Description
Om Nama Shivaya.
The scent of meditation, deep breathing, and time spent in peace.
* EdP / VdP sample vials are full.
Ashram
$5.50 – $165.00
A woody take on the classic Nag Champa incense fragrance par excellence.
Additional information
13 reviews for Ashram
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amy43@comcast.net –
Do I love these mysterious temple type scents? Yes! Spices and Woods and Incenses that take you to faraway places
mylogicsaysburnsosendmeaway@yahoo.com (verified owner) –
More a cuddly cozy scent that a scent recalling Eastern temples. Soft, powdery amber with a hint of nag champa incense.
alicia@pearce42.com (verified owner) –
I’ve always loved nag champa, it is the incense I usually use, but had never found a perfume based on it that i like (most are bitter/harsh smelling, like old used incense). That is until Ashram. Wonderful incense base, with the essence of nag champa, and complex overtones that enhance, not over power it. Once applied, the scent lasts for a long, long time. I have had many compliments on my perfume when wearing Ashram.
dnjhathaway@gmail.com (verified owner) –
I’ve been searching for some time for a fragrance that mimicked the traditional Satya Sai Baba Nag Champa Incense sticks, which is the only incense I burn. In order to carry that scent with me, I’ve been burning them in my closet to fragrance my clothes. 😉 After buying & trying a sample vial, I’m placing an order for a perfume bottle today. I find Ashram to be a very close match and expect it will become my signature scent. Love it!
Arneblaze –
Ever wonder what that wonderful incense stick scent you inhaled whenever you went into an Indian clothing store actually was?
Turns out it’s Nag Champa, derived from the Champaca flower (frangipani from the fragrant plumeria family) and sandalwood.
Here it is perfectly captured – warm, sweet, reassuring. Hints also of patchouli, amber, vetiver, cedar, benzoin, frankincense and myrrh.
Lovely.
Savannah Prokop –
Wow, this is stunning. It is a very realistic nag champa fragrance. It’s the perfect combination of sweet, smokey, floral, woody, and powdery. It’s a very meditative scent, as well as nostalgic for me. I highly recommend it to all nag champa lovers.
Quick Fragrance Reviews –
An excellent take on a nag champa incense fragrance! Meditative and deep, yet not too heavy to the point of feeling dour or anything. Really nice! One of my top 10 favorite incense fragrances ever.
aliendumpling (verified owner) –
The most beautiful and cozy Nag Champa scent I have ever tried! It’s also more complex than just Nag Champa, with well blended resins, woods, and earthy patchouli building on the incense.
I purchased this in the room spray because while I love the smell of Nag Champa, I don’t burn incense much these days and often it feels a bit strong for me to wear as a perfume so having it available in this format is wonderful and I know will be buying more once I’m out.
Ashram is my perfect incense scent and I love being able to spray it on my blanket, sheets, and a few spritzes around the air to instantly turn my room comforting and meditative! The scent lasts for quite a while and it’s so nice to catch gentle whiffs of it still on my blanket the next day.
Harry Lowenthal (verified owner) –
Beautiful Nag Champa incense fragrance adorned with loving touches of floral and powdery notes that combine to give a soft, nearly tropical feel all while being true to the gorgeous incense base. Outclasses similarly themed designer scents with ease, and remains one of the highest caliber incense fragrances I’ve happened upon in my olfactory career.
Highly recommend.
Jonathan Gilligan (verified owner) –
I love Ashram. It’s my go-to for going out with friends in the evening. It’s a bold spicy woody scent. Not overwhelming, but something that works well all evening.
jonah.chinman –
Captures the scent of Nag Champa incense and improves on it. Sweet, smooth, smokey and woody. My friend always burns incense in his house, and it smells amazing; now I can take that scent with me whenever I want to. Highly recommended.
Margaret Krigbaum –
Lovely, deep, and mysterious with a touch of sweet at the end. I always get told how wonderful I smell and asked what I have on. That is always the ultimate test of a fragrance. Lasts well after the evening is done. Great fragrance to put on for sleep.
abrannum (verified owner) –
This is an opulent, rich fragrance that is indeed reminiscent of incense and sacred spaces. I was referred to Ashram when seeking out a nag champa scent, but I don’t necessarily get any nag champa from this. I’ve tried several nag champa fragrances over the years and they all have a powdery or soapy undertone, whereas this smells entirely natural, deep and woody-sweet, completely void of powder and soap. If there’s any floral here, it’s masterfully blended into deep resins and sandalwood.
The closest thing I have in my collection to compare it to is Lush’s Lord of Misrule, but whereas that scent gives patchouli the leading role, Ashram gives it to Sandalwood. They both skip top notes and go straight into rich, somewhat sweet base notes. Ashram is also a lighter, more intimate scent (in the oil roller I purchased), that I imagine would layer beautifully as well.
I ordered hoping for a more realistic nag champa and was pleasantly surprised to receive a gorgeous composition that evokes a temple where incense was recently burned. That said, it is not smoky at all, and is completely wearable in just about any setting.
DSHPerfumes –
Thank you for this beautiful review of Ashram! 🙂 It is absolutely intended to evoke a temple that has had nag champa incense recently burned inside.
We also have two variations of more straighforward, ‘single note’ Nag Champa scents in our Accords Archive. Both are based on “pre-burned” Nag Champa incense sticks. (One from India, and the other from Nepal).