joeribt
Oud Beginner
This sounds amazing. Will need to try this house.
Oud Reviews
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Kim Riccelli
Oud Beginner
Agree completely! This seems to be a truly underrated oil. Base-heavy oudyness from the start and with a wonderful sweet/spicy/tangy dance that reminds me of the packs of Thai spiced candied mangoes and tamarind that you get in Chiang Mai markets. Long-lasting too. Recommended.
Godoud
Oud Fan
Godoud
Oud Fan
Lol agreed. This is dont understand what they dont understand
Anwar
True Ouddict
Ha! You're finally here.
Rai Munir
Musk Man
Well said.
By the way, if the oil name can be Kinam and Kyara without the reality, everything else is possible. 😉
Mr.P
oud<3er
So I occasionally look at the gaharu forum. At one point several vendors posted there like Adam and Taha, Which made it a little bit interesting to look at in spite of all of the obvious product promotion sales and mutual pats on the backs that were going on there.
Now all i see are these couple of guys always hawking Ensar products... like 100%. Am I right that this is just a social media marketing site for Ensar? I don't know why I even check that site anymore... never seen anything other than "here's the Ensar product that I love" and "hey guys have you heard of the new Ensar product - I hear it's the BEST" and "everybody fights to get ensar's most expensive oils, but his cheap ones are totes my faves too" and on and on and on. What's the deal here?
Now all i see are these couple of guys always hawking Ensar products... like 100%. Am I right that this is just a social media marketing site for Ensar? I don't know why I even check that site anymore... never seen anything other than "here's the Ensar product that I love" and "hey guys have you heard of the new Ensar product - I hear it's the BEST" and "everybody fights to get ensar's most expensive oils, but his cheap ones are totes my faves too" and on and on and on. What's the deal here?
Castingshadows
@scentofsamadhi
I’ve noticed a huge push for this as well. Once a few key people in the community tried to force this on me via Instagram reposts, Facebook groups etc I started to get a little bummed out. It’s pretty obvious Ensar is doing a massive social media push to establish a “religious following” as they’re calling it now and then propping each other up for spending thousands of dollars in “sales”. It’s getting very cult like but it’s needed in order to keep the illusion alive that Ensar is the actual distiller of all these oils and the actual perfumer when let’s face it, neither of these are entirely true. If you wanna see something really ridiculous check out the Yes men in the Facebook group.
yea I have no idea what happened, a friend of mine who once posted here (but is now banned) started that "fans of Ensar" Facebook group, and is now a mod at the other forum and yea, I've looked at the posts there and it makes me laugh.
I call him out on it all the time
I call him out on it all the time
OudAddiction
Oud Fan
Hello, did you put all 3 up for sale on scent legends? 😄
Yes they were for sale recently.
OudAddiction
Oud Fan
Would you say that the pre-2010 Kalakhassi is now marketed as the 150 year old Kalakassi? They look the same and I assume would've smelt the same as well.
Possibly. I don’t know much about their marketing and I haven’t smell the current 150 year old one.
Jinkoh Store - Grand Emperor Candan (Malaysia 1981)
Grand Emperor Candan defies everything I thought I knew about aged oud oils.
I always thought that old (at least 30 years) oils were always going to be fairly challenging to wear. Mainly due to the traditional distillation methods, soaking times, and fermentation.
But this oil changes everything for me. It opens with the most pleasant and soft sweet and sour duality. The sweetness is so unique and beautiful. It's hard to describe, it's not quite berry, it's not honey, it's almost like a candied sweetness. But it's fighting with a sourness that is also unlike anything I've encountered. Do you remember those sour key candies? The big ones that were $0.25 cents at the corner store? They were delightfully sweet but coated in sour sugar. Somehow, the opening of GEC smells the way those taste, in a bizarre kind of way. Along with the sweet n sour there's a wonderful medicinal quality that is so pleasing and comforting. I can’t quite describe the smell, but it is akin to petrichor or rain/dew.
The sweet n sour vibes don't stick around for too long, the sweetness settles down significantly after about 15 minutes, and the sourness softens, and transforms into more of a gentle petrol or diesel smell. And it's at this point the wood comes in. GEC has the craziest wood notes I've ever sniffed. It's incredibly dry or dusty, and reminds me of a freshly constructed cedar sauna house, before any sort of fire has been lit. The wood is so calming and natural smelling. The Sweet and sour aspects now remind me of finding a sticky drop of fresh sap on one of the cedar planks.
In the dry down, the scent remains quite woody, the dry, or dusty quality transforms into more of a damp or earthy quality. I still get some nice subtle sweetness but the sour notes have disappeared. The medicinal/petrichor vibes remain softly for the duration, lasting many many hours on my skin.
All of these notes and characteristics are nothing like I've ever experienced in a Malay oil, especially one that is almost 45 years old!
For me, this is a heritage oil, a reference of vintage Malay oud, and one of if not the highest quality oils I've ever had the pleasure of owning.
Grand Emperor Candan defies everything I thought I knew about aged oud oils.
I always thought that old (at least 30 years) oils were always going to be fairly challenging to wear. Mainly due to the traditional distillation methods, soaking times, and fermentation.
But this oil changes everything for me. It opens with the most pleasant and soft sweet and sour duality. The sweetness is so unique and beautiful. It's hard to describe, it's not quite berry, it's not honey, it's almost like a candied sweetness. But it's fighting with a sourness that is also unlike anything I've encountered. Do you remember those sour key candies? The big ones that were $0.25 cents at the corner store? They were delightfully sweet but coated in sour sugar. Somehow, the opening of GEC smells the way those taste, in a bizarre kind of way. Along with the sweet n sour there's a wonderful medicinal quality that is so pleasing and comforting. I can’t quite describe the smell, but it is akin to petrichor or rain/dew.
The sweet n sour vibes don't stick around for too long, the sweetness settles down significantly after about 15 minutes, and the sourness softens, and transforms into more of a gentle petrol or diesel smell. And it's at this point the wood comes in. GEC has the craziest wood notes I've ever sniffed. It's incredibly dry or dusty, and reminds me of a freshly constructed cedar sauna house, before any sort of fire has been lit. The wood is so calming and natural smelling. The Sweet and sour aspects now remind me of finding a sticky drop of fresh sap on one of the cedar planks.
In the dry down, the scent remains quite woody, the dry, or dusty quality transforms into more of a damp or earthy quality. I still get some nice subtle sweetness but the sour notes have disappeared. The medicinal/petrichor vibes remain softly for the duration, lasting many many hours on my skin.
All of these notes and characteristics are nothing like I've ever experienced in a Malay oil, especially one that is almost 45 years old!
For me, this is a heritage oil, a reference of vintage Malay oud, and one of if not the highest quality oils I've ever had the pleasure of owning.
