Incense in The Wind: Stamford London

Sunday 19 May 2024

Stamford London

Stamford London, trading as Stamford, is the continuation of Aargee which was a British company based in Acton, London, and founded in 1978 to import incense and ethnic gifts. As well as importing incense such as Satya and Goloka, they sold masala incense under their own Aargee name, and perfumed-charcoal incense under their own Stamford brand. Around 2020 it appears that the company split, with Nimesh Radia taking the company's own label Stamford brand as Stamford London, while the incense and ethnic gifts section was taken over by Puckator. The Aargee brand, including the masala incense, appears to no longer exist.

Previous Aargee incense which has continued with Stamford London, and new incense under the Stamford brand will be listed here. While Aargee/Stamford didn't make incense themselves, and early on would sometimes rebadge existing Indian incense under their own name, they did start to commission their own unique scents. Some scents were commissioned from Satya, and the rights to some of those appear to have slipped back to Satya. Perhaps there was a time limited license.

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