Olfactory Rescue Service

Howdy everyone! This is John, I am sad to hear of Ross’s passing, but glad to hear that Mike is opening the ORS up again. I am going to try to begin writing reviews again, and as you may or may not know I personally try to review each incense in a way that expresses the scent in an easy to understand manner, to make it easier to the layman to decide if it sounds like something they may or may not like, as well as providing a “John Score” on a scale of 0 to 10 based on my own personal preference. As I personally stink at elocution, I am providing a brief summary of my recent foray into Bosens line-up of sticks below.
To begin with, Bosen is a company based out of taiwan, and tend towards the tibetan style of incense.
The naming of their product line is a bit odd, and I will attempt to clear it up as I understand it. It seems each line is broken down into categories of quality, in descending order:
“Top Grade”
“Reserved”
“Superior”
“Premium”
“High Grade”
Where Top Grade is the highest concentration of ingredients, with a thicker stick, and High Grade is the lowest concentration/thinner stick/more binder.
The notes I have taken on Bosens Lineup are below:

+7 Superior grade Hoi-An (Jinko) Aloeswood – Vietnamese agarwood, and buttered cinnamon toast, 50/50 split. very low smoke.
+5 Premium Vietnamese Hoi-An Aloeswood – Mostly Vietnamese aloeswood, slight cinnamon back. Stick has no scent.
+6 Superior Chin-zhou Aloeswood – sweet and salty agarwood. that’s it. Stick has no scent.
+5 Premium Ambon Aloeswood – Black pepper and agarwood
+0 Blessing Incense – VERY bitter and medicinal. No oud, no sandal, just pungent herbs.
+5 Refining Incense – Cedar, musty book, sticky sweet wood oil note, reminiscent of sawdust in a sawmill.
+3 Herbal Meditation Incense – Woodsy scent, sage and pine. possibly a small amount of sandalwood if any. Reminiscent of a campfire almost.
+4 Zambhala Incense – sage and pine base. IMO just a lager size stick of Herbal Meditation.
+4 Dakini – Herbal meditation but with a spikenard back added to it.
+5 Pythoncidere Incense – very woodsy, strong cedar sweetness, touch of sage, touch of spikenard, more balanced than dakini or herbal meditation.
+7 Shangrila Incense – Sweetness, slight base of pine and sage. Sandal, spikenard, herbs in a very pungent sweeter concentration.
+4 Tonga Sandalwood – Burning raw, dry sandalwood, with a hint of a bitter herb in there.
+5 Centuries Weathered Old Sandalwood – Stronger version of Tonga Sandalwood, with a hint of sweetness.
+7 Top grade Tibetan sandalwood – Burning sweet sandalwood, with a hint of herbs in the back. Stick almost reminds me of the scent of mysore sandalwood.