Oud Wood

[TheDarkKnight]

Thanks brother, i just use small light box "sadly its suck for certain angles have to get better one"

I use brother camera for most and sometimes i use iphone for certain things.

I hope so! i mean this one of main reasons i still buy its experience, else i have more than enough.
However the wood keep surprise me, was it Kyara, Rakoku, Managa, Manaban etc.
Getting names pieces is easy, Famous incense is ummm way harder, lots of titles doesn't match real wood.
in some kodo notes it was mentioned that there are several conditions that must be met in order for a fragrant wood to be hailed as a famous incense.
At the very least, not emitting any unnecessary aromas other than the five tastes (spicy, sweet, sour, salty, and bitter) is an important element related to the dignity of a fragrant wood.
However, there is one extremely rare exception. This is something special other than the five tastes, its a dream like scent in extremely rare quantity of the wood and it only show up at right temperature in blink of an eye.
The Japanese system may look like its simple, however its really complex and have lots of depth, if not studied under head of school or master one would miss most of it.
What we see on the internet is just peel of it, was it wood or information "which is many misleading in some ways or another" while it have some truth it there is way more to it than that.
Example the manaban in rikkokugomi system describe the common people, and most describe its notes as salty "smell like stuffy salty taste to a dull sour taste which is in some books "peasant smell".
However if you smell some old ones with different schools view they similar properties to that of Kyara, its knockout smell! refreshing, gentle, sweet and unique luster.
Ah man how i wish i can visit Kyukyodo, they have so many top kyaras i want some of lol=/

I agree with this. With the complex mixture of chemical compounds, there are always interesting and profound experiences to be had if you own and enjoy them many times. There is still a long way to go to acquire and keep samples like yours, but nothing can change that goal of mine

 

[-Renton-]

SQ Hindi Wood, potent room temp smell of beautiful flowers, just putting it to your nose :
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What it looks like when you cut into it. I asked @An Najwa why this was, since he is Indian and this is Indian wood, on instagram, and he said it is a very, very rare wood rom India. And correct me if I am wrong , Najwa, but is this so dense with resin because it is also a very old tree when harvested and it is the heartwood?

I cut a gram out of the 4grams, just to try it on the coal, and omg, AMAZING!!! The rest 3grams is 100% going on a heater when I get mine.

EDIT: This is better suited on coal, but I am leaving some of it for when I get my heater that can go to higher temps like 260-280c.

 

[Xerohome]

The competition is fierce @iori, lol
I'm trying to take pics with my outdated Nikon D5100 that last time I used was 2016 : )
result will improve with time for sure 😅

 

[YusaAromatics]

Some Thai kinan, i think one of the best woods i have smelled. Orange smell is strong in this one !

 

[mesOUD]

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Some Thai kinan, i think one of the best woods i have smelled. Orange smell is strong in this one !

İt blew my mind bro

 

[YusaAromatics]

İt blew my mind bro

Next time i will take this one with us also … round 2 now going on the burner …

Sri lankan soil … kinamic, milky, floral beautiful smell.

 

[-Renton-]

Snow White Beach named Wild Kyara:

 

[iori]

Love this post.

Thanks brother =)

The competition is fierce @iori, lol
I'm trying to take pics with my outdated Nikon D5100 that last time I used was 2016 : )
result will improve with time for sure 😅

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That's awesome piece, you need to work on lighting and you will get much clearer pictures with more details!

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Some Thai kinan, i think one of the best woods i have smelled. Orange smell is strong in this one !

That looks awesome!

Snow White Beach named Wild Kyara:
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yummy looking and smell 😛

 

[Mr.P]

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Some Thai kinan, i think one of the best woods i have smelled. Orange smell is strong in this one !

What am I even looking at here??? Looks like solid resin 😍 crazy looking piece!

 

[mesOUD]

İ didnt use a good camera but a very nice piece,already select and packed,going to a brother here

 

[YusaAromatics]

İ didnt use a good camera but a very nice piece,already select and packed,going to a brother here

where from Mesoud abey ... looks beautiful !

 

[mesOUD]

where from Mesoud abey ... looks beautiful !

Papua brother

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Papua brother

Wow! I got myself a couple of pieces of Sth Papuan while away just recently and they look completly different to this. Black hard with a very distinctive room temp. Haven't tried them yet on the heater. Will put up pics of them very soon.

 

[YusaAromatics]

Old Indo, been in the collection for a loong time … buttt somehow ouddict doesnt accept the pic im uploading, lets see how to fix this ..

 

[mesOUD]

İ didnt use a good camera but a very nice piece,already select and packed,going to a brother here

And even these woods are at sales at my web,Alhamdulillah they are the woods i am using for distillation
This is how we do

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Alright guys check these out. Some recent purchases in Bali. First is two pieces of Maroki Paupua. I'm just using my phone camera so sorry about the quality.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Next is a single piece of Mid Sumatra.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Then I got two pieces of Nth Kalimantan. This stuff has very dense resin inside it and is hard as a rock. Think I'll need a wood file for this.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

And lastly is something incredibly special. I can't believe I came across this. These small sticks were sold to me as Borneo kynam(agarwood) I've never seen anything like it. Very dense yet light. Heavily resin. No room temp scent but the tiniest scrape that I have heated so far on 60 degrees smells intensely sweet and produces vapour within seconds.

 

[Kabir Attars]

Philippines wood from Mindanao.