A stick of Cottage Industries Musk from the Cottage Sample Pack sold by the excellent Padma Store. I like the history and vibe of Cottage Industries, though I have fairly consistently found their incense to be faint and dry and somewhat simple or dull. This is their Musk, and I tend to like musk both as a body perfume and as an incense ingredient, so I am hopeful I will like this. However, I felt hopeful regarding their Loban as loban (benzoin) is another scent I like, and it seemed to me that was something they couldn't mess up. But they did. Or, rather, it was an experience I didn't enjoy as the benzoin scent was so subtle that the smouldering of the bamboo splint was stronger. Something that I have only noticed on very cheap perfumed-charcoal sticks. Ho hum.
The appearance is of a perfumed-charcoal stick. This makes sense as the Heritage range is the original range produced by Mirra Alfassa, The Mother, for the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, and the aim was to make simple, low budget everyday incense. And perfumed-charcoal incense is the most popular and cheapest incense in India. To be fair we shouldn't be expecting this incense to be divine. It is intended to be simple and cheap and everyday. I think the interest is in the story of the ashram rather than in the aesthetics of the fragrance.
The scent on the stick is mild. Perfumed. Gently sweet. Hints of fudge. Faint floral. Some cool volatility. It is clear that not much fragrance has been used. The scent on the burn is a little sharp, faint, dry, mineral. It's not for me. And I'm not getting musk.
I keep trying, but I don't think Cottage is my sort of incense house, especially the Heritage range.
The appearance is of a perfumed-charcoal stick. This makes sense as the Heritage range is the original range produced by Mirra Alfassa, The Mother, for the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, and the aim was to make simple, low budget everyday incense. And perfumed-charcoal incense is the most popular and cheapest incense in India. To be fair we shouldn't be expecting this incense to be divine. It is intended to be simple and cheap and everyday. I think the interest is in the story of the ashram rather than in the aesthetics of the fragrance.
The scent on the stick is mild. Perfumed. Gently sweet. Hints of fudge. Faint floral. Some cool volatility. It is clear that not much fragrance has been used. The scent on the burn is a little sharp, faint, dry, mineral. It's not for me. And I'm not getting musk.
I keep trying, but I don't think Cottage is my sort of incense house, especially the Heritage range.
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