Oud of the Day

[Mousse de Chene]

I'm actually taking the leap today and trying my first Hindi oud! I have a nice handful of samples mainly due to Mesouds generous sample set from a while ago. I have smelled those but never actually worn any. I have also just received a Hindi sample from Al-Hind Oud called Hind Jadeed. Already this has broken my preconceived ideas on hindi's as it has a very smooth start. I may have thought otherwise a year ago before I had a heap of ouds under my nose but now it's almost like a smokey leather honey? Really very nice. Excited to be taking this step along the oud brick road.

Excellent news mate, Hindi Oud is the best! My advice is to be patient, as Saudalhajri mentioned the barn note is a veil, once it’s been lifted the most beautiful deep-complex, floral, ambery, honeyed animalic leather note awaits you.
The high grade stuff is amazing, the contrast between the fermented top & the smooth, rich, mature sweet base is highly addictive. Soon enough, you’ll be craving the barn top note also!

Hindi Oud is wonderfully resinous, smooth & silky yet strong & masculine. Unlike many Oud oils, the traditional stuff is strong & projects all day like a perfume. Try wearing it on fabric, for whatever reason it really comes alive applied to clothing.

In my opinion ASO & The Oud Lab have the best Hindi oils, hit them up for a sample pack of their offerings if they’re willing to do that. I’m wearing Habz - Alhind Dhahab today, you can’t go wrong here either!

I really hope you begin to appreciate it & eventually love it, there’s nothing quite like it. A top notch traditional Hindi is the pinnacle of Oud appreciation in my opinion. The psychoactive properties are great, it provides such a calming, grounded, peaceful & comforting feeling. The dry down is my favourite aroma is the entire world!

 

[Mousse de Chene]

I don’t know why, but I can’t get into Habzoud’s oils even though a lot of people seem to think they are great. The only one I really like is Maroke Qadeem.

And with that said, I didn’t like Al Namir much either. Kinda seems like I am the only one.

Each to their own, but I find it very surprising you didn’t like Al Namir! It’s one of my favourite oils of 2024. The profile is stunning, the quality speaks for itself.
I agree with you, Maroke Qadeem is beautiful, it’s the best Merauke oil I’ve ever put my nose on, the fresh floral green jungle contrasted by pristine dark austere Royal aroma holds a special place in my heart. It could possibly be my Oud of the year for 2024!

 

[Mousse de Chene]

This makes me very excited because I just bought a sample of AMA Kalakassi. It’s on its way now.

Oh man, you will be in heaven! The high grade of these types of Hindi oils are rare, the top note will blow your mind. I find it very difficult to describe, but the barn note is so clean, it’s powdery, luminous, colourful, tropical fruity, there’s a pristine quality that is so hard to makes sense of.

 

[SophMarie]

I tried almost all of Habz offerings this year, and the only one I really liked was Maroke Qadeem, exactly like Phan.
Al Namir was nice but not my taste.

I've only tried Habz sample set. It was obvious they were high quality oils but I only got halfway through them. They didn't appeal to me either. The initial notes were all off-putting. Strange.

 

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[Mousse de Chene]

If you really like that origins then try Oud Al Aqsa from Al Hind Oud. It easily surpasses Maroke Qadeem for me. Of course it’s also more expensive so I want a bottle of Maroke Qadeem to swipe more regularly and get a similar profile.

I’ve tried some other Maroke oils that were better too but no doubt Maroke Qadeem is among the best.

And yeah I don’t know why, but I just wasn’t ever impressed at all with Habz oils. To me they don’t seem to be super high quality like everyone says. Al Namir also didn’t blow me away in any way. Didn’t have a bad smell, but I didn’t understand what people like so much about it. For some reason, I am not smelling what other people are smelling in Al Namir or any of his other oils. I must have tried between 1-2 dozen of them.

I’d love to try Oud Al Aqsa brother! Hopefully I can purchase some before it sells out.

Like I said Maroke Qadeem is the best Mearuke I’ve ever smelled to date, it’s hard to imagine it gets better because the profile is pretty much perfect in my eyes! What quality makes Oud Al Aqsa so special in comparison?

 

[SophMarie]

That is a bit strange. To me, there was actually nothing off-putting about them.

They were just kinda lame. Didn’t see anything special or particularly pleasant about them.

And I suppose I can see how the opening is weird because there is something in the distillation style that makes every oil smell a bit watery, or something like that. I’m wondering if that note leaves after some age.

I haven’t really smelled it in his Hindi oils, which I think are also pretty good. They just don’t really stand out for me when I compare them to other clean Hindi oils.

They deserve a second chance. I may have tried them too early in my oud journey. I started in July and bought them fairly early on. At first I thought some Cambodis were unbearably smokey. Within a few weeks, I thought those same Cambodis were heavenly.

 

[Mousse de Chene]

That is a bit strange. To me, there was actually nothing off-putting about them.

They were just kinda lame. Didn’t see anything special or particularly pleasant about them.

And I suppose I can see how the opening is weird because there is something in the distillation style that makes every oil smell a bit watery, or something like that. I’m wondering if that note leaves after some age.

I haven’t really smelled it in his Hindi oils, which I think are also pretty good. They just don’t really stand out for me when I compare them to other clean Hindi oils.

I think Al Namir is beautiful, definitely not ‘lame’. I love the profile, it’s not thin or watery, quite the opposite!
After a bright green herbal top note, on my skin it became very rounded & complex. A lovely Agarwood sweetness, tropical fruits & cherries, purple florals, an oozing Oud resin depth, musky, incensey spiciness. Dark, but crystal clear also.
Each to their own tho!

 

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[Olfactory Nomad]

Excellent news mate, Hindi Oud is the best! My advice is to be patient, as Saudalhajri mentioned the barn note is a veil, once it’s been lifted the most beautiful deep-complex, floral, ambery, honeyed animalic leather note awaits you.
The high grade stuff is amazing, the contrast between the fermented top & the smooth, rich, mature sweet base is highly addictive. Soon enough, you’ll be craving the barn top note also!

Hindi Oud is wonderfully resinous, smooth & silky yet strong & masculine. Unlike many Oud oils, the traditional stuff is strong & projects all day like a perfume. Try wearing it on fabric, for whatever reason it really comes alive applied to clothing.

In my opinion ASO & The Oud Lab have the best Hindi oils, hit them up for a sample pack of their offerings if they’re willing to do that. I’m wearing Habz - Alhind Dhahab today, you can’t go wrong here either!

I really hope you begin to appreciate it & eventually love it, there’s nothing quite like it. A top notch traditional Hindi is the pinnacle of Oud appreciation in my opinion. The psychoactive properties are great, it provides such a calming, grounded, peaceful & comforting feeling. The dry down is my favourite aroma is the entire world!

I think I definitely need to get some samples happening from Habz of his Hindi's. I wish I had a camera on my partners face when I put the bottle of Hindi Jadeed under her nose. She's not a massive fan of my ouds but in all fairness she tries to and she is getting used to me wearing them. This being said though, she usually goes in for a smell already thinking she won't like it. She'll wear a little frown as she humours me and my hobby. This time though, she smelled it, pulled away and that frown immediately melted away replaced by raised eyebrows instead and she went in for a second smell. "That's not bad at all", she said. " Not as strong as some of your other stinky ones". I've got myself a keeper.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

I meant watery as in slightly mineralic or something like that. It’s a smell that is unique to Habz oils and I am doing my best to describe it.

But also I guess a bit thin as well. I personally don’t smell the depth that other people talk about. I donut think I smelled any of the notes you mentioned except for the spiciness.

So I don’t know. It’s weird but I feel like I’m missing something.

I feel the same about Agar Aura oils too. Everyone seems to like them but I have never found one that I really like. To me they are consistently more interesting than Habz oils but I never really understood why people like them so much. I never even found one that really stuck out to me like Maroke Qadeem.

Yes, I know exactly the note you're talking about. I call this his signature note and I could confidently pick his ouds out of a line-up if blind folded. Slightly mineralic is a good word. I sometimes find it a bit salty or oceanic, depends on the oud on how strong or weak that note is but I'm yet to smell one of his that doesn't have it and I've only ever smelled it in his. It's perfect in Oud Boran as that's so deeply woody and it makes Raja Hijau smell so clean and shiny. Same with Gaharu Uno.

 

[Mousse de Chene]

I think I definitely need to get some samples happening from Habz of his Hindi's. I wish I had a camera on my partners face when I put the bottle of Hindi Jadeed under her nose. She's not a massive fan of my ouds but in all fairness she tries to and she is getting used to me wearing them. This being said though, she usually goes in for a smell already thinking she won't like it. She'll wear a little frown as she humours me and my hobby. This time though, she smelled it, pulled away and that frown immediately melted away replaced by raised eyebrows instead and she went in for a second smell. "That's not bad at all", she said. " Not as strong as some of your other stinky ones". I've got myself a keeper.

You indeed have got yourself a keeper. An Australian woman who doesn’t recoil within 1.5 seconds of being exposed to Hindi Oud, must be a special lady 😂

Definitely get a sample selection from Habz, but don’t look over ASO. He is the master of Hindi Oud. Habz even agrees that ASO is the best distiller of Hindi Oud in the game for a long time. Hindi Oud is his favourite subject, you can only imagine the quality ASO produces from this inspired position!

 

[Habz786]

@Al Shareef Oudh is like a Sifu when it comes to Oud and perfumery, he is a true Artisan and his Oud asthetic is like no other Oud house, the knowledge he has is unmatched imo in the Oud world, i truely say this as a objective view point with no strings attached.

You can compare every other Oud houses oils and say they smell alike, or similar but with @Al Shareef Oudh all their oils are so unique you dont really find any comparisons to other oils, everything captures a very unique style of aroma and their Hindi oils are the best.

Qandahar 2 being my favorite!

 

[Mousse de Chene]

@Habz786
All that being said Habz, your Alhind Dhahab is right up there also! Truly one of the best Hindi’s I’ve ever put my nose on. This oil will be a legend. It’s royal, soul-stirring, true perfection.

 

[Mr.P]

@Al Shareef Oudh is like a Sifu when it comes to Oud and perfumery, he is a true Artisan and his Oud asthetic is like no other Oud house, the knowledge he has is unmatched imo in the Oud world, i truely say this as a objective view point with no strings attached.

You can compare every other Oud houses oils and say they smell alike, or similar but with @Al Shareef Oudh all their oils are so unique you dont really find any comparisons to other oils, everything captures a very unique style of aroma and their Hindi oils are the best.

Qandahar 2 being my favorite!

That's one heck of an endorsement, and I agree about ASO oud - everything is quality and quite distinctive. I just found a stash of small samples from many years ago… I hoping there's enough to tease a swipe out of some of these bottles!

 

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