COMPANY: Fred Soll's
TYPE: Taos Pine
FORM: Incense
NOTES: Very sticky coming from the package! -- you may need to wash your hands after touching it. This line of incense is advertised as "resin on a stick" and that seems apt. The fragrance of this, burning, is not strong, though the almost amazing slowness of the burn may account for that as less fragrance is in the air at a time. It is a much more natural scent than a lot of incense. It initially resembles, to me, the air when there's a forest fire nearby; in fact, as the package claims the resin is genuine pine-resin from the trees around Taos, it may in fact be the exact same trees that burn when there's a fire near me. After the room starts filling up a bit more with the odor, it has more of a mountain-top scent like one expects. This is pricey incense -- about 50¢ a stick. However, it's probably as natural as a stick incense is ever going to get. Also be warned: it's temperamental in burning (goes out easily) and reportedly doesn't burn at all if the stick is set up vertically.
RATING: 7.5 out of 10 -- good if you don't want a perfumey incense, though it seems like just burning pine resin on charcoal would be more sensible in terms of money and of scent. (High-altitude pine isn't known for being strongly scented, afterall...) Seems to work as well or even a little better than other pine incense I have used, magically speaking.
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