Oud Wood

[language scent]

“Spring wind”

A while back I bought a small sample of this kinan from my favorite source in Japan… when I received it and heated it, a new world was revealed to me. This is the kinam of kinam! The leap of differences and lack that agarwood next to true kinam, is what this piece does to all other kinam i have ever been lucky to smell. So I spent a small fortune and bought this giant star

The notes presented here are in no way connected or able to be described with any of the known aromatics that I have witnessed, I honestly can’t describe it. It has changed my life I have become more obsessed for this piece than I was ever before for anything else. The best I can say is to try to describe it is that there is this super oriental, silky, extremely alive, heavenly, golden, red, purple, green, blue, pink, silver, electric, uplifting blissful balance and vibration with a complexity fold 100x more than any other agarwood and kinam I’ve smelled. it that has changed my life so dramatically that not a day has passed that I have not thought about it and whenever I hear it I get emotional and feel I do not deserve it…I mean there are way better people than me on this earth yet I’m the one who has it. who knows maybe it’s going to be a curse where someday I will no longer be able to enjoy these things for some health reasons so I am being teased by the gods at the moment. Even if this happens the fact I have witnessed it and still have it are enough to seal my whole journey. So I have stopped hunting ever since. There will never be something better, if almost 4 years now I have not found anything to come even close to this then there is no more need to search and hunt. Holy grail of holy grails!

The strange thing that I witness with this also that I have not witnessed in any other kyara is the room temperature aromas complexity and shift. When first opening the vial and and smelling it I get these Chinese silky vibes type aroma that are acidic kinda and kinda sharp and flowery then 5-10 seconds later that I have inhaled all the air from the vial the aroma changes so much and goes light spice charm, honey, flowery bitter with a different pronounced note that is more yellow and red than the purple-blue-multicolored opening when first whiff is smelled.

the wood has a strange feel to it when i cut it with the razor. it is like a semisoft texture but can feel within every other millimeter tiny grains the size of needles point as if there is crystalized oil alongside the oil. i have a couple that have the same texture and these are the best ones as far as aroma goes and also potency. what is strange is that in the world the really soft ones are said to be the best quality but it seems to me it plays not much of a role when speaking of aroma or potency of high grade kinams.

I feel as if, if I lost all woods or if I was robbed of my woods but this one was forgotten and not lost stollen, I wouldn’t care I would be happy and parading if it’s security. The crazy thing tho of this whole topic is that all the woods and kyaras in my collection I absolutely adore and feel extremely lucky for the top 10 pieces…yet they are all dwarfs next to this and this new level of aromatic witness is extremely dramatic and shocking to me.

I wish so bad that I could stuff a kinam heater and gather around with everyone on this forum and pass it around, the wood is so potent everyone would be able to meet and realize it’s extreme complexity.

The effects are shocked feelings and awe. Happiness and extreme feel of gratefulness

And the irony of it all, it is the biggest chunk of kinam I own. So my favorite of all time is also the biggest of all my collection. Seems like a dream.

 

[joud]

Wow! Beautiful looking/sounding. And that’s impressive that it’s been around as long as it has. Curious how you located such an old piece.

 

[language scent]

Wow! Beautiful looking/sounding. And that’s impressive that it’s been around as long as it has. Curious how you located such an old piece.

my jjourney started with kyara. i been hunting it down for a couple years. found so many sources along this time.

 

[iori]

What is the aroma like of Partridge?

unsual kyara, white flower notes, refined soft sourness, unique sweetness, soft bitter
in general the scent classified in old japanese notes as bitter/sweet.

 

[iori]

“Spring wind”

A while back I bought a small sample of this kinan from my favorite source in Japan… when I received it and heated it, a new world was revealed to me. This is the kinam of kinam! The leap of differences and lack that agarwood next to true kinam, is what this piece does to all other kinam i have ever been lucky to smell. So I spent a small fortune and bought this giant star

The notes presented here are in no way connected or able to be described with any of the known aromatics that I have witnessed, I honestly can’t describe it. It has changed my life I have become more obsessed for this piece than I was ever before for anything else. The best I can say is to try to describe it is that there is this super oriental, silky, extremely alive, heavenly, golden, red, purple, green, blue, pink, silver, electric, uplifting blissful balance and vibration with a complexity fold 100x more than any other agarwood and kinam I’ve smelled. it that has changed my life so dramatically that not a day has passed that I have not thought about it and whenever I hear it I get emotional and feel I do not deserve it…I mean there are way better people than me on this earth yet I’m the one who has it. who knows maybe it’s going to be a curse where someday I will no longer be able to enjoy these things for some health reasons so I am being teased by the gods at the moment. Even if this happens the fact I have witnessed it and still have it are enough to seal my whole journey. So I have stopped hunting ever since. There will never be something better, if almost 4 years now I have not found anything to come even close to this then there is no more need to search and hunt. Holy grail of holy grails!

The strange thing that I witness with this also that I have not witnessed in any other kyara is the room temperature aromas complexity and shift. When first opening the vial and and smelling it I get these Chinese silky vibes type aroma that are acidic kinda and kinda sharp and flowery then 5-10 seconds later that I have inhaled all the air from the vial the aroma changes so much and goes light spice charm, honey, flowery bitter with a different pronounced note that is more yellow and red than the purple-blue-multicolored opening when first whiff is smelled.

the wood has a strange feel to it when i cut it with the razor. it is like a semisoft texture but can feel within every other millimeter tiny grains the size of needles point as if there is crystalized oil alongside the oil. i have a couple that have the same texture and these are the best ones as far as aroma goes and also potency. what is strange is that in the world the really soft ones are said to be the best quality but it seems to me it plays not much of a role when speaking of aroma or potency of high grade kinams.

I feel as if, if I lost all woods or if I was robbed of my woods but this one was forgotten and not lost stollen, I wouldn’t care I would be happy and parading if it’s security. The crazy thing tho of this whole topic is that all the woods and kyaras in my collection I absolutely adore and feel extremely lucky for the top 10 pieces…yet they are all dwarfs next to this and this new level of aromatic witness is extremely dramatic and shocking to me.

I wish so bad that I could stuff a kinam heater and gather around with everyone on this forum and pass it around, the wood is so potent everyone would be able to meet and realize it’s extreme complexity.

The effects are shocked feelings and awe. Happiness and extreme feel of gratefulness

And the irony of it all, it is the biggest chunk of kinam I own. So my favorite of all time is also the biggest of all my collection. Seems like a dream.

soul stirring, looking at great woods always give me please =)

 

[language scent]

soul stirring, looking at great woods always give me please =)

and it looks so much better when you know the smell doesnt it?

 

[The Scent Guru]

Vintage Koh Kong from @wardlab
Doesn't that look like The Rolling Stones album cover?

 

[iori]

Iron oil Kyara

 

[The Scent Guru]

🤤 <--- me, drooling

 

[language scent]

love of my life!
"spring wind" the legend of kyara, the kyara of kyara!
unmatched complexity, beauty and otherworldly notes!

 

[iori]

Purple Oil Kyara

 

[iori]

named Rakoku cut from 2.5kg block

 

[language scent]

Some glorious Hainan agarwood with delicate elegance that makes you keep coming back for more! After a while I found myself melting in bed after a big session on the kinam heater, listening to music and was inhaled by the sound as if i didnt even remember my life but was the music, very comforting effects. The aroma, there is sweet honey pear, white and pink flowers, a cinnamon like type of spice, a soft bitterness, lotus and i am getting hints of coconut/pineapple also.

 

[Oudstudent]

I wish I could smell all of your samples. The scent journey is one of the most underrated senses that modern human has ever ventured into. We gain pleasure mostly from views (beautiful sunsets, buildings, women/men, animals, nature, etc). The second one is taste (delicious food). The third one is from hearing (music, birds chirping, rain). The fourth one is from touch (sex, soft fur, leather). The fifth is smelling (perfume, agarwood, sandalwood, etc). Finally, the last one is the sixth sense, which many people would say is our divine connection with god, Allah, Deva, Tuhan, goddess, YHWH, Shiva, Enki, Marduk, Ahzura Mazda, divine essence, logos, source, etc. Children would agree there is god but society confuse them with thousands of interpretation of god through cultures, religions, scientism, philosophies, etc. These ideas claim that their version is the truth though there were millions even billions of people who died arguing which one of them is the truth but no one can deny its existence. There are certain things that people would not trust its existence without experiencing it. You wouldn't get addicted to kynam if you have never smelled it although people tell you it is the best scent in existence. You don't believe that time is non-linear until you experience precognition in your dream. You would not believe that there is no such thing as an "accident" because you know everything falls apart perfectly in such an orderly world with chaos as its basis. Our world is very orderly and at the same time, it's not orderly. What feels, smells, tastes, hears or sees good/pleasant doesn't mean it applies to other people/animals/creatures/entities.

Some glorious Hainan agarwood with delicate elegance that makes you keep coming back for more! After a while I found myself melting in bed after a big session on the kinam heater, listening to music and was inhaled by the sound as if i didnt even remember my life but was the music, very comforting effects. The aroma, there is sweet honey pear, white and pink flowers, a cinnamon like type of spice, a soft bitterness, lotus and i am getting hints of coconut/pineapple also.

 

[language scent]

I wish I could smell all of your samples. The scent journey is one of the most underrated senses that modern human has ever ventured into. We gain pleasure mostly from views (beautiful sunsets, buildings, women/men, animals, nature, etc). The second one is taste (delicious food). The third one is from hearing (music, birds chirping, rain). The fourth one is from touch (sex, soft fur, leather). The fifth is smelling (perfume, agarwood, sandalwood, etc). Finally, the last one is the sixth sense, which many people would say is our divine connection with god, Allah, Deva, Tuhan, goddess, YHWH, Shiva, Enki, Marduk, Ahzura Mazda, divine essence, logos, source, etc. Children would agree there is god but society confuse them with thousands of interpretation of god through cultures, religions, scientism, philosophies, etc. These ideas claim that their version is the truth though there were millions even billions of people who died arguing which one of them is the truth but no one can deny its existence. There are certain things that people would not trust its existence without experiencing it. You wouldn't get addicted to kynam if you have never smelled it although people tell you it is the best scent in existence. You don't believe that time is non-linear until you experience precognition in your dream. You would not believe that there is no such thing as an "accident" because you know everything falls apart perfectly in such an orderly world with chaos as its basis. Our world is very orderly and at the same time, it's not orderly. What feels, smells, tastes, hears or sees good/pleasant doesn't mean it applies to other people/animals/creatures/entities.

Well I can’t wait until you are launched into the different heavenly gardens in each of the samples I send you bro! When are 🫵 going to be heating it?

 

[Oudstudent]

until the heater arrives

Well I can’t wait until you are launched into the different heavenly gardens in each of the samples I send you bro! When are 🫵 going to be heating it?

 

[iori]

Some glorious Hainan agarwood with delicate elegance that makes you keep coming back for more! After a while I found myself melting in bed after a big session on the kinam heater, listening to music and was inhaled by the sound as if i didnt even remember my life but was the music, very comforting effects. The aroma, there is sweet honey pear, white and pink flowers, a cinnamon like type of spice, a soft bitterness, lotus and i am getting hints of coconut/pineapple also.

yummy =)

 

[iori]

organizing and moving some of kyaras, rakoku, manga etc to vials and jars

 

[Kolalid]

How much does Oud wood usually cost per gram? Have only purchased oils before.

 

[The Scent Guru]

How much does Oud wood usually cost per gram? Have only purchased oils before.

anywhere between $1-$100/gram to well over $1000/g depending on what type, quality. It's too broad. Start with a sample pack, something a few of the resident vendors offer from time to time. Watch the burn of the day posts and check the vendor's web for their variety and pricing.