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Friday 25 October 2024

MDPH Fleur De Vie Holy Temple

 


Available from several places, such as Pilgrims Bazaar on eBay at £1.79 for 15g, this is a MDPH (Mysore Deep Perfumery House) product. MDPH are better known for their heavily promoted Zed Black brand. My blog has been spammed by sellers of Zed Black for years. MDPH are a huge company, with enormous incense producing units which they are proud to declare as the largest in the world.  Fleur De Vie is a brand name of  a Dutch importer, Eastern-Trading, who claim to be the largest incense wholesaler in Europe.  

The stick is a standard modern perfumed-masala. 8 inches long with 6 inches of hand-rolled charcoal paste on a plain bamboo splint. A light dusting of melnoorva powder (sometimes called masala powder these days) finishes off the stick. The scent on the stick is light, dry, mineral, warm, pleasant, woolly, perfumed, professional. It hovers around an everyday body-mist scent, soap, and a subtle room freshener. It's not exciting, but it's not bad either. It feels more geared to a Western market than an Asian one. 

The scent on the burn is gentle, dry, pleasant, professional, well behaved, slightly woody, some sandalwood, some vanilla, some herb. It's OK, but it doesn't grab me. It's reasonably cleansing and calming, and doesn't call attention to itself. A gentle Sunday morning relaxant. 


Date: Oct 2024    Score: 29 

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