Saudalhajri
True Ouddict
Filtered civet, frankincense and myrrh tears, Oud oil, rose oil, saffron.
Miscellany of the day
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Filtered civet, frankincense and myrrh tears, Oud oil, rose oil, saffron.
mobyus
True Ouddict
I’ve just begun to appreciate Civet after enjoying some Civet Regal EDP by ElKhaldi Studio
Joe
Resident Artisan
Looks great!
Mr.P
oud<3er
I am willing to wager that that is lovely! Is this like a kind of thick balm?
Saudalhajri
True Ouddict
Quote “smells like a sexy fox in a forest”
It’s like cold butter in hardness, but less smooth, a little grainy from undissokved matter from the resins.
It still needs time to mature and age, but already smells good! I might add cloves and labdanum next time I make it.
I’ve been meaning to try it, how’s it?
AlHind Oud
Resident Artisan
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Mr.P
oud<3er
Collected some white pine "duff" - I noticed a beautiful dry sophisticated woody scent when I enter groves of white pine trees. I found a place where the needles had fallen on stone because I noticed the dry needles on the rock outcrops had the aroma that I found appealing whereas the needles that were on the soil had more of a mushroomy and decomposition type scent. As you can see these are nice and dry. The aroma is strong enough to make me think I should be able to extract something but these have been exposed to the air all summer and I don't know what, if anything, I will get out of them. I'm on the fence about doing the extraction but I'm contemplating it. Also collected some "sweet fern" which is not a fern at all but a small shrub that resembles labdanum in more ways than one. Beautiful balsamic scent, this one has to dry i think before I extract it.
Alamande
True Ouddict
That is so cool - congratulations and kudos for giving back to your local community. 🏏
Joe
Resident Artisan
Agreed!
Alamande
True Ouddict
Today I am wearing liberal swipes of my Firewood Ta’ifi rose oil (دهن الورد الطائفي على الحطب) from Ward As-Shafa in Ta’if.
I was a bit skeptical about this one because it doesn’t solidify as readily as the gas-fired oil, but at fridge temperature it does solidify nicely as you can see in this photo.
Really pleasant, gingery, spicy profile with virtually no green notes compared to the gas-fired product (which is very green, vegetal and dry).
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I was a bit skeptical about this one because it doesn’t solidify as readily as the gas-fired oil, but at fridge temperature it does solidify nicely as you can see in this photo.
Really pleasant, gingery, spicy profile with virtually no green notes compared to the gas-fired product (which is very green, vegetal and dry).
SophMarie
True Ouddict
Were you thinking of making a resin or ... ?
Teone Reinthal has made several forest-scented perfumes. One, Sage Sibirica, contains resin made from Pinus Sibirica (Ringing Cedars). It's a beautiful perfume.
One of reasons I bought my house was the white pines in the backyard. I love the smell, the look, everything about them. Last year I ripped out some spindly trees and planted more.
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Mr.P
oud<3er
Nothing better than the smell of white pine. buying a house because of the presence of a stand of white pine is something I can 100% relate to, good decision, well done, I back you up completely!
I've got a pound or so of this in a bag waiting to be ground up and extracted and yes - made into a "resinoid". I want the smell of the dry old pine needles themselves - to me that is just sublime it's almost like a perfect cologne. I distilled some of the green needles, but did not get enough yield to separate more than just a small skim of oil. Beautiful aroma to the Hydrosol and I rinsed out the separator funnel with alcohol because all of the oil clung to the sides of that so I have a nice white pine cologne. Very sweet and amber-like but also tart and citric.
SophMarie
True Ouddict
If you make something out of the old needles for sale, keep me in mind 😍
Mr.P
oud<3er
Zanthoxylem americanum, a type of szechuan pepper that is native to the US growing on a roadside near my home. No berries on this even though they had plenty of flowers in the spring - I think it's possible that these are male plants and they just don't happen to be any females or these are growing. The Chinese Szechuan pepper comes from three different species in the genus Zanthoxylem. I had been hoping to find some of the berries today, but found the leaves to be very fragrant with the classic pepper quality. It's hard to see in the picture but when you tilt them after the light the leaves have a little sheen of oil on them, I'm going to go back and collect a bunch, dry them, see what I can get.
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Alamande
True Ouddict
Took a trip to the Frankincense Store in London today and picked up some of their Boswellia Frereana EO, along with a few other bits and pieces.
This oil is distilled from Somali maydi. It has a markedly different profile to the hojari oil I already have.
Imagine the aroma of fresh lemon peel and zest, mixed with that of grapefruit and then magnified and intensified many times over. It has serious depth and almost nostril-searing intensity. At about $50 for 10ml, the price is trivial compared to the other stuff we tend to post about here. I’ve said it before, but I highly recommend swinging by the store if you are ever in town.
This oil is distilled from Somali maydi. It has a markedly different profile to the hojari oil I already have.
Imagine the aroma of fresh lemon peel and zest, mixed with that of grapefruit and then magnified and intensified many times over. It has serious depth and almost nostril-searing intensity. At about $50 for 10ml, the price is trivial compared to the other stuff we tend to post about here. I’ve said it before, but I highly recommend swinging by the store if you are ever in town.
Shiningrobes
True Ouddict
Java patchouli from Essential Oil Apothecary (5ml) with ~.25 gr combined of both white and gold ambergris. I’ve talked about this maceration before, but it has finally crossed the 6 month mark and is now what I’d call matured. It’s so incredibly smooth and smells just ancient. It’s like the ambergris has added another 15 years of aging on top of the oils’ original 10. This comes on so incredibly dense and concentrated. The green cognac note of the untouched oil has now turned jet black. It wears like a dark Merauke in terms of concentrated layers. Boiled down whiskey, fresh turned soil, wet wood, molasses, Sassafras root and bamboo. It really reminds me of the first woody hit of Bourbon Island vanilla. There’s no mistaking this for anything other than patchouli, but it’s like the Ur-patchouli. Father of all patchoulis. Serious and authoritative. It’s almost metallic with how thick it smells. The ambergris has worked what I find to be its most magical effect and opened up a trap door, pocket universe of scent underneath the main scent body. Where things get strange is when this really starts to open up and that dark tone gets overlaid with Cassie flower and the earthy powderiness of good patchouli meets the airy powderiness of ambergis. And really once it’s fully opened it smells like vintage Tabú. Sweet, round and wide open. The best part of all is that even though I’ve worn this a few times over the last 6 months I just looked closely and saw that the bottle is still almost full!!!
Alamande
True Ouddict
This is really inspiring - glad it has worked out for you!
Shiningrobes
True Ouddict
Thank you! I’m a little obsessed. It’s magical stuff. I have a few other ambergris macerations going that are around the same age but I’m going to let them go a little longer.still I can’t believe what it does
Mr.P
oud<3er
This is Nicotiana alata, a fragrant/ornamental variety of tobacco. I have seen people offer tobacco flower absolute for sale, which always has me scratching my head because the flowers of my Burley and Turkish tobacco flowers have no appreciable aroma, and
the faint scent they do have is not pleasant, sweet, or floral at all. The species pictured here is a different story altogether, and the flowers are extremely fragrant especially at night, with an aroma a little bit like stargazer Lily and Ylang. I am guessing that this variety or something like it is the one that is extracted when making the tobacco flower oil. If I can get enough of these growing next year I may try to make a small batch of concrete, although it would likely give someone a buzz if they applied too much of it to their skin.
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the faint scent they do have is not pleasant, sweet, or floral at all. The species pictured here is a different story altogether, and the flowers are extremely fragrant especially at night, with an aroma a little bit like stargazer Lily and Ylang. I am guessing that this variety or something like it is the one that is extracted when making the tobacco flower oil. If I can get enough of these growing next year I may try to make a small batch of concrete, although it would likely give someone a buzz if they applied too much of it to their skin.
Alamande
True Ouddict
I love this - perfumery is kind of an extreme sport for you, Mr. P. 😄
