Oud of the Day

[Xerohome]

Kam Kyoryo by EO
I need time to figure out this one

 

[Loudover]

EO Dokusan - purple purple purple

 

[Goodness Nose]

this is some seriously cheerful oudh! the smell is super vibrant with red berries and pomegranate. there is a heliotrope-like powderiness to the woody drydown that blends so well with the tartness of the fruit, its hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

 

[Maunamoku]

Unreleased newgen Hirta from Langkawi Island, Kedah,
Applied over a base of Sri Lankan sandalwood,
Candy like sweetness, delicate florals, a summer day slowly shifts into focus.

 

[TheOudDood]

Fragrant harbour imperiale from Imperial Oud

Great oil, reminds me a lot of Frag harbour from attar store as well, but different distillation style.

 

[FreeSoul]

Unreleased newgen Hirta from Langkawi Island, Kedah,
Applied over a base of Sri Lankan sandalwood,
Candy like sweetness, delicate florals, a summer day slowly shifts into focus.

Is this the unreleased you sent in an order beginning of the year?

 

[-Renton-]

Maunamoku's Hirta Deadwood. Always a surprise with this one lol. Started off with the typical orange colour fruity note, but with a sour red cherry and somewhat sweet agarwood note, after a while 15-20 mins the sourness went away and you are left with the sweetness and mintiness, in and out of lovely florals and agarwood woodiness, very resinous oudiness too, orange coloured fruits reappear over and over for a bit, multi coloured berry notes, blueberry notes, red berries, somewhat purple berry and the kinamic mintiness was soft but also authoritarian and was the backbone of this experience. Left with a base note going into dry down after around 2 hours of a nice powdery, floral notes that are outstanding and notes still playing in the symphony.

Never disappointed with this oud but always afraid to wear it haha.

 

[Maunamoku]

Is this the unreleased you sent in an order beginning of the year?

If I recall correctly, you received "Birdsong", which is also unreleased. The oil today is called "Seroja", which is Malay for sacred lotus. This oil has more of an aquatic profile, replete with blue and teal notes. While it is also a bright oil, it is darker than Birdsong, while retaining the similar gem-like newgen qualities.

Maunamoku's Hirta Deadwood...

So glad you are enjoying this oil! It is a true beauty, one of my favorites.

 

[-Renton-]

So glad you are enjoying this oil! It is a true beauty, one of my favorites.

Yes!!! Amazing oil. Every time I put on any oil it is a sort of meditation session for as long as 4hours sometimes, I dont do anything but smell. But when I have the Hirta Deadwood on, the meditation is more deep, and complex, and I am more present in the moment than any other oil I have because of that. And the life of the main symphony may only be 2 hours, but the dry down goes on for quite a while sometimes, after 2 hours the meditation session is over though but I like to put my hand up and smell the dry down and go into a mini mindfulness-like meditation again. Fantastic oil!!! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

 

[Obada]

AlhindOud - Kawthaung
Starts with this fruity, spicy, slightly floral and woody fusion. I love this in burmese oils, as they have this fruity and spicy/peppery and bitter woody facets all together but this one puts all in a perfect balance. It does have a cambodian aesthetic like the other two respected noses before me mentioned @Mr.P & @Kolalid. Drydown leans more toward this aesthetic but with a nice woody oudy burmese backbone.
This has to be the perfect new-gen burmese for the price

AlhindOud - Firdous
This is the reason I love this hobby! The almost unlimited possibilities of how an oud oil can smell like. The adventure!
This is an oil that transports a vibe & feelings!
I am on an Island, stress free, nothing to care about but the good time I am having, drinking my cocktail with trenches of a juicy lemon. On my way to the beautiful beach, where the smell of the ocean is waiting for me. Flowers greeting me on the way
Let me continue my dream ...

 

[Mr.P]

I’m working my way through some samples here… My engagement with fragrance has been down a bit due to a bunch of external distractions (mostly good ones)…

I have swiped “Haiku” from mesoud a couple of times, labels specifies distilled from Hainan cultivated white kinam in 2023

I’m still just getting to know this one, but there was something especially balanced and appealing in the very opening - the simple sugary CK sweetness has something going on at a couple of different levels. Not exactly spiciness but something like. Something that sings there in a buzzy way like a sustained violin note over music of a different timbre. There’s something wild that hits a little to hard for me in the heart of this so if I had a bottle I would likely dilute some in alcohol before wearing and apply as a spray or roller. I have found oils like this open up in the most incredible way when diluted. This is one of the more interesting openings of the CK oils that I have smelled - it is engaging.

 

[mesOUD]

I’m working my way through some samples here… My engagement with fragrance has been down a bit due to a bunch of external distractions (mostly good ones)…

I have swiped “Haiku” from mesoud a couple of times, labels specifies distilled from Hainan cultivated white kinam in 2024

I’m still just getting to know this one, but there was something especially balanced and appealing in the very opening - the simple sugary CK sweetness has something going on at a couple of different levels. Not exactly spiciness but something like. Something that sings there in a buzzy way like a sustained violin note over music of a different timbre. There’s something wild that hits a little to hard for me in the heart of this so if I had a bottle I would likely dilute some in alcohol before wearing and apply as a spray or roller. I have found oils like this open up in the most incredible way when diluted. This is one of the more interesting openings of the CK oils that I have smelled - it is engaging.

This oil also changed some of my plans,i was thinking about distilling an affordable ck oil,once i received this oil and When I realized that it matches my quality standards,i got this oil instead of distilling and added to my collection.
And again turned to artisanal ck project,now as we talked,giving a proper and different soaking to a ck blend(white and green kinams)
İ am planing to distill it 3-4 weeks later

 

[mesOUD]

This oil also changed some of my plans,i was thinking about distilling an affordable ck oil,once i received this oil and When I realized that it matches my quality standards,i got this oil instead of distilling and added to my collection.
And again turned to artisanal ck project,now as we talked,giving a proper and different soaking to a ck blend(white and green kinams)
İ am planing to distill it 3-4 weeks laterView attachment 35498

And a ghost in my head is whispering to me to distill this with rose 😂

 

[TheOudDood]

White Kinam - EO

 

[Kolalid]

AHO - Fridous 1

First reaction; I don’t have much experience with Sri Lankan oils so to me this is extremely unique. It starts with a damp woody slightly chocolatey opening that slowly reveals many layers of fruits.

I think I am smelling guava, watermelon, really a fruit medley. @Obada is right, it is a very tropical oil. There is a beautiful floral note shining in the background. As it’s reaching the drydown the fruitiness continues, along with a slight cooling sensation and an amazing sweet incense base note.

I think it will take a few wears to fully reveal itself to me, but a true beauty to have in my collection. Alhamdulillah

 

[Stividen]

 

[oudstronaut]

Mentarang - Rising Phoenix Perfumery

A co-distillation of Hirta and Mallacensis, this oil bares its closest resemblance to another Hirta oil from the house of RPP which is called “Takengon Aceh”.

Mentarang is an instantly pleasing oil that lasts all day on the skin.

It takes you through a journey of sweet oudy resin, some indistinct spice notes (reminiscent of a cooling clove but less in-your-face), bitter citrus rind, anise, subtle smoke, and bergamot.

An elevated version of Takengon Aceh offering a little more longevity and complexity and still delivering the unique “Hirta incense” scent profile.

 

[Mr.P]

“Malaysian Dark” from Magnificense, Singapore ca. 1999.

This is the last 2ml or so of the poster-child (for me) of “oud improves with age”

Not in the sense that this is better than anybody else’s oud, but in the sense that it’s changed so drastically. When I got this it was so bitter almost burnt-smelling and phenolic. Unpleasant to me for 80% of the duration on the skin… also kind of sourish and pungent. The very bottom shelf in my collection at the time.

I decided that the thing to do was to let oxygen in time have his way with it so I put it in an oversized corked bottle that wasn’t tightly sealed. It has been opened and sniffed and tested many times, but otherwise aging in that bottle in the dark for 25 years…

I just put on a swipe and it is so deep, mature, densely oily, resinous, with robust phenolic notes with espresso-like concentration and thick syrupy bittersweet oudy, has this kind of mulchy ambergris quality that shows up more as time passes.

If you have some oils that you’re not happy with consider ignoring them for 10 or 15 years or if you’re feeling bold, perhaps even try some kind of partial air exposure (this is the only oil I’ve done this with, and it has such a nice effect, but I have no idea how other oils would react).

I definitely recommend take some cheap thai oil, or something else that you’re not crazy about and stick it in a box and forget about it. Maybe pour some of it into a partially filled bottle to accelerate oxidation.

 

[The Scent Guru]

Blind testing F11 from Broadlink Oud; extremely smooth, almost bubbly effervescent, floral - first impressions.

 

[Al Shareef Oudh]

“Malaysian Dark” from Magnificense, Singapore ca. 1999.

This is the last 2ml or so of the poster-child (for me) of “oud improves with age”

Not in the sense that this is better than anybody else’s oud, but in the sense that it’s changed so drastically. When I got this it was so bitter almost burnt-smelling and phenolic. Unpleasant to me for 80% of the duration on the skin… also kind of sourish and pungent. The very bottom shelf in my collection at the time.

I decided that the thing to do was to let oxygen in time have his way with it so I put it in an oversized corked bottle that wasn’t tightly sealed. It has been opened and sniffed and tested many times, but otherwise aging in that bottle in the dark for 25 years…

I just put on a swipe and it is so deep, mature, densely oily, resinous, with robust phenolic notes with espresso-like concentration and thick syrupy bittersweet oudy, has this kind of mulchy ambergris quality that shows up more as time passes.

If you have some oils that you’re not happy with consider ignoring them for 10 or 15 years or if you’re feeling bold, perhaps even try some kind of partial air exposure (this is the only oil I’ve done this with, and it has such a nice effect, but I have no idea how other oils would react).

I definitely recommend take some cheap thai oil, or something else that you’re not crazy about and stick it in a box and forget about it. Maybe pour some of it into a partially filled bottle to accelerate oxidation.


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If time makes a little rude boy like that handsome, imagine what a kg of goodness looks like 20years on.

Aging itself is an art