Most of the samples I have of Rajpal's incense is termed "Ultra Premium". I've not been consistent over the years of including marketing terms and/or subtitles. Initially I included them, then I thought that the terms were redundant, and stopped including them (sometimes removing them when I updated the post). And while on the whole I don't include them, I sometimes do. I initially included them on the Rajpal incense posts partly because that is how Brief_Chemistry, who gave me the samples, presented them, but also because it's a curious term which I've not encountered previously. Though I've now removed them.
The sticks are fat, heavy, and richly perfumed in the style of Flora incenses based on Sri Sai Flora Fluxo, which appears to have been the original Flora/Fluxo. Interesting aroma - stale pipe tobacco mainly, with old dust, cobwebs, shoe polish, black pepper, and a melange of old woods, patchouli, and musk notes. There's a little crack of sunlight which brings in a wisp of florals. This should be my sort of scent, but this is too heavy and dusty. There's little richness, joy, vitality, energy or sex here. It is like an old abandoned stuffy office with dry, cracked leather, and old books falling apart, and a stern sense that corrections and discipline took place here long ago. There's turps and engine grease now. Hmmm. I find it compelling, and I keep sniffing. Though there's no joy.
The scent on the burn is a development of the dilemma of the cold throw scent on the stick. There's smoky, woody elements here that I should love, but the presentation doesn't quite get there. It's just a tad too dry, and a tad too enclosed in one place. Maybe one or the other, and I'd be fine - but enclosed and dry while also taunting of the pleasures that could be found in a bakhoor fragrance is just too much for me. That's not to say I'm rubbing this incense out. We all have times when we return to an incense that confused us or pushed us away, and then we find it has opened up for us. Our mood has changed, and now is the time. But at this moment, after approaching it in different rooms, it's not worked for me. I just get the sense that this is a moist Flora that has dried up, and lost its mojo.
The scent on the burn is a development of the dilemma of the cold throw scent on the stick. There's smoky, woody elements here that I should love, but the presentation doesn't quite get there. It's just a tad too dry, and a tad too enclosed in one place. Maybe one or the other, and I'd be fine - but enclosed and dry while also taunting of the pleasures that could be found in a bakhoor fragrance is just too much for me. That's not to say I'm rubbing this incense out. We all have times when we return to an incense that confused us or pushed us away, and then we find it has opened up for us. Our mood has changed, and now is the time. But at this moment, after approaching it in different rooms, it's not worked for me. I just get the sense that this is a moist Flora that has dried up, and lost its mojo.
My samples come from Reddit user Brief_Chemistry. Packets are sold in India via the Rajpal website (which is unreliable) at 50g for ₹225, or on Amazon India at 150g for ₹549 (£4.30p) plus shipping. International purchases are made via WhatsApp +91 99209 36644, with payments done by bank transfer.
Date: May 2026 Score: 27/50
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