Oud of the Day

THE Oud rollercoaster never stops surprising ME

Sulaym - Min Al Sin left side
This is my 2nd hainan and my first time smelling such a candied orange with a zesty bitter note in a harmony.
Sulayms description says wildflowers and nuts. I get that but the candied orange aspect is infront of it and these floral and nutty nuances just rounding up the experience. It doesnt smell like any synthetic orange/citrussy perfume you know. Its more of a dense natural aroma.
For around 240$/3g this is a daily swiper for summer and winter I guess. Another amazing bangs for bucks oil from Sulaym


Sulaym - Kaliman Limau right side
Take your first breath and you will dive in a rich rainforest. Its green dense wet but has sooo many aspects to discover. Zesty citrusses, some oud burning and sweet & spicy whiffs. A lot of stuff going on here and smells different every time you sniff. But when you inhale deeper, the unmistakable vanillic addictive borneo background is there. This is a complex oil that you can also just enjoy the scenery it puts you in. No need to overcomplicate it. Just enjoy your time in the rainforest.
Again 350/3g wild borneo another amazing oil from Sulaym. I am not a fan of green scents and foresty ouds but I can appreciate the complexity.

The vendors description matching what I smell on my skin, is such an important aspect, because I will know that next time I wanna buy an oil, I can almost blind buy it and there is no need for wasting money and shipment on samples
 
EMW - Rising Phoenix Perfumery

A sweet, purple, medicinal/herbal scent that fades into a dark spicy-floral drydown.

If you love those purple notes in some ouds this one has got them in droves. Almost reminds me of grape cough syrup (in a good way). It has some candied cherry notes as well up front. Over the wear the florals and spice come out to play. The dry-down is one of the best I’ve tried.. I’m a big simp for these floral-spicy drydowns.
 
Obada said:
Sulaym - Kaliman Limau right side
Take your first breath and you will dive in a rich rainforest. Its green dense wet but has sooo many aspects to discover. Zesty citrusses, some oud burning and sweet & spicy whiffs. A lot of stuff going on here and smells different every time you sniff. But when you inhale deeper, the unmistakable vanillic addictive borneo background is there. This is a complex oil that you can also just enjoy the scenery it puts you in. No need to overcomplicate it. Just enjoy your time in the rainforest.
Again 350/3g wild borneo another amazing oil from Sulaym. I am not a fan of green scents and foresty ouds but I can appreciate the complexity.
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Omg this oil smells like some Kalimantan wood I have from @Maunamoku after 15 20min. After the rainforest heavy notes fade, it smells like the wood on a mica plate. Pure oud heating almost. I never had this close resemblence of heated wood in an oil
 
After spending a couples months away from Ouddict, it’s great to come back & see what everyone is wearing & burning. This is a wonderful community that warms my heart & brings a smile to my face.

Two oils today. I rarely wear my Oud oils to work, however today I applied some Nha Trang Qinam by The Attar Store. This is a brilliant oil; bright, vaporous, kinamic….yes but also has a depth to the profile beyond the sparkling & sheer aesthetic that is common with modern distillations of Vietnamese wood. NTQ has a beautifully dense red fruit core, marzipan, floral mimosa tones, creamy & a touch powdery. Although the oil is buzzing with medicinal, kinamic tones, there is a dense mature sweetness. To my nose, it smells like both Vietnamese Crassna & Chinese Sinensis.

After work I was craving something opposite to a kinamic profile, but just as beautiful.
Al Shareef Oudh’s masterpiece Al Malek Al Kalakassi. Probably the greatest Hindi oil I’ve ever put my nose on!
The top note of this oil is unlike any other Hindi I’ve tried. There is a touch of barnyard but it’s such a clean / refined barn note devoid of any funk. It’s hard to describe but it’s almost chalky or powdery.
Soon enough the scent profile develops into an array of fruits, flowers & spice in the mid note. AMAK is very colourful Hindi oil, with a ton of horizontal complexity.
Eventually, the base highlights that royal ASO signature drying down to an oozing of dense Oud resin. The refined sweetness of leather, woods, amber / labdanum & hay.
Perfection.
 
Nice to see we have vendors here secure enough to praise the work of their colleagues!
 
Habzoud - Koh King

Very sweet and bright opening with syrupy honey mingling with jammy dried apricots and some florals. Very boozey scent texture to this oil. It has this intriguing note that almost gives a hint of a licorice twang to it. There is a very faint antique quality in the background, almost like the smell of an old book. The dry down transitions to something more incensey, what I imagine the source wood would smell like if gently heated.



Jinkoh Store - Grand Emperor Koh Kong

Was tempted to compare these two oils from the same region. This oil is far dryer, not much sweetness to it at all. It retains the boozey texture, but the antique note is at the forefront and I would say the dominant note of this oil. It smells like you are in an antique store with fine wooden furniture. There’s also a strong vanilla note that seems to mingle with some warm spices. There’s a slight cooling sensation when taking a deep sniff.

Both excellent oils and great examples of this region. Many major differences between them but still some key through lines that make sense as to how they are from the same region. I will say Koh King really punches up in value as it is about 1/3rd of the price and it provides an amazing multifaceted experience in its own rite.
 
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Habz786 said:
ASO Qandahar 2 the best Hindi oil i have ever smelt, the rose note in this Oud is something out worldy, the cherry laden boozy cardamon note is just va va voom.
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I’ve heard amazing things regarding that oil. Your description sounds like something I’d enjoy quite a lot!
I only discovered Oud in 2019 so many of the older ASO’s I’m inexperienced with.
The ‘Al Shareef’ Malaysian series is another line that piques my interest. I wish I could go back in time to smell them! Instead I just read the product descriptions & imagine.
ASO does brilliant things with Indian / Bangladeshi & Malaysian wood. They’re often my favourite oils of his.
Another favourite is Zuhayr, a great Bangladeshi oil. Very rich in sweet resins, animalic raw hide leather, white flowers, chocolate & tons of beautiful sun baked hay.
 
A swipe of Hindi Jadeed Manipur from Al Hind oud - what an intriguing oil. There is an unusual floral note in the opening that reminds me for some reason of Jasminum polyanthum flowers and oils. It is really quite distinct. There are some light nutty/peanut notes over a tangy sweetness that is reminiscent of some crassnas. There is an addictive oud bittersweet layer, while the jasmine notes add something of an indolic and musky character. This one definitely stands out in my collection. Nice oil!
 
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EMW - Rising Phoenix Perfumery

A sweet, purple, medicinal/herbal scent that fades into a dark spicy-floral drydown.

If you love those purple notes in some ouds this one has got them in droves. Almost reminds me of grape cough syrup (in a good way). It has some candied cherry notes as well up front. Over the wear the florals and spice come out to play. The dry-down is one of the best I’ve tried.. I’m a big simp for these floral-spicy drydowns.
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It’s magnificent isn’t it? The only Oud in which I’ve smelt a vivid maraschino cherry note.
You’re absolutely right; purple, grape syrup, spices, the West Malaysian floral signature. Clean, yet a dark Oudy resinous core. It’s one of my very favourite Malaysian oils.
 
HM Royal Hindi from Sulaym
Meghalaya 1970’s

I’m lucky enough to have a couple of drops of this to check out along with a few others. Not enough to photograph, but I’m not really sure what good photographs of liquids actually do. This is a first impressions type review. I’ll follow up later with a swipe on a day when there’s not competing aromas around I hope.

Very pleasant opening. I doubt that I have smelled any other oud this old so i can’t compare it to other similar oils... the opening has some kind a very refined cedar like note, that isn’t so much like cedar, but more like what I wish cedar would smell like. This is not smelling like a sassafrassy hindis that seem to make up the bulk of what i have smelled from the region. I think it has some elements of soaking/ferment but (maybe because of the long amount of time it has been sitting), it’s not some obvious layer on top of everything, but some subtle subtler barnyard scent balanced with all the rest of it. There is some of that bitter, soapy oudy quality that I associate with some hindi and other gulf style(?) ouds that are a cut above the usual. I’m having trouble pinning this one down. There’s a sense of appealing “waxiness” off the dipstick and subtle nuttiness- the two combined bring something to mind that I can’t quite put my finger on. In any case this is a nice resinous low barn but not at all “new gen” if I understand this term correctly.

This definitely feels like an oil that has been stashed away for a while for us and that should be a nice one to have as a reference in a collection.
 
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Cambodie Qadeem @mesOUD Abi
Followed by a swipe of his Sandali Gulap Attar (that he send my mother as a gift. What a warmhearted human being)
Beautiful viscous sour opening combined with the buttery creaminess of the Mysore sandalwood and the sweetness and freshness of the rose.

This has a crazy projection
I can’t stop smelling the back of my hand. And I can’t stop thinking about putting this kind off combination in to a fragrance.
Can highly recommend this
 
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I am wearing Malaysian Prince sent to me by my kind friend over at www.pureoudh.com. I have had 1ml of this oil for a while now and it is great, I have a few other 0.25ml - 0.5ml samples, 1ml of an A.sinensis oil and 1 6ml Burma oil that I love as well. The Malaysian Prince is so great, it opens with a nice resinous scent with a little background of alcohol (fermentation) with a strong smell of leather, then the leather stays along with the heart notes extremely strongly as it delicately fades into a powdery floral scent I love this one.
 
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The Malaysian Prince is now moving onto the base notes (I would consider base notes the transition from heart note to base then base to dry down, the dry down to me is it becoming less potent not a scent change, we all have different views on that and I am only new to oil but this is my own interpretation of it so far) and the scent reminds me of leathery, fresh spring water upon the inhale and a strong oceanic and spring water freshness note with maybe some flowers in the spring water as well 😀. Really beautiful.
 
Jinkoh store - Malay essenza
If there is 1 oud oil that represents the new gen Malaysian profile on a budget, Its this one! No need for 400$/g or crazy quality whatever.
Just a perfect malay oud with a woody peppery dry beginning. Transforms later to a sweet cola/molasses like profile with a hint of pepper coming through on a resinous oudy layer.
 
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