Oudstudent
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yamadamatsu "tiger cane" gorgeous agarwood! emailing back and forth with yamadamatsu i had no clue it was from vietnam when i bought it and then i asked for a good vietnamese sourced wood and he told me that tigercane it was in fact vietnamese wood. it smells gorgeous to me the best viet agarwood i ever smell. the color is black with silver greyish lines throughout it. it is this pristine bittersweetness that has something like frankinsence and earl grey aroma to it along with lotus/jasmine like aroma. just gorgeous. on low heat is where it shines on higher heat of 150+ it is nothing special but 70-140 is pure love
Oudh Analytics
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Hi Mandeel,
Sorry to hear about the sickness due to the burning. Please be aware that it is just not safe to sniff burning wood of any kind inside a confined space or in the open air. The issue is not directly relevant to the space but to the chemicals you sniff. Of course, you will have suffocation issues if you do not have enough fresh air supply in a confined space. Generally, any wood has water, extractives (in this case, Oudh resin), hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin and some ashes. We intend to sniff extractives in general which contain our heavenly fragrance. When you burn wood, you mainly burn hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin. When you burn wood, the hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin of wood undergo internal chemical changes, and some of those chemicals are so harmful that you may have headaches, dizziness, and so forth at short exposure. At long and regular exposure, one can even get cancer. Fortunately, as most of the extractives are volatile at low temperatures, you could avoid burning hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin into harmful chemicals and yet enjoy what you are after from your valuable piece of wood.
In the past, I did some experiments with pine wood thermo-gravimetric conversion in the absence of air. Pinewood and Aquilaria fall into the same softwood category. I found that, under 120 degrees centigrade temperature, most of the volatile extractives would be given off from the wood. If the softwood is continued to be heated, from 200C along with extractives, some of the hemicelluloses will start to break down and evaporate. If it is continued to be heated, even at 400C, all of the extractives would not be coming out from the core of the chips straightway. But by the time most of the hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin will break down and evaporate out from the chips. So, you would get mixed of everything at 400C temperature. But to get out all of the heavy extractives from wood, most of which are waxes, the temperature needed to rise to 600C. But in the presence of air, wood chips will start to smoke at 300C.
So, if you wish to keep yourself healthwise safe and still would like to enjoy the Oudh fragrance, I guess you need to find a temperature safe between 120C to 220C. You can use a temperature-controlled hot plate to find an optimal temperature. In the optimal condition, at first, the low volatile fragrance will come off. Then if you wait long enough, the heavy resinous fragrant like agarospirol would come out slowly from Oudh chips due to its volatile nature and increased porosity of wood created by previous water and low volatile extractives evaporation. You can give a couple of trails and see the optimal thermal condition to enjoy the essence best without actually burning it. All the best!
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Clyff6ix
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Oudamberlove
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I have no idea how old the piece is, the resin density, well, some are sinking, some are triple super, double super, and super.
iori
親月
not really, personally i seen cambodian and old burmese.. and heard of irian etc
and Burmese inspected personally, big chunks and great quality..even chinese came to friend shop to get two pieces which weigh around 120g or so..
however as i said i don't personally know the guy or seen his face, but as i mentioned many big names here go to buy from him
iori
親月
don't ask me i never met him or know his location or his face, all i know he is in Singapore
Oudamberlove
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That sounds nice👍
I heated Vietnamese today too, sweet and floral, with lots of resin note.
Oudamberlove
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NK Borneo
Semi sweet today.
Semi sweet today.
Oudstudent
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Heating hainan kynam at 260 C to clean the remnant in the heater so i can try another agarwood. Those sticky residue is so damn hard to clean
The smell was kynamic sweet cinnamon smell
The smell was kynamic sweet cinnamon smell
R
Rename
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Soak the mica in wet used tea leaves overnight. The resin will wipe right off the next morning
Oudstudent
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R
Rename
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Yikes. Are you heating directly on the surface element?
Oudstudent
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Yep, my mistake. I was heating kynam powder and i accidentaly put it at 200 C then all of them liquified. My cheaper agarwood does not liquify like i had with this kynam. It is just sample i got from a friend here. Do 99% alcohol work or do you have a good solvent for agarwood resin? I am sure an Oil distiller has a lot of knowledge about this
R
Rename
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You could maybe try putting a little used tea leaves in there and see if that’ll soak and clean it. But I don’t know how liquid will do on that surface. Proceed with caution
Oudstudent
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I’ll try it. Thanks for the info
iori
親月
Use contact cleaner or alcohol 99% with painting brush and gently remove the remains of dust, resin and oil.. easy to do
However once you do make sure to turn heater later to remove the remains of alcohol smell before heating anything new.
Said my prayers over a nice old piece of Fili soil wood.
Oudamberlove
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NK Vietnamese
I got that profile which reminds me of Imperial Oud’s Super Hoi An oud oil.
I got that profile which reminds me of Imperial Oud’s Super Hoi An oud oil.
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