Burn of the Day

[Oudamberlove]

KZ Brunei Heartwood
sweet and perfumey on low to medium heat
and some Shoyeido chips....
nice aroma also. I just can’t pinpoint the region of the Shoyeido. It’s very fragrant at room temperature like the KZ Brunei, but has a different profile.
A Kodo Master I am “Not”🙁

 

[Rasoul Salehi]

KZ Brunei Heartwood
sweet and perfumey on low to medium heat
and some Shoyeido chips....
nice aroma also. I just can’t pinpoint the region of the Shoyeido. It’s very fragrant at room temperature like the KZ Brunei, but has a different profile.
A Kodo Master I am “Not”🙁

KZ brunei heartwood is unlike any other brunei wood i have tried to date, not to mention smelling of no oil from brunei i tried to date. more vietnamese like. even hints of nha trang. i wonder if its a different species than the typical microcarpa/klampei.

 

[Ashfaque]

Wild Assam chips that I won from @Habz786 - lovely sweet, vanillic and incensy wood. They're just too good to burn regularly! 🙂

 

[Royhalwood]

You try on charcoal or electric burner?

To reply to both of you.
I tried to heat it on differents ways. But similar for a non very pleasant scent. But I think I have a "end of bag". Half of the wood is powder and little chips looks so dry. And to not arrange the experience they gave me a sample of an amber oud blend which gave its scent to the wood which was not in a sealed bag. So I dont know.. Maybe I will try a new time with them but not soon...

 

[Oudamberlove]

KZ brunei heartwood is unlike any other brunei wood i have tried to date, not to mention smelling of no oil from brunei i tried to date. more vietnamese like. even hints of nha trang. i wonder if its a different species than the typical microcarpa/klampei.

I did wonder why the KZ Brunei heartwood didn’t smell like the Brunei oils I tried. Plus, it doesn’t match the descriptions given by some fellow ouddicts of the Brunei chips they burned/heated. I like your theory of a Vietnamese-like species.
Tomorrow I will heat some Brunei chips that I got from EO four years ago, and do a comparison.




On a different topic, I’ve got some Malaysian slivers in a vial for a 30 day soak, then I will dry them for a day, toss them on a heater, and see how it turns-out. If I can achieve barn in a good way, I will try other regions also.

 

[Rasoul Salehi]

I did wonder why the KZ Brunei heartwood didn’t smell like the Brunei oils I tried. Plus, it doesn’t match the descriptions given by some fellow ouddicts of the Brunei chips they burned/heated. I like your theory of a Vietnamese-like species.
Tomorrow I will heat some Brunei chips that I got from EO four years ago, and do a comparison.

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On a different topic, I’ve got some Malaysian slivers in a vial for a 30 day soak, then I will dry them for a day, toss them on a heater, and see how it turns-out. If I can achieve barn in a good way, I will try other regions also.
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I have tried 5 different Brunei agarwood and all similar to one another with minimum sweetness more bitter green balsamic note. Except kz.

 

[tyson]

Pau D'arco bark tea on the left and cut up palo santo A grade on the right heating on very low .Citrus woodsy candy sweet pineapple creamy goodness slowly filling the house , mmm so good

 

[Oudamberlove]

I will heat some Brunei chips that I got from EO four years ago, and do a comparison

I fired-up some of that Brunei I got from EO years ago, then followed it by the KZ Brunei Heartwood,
different animals indeed. EO’s has a wonderful floral with mild fruitiness, while KZ’s contrasts it with a sweet creamy woody oudiness.

 

[Oudamberlove]

I had to abort my attempt to soak some slivers for 30 days. After only three days, I noticed some formations which appear to be mold or oleoresin escaping the wood. When I drained the water and smelled it, the water was perfumed like hydrosol with no moldy smell, but when I heated the chips, the scent was spicier and weaker than before the soak. Here are pictures of the formations I observed:


I don’t think I will experiment with soaking my chips anymore

 

[AbasFrag]

I had to abort my attempt to soak some slivers for 30 days. After only three days, I noticed some formations which appear to be mold or oleoresin escaping the wood. When I drained the water and smelled it, the water was perfumed like hydrosol with no moldy smell, but when I heated the chips, the scent was spicier and weaker than before the soak. Here are pictures of the formations I observed:
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I don’t think I will experiment with soaking my chips anymore

Super interesting experiment!! Thanks for sharing it with us here.

Then what if you try soaking it while it’s in the fridge. Maybe no mold will occur

Don’t stop experimenting
We need some crazy scientists lool!

 

[Oudamberlove]

Super interesting experiment!! Thanks for sharing it with us here.

Then what if you try soaking it while it’s in the fridge. Maybe no mold will occur

Don’t stop experimenting
We need some crazy scientists lool!

Do you suppose that it’s mold, not oleoresin seeping out of the wood?

 

[Kyarazen]

KZ brunei heartwood is unlike any other brunei wood i have tried to date, not to mention smelling of no oil from brunei i tried to date. more vietnamese like. even hints of nha trang. i wonder if its a different species than the typical microcarpa/klampei.

😛 does my sample happen to be the only heartwood sample amongst them all? this is the only grade we use with tea today.. aside from kyara 😛 locally amongst tea drinkers, this bruneian material is the only one that fools many.. that they thought real kyara/kynam was used in tea, except the price difference is easily 50-100x cheaper

the vanillic notes from aged heartwoods is reminiscent of the scent of old books, complex vanillin notes from lignin breakdown. such notes go very well with aged liubao/pu-erh teas

 

[Oudamberlove]

Near bedtime, not enough time for a swipe, so onto my heater goes a few slivers of Baieido Ogurayama Old Stock. Very lovely Sweet Vietnamese!!

 

[Rasoul Salehi]

😛 does my sample happen to be the only heartwood sample amongst them all? this is the only grade we use with tea today.. aside from kyara 😛 locally amongst tea drinkers, this bruneian material is the only one that fools many.. that they thought real kyara/kynam was used in tea, except the price difference is easily 50-100x cheaper

the vanillic notes from aged heartwoods is reminiscent of the scent of old books, complex vanillin notes from lignin breakdown. such notes go very well with aged liubao/pu-erh teas

@Kyarazen hi WS. always a pleasure to hear from you. yes indeed. all other brunei pieces have been shells, skins or larger xylem pieces. i fully agree with you that there is a remarkable resemblance of the brunei heartwood to kyara (yellow/green/black) as i know it. brunei kinam offered via ensar is equally special. much more perfumed but a very different profile. not kyara as i know it, yet unlike any other agarwood.

 

[Mobeen.Imran]

Manaban classis incense stick by kyara zen courtesy of a fellow ouddict.

 

[Mobeen.Imran]

This kyara zen incense is making my brain fuzz, amazing. Enko blend incense stick kz now

 

[Rasoul Salehi]

on an oud fast since saturday. oil, incense and wood. but on friday i heated the sinking philipino from @AbasFrag @Alkhadra . wow wow wow. this stuff is unreal. some of the best wood i have sourced outside my old school private Chinese contacts who have had the big chunks of wood in their family for a long time and outside kyarazen of course. an hour later and the scent on subitism heater was still going strong. so much stuffing and beauty in this oil pakced wood. i am stoked to receive the malinau and malaca wood from them soon. even if they are half of the quality of the philipina, i would be a happy customer.

 

[AbasFrag]

on an oud fast since saturday. oil, incense and wood. but on friday i heated the sinking philipino from @AbasFrag @Alkhadra . wow wow wow. this stuff is unreal. some of the best wood i have sourced outside my old school private Chinese contacts who have had the big chunks of wood in their family for a long time and outside kyarazen of course. an hour later and the scent on subitism heater was still going strong. so much stuffing and beauty in this oil pakced wood. i am stoked to receive the malinau and malaca wood from them soon. even if they are half of the quality of the philipina, i would be a happy customer.

Makes me very happy to read @Rasoul Salehi 😀

Enjoy!!

 

[Sproaty]

I have maybe 1/8th of a Bakhoor cube from ASO's "the scented month". These smell INCREDIBLE without even being burned, such a stunning musky aroma to it, so I have a bit on my electric burner to see how much it scents the room! 😀

 

[Ashfaque]

Wild sinking Sumatran from Russian Adam.