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OMG entire zoo? I have to try that!!!!
Oud Reviews
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powdernose
Oud Sprite
My wife's words,
but yes, it one of the most animalic ouds I have encountered.
It felt just right yesterday when I swiped. I've acclimatised 🙂. I think this one will age very well.
Rai Munir
Musk Man
Still needs effort to have solid reviews. But, yes, keeping in views personal leanings, it is a nice video. The best thing in the video: Sproaty's smile, and the bike. And then the beautiful light and shade and colour scheme in the study of the second last reviewer.
the bike that I fell off 2 months back is behind my mountain bike (and am still hurting)! But thanks for the nice words Rai 🙂
Yes Peter's presentation is always great
Interesting video. It shows how different our tastes are. I have tried most of the ouds mentioned and wouldn't put any of them anywhere near my top 10. Also interesting that almost everyone picked an Ensar Oud.
Still fun to watch.
TBH I have no idea what my top 10 even consists of, it shifts on a daily basis. It definitely contains no Thai ouds though!
TBH I have no idea what my top 10 even consists of, it shifts on a daily basis. It definitely contains no Thai ouds though!
Maybe the ten on your arms at any given time?
Woodland Note
True Ouddict
Great video. 🙂 Thank you for sharing! I can say that I’m surprised and not surprised at the same time. Surprised because I think I expected a bit to hear somewhat about more pricey and top of the shelf ouds. Oud Royale, ouds with "kyara" and "kinam" keyword in the name, borneo 3000, borneo 50k and so on... And I’m not so surprised because, oud seems and feels to me more and more like a personalized experience... We all have tad different tastes and scents often seem to have strong bonds with our memories... And the way oud works, it is like some kind of magic that can evoke so many different things in our mind/imagination. Some ouds feel to me like treasure rooms, you open that doors and you find this and you find that, and this and that and it's almost not ending...
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For me, the most expensive ouds I own are Sultani 1990 & Tigerwood Royale and haven't tried anything really above $500+ (oh wait...AA's Sayed's Ascent). But yes, each are provocative in their own way and are tied to how I fancy smelling that day! I don't really "crave" any oud like others say they do but I generally have a region in mind when I'm deciding what to wear.
T
Tayib
Guest
Agarwoodindonesia barat laut
I've been asked to review this oil so here goes .
Amazing oil distilled from multiple oudhs of Indonesian orign .
On my skin the oil opens up with sharp peircing mentholic/minty note. Its followed by a citrusy lemonish vibe. On the dry down I get a club soda / vanillic type of scent and a scent i can best describe as mellow sweet banan peels. In some ways it reminds me of feel oudhs virgin Sumatran island , but these two oils are definitely different .
The opening notes of barat laut caused my front two teeth to slightly go numb . This may sound weird, but anytime I smell an oil that has a supposed "kinamic" note present, I get this effect lol. Placebo or what??
Take it for what its worth.
I've been asked to review this oil so here goes .
Amazing oil distilled from multiple oudhs of Indonesian orign .
On my skin the oil opens up with sharp peircing mentholic/minty note. Its followed by a citrusy lemonish vibe. On the dry down I get a club soda / vanillic type of scent and a scent i can best describe as mellow sweet banan peels. In some ways it reminds me of feel oudhs virgin Sumatran island , but these two oils are definitely different .
The opening notes of barat laut caused my front two teeth to slightly go numb . This may sound weird, but anytime I smell an oil that has a supposed "kinamic" note present, I get this effect lol. Placebo or what??
Take it for what its worth.
Rai Munir
Musk Man
TBH I have no idea what my top 10 even consists of, it shifts on a daily basis. It definitely contains no Thai ouds though!
We are in the same boat. May we be safe and sound!
Oudamberlove
Member
I’m having a Sampling Feast
•EO Sultan Salahuddin
I’m fixating on the New Guinea component so much, that I hardly notice the Sumbawa.
Why?, because it’s beautiful like in Sultan Afnan.
This oil is full of heart and base, and oudy too.
Stronger than Sultan Abdüs Selam, but weaker than Sultan Mujeeb. I wish I had a bottle.
•RPP Sumbawalla
This oil smelled similar to HO Oud Wahah off the stick, so I decided to do a side-by-side. Well, I didn’t expect the results.......these oils are so similar in profile and progression, that if you told me they were sister distillations by the same distiller, I would believe it.
.........Nuff Said!!
•AH Tariq
A blend of two nice oils. Hindi like Assam Organic meets Plummy Woody Cambodi....... I struggle with multi-region blends because I tend to focus at the individual profiles. The notes dance around from first swipe, but the harmony happens during dry down.
•AH Ibn Zamrak
New generation airiness with enough spectrum to offer a good base. Beautiful perfume with shades of Borneo and Sumatra. No funk and no junk (off notes), no gasoline, no mint, no camphor.
I think it’s the cousin of HO Oud Alamin, and it’s beauty is near FO Borneo Adventure 1.
•AH Adan
I tried just the tip of the applicator. I want to save the swipe for a special moment, but from that tiny amount.....it smells just like the Filipino chips.
•EO Sultan Salahuddin
I’m fixating on the New Guinea component so much, that I hardly notice the Sumbawa.
Why?, because it’s beautiful like in Sultan Afnan.
This oil is full of heart and base, and oudy too.
Stronger than Sultan Abdüs Selam, but weaker than Sultan Mujeeb. I wish I had a bottle.
•RPP Sumbawalla
This oil smelled similar to HO Oud Wahah off the stick, so I decided to do a side-by-side. Well, I didn’t expect the results.......these oils are so similar in profile and progression, that if you told me they were sister distillations by the same distiller, I would believe it.
.........Nuff Said!!
•AH Tariq
A blend of two nice oils. Hindi like Assam Organic meets Plummy Woody Cambodi....... I struggle with multi-region blends because I tend to focus at the individual profiles. The notes dance around from first swipe, but the harmony happens during dry down.
•AH Ibn Zamrak
New generation airiness with enough spectrum to offer a good base. Beautiful perfume with shades of Borneo and Sumatra. No funk and no junk (off notes), no gasoline, no mint, no camphor.
I think it’s the cousin of HO Oud Alamin, and it’s beauty is near FO Borneo Adventure 1.
•AH Adan
I tried just the tip of the applicator. I want to save the swipe for a special moment, but from that tiny amount.....it smells just like the Filipino chips.
Rasoul Salehi
Banned
@Oudamberlove
Dear curt I am fully with you on salah, adan and ibn... when you try adan again next see if the brown butter note registers with u. Is delish. Fatty oil with tons of everything. IMHO it needs time to gain complexity and integrate more. Albeit truly delish and mind numbing good already. Super full bodied.
As for sumbawalla, the nose rarely lies. It could be same distiller. Anyways my question is where did/ do you see the origin of the wood? Would you have gone gyrinops if swiped blind?
Oudamberlove
Member
If I swiped Oud Waha or Sumbawalla blind,
I would have likely guessed A. Cumingiana.
Gyrinops is a large umbrella, as is Crassna. Many regions under those umbrellas have some similar facets. At best, I would place A. Cumingiana under the Gyrinops umbrella.
Rasoul Salehi
Banned
Fair enough and good one. I didn’t discern that. I went up to Borneo for some hard to explain reason, but basically a mostly texturally/body wise quality that didn’t fit for me, as in I couldn’t relate to it from all the way down south.
Ps that brown butter note in @Alkhadra ‘s adan has marjoram in it and tarragon and then gets some delicious leatherwood honey poured over it.
JANNAH @Al_Shareef_Oudh
I wasn't sure whether to expect a "clean" maroke type, or an oceanic PNG type. . . . . it is definitely the latter. And it is a wonderful oil.
I get blue-green saline oceanic eucalyptus coastal herbs notes, quite potent at the outset, plus some yellow tropical flowers, with sweetness and brightness from hibiscus flowers and the airier tropical fruits like guava and passionfruit, but they are not too sweet and not syrupy (happy about that). There is something kind of astringent that comes in and out, to me it's like the clear gummy bears (which are supposedly pineapple flavored but don't taste like it) dunked in vodka. LOL. There is some woodiness, as most oud oils have, but I'm not so good at parsing the woodiness elements, in ouds, but it certainly adds depth.
The official description mentions muskiness but personally I have a hard time finding musk notes in oud, so I can't speak to that.
I did observe a sharp note at the very beginning, I am not sure if this is a feature or a bug, lol, but it fades away pretty quick and it's not like it's foul or anything. (I personally kind of like those notes in short bursts anyway.)
To me Jannah is a rather big and bursting and billowy oil, shimmeringly appealing. but also substantial. Jannah is an oil teeming with life, if that makes sense. I cherish that somewhat rare "liveliness" quality that is hard to describe but readily perceived, and it is abundant in Jannah. The floral-fruit elements seem to project but they are not over the top. Jannah lasted all day. Does Jannah have oudiness? Yes it does, plenty to make it satisfying.
Bottom line is I love this oil.
Congrats to @Al_Shareef_Oudh on your first PNG oil!
I don't think I ever said so, but I was among the people hoping you'd do a New Guinea oil and am so glad you did.
I wasn't sure whether to expect a "clean" maroke type, or an oceanic PNG type. . . . . it is definitely the latter. And it is a wonderful oil.
I get blue-green saline oceanic eucalyptus coastal herbs notes, quite potent at the outset, plus some yellow tropical flowers, with sweetness and brightness from hibiscus flowers and the airier tropical fruits like guava and passionfruit, but they are not too sweet and not syrupy (happy about that). There is something kind of astringent that comes in and out, to me it's like the clear gummy bears (which are supposedly pineapple flavored but don't taste like it) dunked in vodka. LOL. There is some woodiness, as most oud oils have, but I'm not so good at parsing the woodiness elements, in ouds, but it certainly adds depth.
The official description mentions muskiness but personally I have a hard time finding musk notes in oud, so I can't speak to that.
I did observe a sharp note at the very beginning, I am not sure if this is a feature or a bug, lol, but it fades away pretty quick and it's not like it's foul or anything. (I personally kind of like those notes in short bursts anyway.)
To me Jannah is a rather big and bursting and billowy oil, shimmeringly appealing. but also substantial. Jannah is an oil teeming with life, if that makes sense. I cherish that somewhat rare "liveliness" quality that is hard to describe but readily perceived, and it is abundant in Jannah. The floral-fruit elements seem to project but they are not over the top. Jannah lasted all day. Does Jannah have oudiness? Yes it does, plenty to make it satisfying.
Bottom line is I love this oil.
Congrats to @Al_Shareef_Oudh on your first PNG oil!
I don't think I ever said so, but I was among the people hoping you'd do a New Guinea oil and am so glad you did.
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