Shiningrobes
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Lol. I’m realizing how much I must love stank because that sounds really enticing. That’s exactly how I want to smell all the time.
Oud of the Day
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Harimau- Malay Tigerwood- Yusa Aromatics.
Ohh yeah!! Here we go with more dank swampy mangrove forests. This is really sitting up there with some of the dankest I've tried thus far. Also has a campfire smokiness to it like brewing cowboy coffee over an open fire. The thing with cowboy coffee is you have to deal with coffee grind sludge at the bottom of your mug so you tend to throw in something like unrefined cane sugar to mellow out that bitterness. All this done on a chill morning, all the birds are singing, clouds of steam coming from your mug and your breath as you watch it filtering through the early morning light coming through the trees. Peacefull start to the day.
Ohh yeah!! Here we go with more dank swampy mangrove forests. This is really sitting up there with some of the dankest I've tried thus far. Also has a campfire smokiness to it like brewing cowboy coffee over an open fire. The thing with cowboy coffee is you have to deal with coffee grind sludge at the bottom of your mug so you tend to throw in something like unrefined cane sugar to mellow out that bitterness. All this done on a chill morning, all the birds are singing, clouds of steam coming from your mug and your breath as you watch it filtering through the early morning light coming through the trees. Peacefull start to the day.
Kolalid
True Ouddict
Zazu
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Habzoud - Koh Kong
I applied it yesterday evening, to wind down after a hectic day and have a good night sleep.
This oil is so soothing and I’m still smelling it this morning as I woke up. It’s the perfect oil to relax! (And to wake up to!)
I dread the day my bottle runs out, because this is the oil I need to relax!
I applied it yesterday evening, to wind down after a hectic day and have a good night sleep.
This oil is so soothing and I’m still smelling it this morning as I woke up. It’s the perfect oil to relax! (And to wake up to!)
I dread the day my bottle runs out, because this is the oil I need to relax!
Mike Jonez
True Ouddict
Obada
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Yusa Aromatics - Huian Ko
Green, Airy, Watermelon Rind 🍉, incensy phases and addictive fruitiness that shows up in the drydown. Its these unique oils that make the journey a real journey and not just a ride from A to B but more of a trip with several adventures
Agar Aura - King K Nam
Now this is one of the fastest oils I ever tried 😆 A vietnamese flash of olfactory experience. It is shapeshifting and changing colors in matter of minutes. Starts with a mild brain buzz 🧠 and a rainbow of colors (orange, red, yellow and green but my nose usually blends the green supplementary aromas, if it is not the main player as I prefer the other colors/scent profiles). After minutes the red strawberry sweetness amplifies and it goes in a koh kong imperiale/Cambodi style of scent with the creamy fruitiness I enjoy and I was afraid this will be the drydown, a high quality cambodi drydown? Then I sniffed again and realised the nutty facet that started to come through and support this creaminess and shifting the oil once again to the typical vietnamese profile we all love. Super smooth nutty/almondy aroma combines with the fruitiness from before and gives you an amazing vietnamese drydown.
I would have to sit down with it a couple more times as I didn't expect it to go through these phases so fast. I was busy drinking my cappuccino every couple minutes ☕️ and it was already somewhere else
Ps. I only have a sample and its probably oxidised but it still delivered an amazing experience. I am curious, if the experience from a full bottle is different
Green, Airy, Watermelon Rind 🍉, incensy phases and addictive fruitiness that shows up in the drydown. Its these unique oils that make the journey a real journey and not just a ride from A to B but more of a trip with several adventures
Agar Aura - King K Nam
Now this is one of the fastest oils I ever tried 😆 A vietnamese flash of olfactory experience. It is shapeshifting and changing colors in matter of minutes. Starts with a mild brain buzz 🧠 and a rainbow of colors (orange, red, yellow and green but my nose usually blends the green supplementary aromas, if it is not the main player as I prefer the other colors/scent profiles). After minutes the red strawberry sweetness amplifies and it goes in a koh kong imperiale/Cambodi style of scent with the creamy fruitiness I enjoy and I was afraid this will be the drydown, a high quality cambodi drydown? Then I sniffed again and realised the nutty facet that started to come through and support this creaminess and shifting the oil once again to the typical vietnamese profile we all love. Super smooth nutty/almondy aroma combines with the fruitiness from before and gives you an amazing vietnamese drydown.
I would have to sit down with it a couple more times as I didn't expect it to go through these phases so fast. I was busy drinking my cappuccino every couple minutes ☕️ and it was already somewhere else
Ps. I only have a sample and its probably oxidised but it still delivered an amazing experience. I am curious, if the experience from a full bottle is different
Mr.P
oud<3er
I just took a little sniff of Mesoud's Viet King. Just the aroma on the threads is wonderful. I can see
Crassna fitting into the Japanese agarwood aesthetic more clearly with this oil. This is one where I prefer just the tiniest dot on skin - this emphasizes the sophisticated / dignified aspects best and will help make the couple of drops I have last. Still has that young crassna wildness of course, and applying a tiny dot and not smearing it out also keeps those fresh crassna notes in check. incredible to be getting things like this right from the hands of the distiller. Really is a golden age of oud in some ways
Crassna fitting into the Japanese agarwood aesthetic more clearly with this oil. This is one where I prefer just the tiniest dot on skin - this emphasizes the sophisticated / dignified aspects best and will help make the couple of drops I have last. Still has that young crassna wildness of course, and applying a tiny dot and not smearing it out also keeps those fresh crassna notes in check. incredible to be getting things like this right from the hands of the distiller. Really is a golden age of oud in some ways
TheOudDood
Not that Brandon
Laos and Hainain from Fushigi side by side.
Feel like I have my nose in a two jars of really old stock woods. The oils are so strong that I can taste them in my mouth after applying on my hand.
Feel like I have my nose in a two jars of really old stock woods. The oils are so strong that I can taste them in my mouth after applying on my hand.
Mike Jonez
True Ouddict
Agreed ! Glad you're enjoying this one as well bud & yep a tiny drop is all you need. This one's a powerhouse anyway it booms on my skin for hours & never really loses that cooling top note. Just got out the shower & it's still detectable which is so rare with new gens imo.
Escentually
True Ouddict
@AlHindOud - Lao Gold 2
Morning swipe of this clean Laotian Sinensis oil from Pusong.
Blackberries and mint like opening. Can’t say it’s for certain blackberries, but smells like pitch black red berries. A green herbal mintiness and a golden honey back up the rear. The mint dying down to expose more of the pure sinensis honey and dry floral heart. Sugary sweet and giving way to a creamy oud chip on low heat drydown. A beautiful example of how clean Laotian oud can be when given a proper treatment.
Morning swipe of this clean Laotian Sinensis oil from Pusong.
Blackberries and mint like opening. Can’t say it’s for certain blackberries, but smells like pitch black red berries. A green herbal mintiness and a golden honey back up the rear. The mint dying down to expose more of the pure sinensis honey and dry floral heart. Sugary sweet and giving way to a creamy oud chip on low heat drydown. A beautiful example of how clean Laotian oud can be when given a proper treatment.
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Dr B1414
True Ouddict
Oriscent Kyara Koutan this oil has a scent map of its own. I couldn't attribute it to any specific region. Very medicinal and piercing opening followed by this interplay of green, wet, tree bark and steamed milk with cocoa and coffee facets. Always an exercise trying to decipher this oil.
-Renton-
True Ouddict
Fushigi - Brunei Kyere/Kyara
Amazing new gen oil. Smells like how the Brunei wood that was used to distill the oil smells. It also smells different every time I wear it as if it is letting me smell individual Brunei woods used each time or at least each other time.
Lovely agarwood, resinous, sour, sweet, ever so slightly pleasingly bitter (Kinamic veins throughout this oil), fruity, floral, woody, kinamic spiciness that hits your throat a tiny bit, some mild mint (fleeting), milkiness, kinamic creaminess, vanilla pods, vanilla milkshake, some fleeting sweet chocolate and vanilla cream (reminiscent of Snow White Beach Kyara in a way). And wet, woody, petrichor dry down.
There's more but I was hardly in the mood to give this short write up, I will be back at doing full write ups sooner or later, my double vision is happening a lot these days.
Very lovely Kinamic new gen oil.
Amazing new gen oil. Smells like how the Brunei wood that was used to distill the oil smells. It also smells different every time I wear it as if it is letting me smell individual Brunei woods used each time or at least each other time.
Lovely agarwood, resinous, sour, sweet, ever so slightly pleasingly bitter (Kinamic veins throughout this oil), fruity, floral, woody, kinamic spiciness that hits your throat a tiny bit, some mild mint (fleeting), milkiness, kinamic creaminess, vanilla pods, vanilla milkshake, some fleeting sweet chocolate and vanilla cream (reminiscent of Snow White Beach Kyara in a way). And wet, woody, petrichor dry down.
There's more but I was hardly in the mood to give this short write up, I will be back at doing full write ups sooner or later, my double vision is happening a lot these days.
Very lovely Kinamic new gen oil.
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Dr B1414
True Ouddict
On a side note, I don't know how some of you do oud oils in the heat. I must say, I struggle lately as the temperature inside gets to around 90 F/33 C here. Maybe I am just not used to this sort of thing here where I live. It seems it's getting warmer in Summer with each year. I feel like my sense of smell is blurred, the oils feel hazy and the notes are unclear. Like smelling the oil through a veil. Not to mention that my skin eats it up within 3 hours so I learned to only go with small amounts and reaply. It's so frustrating for me as I am not used to these temperatures. I feel like I can't enjoy my oils anymore. I might take a break from oils till temperatures go down again.
I did wear an attar that uses a barny Oud as its base and was able to enjoy it thoroughly. But I don't like the "Barn" in neat oud oils. It feels "pointless" while it breathes beautifully in attars/perfumes. Now I understand even more why people in the Gulf area go for those heavy, heavy ouds. They can pierce through the heat whereas the other oils that were spared the soaking are gutted to death.
I did wear an attar that uses a barny Oud as its base and was able to enjoy it thoroughly. But I don't like the "Barn" in neat oud oils. It feels "pointless" while it breathes beautifully in attars/perfumes. Now I understand even more why people in the Gulf area go for those heavy, heavy ouds. They can pierce through the heat whereas the other oils that were spared the soaking are gutted to death.
-Renton-
True Ouddict
I agree with this. I had to put on more Brunei Kyere than normal, but I am not gonna reapply because that would just be a waste as I only got 0.25g for £140. I am planning on getting most of their oud oils (the ones I really like, including this one) in 1gram bottles sooner or later (probably will be later and switch from collecting wild Kyara one month to getting a gram of a Fushigi oil or something), so I think I wouldn't mind so much with that amount. And the Humidity in Scotland is crazy high, when we have over 18c (so like 18-28c) it is like the jungle, no joke. A lot of people may be shocked by that fact lol.
Right now lol:
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Escentually
True Ouddict
I find that the humidity affects it more than the temperature per se. The humidity seems to make the oil feel “muggier” and less pronounced or distinct in its notes. When it’s dry, I can get a crisp and clear inhale of the oil. These old school traditional distillation I find to be much easier to enjoy when it’s hot and humid as well. Dehnal Oud Hindi, Cambodi Qadeem, Oud Said, these ouds with a louder and maybe not quite as complex profiles make it easier for me to enjoy now. If I’m inside under air conditioning all day I’ll throw on an oil that sing maybe a little quieter when I can hear it better.
Oudamberlove
Member
mesOUD Habib
Opens like Berkilau, dark cola tamarind, my preferred Malaysian notes, but this is not from Endau Rompin. As those precious notes evaporate, a woodsy jungle appears with a slight bitterness and a hint of fruit. Then it gets a little incensy and a touch of coffee tobacco but still has a lot of top note vapors.
Later on… I still get that rustic Malaysian vibe, and no wonder, Jambi is not too far from Endau Rompin, but the Sumatran notes are evident, I am reminded of Aceh oils that I have smelled.
“Kinamic drydown with white florals?” I get it a little, together with the incense, medicine, and slight licorice. Then finally, some sweet resin.
It’s a young oil, I wonder how it will age.
Opens like Berkilau, dark cola tamarind, my preferred Malaysian notes, but this is not from Endau Rompin. As those precious notes evaporate, a woodsy jungle appears with a slight bitterness and a hint of fruit. Then it gets a little incensy and a touch of coffee tobacco but still has a lot of top note vapors.
Later on… I still get that rustic Malaysian vibe, and no wonder, Jambi is not too far from Endau Rompin, but the Sumatran notes are evident, I am reminded of Aceh oils that I have smelled.
“Kinamic drydown with white florals?” I get it a little, together with the incense, medicine, and slight licorice. Then finally, some sweet resin.
It’s a young oil, I wonder how it will age.
Huang Shang (Merauke) from The Attar Store/Kymya.
From the stick I thought this smelled like a Malay. Medium green, rounded and airy. Other Meraukes I tried showed their dark side and gravity more readily. But sure enough, a few hours into the wear I'm getting freshly laid tarmac, shimmering blue heat, steaming coals in the sauna. I focus on that feeling and feel my memories being etched deeply like a root pushing through soil. It doesn't go super dark though, the balance from base to top is linear and the top notes stick around. A perfect fougère all by itself!
From the stick I thought this smelled like a Malay. Medium green, rounded and airy. Other Meraukes I tried showed their dark side and gravity more readily. But sure enough, a few hours into the wear I'm getting freshly laid tarmac, shimmering blue heat, steaming coals in the sauna. I focus on that feeling and feel my memories being etched deeply like a root pushing through soil. It doesn't go super dark though, the balance from base to top is linear and the top notes stick around. A perfect fougère all by itself!
Abu Amir
True Ouddict
Bilad Al Sham 1445 from Al Hashimi
The crown jewel of my whole collection. I can't even believe what I am smelling. If you like oud, like the raw smell of top top sinking grade resinous oud wood.. then you will be crazy in this one.
To be honest I got it mostly for the palestine flag and the fact that it is distilled in ZamZam water.
But this smell is really out of this world. When I swipe it, it feels like I'm wearing 10 kgs of raw filippino oud wood on my arm. Resinous, creamy, Herbaceous, green, kinamic, bitter yet sweet. Just amazing
Have anyone tried it?
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The crown jewel of my whole collection. I can't even believe what I am smelling. If you like oud, like the raw smell of top top sinking grade resinous oud wood.. then you will be crazy in this one.
To be honest I got it mostly for the palestine flag and the fact that it is distilled in ZamZam water.
But this smell is really out of this world. When I swipe it, it feels like I'm wearing 10 kgs of raw filippino oud wood on my arm. Resinous, creamy, Herbaceous, green, kinamic, bitter yet sweet. Just amazing
Have anyone tried it?
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