when the children of Adam give themselves the right to speak about another humans intent, this is peak of arrogance the lowest spiritual places, because forgotten is his faults as though he has been guaranteed paradise. Let the children of Adam ponder his own place in the open plane on the day of accounts.
@Rasoul Salehi
I will begin my reply by sharing a quote for you, which I am sure you will appreciate.
سعدیا شیرازی پندی مدی کمزاد را کمزاد اگر عاقل شود گردن زند استاد را
I can appreciate your sentiments, unfortunately the nature of the online oudh scene (as you would have witnessed over the last 24hours) is such that regardless of my experience, reviewing another vendors oil will be disaster. When people give themselves the right to speak about your intentions that's when you know that there is no benefit taking such initiatives and as Saadi said, when the arrogantly ignorant become 'learned' they chop the teachers head.
I can see the thread side tracking to more interesting discussions such as Rijal Allah, the men of God, so I will quickly summarise my points;
A. I think it is important that this issue is discussed in clarity and this is not aimed at any individual, but rather the credibility of the concepts based on experience and science.
B. Oleoresins by scientific definition are an extract of resin by way of solvent extraction where the solvent is evaporated and what remains is resin in an essential or fatty oil solution. Oleoresin can occur in plants naturally as well, it would be a thick substance, nearly solid, however this is rare in oudh wood. In oudh we find nearly always solid resin and oil, two separate elements. With the exception of a few species such as some types of Kynam and white walla patta.
C. When picking up a oudh chip and smelling it, one is smelling a combination of aromas; wood fibre + trapped oil + resin and that is the closest one will get to smelling the 'oleoresin' of oudh. The scent that one experiences at that moment that is the scent of the oudh 'oleoresin', usually very subtle and quiet different to the oudh oil.
D. Oleoresin itself is a extraction based product and that in itself already has gone through chemical changes as it is separated with a solvent from the wood fibres, therefore utilising oleoresin as a reference point to compare a distilled oudh oil is like comparing coca cola with fanta with the aim of trying to determine purity of the water, both are changed and moving parameters.
E. When looking at the use of the term 'auxiliary' from the art of distillation perspective than none of the notes that naturally form in that process can be called auxiliary.
F. It would be more accurate to say that the final oil is an expression of the wood and the resin within the wood rather than to claim that a part of it is distilled/converted from oleoresin, whilst other parts are auxiliary, because during the distillation process many new bonds are produced that did not exist in the wood e.g sesquiterpene class called Guaiene. The structure becomes more of an Azulene type which changes odour profile and also gives a darker colour to the resulting oil.
G. Genre of oudh oils outside of the classic reference of Oudh can be developed such as floral oudh, fruity oudh , each having distinct parameters specific to them.
H. There is nothing wrong to say "smell like resin" or "smells resinous" or "smells like oleoresin" the issue is when oils being churned out from 'oleoresin' and resin, with the ability to pin point 'auxiliary' when everything in the distillation process is auxiliary.
@F4R1d0uX thanks for sharing, that is also what my experience has shown.
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