The Anticipation Thread - Share Your 'inbound's!

Woody said:
Is PSH any good? I’ve been getting raw natties from Fraterworks, Apothecary’s Garden, Perfumer’s Apprentice, snd Liberty Naturals. Always curious about houses with high grade natty stuff.
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PSH is excellent
 
players02 said:
[Ouddict.com] The Anticipation Thread - Share Your 'inbound's!

Ambergris and Musk tinctures from EOApothcare arrived!

Ambergris smells so clean, and the musk tincture smells quite smelly haha
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She has great stuff and I can’t wait to try more. I feel like she focuses on elevated versions of things. I got a galbanum sample from her in an order and it made me rethink galbanum. Instead of smelling like mashed up bell peppers it smells like essence of green. You could almost convince me that it was any other tender herb.
 
Shiningrobes said:
She has great stuff and I can’t wait to try more. I feel like she focuses on elevated versions of things. I got a galbanum sample from her in an order and it made me rethink galbanum. Instead of smelling like mashed up bell peppers it smells like essence of green. You could almost convince me that it was any other tender herb.
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I have ordered from her several times and I agree. Very high quality in general.
 
Shiningrobes said:
She has great stuff and I can’t wait to try more. I feel like she focuses on elevated versions of things. I got a galbanum sample from her in an order and it made me rethink galbanum. Instead of smelling like mashed up bell peppers it smells like essence of green. You could almost convince me that it was any other tender herb.
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Cher has some of the best oils out there. I tried a few blue lotus oils from different places. The one she stocks was the absolute best.
 
Yuzhi oud samples arriving today or tomorrow! Should be here today but it's been bouncing around several cities nearby here and according to the tracking history has passed by my town multiple times already so who knows.

I would prefer to be purchasing oud from our vendors here for perfumery purposes, and in fact, my going to yuzhi is due to Wardlab's demise. It is specifically to find a replacement for some oils that Richard had sourced for me that has me ordering the sample set.
 
Mr.P said:
Yuzhi oud samples arriving today or tomorrow! Should be here today but it's been bouncing around several cities nearby here and according to the tracking history has passed by my town multiple times already so who knows.

I would prefer to be purchasing oud from our vendors here for perfumery purposes, and in fact, my going to yuzhi is due to Wardlab's demise. It is specifically to find a replacement for some oils that Richard had sourced for me that has me ordering the sample set.
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ack! This has been caught in that weird USPS vortex where it keeps getting scanned close to me and then getting scanned at destinations 150 miles away on either side of me. Making its third pass according to tracking... it's covered about 300 miles since it was last in my area. 🙄
 
Yuzhi order arrived. Eight samples of agarwood oil and four extra samples that each involve jasmine. These are sinensis co2 and distilled oils so you can imagine what the range is like. On the mild end are some oils with minimal aroma - "Hainan Island" is that dull wet wood type, I don't understand why this type of oud oil is even made, but it is - it's like the "Double happiness" or "zen path" from Grandawood. I guess it could serve as a fixative? Also the oil labeled "no.11 kinam" is so mild that I have not yet been able to detect an aroma at all. I will have to try it with a clean palate - it just can't compete with the other ouds. I wonder if this one would smell good if vaporized on the subitism?

There are two that are labeled "Hainan barnyard" (regular and royal) and they have exactly the chocolate barny note you would expect them to - same type of barnyard that Grandawood cooks up. I saw in a scientific paper that Sinensis is a very close cousin of agallocha compared to other species of agarwood, and I feel like I can smell the connection in this barnyard oil - whether that's all technique or a combination of technique and shared genetics is for someone else to determine but these barnyard oils have some of that confectionery chocolatey stuff that I otherwise associate only with Hindi oud.

There are four in the set of eight that have some elements of what I am looking for: "ya xiang", "kwang tung", "Hainan mystery" and "ver animi" - these all have some of the sweet floral sinensis / CK elements and a clean profile overall. These are the four that I'm going to study more closely, the mild ones and the barnyard i'm not sure what to do with. At some point I will probably try to develop an oud-based fixative from these low end oils i have accumulated - I'm sure something nice can be made with a little bit of vanilla, etc..
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@Mr.P yes, I agree. It is disappointing when you end up with oils like this in your possession which you have spent good money on. They all have their uses however as you have just said. Nothing really goes to waste, especially if you like to tinker with blends. I wish the Grandawood oils weren't so generic. That's probably my fault now as I collect more oils from the vendors on here. The generic oils are for the masses who aren't that conserned with nuance.
 
Got my Frangipani EO from @Aroma Sublime today !!!! This might be the only thing I’ve ever smelled that the description fits it down to a tee. I wasn’t really sure what to esxpect since I’d only smelled this flower in absolute form. I usually think of frangipani as ethereal essence of white flower with a greenish tinge. Thin and flighty, dew kissed but ultimately almost austerely dry. This is effulgently warm, delectable and juicy. Fruity and syrupy with tea notes galore. Peachy explosions and the smell of a very fine white wine. The kind that hints at sweetness and instead drinks dry, like velvet napped leather with impeccable structure and mouth feel. It has pronounced tea notes for me like all frangipani does, but here it’s more orange pekoe than anything else. If you’ve ever made southern US style ice tea it reminds of sweet tea when you’ve just stirred in the sugar and haven’t added the extra water so it’s still concentrated and warm. For all that though it’s not a sugar bomb in the least. It takes a looong time to reach what I would call something that approaches a mundane plumeria note. But it’s not mundane. Some people call ylang ylang the poor man’s Jasmine, but I think of it as the poor man’s frangipani. This comes at that creamy ylang profile but through the back door and in a round about way. Golden and honeyed and so much more generous, interesting and complex. I would call this a real perfumers material although I plan on wearing it neat. The dry down gets a lot more complexity and those white wine notes persist. On the website they refer to Sauternes, but for me it’s more like a Spanish or Italian white that’s had plenty of hot dry sunshine to bake in a golden depth and structure. Really Grade AA stuff and I can’t recommend it enough to flower lovers like me.
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