Knox are a well known and successful incense cone manufacturer based in Germany, where there is an established tradition for burning incense cones in wooden German smokers, such as the vintage one I use in my picture above. Mine is very tatty now - I have had him for over ten years, and he was old when I bought him. Some of these smokers are quite expensive when new, such as on this site, but second hand ones can be picked up for around £50 on eBay.
I tried some Knox incense back in 2017, just so I could tick off that I'd had them. I wasn't impressed, but I was pleased I had tried them. Anyway, we mostly use cones as a room freshener in the toilet. They are neat, easy to use, give a quick blast of smoke and scent, and then they are done. Perfect for the smallest room in the house. We are running low on stocks, so I browsed Amazon for cone sets, and saw a Knox set of eight different scents for under £20 including postage, so I got them. I have no expectations, but this should be a bit of fun.
Knox cones are small, crudely pressed so there is an ugly ridge, and are very light. They are mostly wood powder (I prefer charcoal as it has no scent, and is not so harmful to the planet when burned, but - hey ho, Trump has just withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, and companies selling wood burner stoves are doing great business, so lets all sing our way into mutual destruction, eh?). They burn very quickly, and get very hot. So they are not a great product.
I like the taste and smell of vanilla, though it can be a little sweet and cloying, so I prefer it in small does, and only occasionally. However, vanilla is one of my favourite ice-cream flavours. And I find vanilla attractive as a minor scent ingredient in perfume or incense. The Knox cones are coloured to represent the scent, so these Vanilla cones are coloured white. I think they look awful. There is a reasonable synthetic-vanilla scent on the cone. Synthetic-vanilla is widely used in perfumery and incense as real vanilla is expensive, and synthetic does the job. Vanillin is the most popular vanilla synthetic. This is likely to be vanillin or something similar. There is a musky note to it, and some dried milk, with a touch of coconut. Reasonably pleasant.
The scent on the burn approximately echoes that of the scent on the cone, though less sweet, and muddled with wood smoke. At times it smells more like soft wood smoke than it does vanilla, and then it switches around. It finishes very quickly. It's modest and moderately attractive, but it is fairly small and simple, and the scorching wood dust is, for me, a significant flaw.
I tried some Knox incense back in 2017, just so I could tick off that I'd had them. I wasn't impressed, but I was pleased I had tried them. Anyway, we mostly use cones as a room freshener in the toilet. They are neat, easy to use, give a quick blast of smoke and scent, and then they are done. Perfect for the smallest room in the house. We are running low on stocks, so I browsed Amazon for cone sets, and saw a Knox set of eight different scents for under £20 including postage, so I got them. I have no expectations, but this should be a bit of fun.
Knox cones are small, crudely pressed so there is an ugly ridge, and are very light. They are mostly wood powder (I prefer charcoal as it has no scent, and is not so harmful to the planet when burned, but - hey ho, Trump has just withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, and companies selling wood burner stoves are doing great business, so lets all sing our way into mutual destruction, eh?). They burn very quickly, and get very hot. So they are not a great product.
I like the taste and smell of vanilla, though it can be a little sweet and cloying, so I prefer it in small does, and only occasionally. However, vanilla is one of my favourite ice-cream flavours. And I find vanilla attractive as a minor scent ingredient in perfume or incense. The Knox cones are coloured to represent the scent, so these Vanilla cones are coloured white. I think they look awful. There is a reasonable synthetic-vanilla scent on the cone. Synthetic-vanilla is widely used in perfumery and incense as real vanilla is expensive, and synthetic does the job. Vanillin is the most popular vanilla synthetic. This is likely to be vanillin or something similar. There is a musky note to it, and some dried milk, with a touch of coconut. Reasonably pleasant.
The scent on the burn approximately echoes that of the scent on the cone, though less sweet, and muddled with wood smoke. At times it smells more like soft wood smoke than it does vanilla, and then it switches around. It finishes very quickly. It's modest and moderately attractive, but it is fairly small and simple, and the scorching wood dust is, for me, a significant flaw.
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