There was an unidentified specimen of oud wood that came with the samples i got a couple of weeks ago.
The aroma on a subitism at medium heat presents notes i have smelled before but not in a single piece of wood. this first impression is likely going to need revision because there are a couple of different things going on simultaneously.
One set of aromas that I perceived roughly of the sasora type, reminding me a little bit of the Ward lab Malinau without being a match. It’s also has some notes that I smelled in a Kalimantan oud sample I received from maunamoku.
What the first waves of smoke have in common with the former are whiffs of a semi minty sasora type scent. Less fat/fuzzy/minty, a little more edgy. Competing with this note are some labdanum/faint cinnamon like aspects that it shares with the Maunamoku sample. For whatever reason I am very sensitive to this note and it is most pronounced when it is heated gently, so I think this is one that I would tend to burn at higher temperature. Right now I have my subitism hooked up to a lower-powered power supply because I’ve been smelling mostly ck, hainan, crassna for a long time now.
As it progresses the sasora note seems to dominate before it transitions to that lovely hot resin / vanillin / ambergris end stage; some of the labdanum/cinnamon also persists.
I won’t venture a guess as to the specific region, because I haven’t smelled enough specimens with good identification yet to be confident of regional profiles in wood chips. It resembles Kalimantan and Borneo wood in my collection.
