Fumino Oudh

 

There is a distinct similarity in the Fumino sticks with each other - they look the same, and have a generic house style. It's a style that is shared with  Satya. Fumino is the brand name of Inbound To Anglia Ltd, a small wholesale importer currently based in Southampton, who source their incense from a third generation incense family in Bangalore, a description that matches Satya. 

I like oudh, the Arab name for agarwood. It is one of the great incense scents, and works well as a fragrance for incense sticks, though is usually based on a synthetic oudh, such as Firmenich or Givaudan Black Agar. This stick presents as a masala with the melnoorva powder dusting on the paste, though how much the incense house has used natural ingredients as compared to either oils or synthetics is hard to say.

There is a warm men's cologne scent on the stick, which is common to all the Fumino sticks I have tried so far. The scent does have an oudh feel - woody, slightly spicy, warm and mildly sensual, softly prickly, some awareness of halmaddi. I like it, though it does have a sense of cheap corner shop oudh men's perfume. This is not quality oudh. And though I am saying that there is a similarity between Fumino and Satya, I'm not saying that Satya make these sticks - they may be or they may not be; but if they are making them,  I think they are using lower quality perfumes than they use in their own Satya branded sticks.  

The blurb on the back

The burn is reasonably attractive - there's a fruity note which contrasts and lifts the basic woody scents. It's warm, sensual, and almost beautiful. This is a good quality room freshener, and would be useful in the bedroom, or as a welcomer to someone you wish to seduce.  Yeah, it's seducing me. 

Date: April 2024   Score: 36

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Fumino

The best agarwood incense