Barn Yard Why?

[yoob.ye]

I have enjoyed the smell of certain people but I enjoy it, even more, when I know they think I smell nice.

It might be unrelated but if I happen to fart quietly and I suspect that someone else can smell it ... I find this enjoyable too. At least so long as they don't comment because that ruins the vibe.

I can't recommend a current oil for a full barn experience since I'm not a connoisseur of the genre but I have a bottle of Ensar Oud Bhutanagu which for me was exactly the smell of a well-used barn. One of my close friends also has a bottle of this oil, which is also sitting unused in his drawer. I'm not much into sending things in the mail but I could arrange for you guys to speak with each other if you're interested. This is a cultivated oud so it wouldn't break the bank.

Maybe some others can recommend oud oil that's on the market though.

 

[Andrew Salkin]

I have enjoyed the smell of certain people but I enjoy it, even more, when I know they think I smell nice.

It might be unrelated but if I happen to fart quietly and I suspect that someone else can smell it ... I find this enjoyable too. At least so long as they don't comment because that ruins the vibe.

I can't recommend a current oil for a full barn experience since I'm not a connoisseur of the genre but I have a bottle of Ensar Oud Bhutanagu which for me was exactly the smell of a well-used barn. One of my close friends also has a bottle of this oil, which is also sitting unused in his drawer. I'm not much into sending things in the mail but I could arrange for you guys to speak with each other if you're interested. This is a cultivated oud so it wouldn't break the bank.

Maybe some others can recommend oud oil that's on the market though.

Sorry hang on. Which bit do you enjoy?

Do you mean to say you think your friends are silently enjoying your farts? And that you enjoy them enjoying it?

Speachless.

 

[Rogi1]

Sorry hang on. Which bit do you enjoy?

Do you mean to say you think your friends are silently enjoying your farts? And that you enjoy them enjoying it?

Speachless.

Yes. I need to know the answers too. Lol.

 

[ChristianProgrammer]

Some people like to smell other peoples farts, other peoples body odor, their own farts, or their own body odor. Also, I recently read that quite a few folks enjoy the not-so-awesome smells of their mates skin because the brain registers it as comforting.

As for Oud, I’m new but I tend to get wafts of barnyard on certain occasions from certain fragrances. Like I can wear a perfume with real Oud in it for 5 days straight and only get barnyard notes on 2 of those 5 days… same perfume. I have yet to find a perfume that is straight barn every time I wear it. Maybe someone here would recommend a straight barnyard Oud for me.

.......... Hmm lets see straight barnyard Oud that would be a sample from the great Ish man himself on Etsy sorry I dont recall which specific strain was straight barnyard. Maybe ask Ish himself "RoyalBengalOuds" on Etsy I believe he responds in this forum as well.

 

[Rogi1]

.......... Hmm lets see straight barnyard Oud that would be a sample from the great Ish man himself on Etsy sorry I dont recall which specific strain was straight barnyard. Maybe ask Ish himself "RoyalBengalOuds" on Etsy I believe he responds in this forum as well.

Thanks! I’ve received quite a few samples from him but haven’t found one that was completely barn yet. I will ask him specifically if he will recommend one.

 

[yoob.ye]

@Andrew Salkin @Rogi1 Yep, It's also more of a mystery when unspoken. They might enjoy the aroma but they might just be ignoring it to be polite.

I would like to visit the oud bar in London and casually let out a silent one while shoppers are sampling Hindi ouds. Are their impressions of the oil or my flatulence? This would be the ultimate exploration of that interest.

edit: corrected spelling their* vs there

 

[yoob.ye]

might be worth checking out with a name like "cheese taint"

 

[Rogi1]

might be worth checking out with a name like "cheese taint"

Ewwwwww

 

[Adweeya Mufriha]

Someone above mentioned brother Ish from (RBO). His family's classical and yearly produced "Bandarban Hills" was at the time I had some (2016-2019) very barny. I imainge they must still make it. Decent oil. Fairly priced.

Like all others said before: "barn" is just a generic term comes and profile come in multiple configurations (some more hay, some more animal, some darker, some lighter, intensity varies a lot, and barnyness is never the whole olfactive story, so it interacts with the overall profile and evolution of the oil).

Most barny ouds are actually without any directly fecal notes ( that some posters above seemed to associate directly with barn).

I personally love and wear many types of "barny oils" (though it is rare I describe them like that to myself). I also have some with fecal notes that I don't wear as stand-alone, but they work wonderful in blends, just like if they were actual animalics.

For the "cultural pockets of appreciation", here is one more anecdote: I am half middle-Eastern levantine and half European. I currently live in the Swiss countryside, where farms, cows and horses remain very present, and many people here surprisingly (at first) enjoy some of my barny ouds, and related attars.

Here people keep barns and stables actually very clean, and they have a potent smell, but not nasty. It smells of living animals and hay more than any direct fecal notes. So it come to no surprise people here to find those notes potentially "warm, energizing, arousing, but also peaceful, regressive and soothing, etc." all words I have hear locally (in French).

 

[The Scent Guru]

the more I experience Oud in all it's forms the more I gravitate towards the traditional Hindi style of fermented aged oud, seems a natural progression for me.

 

[Aleata]

“Barnyard” is an association, not a literal scent. It’s the closest, and shared reference of people who have not smelled that type of agarwood before.

The fragrance that this term refers to is very complex and multifaceted and varies greatly from one source to another. It is complex and profoundly engaging like fine incense or cheese or wine. It’s hard to explain why someone finds a particular fragrance appealing but there is a wonderful pleasant delicious clean fragrance hiding behind that association with the smell of a barn. If you allow yourself to spend a day with one of these oils I suspect you’ll see why by the end of it. Though everyone has different associations and I have people in my family who have never come to appreciate the smell of any type of barn yard oud.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

 

[yoob.ye]

Even clean, sweet new age oils sometimes present a barnyard-like note for the first half-hour or so. It can be enjoyable but the smell that comes afterward is much better IMO.

 

[Waseem Ahmad]

I don't think musk are

There's some animalistic raw appeal in some "barns" I mean lets face it there are tons of "perfume" ingredients that are legit animal waste products. Urine Bile whale ambergris, deer musk sacks .. Bro no offense but do a little homework the internet is wide open for you to look this stuff up no ??

Civet: the anal secretions from a cat-like animal native to Asia and Africa.
Ambergris: sperm whale secretions.
Musk: animal anal secretions. Musk was a name originally given to a substance with a strong odor obtained from a gland of the musk deer.

Anal secretions

 

[yoob.ye]

The Civet's scent glands are near the anus but I'm not sure they classify as actual anal secretion. It's a grey zone.

Ambergris ... well, this is about as close as you get. It's like a natural wale laxative that helps squid beaks pass smoothly.

musk deer glands ... this isn't that close to the anus, it's on the other side of the penis.

wide open ... your choice of these words makes me recall an unfortunate GIF from the early days of the web. Sorry if I reminded you of that one.

 

[DubOudh]

The Civet's scent glands are near the anus but I'm not sure they classify as actual anal secretion. It's a grey zone.

Ambergris ... well, this is about as close as you get. It's like a natural wale laxative that helps squid beaks pass smoothly.

musk deer glands ... this isn't that close to the anus, it's on the other side of the penis.

wide open ... your choice of these words makes me recall an unfortunate GIF from the early days of the web. Sorry if I reminded you of that one.

So Sperm Whales produce this similarly to the Agarwood tree produces oil when it is attacked.
As squid beaks can be lodged for years in the digestive tracts of the animal,the Sperm whale produces this chemical mix to help it heal its insides from any trauma caused by many undigested squid beaks.
It is not poo as it some times get described. It is in effect an antigen produced by the whale to fight internal damage.

If you think about it.......poo floating around for centuries on the wide open ocean just would not happen as the natural decomposition would render it gone fairly quickly. No it is a special chemical that can float for ages on the oceans of the world and still be found hundreds of years later.

 

[Mr.P]

And the aroma we love only develops when ambrein (secreted solid) oxidizes to form ambroxan if I understood what i read. The whale doesn’t make the scent - it is the decay / oxidizing of the material that makes it. No idea if microbes make this happen.

 

[yoob.ye]

So Sperm Whales produce this similarly to the Agarwood tree produces oil when it is attacked.
As squid beaks can be lodged for years in the digestive tracts of the animal, the Sperm whale produces this chemical mix to help it heal its insides from any trauma caused by many undigested squid beaks.
It is not poo as it some times get described. It is in effect an antigen produced by the whale to fight internal damage.

If you think about it.......poo floating around for centuries on the wide open ocean just would not happen as the natural decomposition would render it gone fairly quickly. No it is a special chemical that can float for ages on the oceans of the world and still be found hundreds of years later.

The sperm whale normally releases only liquid excrement. It might only prevent damage to the intestinal tract rather than treat it.

It's interesting that we mostly collect fragrances based on reproduction but oud and ambergris are based on more immediate survival. I also find it interesting that ambergris is the result of the largest predator of all time attempting to devour its most ferocious prey. Is there anything more manly than this?

(edit for spelling)

 

[Loudover]

Most of the tea, chocolate, wine, beer, sour dough, cheese and various food smell due to microbes and fermentation byproducts. Barn is like this.

Old schools Hindis might have survived better in the heat of India and middle east. Today they probably represent a connect with nature, which is otherwise just a memory(smell). Ensar compares oud with faeces and sandlewood with smell of urine. Of course nobody pays to smell exactly these - surely not in $500 oil. It just invokes some familiar facet, some memory.

Barn is like a complex symphony. Most sounds(notes) within it are already familiar to us. Some can identify a viola from a violin from a chello. Some just hear music as a whole. Others just perceive a cacaphony, noise. Grabs all our attention, attracts some, repels most 🤣

 

[Ibn Abdillah]

hi i just wonder why some people like the smell of barn yard?

Yes. Today most camels are of the four wheel drive variety ..

My Thaughts...the journey of getting deeper in to the oudh (but also other complex natural scents) learns you to identify the beauty of scent notes.

Complex scents develop your sense of smell. In this way, you will eventually come to appreciate barnyard or at least no longer experience it as an unpleasant odor. I think this is the development process of the sense of smell.

I also found an essence in DubOudh's comment.
My addition to that:

In a world full of plastic soup and little connection with the wild, we have come to love the artificial more than the pure from nature as Allah the Almighty created it.

That's why I think there is more about rediscovery than about discovering new scents.
In my experience, you can link barnyard with the former brave man who went on a hunt to catch a wild animal for his tribe or the former strong man who set out with his horse/camel to discover new worlds.

And I say this as a person who has no preference for barnyard...

 

[Ouroboros223]

“Barnyard” is an association, not a literal scent. It’s the closest, and shared reference of people who have not smelled that type of agarwood before.

The fragrance that this term refers to is very complex and multifaceted and varies greatly from one source to another. It is complex and profoundly engaging like fine incense or cheese or wine. It’s hard to explain why someone finds a particular fragrance appealing but there is a wonderful pleasant delicious clean fragrance hiding behind that association with the smell of a barn. If you allow yourself to spend a day with one of these oils I suspect you’ll see why by the end of it. Though everyone has different associations and I have people in my family who have never come to appreciate the smell of any type of barn yard oud.

It took me about 8 years to start appreciating this type of oil... only recently have a I started to enjoy it.

But yes once you understand it a good "Barnyardy" oil is just as spectacular as any kinamic oil.

Imo the dry downs are unmatched, especially in depth and complexity.