I like Indian incense. I collect and burn incense from around the world, and I am really enjoying the resin-on-a-stick style incense from South America (and also now made in Germany and Yemen, as well as India and other countries), and I have enjoyed the bakhoor I've had (though not fully explored yet), but Indian incense is my home. It's varied but familiar. It's well made. It makes a great everyday scent as well as a fragrance to lay back, study, and enjoy. And it costs so little. This wonderful stick of Loban costs $1.40 for 20gm (12 fat sticks) from Vrindavan Bazaar in India. International shipping is very reasonable. On this order I only got six packs (all 20gm) - the bill was: $8.40 for incense, $8.19 for shipping - total $16.59 (£12.24). And they threw in a cute keyring for free.
The scent on the stick is mineral dust, candy, vanilla, plastic bag. OK, mildly intriguing. The scent on the burn is gentle but does drift around to inform the room. Mildly smoky on getting close, but attractively so - cool, grey, soft, with touches of chalk and vanilla.
I often say I don't like mono-scents, because I like the adventure and complexity of a blend, but now and again there are some mono-scents that do appeal to me, and loban/benzoin is one of those. It's a clean scent, yet has some spice and some sweetness. It's quite a mystical scent which encourages relaxing and dreaming. This does all that. It's a good, solid loban incense. Well made and very rewarding. Nice one.
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| Keyring gift from Vrindavan Bazaar |
The scent on the stick is mineral dust, candy, vanilla, plastic bag. OK, mildly intriguing. The scent on the burn is gentle but does drift around to inform the room. Mildly smoky on getting close, but attractively so - cool, grey, soft, with touches of chalk and vanilla.
I often say I don't like mono-scents, because I like the adventure and complexity of a blend, but now and again there are some mono-scents that do appeal to me, and loban/benzoin is one of those. It's a clean scent, yet has some spice and some sweetness. It's quite a mystical scent which encourages relaxing and dreaming. This does all that. It's a good, solid loban incense. Well made and very rewarding. Nice one.
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