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I've noticed lately that many of the more recent OUD's I've bought, the majority smell at some point smell like gasoline. I am wondering why? I've never seen it mentioned in the description.
I've noticed lately that many of the more recent OUD's I've bought, the majority smell at some point smell like gasoline. I am wondering why? I've never seen it mentioned in the description.
I can make a list (and will) but I am hesitant to upset anyone and people are very sensitive.
I've noticed lately that many of the more recent OUD's I've bought, the majority smell at some point smell like gasoline. I am wondering why? I've never seen it mentioned in the description.
I can make a list (and will) but I am hesitant to upset anyone and people are very sensitive. Perhaps it's a good thing I live with a moat around me. It's just so prounouced as a note and yet it's never mentioned.
If you're talking strictly about vendor descriptions, beside people having differing scent memories, 'gasoline' or 'moth balls' are not the most commercially orientated descriptorsI've only had a tasting swipe so far, and I can't compare to the other oils listed, but the top funk is not my cup of tea.
It is a mix of soft fermented cheese and motor oil. I can take a hint of motor oil, but oil/gasoline notes are my least favourite in the oud olfactory kingdom.
I'll have to spend more time with it to get to the deeper notes.
I call it the “Oud Barrier”
When it comes to appreciating an oud, you have to desensitize yourself from the gasoline, bug spray, diesel, shoe wax, cockroach, burnt rubber, and plastic notes. It’s like a rite of passage to the finer notes.
When smelling something new, outside of our scent memory we attempt to associate it with what's familiar. You'll see some saying vaporous, camphor, piney, menthol, eucalyptus, tiger balm, turpy like turpentine, and like @Oudamberlove stated, acetate. Gas/petrol has similar characteristic fragrances.
beyond the point of essential, and/or with added heat beyond essential that corrupts, burns, or turns smoky what is essential. Sure, those last can bits can add punch and a degree of boldness to an oil, but IMO it adds nonessential heaviness for nothingness.
So there is a difference. One is essential. The other is crude, croud, classic croudh, that many know as oud.
No matter how many times I went back, that note was crystal clear to me and very obvious. It smelled like a car screaming off the start line and burning tyres.
The Oud in question was Purple Dervish (I think - this is going back almost exactly 6 years). I revisited the sample last year and that harsh rubber note has evolved into a soft burned marshmallow note which is quite pleasant.
To me it was thick heavy turpentine.
It has softened considerably.
I completely agree with your Statement..!! I have bought ASQ oud oils, that did smell like terrible gasoline smell, so I decided to forget about it, and then after almost a year I went back and applied it one more time and surprisingly that gasoline accord turned very very pleasant smell ,and in general that Oud oil went from Terrible to nice ..!I've noticed lately that many of the more recent OUD's I've bought, the majority smell at some point smell like gasoline. I am wondering why? I've never seen it mentioned in the description.
But one must be daring enough and introduce these expressions to western Oud world.If you're talking strictly about vendor descriptions, beside people having differing scent memories, 'gasoline' or 'moth balls' are not the most commercially orientated descriptors
Sir.Agarwood oil is an essential oil, now there has been all sorts information regarding such. When as oil is quiet, the blurb is essential oils stay close to the skin. When the oil is loud or a competitors is essential, it becomes oud or whatever they're calling such garbage these days, is supposed to be powerful and room filling. They can't make up their minds, so no wonder many become confused.
Agarwood oil is an essential oil, some of what you're smelling is just that; some others are what you call oud. Some oils are distilled in a manner to get what is essential, skipping those last 'fractions', as you call them, that are only gotten from extended distillation beyond the point of essential, and/or with added heat beyond essential that corrupts, burns, or turns smoky what is essential. Sure, those last can bits can add punch and a degree of boldness to an oil, but IMO it adds nonessential heaviness for nothingness.
When smelling something new, outside of our scent memory we attempt to associate it with what's familiar. You'll see some saying vaporous, camphor, piney, menthol, eucalyptus, tiger balm, turpy like turpentine, and like @Oudamberlove stated, acetate. Gas/petrol has similar characteristic fragrances.
Chemically, the simple answer is sesquiterpenes, monoterpenes, triterpenes, etc, that are there; not all same but in all.
I disagree that we are seeing a move to top note heavy oils, in fact I see the opposite if anything. Agarwood oil in perfumery is a base note, however, there's no doubt that within the individual oil there will be molecules that are heavier in relation to others in that same oil. I've seen the top note thing several times written but on further assessment don't find it. What I find are oils that do not behave top note heavy, they are very long-lasting, and most take time to warm and open on the skin, whereas top notes in perfumery typically are immediately evident and have only a transient stay.
Agarwood oil is an essential oil, now there has been all sorts information regarding such. When as oil is quiet, the blurb is essential oils stay close to the skin. When the oil is loud or a competitors is essential, it becomes oud or whatever they're calling such garbage these days, is supposed to be powerful and room filling. They can't make up their minds, so no wonder many become confused.
Agarwood oil is an essential oil, some of what you're smelling is just that; some others are what you call oud. Some oils are distilled in a manner to get what is essential, skipping those last 'fractions', as you call them, that are only gotten from extended distillation beyond the point of essential, and/or with added heat beyond essential that corrupts, burns, or turns smoky what is essential. Sure, those last can bits can add punch and a degree of boldness to an oil, but IMO it adds nonessential heaviness for nothingness.
So there is a difference. One is essential. The other is crude, croud, classic croudh, that many know as oud.
Sorry that last post didn't work. I'm looking for uproarious laughter emojis just for my interactions with you. A simple "like" isn't adequate. I have a special attraction too. You know who does a lovely amber? The Scented Djinn on Etsy. Off topic. Blah blah. I need to get back to the work of making money so I can afford to burn it up with a sinking grade. Because right now I'm sinking! (Special emoji here)When I swipe Hun Yin, I feel like on oil field worker, or an auto mechanic. Dirty oil and oudiness, with some smoke basically, and I love it
But I have worked on my car, and got my hands all dirty with oil and gunky stuff. Hated it!!
Oud oil will take you to the edge of questionable aromas, but lovingly embraces you in it’s aura.
Sorry that last post didn't work. I'm looking for uproarious laughter emojis just for my interactions with you. A simple "like" isn't adequate. I have a special attraction too. You know who does a lovely amber? The Scented Djinn on Etsy. Off topic. Blah blah. I need to get back to the work of making money so I can afford to burn it up with a sinking grade. Because right now I'm sinking! (Special emoji here)
Do share! I will be interested to know which oils have profiles of gasoline, as personally I do like that type of scents in fragrances and oils - so to me that is not a flaw but rather a plus, although I have not smelled anything that's a realistic rendition of gasoline (heady and vapourous like gasoline yes, but definitely not in terms of scent profile, side-track: that's why I have asked Ahmed from @Elixir Attar to try and create an attar that is based off on Nostalgia from SMN, but with a longer lasting gasoline note using natural oils)
If the purchase is made from a reputable distiller, I am confident that it is not actually petroleum or any chemicals to extend the product. And i second @Oudamberlove 's suggestion on ASO, and considering you like oils with funk, their Hindi selections are worth sampling.
I absolutely love Oud Emerald@PersonelHigh
why offend? what is a wonderful scent to some is gross to others. this is a consumer advocacy forum.
and yes i get what you are saying. to me they are more diesel/crude oil note rather than petroleum (latter more high toned while former more raw, inward and deeper) .
ensar oud emerald is the strongest oil in this genre
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i basically get it in almost all marokes (filaria)
oil after all is decomposed old vegetation and animal remains. wood (roots and bottom of stumps) left in water soaked ground over years i guess mimiks that scent and disttilation intensifies those notes.
if you are not talking about this note and is indeed more the vaporous petroleum at gas station, then i kinda see what you mean too. i get it mostly in walla, some malay and some cambodi. but really mostly with sri lankan. this super high toned note like sniffing UHU all purpose glue.
in my early days of oud i kinda liked this note. now i find myself refraining from it and if and when i put these oils on me, i am waiting for this note to evaporate before i start going wrist to nose regularly.