I burned some Black Opium incense recently - Fumino Black Opium Cones - which I found quite pleasant. The scent is based on Yves Saint Laurent's Black Opium, a variation of Opium, and cloning the perfume is a popular source for Indian incense. I'm kinda into oils and perfumes at the moment, so I have some sample vials of Black Opium - it's one of our favourite scents at the moment. It's a lovely rounded, musky-vanilla accord, with plenty of activity - floral blossom, patchouli, woods, and faint, bright fresh coffee grounds (not espresso, but proper coffee). This HEM incense smells nothing like that. Sadly.
The scent on the stick is bright, chemical, more toilet freshener than perfume. All top notes. Somewhat volatile. Not great. The scent on the burn is faint, slightly smoky, somewhat banal, generic perfumed-incense. It does settle into something vaguely musky, but there's not a lot going on here. And I'm getting nothing that resembles Black Opium. HEM are very inconsistent. This is one of their weaker efforts.
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