Vendor: OleFaktory
Oil: Ve Dep
Year: 2022
Opening is fuzzy and has the unmistakable bitterness (yet sweet, too!) of viet oils - also opens slight terpy almost like a diesel hemp note. Also upfront you'll notice a minty candy camphorous blast too - this isn't so much part of the direct aroma as it is part of the scents overall texture and body (you feel a cooling sensation vs being actually minty). I appreciate that it's unique while remaining an excellent example of Vietnamese agarwood.
For me, Vietnamese oils are essentially the ultimate in agarwood smells - it's the smell that sums up agarwood in one sniff. Whenever I put Vietnamese wood on the burner, it's unmistakable - that bittersweet, creamy, woody, smell. Ve Dap has this in spades.
Dry down is a continuous aroma of Vietnamese agarwood but with all these interesting and changing chords. I smell a different aspect each time. In words, it remains deeply woody and fuzzy (like textured - I've noticed this in musk before), with petigrain, bittersweet/vanilla (not like a malinau vanilla, more like a safrole/ autumn spices.
Basically a great tier 1 Viet oil that I'm so excited to put away bc I think it will only get better. Support your local distiller
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Much gratitude to
@EJayB for really doing the dang thang - pumped to try more of his oils in the future!