@Jame a bit more about kyara...1000% you will find the best kyara is from Vietnam-china-cambodia. all other regions just lack the balance and depth. of course super grade woods from all regions can be called kyara because they have beautiful aroma and it is projected in low temps all the way up to high temps but you can tell they are not true kyara because at high heat the resin will smell just like agarwood does, you dont get that burnt resin/wood fiber smell that you dont get from black kynam and purple kinam or even chinese kinam lol or any kinam! you do get it with those supposed kinam woods from all those other regions like brunei, borneo etc etc that the chinese and others claim are kinam woods.
green kyara: top grade is soft pliable sticky, oily. in the mouth it is bitter/numbing/spicy..on the heater it will always have a wet feel and never leave residue on the heater surface.
black and purple kinam: hard like agarwood, not oily to touch, not sticky, its dry. the taste in the mouth is either sweet or no taste at all but the aroma is loud if the purple or black kinam is high grade. black and purple kyara will leave residue on the heater surface in higher temps
white kinam: similar to green
chinese kinam: similar to black and purple
yellow kinam: mostly spicy in the mouth and numbing not as bitter as green, pungent flowery sometimes confused with pursat kyara. it is like a green without the wetness and bitterness...its mostly like spicy sweet flowery and of course bitterness also in it etc
cambodia pursat: similar to green but the wood is never super oily it is a mid hardness and if very resin formed will be more like black and purple kinam hard. however this kinam also has oil within. there is both resin formation and oil streaks within its fibers. very special kinam if you can find a high grade one.
all the kinams that are high grade have a balance in bitter sweet salty acid etc but i see that mostly black is mostly pungent/salty sweet...while purple is mostly sweet/flowery, green mostly bitter flowery and oriental like same as white but white has more sweetness always and also more otherworldly note that non of the others have.
the effects are similar. green, white, yellow and pursat have the cleanest effects in general. while purple, black and chinese are more imposing. of course this isnt a standard but just what i see from within my personal collection.
i think its a good idea to just forget about kinam oils and kinamic oils and just remember they are just good agarwood oils many times and hyped also.
an oil that was also very kinamic but definitely not full spectrum was jinko store grand emperor of hainan and grand emperor of vietnam. they had a lot of similarities but still not covering it. if one was to mix these oils with a royal kinam from ensar and a fraction of ntltd it would be much more kinamic than all other "kinamic" oils
now, if you want REAL kyara oil in an attar, find kyara diser perfume. this is not something easy to see tho because there are other ingredients. but if you stuy the kyara a bit you will be able to pin point the kyara oil in the perfume easy..takes time. i have a yamadamatsu kyara that when i smelled it in room temperature i was so in love it smelled rosy and violet. i remember thinking i wish i could find an oil that smelled like that. months later i discovered kyara diser and i was amazed thinking that it smelled just like the yamadamatsu. the diser has rose and patchuli and it is not easy to dicipher the kyara in it but when you do it will be much easier for the brain to piick up on it from within the other notes and its amazing. its a sweet spicy slightly bitter kinam profile and it is probably not distilled but mostly co2
