Burn of the Day

[Olfactory Nomad]

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Absolutely agree, I increase the temperature a bit now on my heater to 150 after a week. I am thinking of gently grinding some on a ceramic salt/pepper grinder to use for the gentle heating, not sure if it will grind properly due to the high resin content or if I will lose too much resin to the ceramic in the process

I think you should be right. As long as you grind slowly you shouldn't produce any heat through friction.

 

[-Renton-]

From Hamza, back when he was The Attar Store, his HONG KONG. What a worthwhile listen on the subitism. A depth of royal hues. Looking forward to his next incarnation. KYMYA

Where can I find Hamza and his new company, KYMYA? We both live In Scotland which makes shipping so much faster and cheaper and I always wanted to try his vintage Nha Trang as now I can afford real wild nha trang wood since my budget per month for this hobby alone is £420 (over 450 dollars) now instead of £270. My first wild Nha Trang buy (that isn't kyara) will be from @Aroma Sublime, and it says on his store that 5g and above you get a single solid piece of the wood instead of chips which will be nice, quite expensive though but since he lives in Vietnam he will have access to the real deal easier and really high quality (probably new harvest, maybe not idk) Nha Trang wood, can't wait to buy my 5grams from him, £140 though which is a fantastic price as long as its top notch and 0.1g shavings on the heater produces that sought after wild nha trang aroma 🤤.

@Aroma Sublime does shaving off 0.1g off the wild nha trang you sell give an explosive aroma on a heater at say 140c?

 

[-Renton-]

Absolutely agree, I increase the temperature a bit now on my heater to 150 after a week. I am thinking of gently grinding some on a ceramic salt/pepper grinder to use for the gentle heating, not sure if it will grind properly due to the high resin content or if I will lose too much resin to the ceramic in the process

You don't need to grind ANY kyara this way. Even CK is relatively soft because of the oil content. Just get a scalpel or a Stanley and shave shavings off.

 

[-Renton-]

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I think you should be right. As long as you grind slowly you shouldn't produce any heat through friction.

When it comes to kynam (this is especially true for wild and if you practice this with CK you will be better at it once you get wile kyera) you can easily shave pieces off with a scalpel or Stanley 😊.

 

[-Renton-]

Purple kynam from KangiitenView attachment 38035

You really should be acraping shavings off of any kyara, cultivated and wild alike. It'll make your wood last longer as when you think it is done on the heater doing it this way, you will potentially waste some oil that's in the middle of the pieces so shaving is the best wsy to heat any kynam.

 

[Bay Oud]

You really should be acraping shavings off of any kyara, cultivated and wild alike. It'll make your wood last longer as when you think it is done on the heater doing it this way, you will potentially waste some oil that's in the middle of the pieces so shaving is the best wsy to heat any kynam.

Thank you dear @-Renton- for the feedback. These chunks are quite small from Kangiiten but I will see if I can shave them smaller. I do have the wood carving tool from Kangiiten as well which should probably do the job well since I use it for sandalwood chunks without an issue.

 

[Mr.P]

I lit up this large square stick from mesoud - this was one of my many samples that came with the last thing I ordered. This seems to be simply compressed agarwood powder and nothing else. I've mentioned it before because it is a great and convenient way to pretty rapidly fill a space with heavy oud. It would also be perfect outdoors and sitting at the fire in the evening. I am at the base of some mountains so the airflow is very predictable on summer nights. If I put a stick at one end of my yard with enough kick to it like one of the Tibetan sticks or this one, the aroma is enjoyable and noticeable to an absolutely satisfactory degree. The aroma of these woods mixing with breezes outdoors is perceived quite differently than indoors. Because it comes and goes and your palate is constantly refreshed outdoors that feels like the way it's meant to be done. This is a very nice pure oud burn and the stick is strong enough that the single stick which came has been enough for 3 uses already with still little bit left.

I'm spending as much time as possible in my "summer living room" which is basically the area around my fire pit and vegetable garden. Going to keep up the outdoor burning and maybe get a coal going and some larger chunks of stuff. The fire pit is surrounded by aromatic plants so you can rest your feet on a bed of lemon thyme, mint, catmint or oregano while the incense is blowing on the breeze... this place was a quarter acre of mud last year so I'm pretty psyched at this point.

 

[Bay Oud]

I lit up this large square stick from mesoud - this was one of my many samples that came with the last thing I ordered. This seems to be simply compressed agarwood powder and nothing else. I've mentioned it before because it is a great and convenient way to pretty rapidly fill a space with heavy oud. It would also be perfect outdoors and sitting at the fire in the evening. I am at the base of some mountains so the airflow is very predictable on summer nights. If I put a stick at one end of my yard with enough kick to it like one of the Tibetan sticks or this one, the aroma is enjoyable and noticeable to an absolutely satisfactory degree. The aroma of these woods mixing with breezes outdoors is perceived quite differently than indoors. Because it comes and goes and your palate is constantly refreshed outdoors that feels like the way it's meant to be done. I'm spending as much time as possible in my "summer living room" which is basically the area around my fire pit and vegetable garden. The fire pit is surrounded by aromatic plant so you can rest your feet on a bed of lemon thyme, mint, catmint or oregano while the incense is blowing on the breeze... this place was a quarter acre of mud last year so I'm pretty psyched at this point.

This is a very interesting use for the sticks. They are an absolute powerhouse, if I don't have the windows open I only need to light it for a few minutes and the whole room is filled with the aroma. My favorite way to use them is to open some windows and create a draft such that the air coming is carrying the smoke throughout the house

 

[-Renton-]

Thank you dear @-Renton- for the feedback. These chunks are quite small from Kangiiten but I will see if I can shave them smaller. I do have the wood carving tool from Kangiiten as well which should probably do the job well since I use it for sandalwood chunks without an issue.

I think those tools are better used for bigger woods, its best to use a small knife for small pieces of kynam, it may be small pieces but when you get into wild kyara, the pieces you get are like 0.05-0.15g to 1gram ofc. So very, very small.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Absolutely agree, I increase the temperature a bit now on my heater to 150 after a week. I am thinking of gently grinding some on a ceramic salt/pepper grinder to use for the gentle heating, not sure if it will grind properly due to the high resin content or if I will lose too much resin to the ceramic in the process

CK gummed up my grinder, I had to take it apart and scrape off all the sticky resin. I wouldn’t do it again.

 

[Oudamberlove]

RP Tura Peak Saif

As usual, I keep it low and slow.

I get notes that remind of a lot of Hindi oud oils I’ve tried, but not barny notes.

 

[-Renton-]

RP Tura Peak Saif

As usual, I keep it low and slow.

I get notes that remind of a lot of Hindi oud oils I’ve tried, but not barny notes.

I wish I had enough of my SQ Hindi (that the actual Sultan used when he was alive, my source got it from someone who was close to SQ for 21 years and made incense out of this for him and I think also set it up raw for him to smell) to send to you, but I only got 4grams.

Just incase you haven't seen it, I will post some pics in the attachments.

An Najwa said to me on instagram that this is a very, very rare Hindi. It has 0 barnyard notes, absolutely 0. It is super floral at the start, very sweet, some hints of sourness then some absolutely insane wild Kyara-like creamy notes come in, then a nice creamy-smokey tobacco smell and A LARGE resinous scent, no real woodiness tbh.

This wood is mostly (like 99%) resin and oil (mostly resin, so I wouldn't call it an Indian Kyara, but you could make the case that it is as rare as Wild Kyara, though). This was most likely harvested pre 90s, and came from a very, very old wild tree (obviously harvested when it was legal to cut down wild trees in India). If I was to guess the age of the tree based on this picture below, I would say its is 100% over 100 years old, without a doubt. I am not gonna tout "150-250" etc, but it is 100% at, or over 100 years old. Funny thing is, it is much better on spent coal than a heater, but I am getting my new heater tomorrow that is better than this kangii portable, but thats for my wild Kyara, and honestly I dont think it will do any better on this heater, I think Hindi's no matter what age, do better on coal or moderate - high heat subs.

IF I can get more (I should have asked for more god dammit, haha), I could potentially drop you some and we could do a swap?

 

[Oudamberlove]

I wish I had enough of my SQ Hindi (that the actual Sultan used when he was alive, my source got it from someone who was close to SQ for 21 years and made incense out of this for him and I think also set it up raw for him to smell) to send to you, but I only got 4grams.

Just incase you haven't seen it, I will post some pics in the attachments.

An Najwa said to me on instagram that this is a very, very rare Hindi. It has 0 barnyard notes, absolutely 0. It is super floral at the start, very sweet, some hints of sourness then some absolutely insane wild Kyara-like creamy notes come in, then a nice creamy-smokey tobacco smell and A LARGE resinous scent, no real woodiness tbh.

This wood is mostly (like 99%) resin and oil (mostly resin, so I wouldn't call it an Indian Kyara, but you could make the case that it is as rare as Wild Kyara, though). This was most likely harvested pre 90s, and came from a very, very old wild tree (obviously harvested when it was legal to cut down wild trees in India). If I was to guess the age of the tree based on this picture below, I would say its is 100% over 100 years old, without a doubt. I am not gonna tout "150-250" etc, but it is 100% at, or over 100 years old. Funny thing is, it is much better on spent coal than a heater, but I am getting my new heater tomorrow that is better than this kangii portable, but thats for my wild Kyara, and honestly I dont think it will do any better on this heater, I think Hindi's no matter what age, do better on coal or moderate - high heat subs.

IF I can get more (I should have asked for more god dammit, haha), I could potentially drop you some and we could do a swap?

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Hindi agarwood has many regions, I haven’t even tried them all. Assam has a nice profile, and I had a piece of TOL Garo Bblz that smelled really good.

 

[-Renton-]

Hindi agarwood has many regions, I haven’t even tried them all. Assam has a nice profile, and I had a piece of TOL Garo Bblz that smelled really good.

From the Oud Lab? Their stuff is good. This Hindi though, blows every Hindi wood out of the water. People usually go crazy when they hear "SQ" but most of what people get the sultan never actually used. This stuff the sultan LOVED... apparently anyway.

 

[Oudamberlove]

From the Oud Lab? Their stuff is good. This Hindi though, blows every Hindi wood out of the water. People usually go crazy when they hear "SQ" but most of what people get the sultan never actually used. This stuff the sultan LOVED... apparently anyway.

No doubt, cream of the crop for the Sultan.
I wonder what region it’s from.

 

[-Renton-]

No doubt, cream of the crop for the Sultan.
I wonder what region it’s from.

I have asked 😉

 

[DubOudh]

Was burning @mesOUD cultivated kinam I got recently most of yesterday. Name home from work tonight and the room had a lovely scent all around the room. Having another session this evening.
Nice to be back in the groove of burning again. Some very nice cultvated stuff out there now.

 

[PersonelHigh]

Where can I find Hamza and his new company, KYMYA? We both live In Scotland which makes shipping so much faster and cheaper and I always wanted to try his vintage Nha Trang as now I can afford real wild nha trang wood since my budget per month for this hobby alone is £420 (over 450 dollars) now instead of £270. My first wild Nha Trang buy (that isn't kyara) will be from @Aroma Sublime, and it says on his store that 5g and above you get a single solid piece of the wood instead of chips which will be nice, quite expensive though but since he lives in Vietnam he will have access to the real deal easier and really high quality (probably new harvest, maybe not idk) Nha Trang wood, can't wait to buy my 5grams from him, £140 though which is a fantastic price as long as its top notch and 0.1g shavings on the heater produces that sought after wild nha trang aroma 🤤.

@Aroma Sublime does shaving off 0.1g off the wild nha trang you sell give an explosive aroma on a heater at say 140c?

I highly recommend getting in touch with Hamza. On instagram or through his website. Some of my most beloved woods in my collection are from him, as well as oils. Just waiting on a Sandalwood that blew my socks off. Such a fair price too.

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[Xerohome]

Yellow Kyara at home after long flight
milky, balanced sweetness, airy, herbal and vanilla notes.
it's gorgeous!

 

[Obada]

Maunomaku - Kalimantan

Kangiiten - Tarakan Classic

Kangiiten - Pontianak

Kangiiten - Philippines

All beautiful on coal and mica but this tarakan classic blew my mind with a vivid floral, fresh fruits/Honey melon scent.
I will scrape some and heat it on my heater to see if I can catch it again