Maroma – Aromatherapy – Recharge
These samples are from my friend Silver in India; she sent me a huge package in early 2024. Alongside Recharge, I also received a few sticks of the Stress Away variety.
The brand Maroma is part of the Auroville project. There are two official websites, a general one and another, specifically for the USA. The price for these sticks is €3.28, or $5.10. A pack contains 10 sticks, each 8″ (~ 20 cm) long. The burn time is around 45 minutes.
The ingredients listed on Maroma’s website are:
Bamboo sticks, wood powder, Machilus macarantha (tree bark); natural fragrances: Pelargonium graveolens oil (geranium), Citrus dulsis oil (orange), Rosmarinus officinalis leaf oil (rosemary), Lavandula hybrida oil (lavandin).
However, the packaging instead lists lemon oil, lavender oil, peppermint oil, geranium oil, orange oil, Himalayan cedar oil, cubeba oil, cardamom oil, basil oil, clove leaf oil, and styrax resinoid.
I emailed them (in Dec. 2024) to ask which ingredients were correct. They thanked me for bringing it to their attention and said they would review and correct it.
The images have since been replaced, and the ingredients are no longer listed on the new packaging. This could indicate a changed recipe.
The aroma of Recharge is fresher than that of Stress Away but shares some similarities. Again, I detect a bit of clove oil, but it is lifted by a hint of minty, menthol-like coolness and citrus notes; orange is the most prominent to me.
Max was visiting recently and said the scent reminded him of mulled wine.
You can smell the wood powder base, but to me, it doesn’t have an unpleasant wood smoke scent; it’s simply a present aspect. The more the fragrance spreads and diffuses, the clearer the aroma of the oils becomes, and the wood smoke note fades.
Based on the scent, I again find the claim about the naturalness of the ingredients to be believable. Like Stress Away, Recharge is a modern fragrance composition that might be an interesting option for those looking for a bright, fresh, and invigorating scent.