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| Second review - scroll down for earlier |
This is a sample sent to me by Irene of Rauchfahne. It's a little dry and smoky and sombre. Scent is kinda neutral and difficult to pin down. I had a look to see what I thought a couple of years ago - it seems I got more out of it then than I am now. I picked up curry, and I see that Irene got curry or fenugreek. I'm getting more warm, wet, cardboard than anything spicy. Some soft wood. Gee, it's hard work. I'm much happier just lighting an incense and letting it free, and pick up scents as they occur, rather trying to tease them out of something so tight-arsed as this. No, this one isn't working for me today. It's not awful - it's just boring.
Ah, I got the fenugreek about ten minutes after the last stick had burned down! It just caught me like that, and then lingered for a while....
Date: Jan 2025 Score: 20
[Average of two scores: 24]
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| First review |
Emerald contains sandalwood, cinnamon, clove. The colour of the stick is a clay green, and the scent is very spicy - rather more spicy than just cinnamon and clove, this smells like chip shop curry. There's also a touch of mint and something floral, hovering between rose and jasmine. It's a curiously pleasant scent.
The curry aroma remains when the stick is lit up, though there are some intriguing tangerine fruit notes mingled in. Some mild herby nettles, perhaps some marijuana. It's more of an interesting scent than a pleasing or aesthetic one - however, I tend to like interesting scents. The scent is kind of a warm grey, loose watery brown colour (if you think of scents in colours, as I often do), and is generally neutral - not comforting or uplifting, just sort of there.
"tight-arsed"
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ReplyDeleteWoooo! Someone clearly loves their Shoyeido!
DeleteOr maybe they hate it?
DeleteI must say, I'm not a huge fan of the Jewel collection from Shoyeido. I have heard that this line is designed to appeal to western palates more than their traditional dailies line (which is killer IMO), but for me, they're just about all a bit on the powdery and sweet end, but I did like the one with myrrh, and my partner likes Amethyst, which contains spikenard.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I dearly miss chip shop curry sauce!
Chip shop curry sauce is one of those naughty delights. It's essentially crap - sweet, soft, bland curry flavour, but it works well as a flavouring on proper chips. I also like Pot Noodle Curry - same sort of heroin junkie appeal.
DeletePot Noodle Curry
DeleteIt has been *years* since I've had a curry pot noodle. I had forgotten about the mango sauce! Can't have them anymore as it doesn't look like they're vegan (and I no longer live in the UK) but apparently the katsu curry ones are.
DeleteAh yes, "cheese powder". I've had a preference for not eating meat for over 50 years now, though I was OK with cheese and milk. But over time I've grown more and more uncomfortable with that. Initially because of the welfare of the cows, but then because of climate change. Switching to plant milk is easy these days. It's in all the supermarkets, and there's a huge range. We love oat milk. Would not want to go back to cow milk at all. And plant butter is awesome. But we have had problems with plant cheese. It just doesn't work. We've tried and tried, but no. So we've just reduced the amount of cheese we eat. And that's been hard because we are a family of cheese lovers. Chrissie is French. But we still occasionally use cheese for cooking/flavouring, and are hoping that someone soon develops a good cheese substitute.
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