The Anticipation Thread - Share Your 'inbound's!

[Sproaty]

The mala arrived. all of the beads are of similar quality and are well shaped. A mild sweet dry wood / aloeswood smell is present. It is from Vietnamese plantation wood and that makes sense given the aroma. The smell is a little bit like CK and a little bit like some Thai oud I have smelled…

The only thing that surprised me was how light it is. This thing would float like a cork lol.

I am attaching a photo I had to mess around with some of the settings to get it to look like the actual bracelet on my iPhone screen. The beads aren’t quite this bright… the wood in-between the resin ducts is a shade or two darker. I do enjoy the stripes and speckles of resin duct patterns on wood of this grade.


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Looks decent, how does it wear? I recently bought a bracelet that looks to be roughly the same size, but it looks a bit silly on my wrist, each bead just seems too big tbh. It's also super light
I was previously wearing a buoya (can't recall the spelling) bracelet that Farid from LMK sourced from me - no smell but the beads were small and sat well on my wrist. I ended up snapping the string by accident and never got a new one so the beads have been sitting loose on my table....well over 2 years now. woops

 

[Mr.P]

It’s a bit bulky and I also don’t entirely feel comfortable wearing it, but I think I could get used to it with time.

 

[Mousse de Chene]

I’m anticipating my recent purchase from Hamza @ The Attar Store - Fragrant Harbour.
I’ve heard many good things about this oil, I don’t have too many high grade Chinese oils in my collection. Friday hopefully!

A few weeks back I placed an order with Rising Phoenix for some incense: Huian Senkoh & LaoShan Monkoh.
I read Taesiks review of Huian Senkoh & instantly purchased it. Another person described LaoShan Monkoh as the ‘Kyara’ of Sandalwood, really anticipating these sticks.

 

[Jazzoid]

Got the new Silani from Ashworth on the way. I'm addicted to Sri Lankan oils right now! I also just received the new ones from Jinkoh Store and will have comments soon.

 

[mesOUD]

Very excited to receive
Distilled 25 years ago by mr pheeraphan(whom is a legend in oud world) from a 280 years ols wild crassna feom north thailand

 

[iori]

toke long search to find some of those in japan
Blue oil kyara
Red oil kyara
Purple oil Kyara
Black oil Kyara
manakyara
Rakoku
Vietnamese shell
More yellow/green oil Kyara samples.
Can’t wait to have them ;3

 

[Oudstudent]

Waiting for electric kynam heater and kynam sample so i can finally heat my white kynam and enjoy it to the fulless

 

[Musk Rahil]

After a month finally
Starting burning journey

 

[Mousse de Chene]

- Waiting upon some incense from RPP, Chinese Agarwood & Mysore sticks. It’s a lesson in patience placing an international order with JK, worth the wait though!

- Black Meat Mysore Sandalwood Heartwood from Kangiiten. Very excited for this, I love heating Sandalwood in the evening before bed. I have various batches of Sandalwood, curious to see how this one compares.

- Merauke AQ chips from The Oud Lab. As soon as AT shared the pics of this I jumped on 10g. It’s looks like a beautiful vintage batch, fat shiny dark Merauke chunks. Everything AT sells is superb & I trust his nose.

- Nha Trang from The Attar Store. I generously received a sample of this in my recent order of Fragrant Harbour, it blew me away! Beautifully Kinamic, sparkling, floral, Borneo like sweetness, a high quality Vietnamese oil at this price is a steal. Hamza is a great guy.

 

[The Scent Guru]

- Waiting upon some incense from RPP, Chinese Agarwood & Mysore sticks. It’s a lesson in patience placing an international order with JK, worth the wait though!

- Black Meat Mysore Sandalwood Heartwood from Kangiiten. Very excited for this, I love heating Sandalwood in the evening before bed. I have various batches of Sandalwood, curious to see how this one compares.

- Merauke AQ chips from The Oud Lab. As soon as AT shared the pics of this I jumped on 10g. It’s looks like a beautiful vintage batch, fat shiny dark Merauke chunks. Everything AT sells is superb & I trust his nose.

- Nha Trang from The Attar Store. I generously received a sample of this in my recent order of Fragrant Harbour, it blew me away! Beautifully Kinamic, sparkling, floral, Borneo like sweetness, a high quality Vietnamese oil at this price is a steal. Hamza is a great guy.

So much goodness!

 

[User]

Asiki Boven from RPP and SQ Ghalia set from Ensar

 

[Mr.P]

Just ordered some Bulgarian rose otto as I am almost out. $74 for 4.3 ml and it’s always delicious and fresh from the Bulgarian cooperative. I’m not sure what the value is of ordering larger amounts because for me Rose oil is best when it’s freshest. End up paying more per milliliter, but I like restocking as the batches change and seeing how the oil compares from year to year.

The rose otto has been very consistent. The absolute I have smelled shows more variation from year to year.

I would say I have had a bottle of T’aif rose oil in my cart every year for the last 7 years. Every time when I consider how much Bulgarian I can get for the same price (and how delicious fresh Bulgarian rose oil is), I either end up, not purchasing it, or buying a bottle of Bulgarian rose oil instead.

One person waved a dip stick with T’aif rose under my nose for a second, and I did get a positive impression based on that brief encounter. Very appetizing refined smell with a pronounced citrusy aspect and clean, appealing concentrated, rose with no fermented aspect

I don’t know how fresh the oil was, but I didn’t smell the airy leafy ethereal peppery notes that fresh Bulgarian roses have.

 

[mesOUD]

Just ordered some Bulgarian rose otto as I am almost out. $74 for 4.3 ml and it’s always delicious and fresh from the Bulgarian cooperative. I’m not sure what the value is of ordering larger amounts because for me Rose oil is best when it’s freshest. End up paying more per milliliter, but I like restocking as the batches change and seeing how the oil compares from year to year.

The rose otto has been very consistent. The absolute I have smelled shows more variation from year to year.

I would say I have had a bottle of T’aif rose oil in my cart every year for the last 7 years. Every time when I consider how much Bulgarian I can get for the same price (and how delicious fresh Bulgarian rose oil is), I either end up, not purchasing it, or buying a bottle of Bulgarian rose oil instead.

One person waved a dip stick with T’aif rose under my nose for a second, and I did get a positive impression based on that brief encounter. Very appetizing refined smell with a pronounced citrusy aspect and clean, appealing concentrated, rose with no fermented aspect

I don’t know how fresh the oil was, but I didn’t smell the airy leafy ethereal peppery notes that fresh Bulgarian roses have.

I think you have tried Turkish rose too
But you have to try good ones distilled in chooper stills in a low temp and long time
Most of the market is now full with factory production oils,i advise to try it

 

[Mousse de Chene]

I think you have tried Turkish rose too
But you have to try good ones distilled in chooper stills in a low temp and long time
Most of the market is now full with factory production oils,i advise to try it

Mr P is a man of science, a veteran collector involved in Oud & essential oils for 20+ years, I’m sure he has tried it all, and is aware of the quality he’s buying.

 

[Mr.P]

I appreciate the kind words, but my experience is small compared to some of the active collectors here. I’ve gotten my hands on what I could, and experienced a lot of samples and certainly have some perspective as far as the element of time goes but when I see people writing about their collections here my jaw drops.

As it turns out I have had the chance to smell a couple of Turkish rose oils distilled in those copper stills by the fields. This one farmer that someone I worked for purchased from apparently used running creek water to cool the condenser, and they just went from the field right into the pot without any journey to a factory.

It smelled every bit as good as Bulgarian.

 

[Maunamoku]

How much similarity exists between Bulgarian and Turkish?

 

[Mr.P]

I have found they are very different when it comes to standard grades. Typical Turkish Rose oil has dull generic berry notes that I really don’t like. I have found this note in Turkish Rose oil from completely different sources. It’s a weird berry note that isn’t fresh or appealing and just distracts from the rose scent.

I have smelled some Turkish rose oil, though, that has a very similar profile to top shelf Bulgarian. As I mentioned earlier, this was made by a small producer using traditional copper stills. The Turkish rose otto at av-at is excellent and their rose oil lacks these distracting notes.

I tend to never order Turkish rose oil, though, because I do not need another berry-scented mediocre rose oil in my collection and in my experience, the alteya Bulgarian oil is as good as the finest Turkish that I’ve smelled, and it’s available without having to track down some special producer and pay premium prices for small batch oils.

 

[Mr.P]

I have some Bulgarian rose on the way - looking forward to the fresh bottle.

 

[mesOUD]

I have found they are very different when it comes to standard grades. Typical Turkish Rose oil has dull generic berry notes that I really don’t like. I have found this note in Turkish Rose oil from completely different sources. It’s a weird berry note that isn’t fresh or appealing and just distracts from the rose scent.

I have smelled some Turkish rose oil, though, that has a very similar profile to top shelf Bulgarian. As I mentioned earlier, this was made by a small producer using traditional copper stills. The Turkish rose otto at av-at is excellent and their rose oil lacks these distracting notes.

I tend to never order Turkish rose oil, though, because I do not need another berry-scented mediocre rose oil in my collection and in my experience, the alteya Bulgarian oil is as good as the finest Turkish that I’ve smelled, and it’s available without having to track down some special producer and pay premium prices for small batch oils.

Yes i tried to tell this
And you well described it,as you know rose session is very short and most people try to boil as much as rose they can in short time,and they dont choose proper way for distilling,just looking from commercial side,because market accept this kind of goods too,but there are good distllers too,focused for quality

 

[Al Shareef Oudh]

Not all taifi rose oils are the same either, just like Turkish, Bulgarian, Irani, Afghan, indian etc all of them have a range of quality. Trying out a good experience in any of them is going to require some level of awareness from where and who to acquire them, especially if you have a limited budget, otherwise it will end up being an expensive learning exercise. From that perspective it's probably a wise thing that you have stuck with your Bulgarian source @Mr.P.