Oud of the Day

[Ouderriffic]

HM Royal Yunnan 1990's by SULAYM (@SULAYM)

This oil is a real chameleon of a profile! When smelling from the vial, it has piercing cherry-like top notes. When I inhale deeply, I get a very interesting green note that makes me think of smelling freshly cut grass up-close. Ahmed told me it would probably be the most interesting opening profiles I had ever smelled in oud, and he may very well be right about that. Not in a bad way either.

Once the oil hits the skin, it does morph pretty quickly. The cherry like top note fades and evolves into something tart, salty, minerallic, and musky with a bit of funk, but well rounded funk. The kind that makes the oil more interesting in the best kind of way. As it dries down, the vintage musk note is more pronounced, with a high quality incense note as well.

I am probably not doing this oil justice with my description, but this is what comes to mind for me. Either way, I am very happy with this oil and will likely be going back for more.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Oud Chachak - Habzoud. Totally under-appreciated oil from the House of Habz. More people need to try this! Is about a year old now maybe? Very soft and woody. Vanillic and honey. Pipe tobacco. Yes, it's a plantation from Koh Kong. Would you pick that if you wern't told? I doubt it.

 

[mobyus]

AlMokhlif Oud - Special Laosi

This is a dark and viscous oud that immediately opens with sweet notes. The heart has notes of wood, tobacco, and new leather. It has slight earthy notes but not outright dirt or mud. It has a muted rain-water scent and is slightly animalic at the base.

I can see this being layered with another Oud or just on its own. It’s very luxurious. What I mean by that is that it has this smooth and silky feel about all the described notes. I appreciate this Oud very much. I look forward to swiping this again. Easily one of my top ouds.

 

[Karim Collects]

EO Guallam No 1

 

[mobyus]

Santal and Oud - Maluku (sample)

It’s a dark reddish Oud. It opens with crystal green herbaceous and saline notes. Very mineraly and medicinal heart. I’m picking up cherry, berry, and woody notes at the base. It’s a very easy to wear Oud which won’t irritate the senses (of others who don’t like Oud).

 

[SamiterkiW]

Hello Salam Ouddicts 😊

Today I swiped :
AA Blue malay 🍋🍦🥤🍬🐜
Habz Malinau Maliki 🍦🍨🍌🥭🪵🍪
Habz Raja Hijau 2 🍃🍂🎋🪵💨🦌
MesOud Andalas 🐍🪵🍦🥤🌺🌴🍪

Such oils …
Whenever you fall into Oud , it is a never ending story …
🤎🪵🔥♾

 

[Humpdidumpdi]

Hello Salam Ouddicts 😊

Today I swiped :
AA Blue malay 🍋🍦🥤🍬🐜
Habz Malinau Maliki 🍦🍨🍌🥭🪵🍪
Habz Raja Hijau 2 🍃🍂🎋🪵💨🦌
MesOud Andalas 🐍🪵🍦🥤🌺🌴🍪

Such oils …
Whenever you fall into Oud , it is a never ending story …
🤎🪵🔥♾

I like your emoyi way of describing the oils, straight on point 😃👍

 

[mesOUD]

I like your emoyi way of describing the oils, straight on point 😃👍

Yeah same

 

[mobyus]

Oud Stories -Royal Brunei Oud

It has a strong smell of brand new leather. Slightly animalic. Notes of wood and berries. Very nice gift I got when I bought another Oud. The profile is similar to Indonesian ouds. The scent is evolving as times passes on my skin. Something I like. It’s getting more fruity. I like it when a scent becomes 3 dimensional.

 

[Mick]

MesOud Andalas 🐍🪵🍦🥤🌺🌴🍪

Oh this is fun! I'll join in for Andalas (after a tiny dot, a few mins ago): ⛽️🍏🎋

I'm gonna let it rest now, but wow, this is great! It gives me that gasoline/diesel smell that I know from Borneo ouds, but adds in bright, fresh and sweet fruits that give a tropical feeling

@mesOUD distilled something beautiful again

 

[Kai Leon Art Perfumer]

Maroke Wild Jungle Filaria (dustilled in 2018) from 'Hermitage' - recent buy, still getting acquainted with it:
Upon applying it repetitively for the last couple of days, I’d call this Oud ‘Gentle Soul’ –
delicate and harmonious yet touching with its stirring beauty – for the overall refined, suave and elevating feel. Polished Woods in the lead are entwined in a dialogue with ripe and complex, incensy Resin, softly supported in the background by sweet-n-sour stone fruits and humid leafy wispers – all underpinned with a sustained undercurrent of Cool Freshness – from start to finish.
‘Gentle Soul’ is indeed perfectly suited for Meditation – due to the exquisite balance between all those facets that fuse into a silky smooth, mellow projection that stay close around, forming an intimate ‘Capsule of Serenity’ – perfect for introvert activities, tranquil pleasures and quiet euphory – fragrantly expressing a rarely achievable, uninterrupted and uniformal meditative flow of subtle sensations free from pain and distractions –
in silence and peace the glowing ‘Bhanga Nyana’ whispers ‘May all living beings be happy…’ 🙂

 

[SteveE]

elkhaldi studio Cambodi Preserve
I love how Maher ( @melkhaldi ) took two of @Al Hashimi 's ouds and blended them into something that is truly a 1 + 1 = 3 synergy for me. This - and other posts on here - have inspired me to start dual swiping to see how two ouds "near" each other on my arm might interplay. Bravo!

 

[Ahmaoud]

elkhaldi studio Cambodi Preserve
I love how Maher ( @melkhaldi ) took two of @Al Hashimi 's ouds and blended them into something that is truly a 1 + 1 = 3 synergy for me. This - and other posts on here - have inspired me to start dual swiping to see how two ouds "near" each other on my arm might interplay. Bravo!

I loved the idea behind this when I first read of it! Aged Crassnas can often become so thick that they're not practical to use when you're out and about. Not to mention if you want to share them with a gathering you'll be applying more than is necessary, ultimately a waste for a good oil. You'll be trying to delicately pry the stick applicator out, without getting any on the sides on the way out, and likewise on the way back into the bottle.

There's also the notes which aged oils are missing, or said differently as they're usually slower to develop on the skin it helps to add some more volatile younger oils to patch over the development. Ultimately it gives you a very unique oil because the aged component is refined with newer accents, it otherwise couldn't have possessed, brighter top notes (related to the aged oil or completely different) and the fresher oil, gains a level of sophistication and overall longevity. It's a risky process though, long maturation needed to verify successful blending, and the oils themselves have to be fairly high quality to make the blend worthwhile.

I would go for it, and begin with similar regions of scent profile and then start to mix and match them, eg. Borneo/Silani mix one day, light Cambodi/light Hindi mix another day before going into the say molasses like Thais and floral Hindis. I keep a notebook around with relative measures of what I've applied, because you'll thank yourself for making note of some of these combinations!

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

I loved the idea behind this when I first read of it! Aged Crassnas can often become so thick that they're not practical to use when you're out and about. Not to mention if you want to share them with a gathering you'll be applying more than is necessary, ultimately a waste for a good oil. You'll be trying to delicately pry the stick applicator out, without getting any on the sides on the way out, and likewise on the way back into the bottle.

There's also the notes which aged oils are missing, or said differently as they're usually slower to develop on the skin it helps to add some more volatile younger oils to patch over the development. Ultimately it gives you a very unique oil because the aged component is refined with newer accents, it otherwise couldn't have possessed, brighter top notes (related to the aged oil or completely different) and the fresher oil, gains a level of sophistication and overall longevity. It's a risky process though, long maturation needed to verify successful blending, and the oils themselves have to be fairly high quality to make the blend worthwhile.

I would go for it, and begin with similar regions of scent profile and then start to mix and match them, eg. Borneo/Silani mix one day, light Cambodi/light Hindi mix another day before going into the say molasses like Thais and floral Hindis. I keep a notebook around with relative measures of what I've applied, because you'll thank yourself for making note of some of these combinations!

I'm doing exactly this almost on the daily now. In fact, brother @Ahmaoud you must somehow be watching what I'm doing as I did this very thing you described with exactly those types of ouds! I had Oud Chachak - Habzoud on one side (young plantation Koh Kong) and a wild/plantation Koh Kong blend by ThienThanAgarwoodVN on the other. The Habz oil is very unique. Soft, deep and tobacco/vanilla. Nothing like it's point of origin. The other oil is unmistakeably a Cambodi Koh Kong. Very thick and sticky. Bright red in colour and scent. Diesel, jam and wood. Bring them together however and you have this broad spectrum beast of something unexplainable and beautiful. I wore these yesterday while kayaking out in the warm early spring air. What a day!

 

[kban]

I burned some Pursat powder I got from KyaraShrine as a sample. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, I just don’t love the scent profile. It’s hard to describe, it’s not really animalic, but may be it is, and it’s not unpleasant. I was just meh about the scent profile. So I promptly went and put on some Frederic Malle night 😂

What is pursat supposed to smell like? Thanks!

Also, many apologies. I thought I had posted in burn of the day, but clearly I was not.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

I burned some Pursat powder I got from KyaraShrine as a sample. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, I just don’t love the scent profile. It’s hard to describe, it’s not really animalic, but may be it is, and it’s not unpleasant. I was just meh about the scent profile. So I promptly went and put on some Frederic Malle night 😂

What is pursat supposed to smell like? Thanks!

Also, many apologies. I thought I had posted in burn of the day, but clearly I was not.

Wrong thread brother. Edit...just spotted your edit lol.🙂

 

[Joe]

Santal and Oud - Maluku (sample)

It’s a dark reddish Oud. It opens with crystal green herbaceous and saline notes. Very mineraly and medicinal heart. I’m picking up cherry, berry, and woody notes at the base. It’s a very easy to wear Oud which won’t irritate the senses (of others who don’t like Oud).

oh, cherry.....

 

[kban]

Has anyone tried Sulaym’s Royal Yunnan? I’m getting it in a couple of weeks regardless of reviews. I’m just curious if anyone has tried, will you please give me your impressions/review?

 

[SteveE]

Has anyone tried Sulaym’s Royal Yunnan? I’m getting it in a couple of weeks regardless of reviews. I’m just curious if anyone has tried, will you please give me your impressions/review?

No but I am very interested

 

[Arabiad07]

Has anyone tried Sulaym’s Royal Yunnan? I’m getting it in a couple of weeks regardless of reviews. I’m just curious if anyone has tried, will you please give me your impressions/review?

It’s like 3 oils in one. Definitely unique.

It smells like a Chinese Laos hybrid. Very complex oil. Has some of that leathery slightly barn smoky Laos notes but the colorful incense chinese background.