Oud Reviews

[Shabby]

This evening I'm wearing Hind by Al Shareef. It's amazing how comforting this oil is in cold weather, it is like putting on a blanket, being by a fireside and sipping on a masala chai all at the same time. But it also very lively and complex, which is especially evident at the beginning. Moreover, it is an oil which has become better with every application and it is becoming addictive (I think I am on the correct forum to say things like that). This impression might be because I am quite new to oud and this is the first Hindi which I have really tried to get to know well, but I think it also has to do with the quality of 'depth' which I found in Al Shareef II as well, and seems to be a kind of Al Shareef signature. It keeps you feeling like you have never fully understood the oil, and with Hind it translates to a never ending depth of spicy sweet comfort and warmth. It also has the effect of encouraging me to spiritual activity, especially reading and digesting sacred texts, which is a truly wonderful component of the experience. Extremely glad to have this oil, which is my new best friend and will protect me in the winter inshallah!

 

[jalil]

This evening I'm wearing Hind by Al Shareef. It's amazing how comforting this oil is in cold weather, it is like putting on a blanket, being by a fireside and sipping on a masala chai all at the same time. But it also very lively and complex, which is especially evident at the beginning. Moreover, it is an oil which has become better with every application and it is becoming addictive (I think I am on the correct forum to say things like that). This impression might be because I am quite new to oud and this is the first Hindi which I have really tried to get to know well, but I think it also has to do with the quality of 'depth' which I found in Al Shareef II as well, and seems to be a kind of Al Shareef signature. It keeps you feeling like you have never fully understood the oil, and with Hind it translates to a never ending depth of spicy sweet comfort and warmth. It also has the effect of encouraging me to spiritual activity, especially reading and digesting sacred texts, which is a truly wonderful component of the experience. Extremely glad to have this oil, which is my new best friend and will protect me in the winter inshallah!

thanks for this nice review

 

[Abdullah]

I will like to give my many thanks to Oudabmerlove, for helping me to try one of this China oud oils like the Yunnan 2003 that I ask him about if he is willing to split like little bit of his oil so I can try it without paying the full bottle price.
Well I was very nicely surprised when with the many free gifts he sent me, come also his last drop of the KZ85


Oil that I thought will never be able to try.


Thanks again Oudambe, and looks I will have a busy week.


Will post it here about Yunnan 2003 and KZ85 later what I think, when I get to know the oils.

im really happy (not that they need my approval or anything) with these acts of giving and sharing from oudamberlove and gltasn. this is one of the ways how we can all help each other, expand our knowledge and share our passion with our oud family for this amazing gift of oud we are able to experience.


LOVE IT! MY HATS OF TO YOU @Oudamberlove AND GLTASN, NOT FORGETTING EVERYONE ELSE

 

[littlecrowgirl]

I have been wearing Champi Intensa, from Feel Oud. I didn’t know if I was going to like it, but I do, and I keep going back to it over and over!


I spent much of my childhood in the Northeast of Thailand, surrounded by rice paddies. Thirty years ago, the fields were still plowed by water buffalo, and as those lovely beasts with their huge liquid eyes made their way through the mud, they would, of course, leave their droppings. I remember running along the raised dirt walkways, between the paddies, full of water and bright green new shoots of sticky rice, frogs hopping, snakes slithering out of the way, insects buzzing, under the hot sun. And I remember the smell of it all, of the rice fields and the life cycles they supported, the scent of manure rising in the air.


Champi Intense certainly has those strong barn notes, but the floral compliments it and mellows it so perfectly. I think it's beautiful!

 

[littlecrowgirl]

Peter4ptv - no disrespect but the kz85 does not smell like labdanum to me at all. I have many labdanum extracts and I just don't see the resemblance - they all have a very strong, distinct labdanum note that is very cloying and persistent, even a tiny dab, and I don't get a trace of this scent from the kz85. It really puzzles me that some people smell labdanum there!
I understand what you are reacting to - the first scent of that oil is very different from distilled oud - but if you apply the oil to your skin and let it develop, it really becomes a great impression of good oud wood / resin. I have made some solvent extracts of oud wood, and they resemble the kz85 in many ways. The scent of soaked and distilled agar wood is quite different from the scent of the wood itself, and I suspect this oil is an extract with solvents and not a distillate.

I haven't yet experienced Labdanum (though I am going to get some samples from Rising Phoenix in the next week or so) so I can't really weigh in on the similarities. However, I will say that KZ85, after the initial top notes dissipate, smells SO much like oud to me, that I would be really surprised if it didn't contain a great deal of oud, at the least!

 

[Abdullah]

I have been wearing Champi Intensa, from Feel Oud. I didn’t know if I was going to like it, but I do, and I keep going back to it over and over!
I spent much of my childhood in the Northeast of Thailand, surrounded by rice paddies. Thirty years ago, the fields were still plowed by water buffalo, and as those lovely beasts with their huge liquid eyes made their way through the mud, they would, of course, leave their droppings. I remember running along the raised dirt walkways, between the paddies, full of water and bright green new shoots of sticky rice, frogs hopping, snakes slithering out of the way, insects buzzing, under the hot sun. And I remember the smell of it all, of the rice fields and the life cycles they supported, the scent of manure rising in the air.


Champi Intense certainly has those strong barn notes, but the floral compliments it and mellows it so perfectly. I think it's beautiful!

really like your description

 

[littlecrowgirl]

I have been wearing Champi Intensa, from Feel Oud. I didn’t know if I was going to like it, but I do, and I keep going back to it over and over!
I spent much of my childhood in the Northeast of Thailand, surrounded by rice paddies. Thirty years ago, the fields were still plowed by water buffalo, and as those lovely beasts with their huge liquid eyes made their way through the mud, they would, of course, leave their droppings. I remember running along the raised dirt walkways, between the paddies, full of water and bright green new shoots of sticky rice, frogs hopping, snakes slithering out of the way, insects buzzing, under the hot sun. And I remember the smell of it all, of the rice fields and the life cycles they supported, the scent of manure rising in the air.


Champi Intense certainly has those strong barn notes, but the floral compliments it and mellows it so perfectly. I think it's beautiful!

Thank you, Abdullah! I love how agarwood evokes such vivid imagery, especially when the imagery is so tied to memories. This is one of the ways that oud is such a blessing and a gift! 🙂

 

[bhanny]

I have been wearing Champi Intensa, from Feel Oud. I didn’t know if I was going to like it, but I do, and I keep going back to it over and over!
I spent much of my childhood in the Northeast of Thailand, surrounded by rice paddies. Thirty years ago, the fields were still plowed by water buffalo, and as those lovely beasts with their huge liquid eyes made their way through the mud, they would, of course, leave their droppings. I remember running along the raised dirt walkways, between the paddies, full of water and bright green new shoots of sticky rice, frogs hopping, snakes slithering out of the way, insects buzzing, under the hot sun. And I remember the smell of it all, of the rice fields and the life cycles they supported, the scent of manure rising in the air.


Champi Intense certainly has those strong barn notes, but the floral compliments it and mellows it so perfectly. I think it's beautiful!

Agree. Awesome review. I'm not great at individual notes, but I love the places agarwood takes me!

 

[jalil]

EO Assam 3000


First impression when I put a first swipe is it remind me a lot IO Semkhor


I decide to make a side by side comparaison...it is a 90% matching.


The EO is smoother (certainly due to the aging) a bit more floral/fruity (thai/cambodi like) and less musky but I really have to make a side by side to get the difference.


An other hindi I like, my Hindi collection grow lol

 

[peter4ptv]

EO Assam 3000
An other hindi I like, my Hindi collection grow lol

Jalil, Hindis are amazing oils with my experience even the worst fecal – animalistic-barn if you can handle the first hour or two dries down to heavenly sweet woods with butter and honey on top.


As long as it is pure oud oil, I am not talking about the cheap ME oils like: Dehn Al Oudh Al Haramain, Dehn Al Oud by Al-Rehab, dehn al by oud arabian oud ETC…………………….


In my opinion Only ASAQ and Ajmal have good high end oils from all of the big ME perfume houses, and lately with the poor new reformulations coming from ASAQ probably only high end Ajmal oils are left, anyway this high end oils from Ajmal probably are one of the very best Hindis available on market now.

 

[peter4ptv]

Can anyone who has a classic Burmese oil to review it, I have only the newer type Burmese with the green note and I assume they smell very different to the typical Burmese oud oils.


Thank you.

 

[jalil]

EO Assam 3000
An other hindi I like, my Hindi collection grow lol

Jalil, Hindis are amazing oils with my experience even the worst fecal – animalistic-barn if you can handle the first hour or two dries down to heavenly sweet woods with butter and honey on top.


As long as it is pure oud oil, I am not talking about the cheap ME oils like: Dehn Al Oudh Al Haramain, Dehn Al Oud by Al-Rehab, dehn al by oud arabian oud ETC…………………….


In my opinion Only ASAQ and Ajmal have good high end oils from all of the big ME perfume houses, and lately with the poor new reformulations coming from ASAQ probably only high end Ajmal oils are left, anyway this high end oils from Ajmal probably are one of the very best Hindis available on market now.

And I hear somewhere IO Semkhor smell like Ajmal high end 😉

 

[jalil]

Can anyone who has a classic Burmese oil to review it, I have only the newer type Burmese with the green note and I assume they smell very different to the typical Burmese oud oils.
Thank you.

what burmese you have?

 

[peter4ptv]

Can anyone who has a classic Burmese oil to review it, I have only the newer type Burmese with the green note and I assume they smell very different to the typical Burmese oud oils.
Thank you.

Aarai Ko Shway and Kachin Ko-Shwe

 

[Oudamberlove]

Can anyone who has a classic Burmese oil to review it, I have only the newer type Burmese with the green note and I assume they smell very different to the typical Burmese oud oils.
Thank you.

I too would like to smell a Burmese oil that's not candy sweet, or kinamic. Something with a classic verve but not oversoaked barny.

 

[Oudamberlove]

EO Koh Kong 76


A generous bounty of red fruits laced with lavender flowers. An enigmatic oudiness with resin and peppermint without the mint. No barn, no smoke, a little bit of powdery tea. The aroma stays close to the skin soon after first application, but it constantly glows with a three dimensional red aura, like I'm picturing a red ball. The profile is very focused on red like no other I smelled before. I applied three swipes back-to-back and never stopped sniffing.

 

[calibra]

I'm new to the forum and the whole oud business yet the first and only oud that I own happens to be a Burmese one.I'm not sure of its quailty though, got it from a local seller.It starts barny and tbh first 5-6 days I really did not enjoyed it but now the deep wood scent which reveals itself after an hour or so, really got me hooked up.

Since I'm no where close to review it on a professional poetic manner, I'm more than happy to send samples to anyone interested to try it out as long as they cover the shipping.

 

[Habz786]

Welcome to the Forums calibra and what a generous offer you have made on the forum! How much did you pay for this oil if you don't mind sharing? have you tried any oils from any other vendors?

 

[calibra]

Thank you very much.I have paid around $50 for 3gr bottle so its probably not considered good enough for sophisticated noses =)
As for other ouds, not from different vendor but I have tried several Cambodi and Indian ouds from the same vendors price range from $100 to$1200 for 3gr vial.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Thank you very much.I have paid around $50 for 3gr bottle so its probably not considered good enough for sophisticated noses =)
As for other ouds, not from different vendor but I have tried several Cambodi and Indian ouds from the same vendors price range from $100 to$1200 for 3gr vial.

Yes, welcome calibra. You have come to the right place. Wether you are new to oud, or an old timer, we are all constantly learning, and having fun discussing our passion for oud.