Alchemy Works's Blood and Smoke

COMPANY: Alchemy Works
TYPE: Blood and Smoke (Mars)
FORM: Incense
NOTES: Soon as you open up the tin, the stuff just looks like a Mars incense; safflower makes it red, pointy and sharp seeds scattered through. Now, as the name suggests, this stuff isn't meant to smell "pretty" by any means. The scent is like burning leaves and charcoal. There does seem to be some myrrh resin in the mix, but it must be very little because this stuff burns up very fast and very smokey soon as it hits the coal. Now, for those accustomed to buying botanica incense for $2.50 a can, the $11 price on this stuff seems pretty steep, especially since it's particularly meant to smell awful. But, I can recommend this one: I found it very effective and active for its purposes. Strange things began to happen in the spell I was using it for; I find that strange things, even if they're 'bad' strange, are actually always good to some degree in spellwork because it means you've caught someone's attention. This also works well as a Mars sprinkling powder, especially nice to scatter around the candles for its violent look.
RATING: 10. This stuff packs a punch; I even used it in a spell I didn't have much hope for and only cast because the client was insistent, and it wound up working extremely well (and the client got her wish.)