Dr B1414
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Sooooo, what does it smell like?
Oud of the Day
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Fragdoctor
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very difficult to describe - but imagine a clear sky - not blue or grey - just clear with absolute nothingness and all of a sudden you see purple birds above you head flying in straight lines towards a central point and you fear they will collide - they do and it suddenly starts raining. you are not getting water droplets but it's some soft of soft vanillin globules which are warm and have purple hues through and through. Are they flower petals curled up ? No. But they smell slightly floral with subtle sweetness.
Somehow from the get go, there is a subtle smokiness like a very low burning of wood which gels up every nuance perfectly.
Dr B1414
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Sounds beautiful. Cherish it🙏🏻
Mr.P
oud<3er
i have a sample of mesoud's Pontiniak Borneo 2023 oil. this is a profile I haven't smelled from a Borneo oil before but I really have not widely sampled this region. The opening is earthy, energetic, pungent and has a bit of of the sweet musty, earthy and almost wine-like aroma that I have smelled in oils from papua new guinea and which brings mellow patchouli oil to mind. The bitter-sweet oudiness is there and evident from the opening but seems to grow as the pungent opening notes start to fade. there are also some appealing phenolic notes that addd some bitterness and give the scent a little bite. This is complex enough that I think you'd have to wear it a bunch of times to understand it. I also imagine this will become much smoother with age.
I have smelled so many different profiles in oils from Borneo… I actually have no idea of what is typical. I thought I knew, but I suspect I just happened to smell a couple from one particular region or plantation and assumed their aroma was more universal
I have smelled so many different profiles in oils from Borneo… I actually have no idea of what is typical. I thought I knew, but I suspect I just happened to smell a couple from one particular region or plantation and assumed their aroma was more universal
I have used this one a few times and have grown to really like I found it took a few goes to get my head around, I do get a creamy background up till I am in to the dry down that is so appealing! I like your description, I have found it hard to put it into the words that would do it justice!
Fragdoctor
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red is what I comes to my mind too with Our Ahmad - haven't tried Kedah
Ahmaoud
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I recently tried ASO's Modhesh and it turned anything I thought knew about the region (Borneo) and the subregion (Malinau), on its head!
The first wearing I got clean, black leather treated with pine resin. I have some resins I collected from a pine in my backyard, they have this aggressiveness to them, not citrus like or minty but with a hint of burnt brown sugar.
During my next wearing I started noticing an inverted scent pyramid, something I also encountered in A'meen. Again I was getting the black resin treated leather, but as if sitting right underneath that I was getting a sweet citrus like aroma coupled with the scent of freshly cut bamboo, green but not juicy, more stem like, but only discernable upon application, not from the applicator. Then I started getting a labdanum like incense-y, slightly vanillic nuance to the scent. And all of this was coming out within successive sniffs, and often at different inhalation levels of the same sniff!
How it was applied drastically changed the scent's development, applying tiny dots and letting them spread out naturally, to dabbing them altered the progression of the scent, evening bring certain notes out in varying degrees. The dry down felt like my arm had a built-in bakhoor burner, this incredibly intoxicating incense was wafting to me as I moved my arms, I was lost wearing it. Try it for post Fajr dhikr, trust me you'll not regret it!
Highly recommend anyone who's interested in the region to check Modhesh out, @Mousse de Chene recommended it to me, and not only was I not displeased, it shattered even the highest expectations I had! All through the wearings I couldn't help but think "How did ASO pack so much depth into a single oud oil ?"
mesOUD
Resident Artisan
Indonesian especially Borneo,speices surprises me everyday too,really very hard to expect a typical profile,when you move 2 miles,even speice is same,but profile changes too much.i have about 7-8 different profile oils from this region,even all are mainly malaccensis,but profiles are very very different from each other.
Fragdoctor
True Ouddict
so true. such beauty of nature...amazes me every day.
I mean inside being "barely perceptible" vs outside of "woah"
Obada
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Yusa Aromatics - Huian Ko
Another surprise from the cambodian region. I never smelt a cambodian that smells like this one. Indeed a unique oil with a green aroma of watermelon rind (green apples too but not as pronounced). It has a subtle sweetness not overly fruity like other cambodis. Slowly the green vivid smell subdues and a woody green incensy smell arises. I have to wear it a couple more times to wrap my head around it. I can recall this watermelon rind scent with more punchy sweetness from Grand emperor Tarakan. I still dont understand both of them fully...
Another surprise from the cambodian region. I never smelt a cambodian that smells like this one. Indeed a unique oil with a green aroma of watermelon rind (green apples too but not as pronounced). It has a subtle sweetness not overly fruity like other cambodis. Slowly the green vivid smell subdues and a woody green incensy smell arises. I have to wear it a couple more times to wrap my head around it. I can recall this watermelon rind scent with more punchy sweetness from Grand emperor Tarakan. I still dont understand both of them fully...
Goodness Nose
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Oudamberlove
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Habzoud Maroke Qadeem
The first thing that entered my mind when I smelled this oil…….Agar Aura Sultan’s Solace,
in fact, if Taha sold this as Sultan’s Solace 2,
it would be spot on. Although it’s hardly the case that two different distillations can be identical, Maroke Qadeem and Sultan’s Solace are very similar. During drydown, I can’t help but think of EO Xiang Liao Ling.
The first thing that entered my mind when I smelled this oil…….Agar Aura Sultan’s Solace,
in fact, if Taha sold this as Sultan’s Solace 2,
it would be spot on. Although it’s hardly the case that two different distillations can be identical, Maroke Qadeem and Sultan’s Solace are very similar. During drydown, I can’t help but think of EO Xiang Liao Ling.
Fragdoctor
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I have not tried the oil but have burned the wood on subtism--it was a wonderful experience. got a beautiful rich aroma, bluish hues - gyrinops walla vibes.
I would say its a richer version of Pinot ltd.
Dr B1414
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Sounds awesome.
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