The Sandesh Agarbathi Company (SAC) was founded in 1970, and is based in Bangalore. They also sell under the GR International brand. They mainly focus on fair priced everyday perfumed incense, though also sell masala incense. They are acceptable, though pretty average - not an incense company I'm that interested in continuing to explore. Most of my reviews of their incense are quite old, though now and again I'll dig up a packet I've not reviewed. I don't know where I got this from, or how long I've had it - but it is currently available in Portugal in the same packet design. I did review SAC's Camphor & Rock Salt earlier this year, and found it an acceptable warm room freshener. I'm curious in the choice of salt as a fragrance ingredient because, as I say in the Camphor & Rock Salt review, salt is more a flavour compound that a fragrance compound. And then to bring garlic in as a fragrance partner is quite wild. I absolutely adore the smell of garlic - for me, garlic is food and sex. Garlic, butter, and herbs. Awesome. But as a perfume or incense fragrance? Hmm. It's a quirky one for sure.
The sticks are rough looking. I assumed the sticks would be perfumed-charcoal, but the dried charcoal paste here is rougher and thicker than a standard perfume-dipped charcoal paste, and is flecked with browns as well as black, with an appearance similar to that of Tibetan incense. The scent on the stick is mildly volatile, and fairly neutral. A little mineral, possibly marine. Something floral. Soap. And this odd sense of "salt". And even fainter, could be suggestive, garlic.
The scent on the burn is really quite pleasant. Gently floral, mildly sweet, with some vague base notes that are escaping me. And again there is that sense of "salt". Curiously warm and pleasant. I'm OK with this. It's rather better than I expected. A gentle, slightly uplifting, almost summery and jolly, floral room freshener. The florals are possibly violets. Yeah, it's OK.
The sticks are rough looking. I assumed the sticks would be perfumed-charcoal, but the dried charcoal paste here is rougher and thicker than a standard perfume-dipped charcoal paste, and is flecked with browns as well as black, with an appearance similar to that of Tibetan incense. The scent on the stick is mildly volatile, and fairly neutral. A little mineral, possibly marine. Something floral. Soap. And this odd sense of "salt". And even fainter, could be suggestive, garlic.
The scent on the burn is really quite pleasant. Gently floral, mildly sweet, with some vague base notes that are escaping me. And again there is that sense of "salt". Curiously warm and pleasant. I'm OK with this. It's rather better than I expected. A gentle, slightly uplifting, almost summery and jolly, floral room freshener. The florals are possibly violets. Yeah, it's OK.
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