Hindi oud ever changing smell

[Ibn ehsan]

So the background behind this I have a lot of different oud oils “oud” has a whole is complex and there are transitions in them but some oud are in a way weird each time you apply it’s a completely different smell you would normally expect a complex aroma to start with something transition into something else and then finally settle into something else

But I find it and this is especially in Hindi oils it’s the same bottle of oud one week it smells animalic and leathery , the next week it’s sweet incensy , sometimes medicinal but it’s the same bottle of oud and it’s not just in one Hindi, I find it most Hindi oils every time you smell it’s completely different smell this kind of transition I rarely find in other regions

Has anyone else also experienced this and can someone explain this phenomenon and why it’s more common in Hindi oils in comparison to other regions

 

[Mr.P]

So the background behind this I have a lot of different oud oils “oud” has a whole is complex and there are transitions in them but some oud are in a way weird each time you apply it’s a completely different smell you would normally expect a complex aroma to start with something transition into something else and then finally settle into something else

But I find it and this is especially in Hindi oils it’s the same bottle of oud one week it smells animalic and leathery , the next week it’s sweet incensy , sometimes medicinal but it’s the same bottle of oud and it’s not just in one Hindi, I find it most Hindi oils every time you smell it’s completely different smell this kind of transition I rarely find in other regions

Has anyone else also experienced this and can someone explain this phenomenon and why it’s more common in Hindi oils in comparison to other regions

I know exactly what you're talking about with complex aromatics in general. I haven't noticed the effect to be stronger with Hindi than other oils but I'll start paying attention.

For me a single batch of patchouli can smell so different every time I wear it that it can take dozens of wears to really understand its scent. In fact the materials that I enjoy the most are the ones that shift like this and hit you a little bit differently every time you wear them.

I have some hypotheses to explain the phenomenon but nothing concrete. I think of a lot of it has to do with the fact that what you smell is a function of the environment you're in and what you have been smelling up until the moment that you're exposed to some new stimulus. atmospheric humidity has a large impact on your ability to smell certain materials so I imagine in humid air some constituents become more noticeable than in dry air and that could be one explanation. Also, if you smell pure rose oil closely for a while and then smell a blend that includes a little bit of rose oil you won't be able to smell the rose at all, you will only smell the other constituents in the blend. This is actually a trick that can be useful but something similar happens in life. Your olfactory system is constantly exposed to aromatic molecules and this influences your sensitivity because the nervous system is wired to kind of decrease the impact of unchanging stimuli and really tune into anything new or different in the environment.

 

[Mr.P]

So the background behind this I have a lot of different oud oils “oud” has a whole is complex and there are transitions in them but some oud are in a way weird each time you apply it’s a completely different smell you would normally expect a complex aroma to start with something transition into something else and then finally settle into something else

But I find it and this is especially in Hindi oils it’s the same bottle of oud one week it smells animalic and leathery , the next week it’s sweet incensy , sometimes medicinal but it’s the same bottle of oud and it’s not just in one Hindi, I find it most Hindi oils every time you smell it’s completely different smell this kind of transition I rarely find in other regions

Has anyone else also experienced this and can someone explain this phenomenon and why it’s more common in Hindi oils in comparison to other regions

this is one of the things that makes perfume making so exasperating because some of my test blends that are mixtures of these complex things really never smell the same twice - what am I supposed to make of that?

 

[MaxFromHolland]

All that plus thats oils dont just sit on top of the skin but also get absorbed. That absorbed oil takes a while to break down. When you swipe something else, it sort of blends with the oil left in the skin. Try swiping some bergamot and vetiver on 2 testspots. Then when they are gone apply some cologne. One spot smells more citrus, the other smells more green, not straight away but after some 15 minutes definitly.