鹅梨帐中香 | Goose Pear Tent Incense Sticks and Coils

Goodness Cloud Pavilion Store – Goose Pear Tent

The 21cm long and 1.5mm thick sticks come in a sturdy plastic tube. It contains 10g (about 32 pieces). The price was £3.79. Here‘s the link to the product and here’s the shop link. In the offer, they’re called ‘Goose pear mosquito‘.

These sticks have a related character to Povilas’s coils, but are much more woody. I smell a quite clear sandalwood note in them, soft and milky-sweet.
The watery freshness is present, but much weaker than in the coils. Instead, they’re overall warmer and somewhat sweeter. I also perceive a rather subtle fruitiness.

I really like these sticks, not least because I love sandalwood, but I’d have wished for more of the special freshness.
In comparison, they therefore fare worse than the coils, but taken on their own I find them absolutely recommendable. Especially at that price.

Addendum

After I’d written this review, I ordered more of these sticks, and the new ones smell different. The new batch no longer has a sandalwood note and is generally less woody-dry. The fruity-watery aspect is more pronounced instead.
However, I find a burnt smell in the fragrance profile that bothers me a bit.

The two variants also differ visually:

Above the old pack, below the new ones.
Label and sticks differ in their colour.

Clean Heart Incense Lore Store – Goose Pear Tent

These incense sticks come in a glass bottle, which I like very much. They measure 10.5cm, with a diameter of only 1mm. The bottle contains about 130 pieces or 20g. I paid £9.10 for them.
No burn time is given, but I measured ~17 minutes.
(Links to offer and trader.)

Out of the jar, the sticks smell a bit more perfumed than I’d like. The smell actually reminds me somewhat of pear (although “goose pear” is actually a quince).

When lit, the fragrance profile is still quite close to the other two, but the perfumed quality continues. By ‘perfumed’ I mean that it reminds me of the smell that a drawer full of different perfumes would eventually take on. It smells somehow floral and generally like perfume, without smelling of anything in particular.
Apart from that, the fragrance of these sticks is less woody, and I also don’t find any obvious sandalwood note. The fragrance is a tiny bit fruitier, but only a hint of the watery freshness that I’m so fascinated by is present.

I don’t find these sticks bad. Without having the comparison to the others, I might even like them a bit more.
I like the packaging and I like these super thin incense sticks, but I’d have expected a bit more from the smell. My biggest point of criticism is the perfumed smell, which makes them seem a little cheap, although they’re the more expensive of the two I bought.

Xiang Lian – Eli zhang zhong xiang [Incense In The Goose Pear Tent]

I got these sticks as a sample from Steve. He bought them as part of a set on Temu. They’re just under 21cm long and about 1.7mm thick.
Steve’s review can be found here.

The fragrance of these sticks is, to put it mildly, disappointing. The raw smell is still somewhat reminiscent of the fragrance of the others, but already seems quite perfumed (though without smelling particularly intensely).

When lit, nothing remains of the perfume but a distinct synthetic note, like from an exhausted reed diffuser that was set up and forgotten a longer while ago.
The smell that arises when burning reminds me in a certain way of some of the German incense cones like Crottendorfer.
The smoke smell of the base material isn’t particularly strong, but is nevertheless not covered up by the aroma of the stick; which in this case one can rather be grateful for.

Small Auspicious Clounds – Goose Pear

I also got these ‘auspicious little clouds’ from Steve. They also come from Temu. Here‘s his review of them.

A pack contains 42 pieces; the prices fluctuate. Currently, it stands at £2.

I find the packaging of these cloud-shaped incense coils better than that of the individually packed sandalwood clouds that I got from Povilas. It’s a plastic tube with a drawer that’s modelled on the shape of the clouds and thus effectively protects them from damage. Nevertheless, it’s still a lot of plastic.

The smell of these Goose Pear coils has – like the short sticks from Clean Heart Store – a fruity smell that makes me think of pears, but otherwise I don’t find the fragrance seem perfumed.
A hint of the watery freshness is present, but overall, I find that the aroma of the coils seems rather warm.
In contrast to the sticks from Goodness Cloud Pavilion Store, this Goose Pear interpretation even develops a slight similarity to fruity pipe tobacco for me, which I attribute to the fact that in comparison, the warmth and the deeper tone of little clouds is emphasised.
Unfortunately, I also periodically find a slightly unpleasant, smoky note, as if a filler wood were making itself noticeable.