Burn of the Day

I have been enjoying sinking Jayapura & Hainan ant nest from @YusaAromatics
Not gonna lie, I was a liiitttlle disappointed when I got he Jayapura and saw they were more "skins" than chips, but a piece on the heater changed all that! They pack a big punch, very oudy core that brought a big smile to my face
 
Two types of frankincense on the subitism today after reading that article that I posted about incensole acetate. 🙂

I can’t make any MDMA out of camphor, but I can fill the air with exaltation-inducing frankincense vapor! I would say it’s the second best thing, but I can’t really say that I feel particularly calm or in touch with the mystery. So it is time to put a few more grains on the subitism and breathe deeply…

one is Tigray frankincense (which I got after reading Tyson’s post on this variety) the other is basic quality hojari from puresacra. The hojari is more appealing to me in most ways, but the tigray does lay down a pretty, thick, heavy, waxy, frankincense aroma that reminds me of cathedrals in europe.
 
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I am revisiting Ward Lab sinensis wood “diào kou” Yunnan China

This one is a bit of a different sinensis than the others i have burned - this is a more challenging oud due to some distinct animalic/labdanum funk in the first stages. I generally go with higher temperatures with ouds that open like this because i have had better results as far as my nose is concerned. This was a mid-temp subitism “burn”.

There is a fair amount of resin bubbling up from the splinters on the subitism. As the resin starts to heat up and dry down there is this archetypal bittersweet oud resin and hot dry yet sweet light tantalizing woody resinous sauna aroma that i remember being so pleased to encounter for the first time many years ago. The extended phase is this delightful tangy sweet hot wood aroma that is very appealing especially up close. That is all i’ve got for now. The exposure was off on the pic and I could not improve it with adjustments

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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.
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Plain old CK shavings from ejayb I have been enjoying for the last two years since I got them and I’m getting down to the bottom of the barrel. This form of ck performs especially well on the subitism - the aroma is quite fine and the thin nature of the shavings seems especially well suited for looooong low temp subitism sessions.
 
I had one specimen of oguryama that was so incredibly nice. I found myself wondering sometimes about what was going on with some of the baieido woods after they arrived in the US. I would see / acquire 15g packs of excellent specimens with just the occasional funky piece or two, but then occasional packs that were mostly funky bunky pieces with just a couple of nicer cuts. I have a hard time imagining that getting past quality control at baieido. Anyway, that was long ago and i checked the last package of “tsukigase” vietnamese and it was all good wood so it made up for the other batch. Pics attached because why not. the one bunk wood nugget is at the front left of the pix.

I thought those long green Oguryama sticks were some of the nicest i had smelled at the time. I bought a couple of rolls but ran out long ago and I don’t see it in stock anymore.

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very old Rakoku name Mountain kagu
elegant and regal wood, unique bitterness, refined spice, ghost of sweetness and some floral tinge
wood i layered and long lasting now it make me wonder how it do with japanese heaters, might need kioka or sizuro.

Nha Trang Dupont/tocbong
another great wood that feel so regal and elegant,cool honey sweet, floral, bitter tinge, milky
its also so long lasting wood and resistant to heat, if it were put in japanese system it would be rakoku.
 
Mr.P said:
I had one specimen of oguryama that was so incredibly nice. I found myself wondering sometimes about what was going on with some of the baieido woods after they arrived in the US. I would see / acquire 15g packs of excellent specimens with just the occasional funky piece or two, but then occasional packs that were mostly funky bunky pieces with just a couple of nicer cuts. I have a hard time imagining that getting past quality control at baieido. Anyway, that was long ago and i checked the last package of “tsukigase” vietnamese and it was all good wood so it made up for the other batch. Pics attached because why not. the one bunk wood nugget is at the front left of the pix.

I thought those long green Oguryama sticks were some of the nicest i had smelled at the time. I bought a couple of rolls but ran out long ago and I don’t see it in stock anymore.

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Nice pieces.
I also wondered about Baieido’s QC, I even thought to myself, is the distributor packing these woods from sources unknown?
 
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Nice pieces.
I also wondered about Baieido’s QC, I even thought to myself, is the distributor packing these woods from sources unknown?
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I suspected that maybe they were high grading the imports and selling bags of the rejects to less knowledgeable retailers. I feel a little bit irresponsible saying this because the only evidence I have is that
one bag that could not possibly have been the result of randomly selected chips and any qualified QC inspector would’ve flagged. Just white knobby knot pieces with flaking thin skin of mediocre wood.
 
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