Bought from Temu: £1.65 for 42 pieces. This is my first experience of goose pear incense, sometimes also called goose pear in the tent. It is a traditional Chinese incense made by steaming pears with agarwood and sandalwood. It is seen as a royal incense, and is romantically linked to the love affair between poet and emperor Li Yu and his consort Zhou Ehuang of the Southern Tang state around 970 BC. Li Yu made the incense for his lover - they "met in a secluded garden and followed the fragrance under the moon". Beautiful!
Initially I felt the scent to be a little blurry and smoky - more like cigarette smoke than incense. I picked up an awareness of baked pear, and some vague fermentation, but for me it was mostly the smoke that I notice. It wavered around between cigar smoke and bonfire smoke, with cigarette smoke, and that fermented baked pear aroma. I wasn't impressed.
I burned some more, and carried it around the house to shift the air, and as I did so it started to come alive, and the oud qualities started to emerge, along with a delicate and quite attractive baked and fermented pear. Essentially the same scents as I first noticed, but now feeling more attractive. I took it back to my middle room, and it kind of died for me for a while before my memories of how it was in the other rooms allowed the positive qualities to come forth. A subtle and intriguing incense for sure!
Initially I felt the scent to be a little blurry and smoky - more like cigarette smoke than incense. I picked up an awareness of baked pear, and some vague fermentation, but for me it was mostly the smoke that I notice. It wavered around between cigar smoke and bonfire smoke, with cigarette smoke, and that fermented baked pear aroma. I wasn't impressed.
I burned some more, and carried it around the house to shift the air, and as I did so it started to come alive, and the oud qualities started to emerge, along with a delicate and quite attractive baked and fermented pear. Essentially the same scents as I first noticed, but now feeling more attractive. I took it back to my middle room, and it kind of died for me for a while before my memories of how it was in the other rooms allowed the positive qualities to come forth. A subtle and intriguing incense for sure!
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