Burn of the Day

[Oudamberlove]

Maunamoku Nha Trang Char

Mmmmmm gourmand sweet aroma😋

 

[Oudamberlove]

Shoyeido Matsu Square

Low heat,
cinnamon and fruit pastry
served on a wooden plate.

 

[iori]

I love seeing perfectly cut pieces of handsome wood like this it's so appealing.

Yea indeed, Japanese try to do it always with elegance unlike everyone else =)
Heating Shoyeido Rikkokugomi Sasora today, its what's been sold in other markets as Tarakan Kinam/Borneo Kinam.
Special Milky note its so charming, cool, sweet, mellow, sour, frankincense and penetrating! can never have enough great tarakan <3

 

[iori]

Shoyeido Rikkokugomi Rakoku
This seem to be Grandi flora species.
Medicinal, spicy, sweet, vanilla, flowers, elegant and also strong, tiny silver filled the room with lingering aroma !

 

[The Scent Guru]

Vintage Pursat

 

[Oudamberlove]

Nippon Kodo Sizuro Borneo

Today’s pieces made me smile,
Malinau Baby!
We’re talking raspberry, oudy, and a touch of nuts.
Memories of smelling Malinau oud oils kept flashing through my head😊

 

[language scent]

Extremely rare purple that is soft like green kyara named “Spring dew”. To think I pulled the trigger on this piece without wanting to really makes me anxious because if I hadn’t I would have missed such a unique and gorgeous aroma.

So it didn’t smell much at room temp from the bag and that’s normal as it takes a couple hours in the vial to concentrate it’s soul. Then I cut into it with the razor and it felt like I was slicing into a soft plastic. Hard but also soft and stable. Then I placed it on 60c……there was uniqueness from the start strong aroma….switched to 70c it got super potent and the heat made it scream, I guess it’s alive and it hurts it . At 90 it was singing enchanted and drunk/high off of its own aroma that it no longer felt the pain of the burn and I was charmed like no other before .I can’t explain the flashing colors and notes that were flipping through like a books pages in fast forward because it was the first session of such a complex Forrest of flowers fruit trees, herbs and a beautiful women with her enchanted perfume lingering in the air…just in love!

2days later still in shock and have not tested it again but the vial, it smells like a sweet red cherry and an extremely sexy woman's perfume that I can’t explain…and it’s potent…the reality that it is a 1.2g chunk that is like 200+ sessions for me on the kinam heater is like owning a whole alien garden that i keep in this small vial which will always be there to comfort my soul and teach me notes and poems of its world....this feels so amazing...

How I wish I could have many of you here to experience it’s beauty and charm

 

[language scent]

The other new gem is “Shadow of the temple” a green kyara that I skimmed through within 2 minutes at 60-120c and was greeted with unique flowers, herbs and balanced with all tastes but the most unique thing about it is this incense smoke note that I have only smelled in one other kyara that I was obsessing over and was trying to trade with a friend that sent me the sample but he wasn’t trying to trade lol and now this one i got has that same strange unique incense smoke note but is to me many levels above in beauty and complexity! It’s crazy how it goes when you fall in love with a wood you can’t have and feel helpless in love and you hope and dream to find some lol then eventually you do and it’s such a relief and shock. This is not the first time this happened to me!

What a crazy world! It’s true after all lol the wood chooses you, the wood needs your love…the woods are a sucker for your love, you can’t escape it once you fall for them they will haunt you and you will haunt them leading to an endless exploration hunt

Good luck to us all

 

[Oudamberlove]

Hainan Agarwood

From the KZ incense factory.
Held by Customs for 4 days in New York,
but arrived unopened anyhow.

Smells similar to most of my char pieces, but not as floral and nutty as some, instead, I get more sweet candy resin aroma, and some likeness to my Nha Trang char.

 

[Mike Jonez]

@YusaAromatics - Sinking Leyte

Loving my first ceramic , wood hits so different on these.

 

[Tarik]

Hi all
What brand of natural charcoal do you buy? I live in France. THANKS

 

[iori]

Last but not the least, Shoyeido Rikkokugomi Manaban!
Super unique wood, it have super special sweetness so stellar, amazing flowers, elegant, noble with top density !

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Wild Nha Trang (Batch A) powdered sample from @TheAgarwoodShop. First time I've tried this mini sampler in particular. I've had this set for a while now and really should dig it out more frequently. I read and hear alot about how good real Nha Trang is either wood or oil but realised I'm yet to actually experience it. I've got enough here for a couple of good little sessions so I'll be cominmg back to this. 120 degrees seems to be the starting point on ceramic and i'm getting a nice cooling mint with some spiciness so far. Not much change at 130. Up to 140 and it's reminding me of the Sinking Leyte sample I have but a smidge sweeter. Berry notes with strong camphor. Still very spicy/bitter at 150. Alright, I have to leave it here but will be back for further contemplation.

 

[Oudamberlove]

mesOUD Pursat

Florals with perfumey resin.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Day two of the Wild Nha Trang (Batch A) sample from @TheAgarwoodShop. Started where I left off yesterday at 150 degrees and climbed up to 185 degrees. I believe I can go higher for the last sess. Was getting some nice vapour wisps from it. Spicy, very menthol but on the bitter side. Ripe berry and a mild flower scent reminiscent of vanilla. I can understand how this would translate into an oil. I feel like there should be something else in it but have not yet found it.

 

[zahir]

Shoyeido Kyara - splintered.
Still awed by the aroma released by such paltry amount.

 

[Goodness Nose]

wild Papua Muting with a half drop of its respective oil. both from mesOUD

there's something special about this stuff! so very clean in a greenish hued leather profile nearly devoid of any whiskey notes. and then in the dry down, and afterburn of the wood the sweetness is unreal. there's no point where this smells burnt or over toasted, but then ever remains ever golden brown until you turn off the heat.

 

[Chenxiang]

Vintage Vietnamese wood got in an old shop...

Nice wood with the perfect powdery berry sweet pastry type note on top then get a little bit more aggressive like sour/bitter/piercing sweetness, then pure sweet to end it, really nice treat because I'm used to indonesia wood most of the time and it never reaches the level of sweet this one

 

[Oudamberlove]

Maunamoku Nha Trang Char

Plenty of resin in the Oudh usually means plenty of resin notes as well.
Delicious😋

 

[iori]

Proper Shin-Kyara named "Hanoi"
Peach, plum, honey sweet, orchid, subtle, milky almond