HEM Cinnamon-Apple

Second review - scroll down for earlier

 

I reviewed a HEM Cinnamon-Apple a few months ago. That was a square pack with scruffy, hand-rolled sticks. This is a hex pack with machine-extruded sticks. The scent on the stick is perfumed, synthetic, chemical, fake apple, faint orange, minty cool, slightly volatile, reasonably acceptable as a bottom end room freshener. 

The scent on the burn is modestly acceptable, though not actually attractive. And there's too much smoke aroma in the fragrance. 


Date: May 2024   Score:  24 

First review

Another old school incense from the "blast from the past" box. I'm not a fan of HEM, but I have found over the years that some of their synthetic scents work just fine as an everyday room freshener, and that's probably why they are so successful. The sticks, of course, are bog standard - indeed, sometimes they are scruffy as hell, with little evidence of quality control. But the charcoal blanks are not important to the company - it's the scents that matter to them, and while many of them I don't find appealing (some I hate), there are a significant number where the scent is bright and clean and more than acceptable. This Cinnamon-Apple is a case in point. I fully expected to just light it up as I did the Tulasi yesterday, and write it off as a failure. But no - the scent is pleasant and on point. It does smell of apples and cinnamon. I think apple is a successful synthetic scent - we encounter it frequently in many everyday objects. 

Date: Jan 2024  Score:  28

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HEM Corporation

Best cinnamon incense