Koh Kong 1444 - SULAYM.
First impressions (even though I have worn it before, but wasn't in the best mindset when first trying some oils I got, and used too much, got nose blind, was using too much incense sticks, was using heaving hitting woods at the start of the day without giving my nose a break of at least 1-2 hours lol so "nose power" was just all over the place, anyway I am taking a more calm and balanced approach to aromatics now, even sticks) of this oil is AMAZING, this is a top shelf Cambodi oil for sure, and the price is too good to be true. I got a 0.25g V-Vial as a free sample, and I am 4 hours into it and on the base notes, but I am just gonna do a quick write up, not a story or anything, just some notes I observed and still remember.
PS: Sorry for the length, I thought I would only write a small body of text and got carried away.
Starts off with a nice gentle minty note, then some thick resin notes come in, like with all Cambodi oils but wasn't as resinous as some other Cambodi's I have, but it was still thick, sweet, resinous and absolutely top notch. Then a sweetness came in, after a few seconds the mintiness turns kinda "phenolic" (if thats the right word) like a tad of menthol in there, but the I would say the mintiness is more akin to the mintiness you would get while burning some woods from Cambodia (but its been a long time since I heated a Cambodian wood, I will probably and buy some good, decent Cambodian wood soon), quite kinamic minty too, and the mintiness note is always there throughout the experience (just in different "volumes" and I noticed it came back very strongly after 4 hours in and was actually even closer to a kinamic minty note but more cultivated kinamic minty note, similar to SULAYM's "Green Dragon" oil), very nice mint note, then the sweetness was the sweet red berry fruit, then slowly but surely everything started going into order with more notes entering subtly, and things become more rounded and you dont even notice going from top notes to mid notes, it is just a seamless transition (which I love) and more sour cherry notes came into play, but more sweetness with this oil, but the sour cherry was still very noticeable and enjoyable, with the sweetness of the dominant berry, then eventually they came into one as a liquid/jam (very quickly). Hints of sweet caramel and chocolate that starts off with a very subtle scent of both of them, then eventually after around 30-45mins of being showed those notes, they become rather strong, and mix within the jam note creating this beautiful, jammy caramel and chocolate notes both sour and sweet. Later on as it develops, the fruity notes stay kind of like a jam, instead of just a sweet berry and sour cherry notes separated, like some Cambodi's can be like, which can be fine, but I like it when it's like this much better as other notes can play out and the fruits can still be there but just in the undertones, so eventually some absolutely BEAUTIFUL powdery floral notes as well as the beautiful sweet and sour fruity jam note playing, with some chocolate and caramel, then lovely honey notes come in and drizzle over the florals, and you get a honey filled floral powdery note, coming back and forth with the liquid caramel and chocolate, these notes last awhile and even after 4 hours into the oil they are still there, coming back and forth. Some more development of spicy, herbily notes that actually caught my throat and were a little hot on my throat and kinda felt like a bit of a (strong) throat kick, then it would become a semi-sweet, spicy note that doesn't hit your throat as much as it is kind of sweet/spicy with some kinda floral aspect to it, but a spicy kinda floral, or a herbal kind of floral, it was nice anyway. EDIT: Base notes are basically a very, kinamic-like (more like CK) mintiness with a very nice incense note with some floral activity.
All in all, I beautiful experience that is still on going nearly 5 hours later (4.5hrs). Such a great Koh Kong, 1444 is.
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