Fumino Autumn Breeze

 

Fumino is the brand name for incense and home decor items imported by Inbound To Anglia Ltd, a one man company founded in Cambridgeshire, though currently based in Southampton. The City Road, London address on the packets is a convenience address. The company sells mostly via eBay and Amazon. The incense is sourced from "a team of expert ladies at our third-generation family factory in Bangalore", which could apply to a number of companies, including Satya.  Six pack deals on Amazon are available for under £10. All the sticks are masala style, and they look and behave like Satya sticks.  There are approx 14 sticks per packet. The packets all have the same design - a cool black, with a simple though elegant stylised design of incense smoke. Each scent has a different colour for the smoke design. There is a short blurb on the back relevant to each scent.  Each packet has a card with a voucher code for 10% off the next purchase at fumino.co.uk, a website that doesn't work for me. 

Sticks are 8 inches with approx 6 inches of hand rolled paste which has been coated in a generous dusting of melnoorva - finely ground tree bark which is mainly intended to stop the freshly rolled sticks gluing together as they dry. There is a pleasant aroma on the stick - men's cologne, bubblegum, wet leather, some prickle of halmaddi - a tree resin used as a plasticiser to strengthen and lengthen the fragrance of the perfumes used. It is a fresh, lively, and attractive scent. 

The blurb on the back

The burn is steady, well mannered, and polite, with a moderate Satya style scent. There's sandalwood, halmaddi, and some aspects of the aromas noted on the stick. It's a vague, generalised fragrance which is modestly pleasant, and which modestly informs the room. It's a decent scent on a decently made stick, and offers good value for money as a decent quality and moderate everyday room freshener. Not a scent that excites or interests me, but it does the job. I quite like it. 

Date: April 2024   Score: 31

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