Oud of the Day

[Oudamberlove]

Tigerwood 1995
Resin and spice...
and a vibe of a tobacco pipe that’s been burning sweet cured tobacco for many years.
Good stuff!

 

[EJayB]

Cultivated wood ,steam distilled for 48 hours from southern China in December 2019 .
Has a very nice soft scent of bees wax and cinnamon. I like this oil

 

[Dean]

Royal Malinau love the dry down here

 

[Joseph Celello]

EO Aroha Kyaku for the evening. A little too cold for a fire outside here in upper Michigan, so I am going for the next best thing.

 

[Mario P.]

LMK K.Tenang on left , very fresh and dry oud
Right -my last blend ,made with mysore and australian sandalwood ,tonka bean ,and little hints of bulgarian otto and immortelle otto [emoji173]

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[Santal Claus]

Hoi Ann on the right. Some random sandalwood samples from tony Bolton on the left. Oddly his mysores - premium and special reserve both don't even really smell much like Mysore. Everything smells contaminated by frangipani. And the sandalwood is super young, light and tinny

Tinny. This is the word I've been looking for for years. Bless you. I've had a bunch of supposed Mysore over the years and they are all tinny.

 

[Anwar]

AA Suka cita - a lovely Sumatran oud, that's pure green bliss.

I've been trying to tell the masses.

 

[Anwar]

EO Aroha Kyaku for the evening. A little too cold for a fire outside here in upper Michigan, so I am going for the next best thing.

You from the U.P.?

 

[Mr.P]

Tinny. This is the word I've been looking for for years. Bless you. I've had a bunch of supposed Mysore over the years and they are all tinny.

the sandalwood EO from Amit Tandon / RKSons is an interesting one. In some ways it performs like a decent older oil - it’s got some good fuzzy woody base notes that kick in with time - but it’s the top note that puzzles me. I have smelled this when burning sandalwood pieces and in one sandalwood oil that was said to be quite old (vintage, out of an old sealed aluminum flask). I never smell this note in the really high-quality sandalwood chips or granules, however. It is a sort of sweet candy like somewhat floral note that stands out most when you first apply the oil. So I wonder what the sweet note is. Is it the sign of a particular region outside Mysore or Tamil Nadu? Or maybe a particular trunk region of a particular age of tree? Is it some chemical additives that is applied in trace amounts to create a more complex fragrance? Anyone with the RKSons oil have thoughts on this I’d love to hear them.

 

[EJayB]

I get intense butter from RKsons , not really my fav although it’s a very affordable oil for sure and a decent one

 

[Mr.P]

Butter, eh? I’ve heard this adjective used to describe sandalwood before but butter did not come to mind at all when I wear this oil. It’s more like a whiff of a lily or there is this plant in my yard - sarcococca - it’s like sandalwood with a faint whiff of these flowers from my perspective.

So strange that we smell this differently! Wonder if there are batch differences or nose differences or both?

 

[EJayB]

Mine is straight butter top note but quality could change from batch to batch

 

[Andrew Salkin]

@EJayB can correct me if I'm speaking out of turn but when buttery is used as an adjective I always felt that it meant creamy or velvety smooth - more of a textural quality vs actually smelling like butter. I have this oil too - it doesn't smell actually like butter to me but no sandalwood does to my

 

[Mr.P]

I went back and re smelled. I can definitely see someone getting butter from this, although I kind of have to use my imagination to see it.

Maybe my associations are a little different or my nervous system reactS slightly differently to whatever that is.

 

[EJayB]

My nose might be sensitive, straight butter or more the synthetic butter flavor from margarine is what I get

 

[Dan]

Attar Khus - Agarwood Assam

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Sample Mode

EO - Ecenae Royale Sumatra 1985

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[Anwar]

More Sandal: distilled roots from AWI. It has notes that resemble Royal Hujairi Frank.

 

[Dean]

Silani. Really thinking to get more of this

 

[TDK]

Musk, civet, hyraceum with a Super Hoi An swipe. I have been blending natural animalics and really like the way they are turning out. The longevity is solid but the silage is not projecting the way I would like. Does anyone have any ideas how to improve this? Alcohol? Just wanted to share my scent with a few of my 'six feet friends' ; )

 

[Mario P.]

Silani. Really thinking to get more of this

Witch Silani ? Oud base?

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