The cones hadn't disappointed as a toilet freshener, though they tend to be a little smoky for such a small room. I like the smoke - I like my incense to have a good, swirling column of smoke.
At a distance the scent is acceptable - a moderate albeit vague floral which hovers around jasmine and geranium. But get too close and it just smells of bonfire. It's not appalling, but it's not decent quality. Certainly not "luxury".
At a distance the scent is acceptable - a moderate albeit vague floral which hovers around jasmine and geranium. But get too close and it just smells of bonfire. It's not appalling, but it's not decent quality. Certainly not "luxury".
Date: Mar 2025 Score: 23
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| First review |
Quite a heady one, this. The most smoky and perfumed Phool I've tried so far. Very floral, but not a Nag Champa floral, more a generic floral centred on roses. The ingredients are the same for all the Phool cones and sticks: powdered sweet acacia, with jigat, coconut shell, and guar gum. To each are then added the fragrance ingredients for the named fragrance in both powdered and oil or liquid form. These cones have marigold in powder and oil forms, and frangipani in oil form. That would explain why it has such a floral aroma, but not a Nag Champa aroma. This is not a classic Nag Champa - there is no sandalwood, and there is no magnolia champaca, the two common (essential?) ingredients in a classic Nag Champa. This is closer to what is normally sold as a Champa, which does use frangipani (plumeria).
This burns quickly, scorching the fragrant ingredients so at times it just smells of burning, especially when it gets to the end.
I like the social intent of Phool, the positive recycling, the sustainability, and I love the quality packaging. But I can't get on at all with the formulations and the scents.
This burns quickly, scorching the fragrant ingredients so at times it just smells of burning, especially when it gets to the end.
I like the social intent of Phool, the positive recycling, the sustainability, and I love the quality packaging. But I can't get on at all with the formulations and the scents.
Yea I also noticed that when burning this. I smells like Moksh’a Swarna Champa.
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DeleteIt's been a while since I burned it, but I preferred Moksh Swarna Champa. Proper job everyday perfumed incense. No bells or whistles, just a decent scent well made. Not heavenly, but very pleasant.
DeleteYea I agree with you. I love moksh’s swarna champa.
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