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| Second review - scroll down for earlier |
These Ace Scents sticks are not masala as claimed, nor are they natural. They are extruded wood powder paste on a machine-cut bamboo splint, dipped in synthetic fragrance oils. Or perfumed wood powder to put it more simply. The scent on the stick is pleasant - perfumed, sweet, powdery, floral, light, uplifting. The florals are quite delicate and sparkly with a suggestion of violets. There's a hint of sugary fudge, some sherbet, and diacetyl - which is kinda like butterscotch. It's attractive in a room freshener or clothes conditioner sort of way. Clearly synthetic, and not ashamed of it. Quite bold. Kinda attractive in a way you don't want to admit. Guilty pleasure, I think some people call it.
The scent on the burn is pleasant. Is it palo santo? I honestly don't know because I have not yet burned any real palo santo. I keep meaning to, but stuff gets in the way. All I've burned is incense that claims to be palo santo, or uses the palo santo name. Is this palo santo? No. This is a wood dust stick that has some fragrance oil that smells like palo santo. Is it an essential oil or a fragrance oil (synthetic)? Again, I don't know. I think it is difficult to tell the difference - it may not even be possible to tell the difference. The scent is pleasant, perfumed, mildly floral, hovers around fruit, is sweet in a burned sugar, butterscotch, fudge sort of way. Possibly warm toffee apple. It's OK. I like it. And, unlike the Nag Champa I just burned, the wood powder is not intruding. Yeah, it's getting more into the warm apple pie and cinnamon area now. I like it. Guilty pleasure. I like it. Not a lot. But I do like it as a warm and attractive room freshener.
Date: Dec 2024 Score: 31
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| First review |
This is the last of the Amazon bundle of Aromatika's Ace Scents range, which has enabled me to explore new scents in the range, as well as revisit some scents I burned and reviewed around 10 years ago. I have been reasonably satisfied with the range as a whole, and the price of £10 for 200 sticks of ten different scents is very fair. These are not traditional masala sticks as claimed on the packs, but they are decent quality everyday synthetic perfumed room fresheners.
Palo Santo is a fragrant wood from Peru. I'm pretty sure that at some point I did buy some to explore, but at the moment they are lost in one of several boxes of incense that has been consigned to the spare room in order to free up some living space in my study. Recently I tried some Palo Santo fragranced sticks from a Peru incense maker, Ispalla, but sadly they had a manufacturing problem. The incense house have got in touch to say they will send me some fresh, improved samples. I look forward to that.
Meanwhile, the scent on this stick, as with the rest of the Ace Scents range, is perfumed, synthetic, attractive, and oddly moreish - I keep sniffing the stick. There's a subdued sweetness, some citric notes, some sweet jam (strawberry?), mint, and fresh shoe leather. Very likeable. Not profound. But certainly likeable. As standard with perfumed incense the scent on the burn is a little weaker and less attractive than that on the stick; however, it remains attractive, albeit with a smoky warmth that hinders total enjoyment. This is OK, but one of the weaker sticks in the Ace Scents range.
Meanwhile, the scent on this stick, as with the rest of the Ace Scents range, is perfumed, synthetic, attractive, and oddly moreish - I keep sniffing the stick. There's a subdued sweetness, some citric notes, some sweet jam (strawberry?), mint, and fresh shoe leather. Very likeable. Not profound. But certainly likeable. As standard with perfumed incense the scent on the burn is a little weaker and less attractive than that on the stick; however, it remains attractive, albeit with a smoky warmth that hinders total enjoyment. This is OK, but one of the weaker sticks in the Ace Scents range.
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