Sagrada Madre Tao Black Riqueza (Wealth)

  

I have a current interest in Native American (North and South) incense - smudge and resin-on-a-stick style incenses. The Spanish website Hostenatura.es has a number of such incenses, and I picked up three under the brand name Tao Black. Tao Black is a brand of the Argentinian incense house Sagrada Madre, which appears to be doing well. I assume the Tao Black brand is a budget range as these are poor quality incenses, and I doubt if they would have been as successful producing only incense like this. After burning the first one, Paz Interior (Inner Peace), I'm not spending much time on them.  

This one has been dipped into "concentrated ratnamala essence". I don't know what "ratnamala" is. There is a Hindi ratnamala, which means "jewelled necklace" - I reviewed an Indian incense with that name years back: Sital Ratnamala. But I doubt if that is what is meant here - unless the idea is to convey the idea of a jewelled necklace via a scent. 

Anyway, as with the Paz Interior, the scent on burning is mainly of smouldering wood and vague plant material. There is a whiff of some vague, slightly minty and herbal, perfume. But the dominant scent is smouldering garden stuff. The stick at the core is not bamboo - it is some form of white wood. 

Date: Dec 2024   Score:  19 

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