MesOud's Merauke, 2023, wild. From when he was selling oils not distilled by himself.
I like this. It's pretty typical for the region - what
@Rai Munir would call a "boot factory" 😅 which I understand - very high piercing sharp leathered note but not like a rugged old leather as you'd get in a Hindi, but more clean....synthetic by comarison, I guess (not calling the oil synthetic btw)
It's good but lacks the complexity of other Merauke oils that I've tried. Al Hashimi's Meroke Sultani (I think, was released in '24) serves as a benchmark here, and Habz' Maroke Qadeem also stands tall.
They just have something a little more - this region was never a favourite of mine as most of the oils smell similar to this Mesoud one, but some of the outliers have shown me that they can be tremendous