I'm rattling quickly through this batch of eight different Knox scents I picked up on Amazon when browsing to replenish our stock of toilet room fresheners. The cones are small, cheaply made from sawdust and synthetic fragrances, and burn off in less in than 8 minutes each, generally leaving a smell of smouldering paper. They are basically crap, though I did like the Gingerbread because the scent went into some dark areas.
The scent on the pathetic cone is mint chewing gum, mint tea, and soap. All faint. There's a dirty-washing scent on the burn - old sweat and stale water, hints of mint (why so much frigging mint when this is supposed to be pine?), and some smouldering paper. It's all so sad. Knox have been making this crap for 160 years, and they are the most successful and well known incense maker in Europe.
The scent on the pathetic cone is mint chewing gum, mint tea, and soap. All faint. There's a dirty-washing scent on the burn - old sweat and stale water, hints of mint (why so much frigging mint when this is supposed to be pine?), and some smouldering paper. It's all so sad. Knox have been making this crap for 160 years, and they are the most successful and well known incense maker in Europe.
Ooh ouch. I would have expected Tannenduft to be one of the better scents.
ReplyDeleteIt's odd they translate it with "pine" as Tanne actually means fir.
Fir has a brighter scent than pine but it still shouldn't smell of mint.
Ah, fir. That makes more sense. Yes, not mint, but from reading around, much closer to mint than pine would be. People say green, fresh, sweet, balsamic, etc.
DeleteGoogle translates Tanne as "fir", but Tannenduft as "pine scent".
DeleteBut then it translates "fir scent" as "tannenduft" and pine scent as "kiefernduft"
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