A very attractive fresh green outdoors scent on the stick - sherbet, woods, and patchouli blend well together creating a very yummy accord. It's a powdery scent, grounded with vanilla and lifted with delicate talc/baby powder floral notes of iris/violets and ylang-ylang/jasmine. This is lovely. It's old school, so quite nostalgic for old hippies like me, yet the perfume feels quite bold and modern, so even Millennials and Zoomers should dig this. There's some wool notes in the accord, which I tend to associate with halmaddi, though it could well be a combination of sandalwood and resin. Whatever, the combination of all the scents on the stick create something very beautiful and compelling, which is closer in style to Bangalore rather than Pune - which is where I generally suspect Vrindavan incense is made. Though it looks more like a Pune incense than a Bangalore, which tend to use more finishing powder. Vinason's of Pune do a Kesar Chandan, which I recently reviewed. I'd like to do a side-by-side comparison, but I can't find the packet. My review of Vinason's Kesar Chandan points to a much more interesting and challenging incense than this Vrindavan one. But this Kesar Chandan is more approachable and immediately attractive.
The scent on the burn is light, sweet, beautiful. There's the classic blend of wood and floral which is favoured by the traditional Indian incense houses. There's a good dollop of sweetness - quite close to vanilla. Which brings me back to thinking that this may have been made in Pune. I do like this. I like it a lot.
Available at £1.08 for 20gm from Vrindavan Bazaar. They ship internationally at reasonable rates.
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