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[Kabir Attars]

The second one could be water or adulterated with something from your description and my knowledge I just can't call it.

 

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[Kabir Attars]

Is it possible for pure essential oils to stay separated like that?

Yes it's hydrodistiled so if all of the water was not taken out it could.

 

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[Mr.P]

One of them is suspect because of the smell. There was a note that was very strong and long lasting that I could smell a bit 24 hours after trying to wash it off with both soap and ethyl alcohol, and it reminded me of a cologne I have smelled before in public.

I keep smelling a note like this from time to time, and I find it hard to believe that it could come by distillation of wood. I wonder if it’s the same note I am thinking of?

I’ve had a few waiters recently who had a strong cologne like that note separated from the oud notes.

 

[Mr.P]

If that were the case would I see the water sink to the bottom if I leave it for a while?

Sometimes oud oil is denser than water. So it could go either way, or if it had neutral buoyancy, I could just kind of not separate well at all perhaps? The only oils I have sometimes seen water associated with are a couple of very thick pasty CO2 totals. One was vetiver… the other was agarwood co2. It was like the water was trapped inside the wax in little bubbles.

 

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[oudstronaut]

How’s it going Jame? As you know, oud oil is a mixture of a bunch of things and is not just 1 molecule. Probably not even just 1 type of oil. I’ve had oils start to solidify like olive oil does sometimes if you put it in the fridge. Particularly hindis and in the winter. It will melt again right away if you hold the vial.

I don’t think that just because something smells like perfume that this means it’s fake. There are many common perfume “ingredients” that are either meant to smell exactly like oud oil or are molecules that are found in oud oil.

Oud has molecules in it that are responsible for the scent of berries? As well as some that are common in florals, vetiver, sandalwood. It’s a complex product. Really a “perfume” in its own right.

 

[Mousse de Chene]

How’s it going Jame? As you know, oud oil is a mixture of a bunch of things and is not just 1 molecule. Probably not even just 1 type of oil. I’ve had oils start to solidify like olive oil does sometimes if you put it in the fridge. Particularly hindis and in the winter. It will melt again right away if you hold the vial.

I don’t think that just because something smells like perfume that this means it’s fake. There are many common perfume “ingredients” that are either meant to smell exactly like oud oil or are molecules that are found in oud oil.

Oud has molecules in it that are responsible for the scent of berries? As well as some that are common in florals, vetiver, sandalwood. It’s a complex product. Really a “perfume” in its own right.

I think Jame was referring to a long lasting fixative like molecule that commercial perfumes utilise. I’d be suspicious if an Oud oil lasted 24 hours in skin, probably the use of some type of white musk.