I'm OK with perfumed incense, but I do prefer when incense makers explore the possibilities offered by perfumed, and offer exciting new fragrancies, rather than traditional resin scents, such as dragons blood. But then again, to be fair, I'm not an expert on resins or dragon's blood. It just "feels" more appropriate if you're gonna want a dragon's blood fragrance in your home, and especially if you're gonna want to get more out of it than just a pleasant scent to freshen the house, that you'd go for the true resin. For me, a mono-scent incense stick is for fun and convenience rather than for aromatherapy, magic, meditation, therapy, or connoisseur aesthetic appreciation. But it's each to their own, and your mileage may vary. Anyway, I'm not expecting much of this stick, other than it will smell perfumed and acceptable - perhaps a bit tart and spicy, with sweet woody notes, which is the most common description of the scent of dragon's blood.
Well, it meets my expectations. It is a bit tart and spicy with sweet woody notes. It is perfumed and acceptable. Yeah, it's OK. It's actually a little better than I expected (but, then again, I wasn't expecting much). Dragon's blood is a vague sort of scent - I've only had the resin once, and it was acceptable and vague. I recently (March this year) had a Pure Yemen incense stick made from the original dragon's blood resin from dracaena cinnabari, the dragon blood tree, which only grows on the Yemen island of Socotra, and that was my best encounter with dragon's blood. That is a dragon's blood incense I would certainly suggest people try if they fancy exploring genuine dragon's blood in stick form. This Stamford Dragon's Blood is not genuine dragon's blood, and is for casual room freshening only. Though, as always, your mileage may vary.
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