An immediate moment of "ooh! lovely scent" from the fragrance on the stick. Candy sweet, jammy, woody, intensely floral - like a full blooming damask rose. I'm not a fan of rose scents in incense - it's not a scent I tend to voluntarily select when buying incense. Though I have totally fallen in love with various rose incenses like Happy Hari's Queen of Roses, and Georg Huber's Weihrauch Rose, the bulk of them I don't have much time for. They tend to follow the same line, and deliver the same thing. An obvious and heavy and somewhat overbearing floral scent that, natural or not, tends to smell artificial. It's a personal thing - if you like rose incense, fine. Each to their own. There is no official standard in scent appreciation.
That moment of instant appeal doesn't last long - there's a point at which satiation kicks in, and I've had enough of the scent on the stick. On the burn the scent is predominantly rose. The further away the better - the scent gets lighter and more floral. In the same room it is quite heavy, and there are some unattractive scorched notes, which at times it is like burning hair.
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