Elixir of Life: Pailin

This is what happens when you take perfumery to the end. The extreme. Thick slabs of sticky gaharu vapor wafting through it all to turn that buzzing nectar into a perfume of the sickest caliber…

Imagine the eccentric fusion of lavender and pineapple, juhi and hyacinth, spikenard, violet, and pear about to pop as waves of Pailin, 80s Myitkyina oud, and 80s Royal Ta’ifi rose crash over and crack open that crazy brew.

On top of the ouds already inside Elixir of Life, this edition also contains 5 full grams of Pailin, an unreleased Oriscent oud, per 50ml.

Alongside Kamboche, Pailin was one of the most labor- & time-intensive ouds we ever produced. From sourcing, gathering, sorting, and grinding the super dust in Cambodia, and then flying it, in person, to one of my Sifus’ distilleries where it was crafted Oriscent style, this is no ordinary Cambodi.

It’s red and medicinal rouge doesn’t just give you a whisper, but imbues this Elixir with more red than your nose can probably handle!

Elixir of Life also contains extinct Tonkin musk steeped in aged, wild Yunnan oud (our in-house infusion) which adds to the enhanced resinous diffusion of purple-green ouds that flow into each other bound by vintage orris butter from the 1950s.

Without accounting for the additives (Tonkin & Tibetan musk and black ambergris), you’re already looking at a perfume that’s ~63% concentration!

This is easily one of the densest, most intriguing oud perfumes you’ll ever experience, using not just an ensemble of ouds which, both profile-wise and terroir-wise, has never come together, but also the sheer concentration of those ouds that practically spill out of the bottle. 

One for the history books.