Oud of the Day

[Ahmaoud]

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Laos Pusong Valley Oud from Gafur.ae arrived today. It's a light-medium amber color, and has a noticeably lower viscosity than the other two oils I own. On skin it become a completely transparent yellow sheen. On the nose, it's pretty flat. No effervescent qualities, just a light leather, honey, grasses, bread, and a tinge of fruit. Scent stays very close to the skin, the top-note aromatics seem muted, or perhaps even trapped in the oil. Nothing bubbles its way to the surface except a few fleeting wisps. All in all, a fairly boring and unspectacular oud.

The cheap label-maker sticker also annoys me. Why not just make it wrap all the way around the bottle so that the edges don't keep peeling up? Considering that it was only $190 for 2.5g, I suppose I shouldn't really complain... still, it's the small attentions to detail that can really take a product to the next level.

For my next oud purchase, I want to make up for this lackluster experience. I want an oil with PIERCING high notes, something that stings the nostrils and stirs the mind -- any recommendations for something that fits the bill are appreciated!

A couple oils came to mind,

First is

Pre-Orders now live!

The oil is currently curing but will be ready to ship in the next week.

I am making a few 0.3g x 3 educational sets available on a first come first served basis.
$700 per set, in the photo below you can see from right to left 1st, 2nd and 3rd pull.
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I will make this available in 1g Wheaton's and 3g original bottle or Wheaton ($20 extra for vial)

$250 0.3g sample
$750 1g Wheaton vial
$1850 3g original bottle ($20 v-vial)

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Nose numbing, mind buzzing experience. Floral sweet greens with hints of jasmine, white lotus and incense smoke. Drying down to rich berries, pink pepper and red florals. This oil will change and deepen with time too.
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Another is mesOud's TrangQuil(Nha Trang Distillation) though the distillation is still on going

And Malinua Maliki from HabzOud

All seem like they fit the bill for what you're looking for!

 

[SteveE]

CEEN II from @Al Shareef Oudh
Definitely minty, medicinal does fit it! There’s some spice and… I can’t quite place the particular spice maybe anise and fennel ?
Licorice-ish

 

[HugeBall]

A couple oils came to mind,

First is

Another is mesOud's TrangQuil(Nha Trang Distillation) though the distillation is still on going

And Malinua Maliki from HabzOud

All seem like they fit the bill for what you're looking for!

Appreciate the recommendations! I'll be looking closely into each of those.

 

[aoudgauze]

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Laos Pusong Valley Oud from Gafur.ae arrived today. It's a light-medium amber color, and has a noticeably lower viscosity than the other two oils I own. On skin it become a completely transparent yellow sheen. On the nose, it's pretty flat. No effervescent qualities, just a light leather, honey, grasses, bread, and a tinge of fruit. Scent stays very close to the skin, the top-note aromatics seem muted, or perhaps even trapped in the oil. Nothing bubbles its way to the surface except a few fleeting wisps. All in all, a fairly boring and unspectacular oud.

The cheap label-maker sticker also annoys me. Why not just make it wrap all the way around the bottle so that the edges don't keep peeling up? Considering that it was only $190 for 2.5g, I suppose I shouldn't really complain... still, it's the small attentions to detail that can really take a product to the next level.

For my next oud purchase, I want to make up for this lackluster experience. I want an oil with PIERCING high notes, something that stings the nostrils and stirs the mind -- any recommendations for something that fits the bill are appreciated!

That's a shame! I really like this oil. Sure, I have more interesting ones but at the price, it's fun for a fruity oud. Also, it performs well for me. Projects good and last a long time. Around 8 hours later, I could smell a kind of musky-sweet aura around my body when I changed climates from outdoors to indoors. For reference, I do 2 swipes of this oil.



Tonight Mai Kritsana from Habzoud. This one is tremendous. Really nice incense with a nectar-like quality.

 

[Lightray]

OotD - unreleased Cambodi oil. Opens earthy, muddy with a light woody background. Around 5min later it shows some fig/tobacco flavors, gets more fruity as time passes.

 

[Habz786]

Ohhhh, I just ordered this product!
I have a penchant for grassy, tea scents.
Thanks for the description!

You will be in for a treat, v3 is nicer and higher quality than v2 🙂

 

[LasLunas]

You will be in for a treat, v3 is nicer and higher quality than v2 🙂

Anticipation.....

 

[Mr.P]

5% "economy lao" from Olefaktory diluted in everclear about a year out from mixing. Has changed gradually - lost some of the odd fresh pungent notes, smells waxier somehow. Overall impression is the same as for all my budget plantation crassna oils: meh.

 

[aoudgauze]

Mai Kritsana layered with Elixir Attar's Ghaliya Rosarie. I smell like a million bucks. The incensy oud is really playing up the deer musk, while the roses are still forcefully shining through.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Habzoud - Jayapura. I've got a healthy swipe on the inside collar of both sides of my winter wool jacket. Smells incredible. Doesn't look the best unfortunately. Kinda looks as though I've been cleaning the wax out of my ears and wiping it on my jacket. Gross. My wife has already noticed and told me to wash it but I'm like it smells to good to wash!

 

[Oudamberlove]

EO People’s Sultan

It’s like EO Sultan Mujeeb with it’s awesome PNG wood, meets EO Satori Kensho…..
nice marriage of Thai and PNG oudh.

 

[mobyus]

Pure Surat Thani Oud - Majid Iterji

Dark and thick South Thai Oud oil. Deeply woody, and resinous. Medicinal without the nuttiness that usually accompanies varnishy or medicinal smelling tops.

 

[PersonelHigh]

I don't want to say which Ouds because it's a me thing and I am hyper sensitive. But today's Oud's give me a sore throat, almost 3 minutes after swiping. I have reactions all the time. I think I'm hyper sensitive and I don't know what it is. Just certain ouds maybe as many as 1 in 8... My eyes are affected too. As soon as I wipe off the oil, the sore throat recedes. My fix is to use these oils on a warmer and enjoy them that way. I need to search for easy agarwood sticks on the forum. If there is such a thing.

 

[Dazai]

I don't want to say which Ouds because it's a me thing and I am hyper sensitive. But today's Oud's give me a sore throat, almost 3 minutes after swiping. I have reactions all the time. I think I'm hyper sensitive and I don't know what it is. Just certain ouds maybe as many as 1 in 8... My eyes are affected too. As soon as I wipe off the oil, the sore throat recedes. My fix is to use these oils on a warmer and enjoy them that way. I need to search for easy agarwood sticks on the forum. If there is such a thing.

I get it. Oud makes my skin itchy for about a day so I’ve taken to wearing oil on shirt cuffs mostly in the winter when wearing long sleeves. But I’ve mostly stuck to incense once it began.

 

[Mr.P]

Zamrad 2 @Habz786 is very nice - enjoying this on a balmy summer evening.

 

[mobyus]

Malaki - Amiral AlTeeb

A blend of Hindi, Cambodi, and Trat, with the Hindi being the dominant of them all. Clean piercing animalic and luxuriousness. Like a dry Chilean red wine. Very beautiful.

 

[ManilaDawn]

I don't want to say which Ouds because it's a me thing and I am hyper sensitive. But today's Oud's give me a sore throat, almost 3 minutes after swiping. I have reactions all the time. I think I'm hyper sensitive and I don't know what it is. Just certain ouds maybe as many as 1 in 8... My eyes are affected too. As soon as I wipe off the oil, the sore throat recedes. My fix is to use these oils on a warmer and enjoy them that way. I need to search for easy agarwood sticks on the forum. If there is such a thing.

I can somehow relate to your allergic reactions.

A long time ago, a very beautiful attar I bought from someone outside of this forum gave me headache and nasal congestion. But because it’s not a single-ingredient oil, I still tried on an oud-only oil. No reaction. So, it could be one of the other attar ingredients .., but I could not tell which one.

Now, I wonder if there’s only a particular oud source tree that can trigger allergic reactions? I still don’t know what it is but I’m just glad that I am ok with whatever oud is currently in my collection.

 

[theaphilosophia]

Vintage Viet Royale @AlHind Oud

I've been out of town for the past week, and left all my aromatics at home, so my first oud back needed to be something epic and this does not disappoint.

When I put it on and took that first hit, my brain lit up with dopamine and I just let out a loud "mhhhhhhhh".

My 4 year old asked me what I was eating, thinking I was eating candy or something behind her back 😅

 

[Mr.P]

Firdous Royale is tip tip top quality oud my friends. I try to keep my reviews relatively descriptive but in this case I feel strongly about the exceptional quality so again: among the finest ouds I have smelled based on my tastes.

Such an unbelievably nice rich robust top note, robust to the ideal degree - engaging slight phenolic opening, beautiful sweet saturated and quintessentially oudy. Sophisticated suave dry balanced woody heart, like wood cologne; and this does the same crazy twist as the Firdous 1. At the beginning I experience rich "oudiness per se". By the end it has me thinking of a specific geographic region in this case there's some molecule in common with some of the finer Malinau oils I have smelled.
As I said in the past this is the kind of oud that I assumed for many years I would never smell in my lifetime - painstakingly distilled single batch from high end wood made by a skilled distiller doing everything in their power to get the most out of the wood.

This is a case too where the name is spot-on for the sequel- it really is like a royal return of the original Firdous, which honestly was already everything I seek in oud.

I will nurse the heck out of this precious sample, thanks @AlHind Oud!

 

[AlHind Oud]

Firdous Royale is tip tip top quality oud my friends. I try to keep my reviews relatively descriptive but in this case I feel strongly about the exceptional quality so again: among the finest ouds I have smelled based on my tastes.

Such an unbelievably nice rich robust top note, robust to the ideal degree - engaging slight phenolic opening, beautiful sweet saturated and quintessentially oudy. Sophisticated suave dry balanced woody heart, like wood cologne; and this does the same crazy twist as the Firdous 1. At the beginning I experience rich "oudiness per se". By the end it has me thinking of a specific geographic region in this case there's some molecule in common with some of the finer Malinau oils I have smelled.
As I said in the past this is the kind of oud that I assumed for many years I would never smell in my lifetime - painstakingly distilled single batch from high end wood made by a skilled distiller doing everything in their power to get the most out of the wood.

This is a case too where the name is spot-on for the sequel- it really is like a royal return of the original Firdous, which honestly was already everything I seek in oud.

I will nurse the heck out of this precious sample, thanks @AlHind Oud!

Thanks for the review! Your feedback on Firdous 1 truly inspired me to distill the Firdous Royale, and I’m glad it was successful as well.