Private Blend: Katana
Price range: $3,153 through $5,255
EO Private Blend is exactly what you want to wear to stick it to the system and…
If you love Private Blend, this is an upgraded edition that, on top of all the good stuff that made up the Trifecta, also features Hailam Kilam, Oud Dhul Kifl, Hindistan Kala, and Oud Royale, which together brings this Katana edition close to 60% concentration!
This makes Private Blend: Katana both the most oud-heavy and highest concentration edition of PB ever. The ouds were each chosen to imbue a specific facet to the mucked-out madness of PB itself. Oud Dhul Kifl’s thick red jammy profile alone is magic coupled with musk. Add the balsamic, tobacco-fruity boozy incense of the only Hindi-Terengganu oud on the planet to Hailam Kilam’s crisp portrait of pure sinensis and you’ve just intensified, not just the oud, but the musk aroma of Private Blend.
Oud Royale’s dry-smoky kinamic earthy pitch pierces through the signature spicy chords that define PB, and joins the ensemble of ouds to round off what was already a perfumer’s perfume and turned it into…… what do you call a 60% artisanal oud-musk perfume?
On top of the Musk and Mysore and star-casted ouds, you don’t just get plain alcohol as the carrier either (the industry standard, even for the niche-est perfumes). Instead, all of these precious ingredients were infused — entirely — into a trifecta of pure deer musk tincture: Tonkin, Tibetan – both from the Sultan’s collection – and Kashmiri musk. This is the backbone and power drive of the perfume. The blast of spice amplified by a gush of animalics that speaks to your primal self… but is kept in check by the fusion of jasmines, rose, olde school Irian oud, and black tea steeped with blackberries.
Did we go overboard, or simply back to days when perfumery wasn’t defined, regulated or judged by ‘marketability’, growth scaling, and your department’s quarterly financial report? When what mattered was the smell.
EO Private Blend is exactly what you want to wear to stick it to the system and flaunt a fragrance so far out it even makes all the mainstream ‘noirs’ blush from shame. Here’s to perfume with pepper spitting musk that’s potent, loaded and loud. Wear it around your neck, with your chin up proud.
⦿ Private Blend being the musk perfume par excellence, this edition will include raw Mongolian musk inside each bottle.
Reviews of other editions…
Private Blend is my favorite musk fragrance. The sheer amount of musk blended in this perfume is unbelievable. There are some other notes who overall support the spicy musk note like sandalwood, rose, blackberry and jasmine but the overload of musk which hits your olfactory is pure joy to experience. On of the most unique perfumes in my collection and if I had to make a list of top three, this would be one of them.
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Most addictive musk fragrance I own and made all other musk perfumes obsolete to me. Private Blend shows exactly what artisan perfumery stands for: bold, unique, quality and the most rare materials to be used in perfume. Private Blend is still the benchmark musk fragrance to beat. I hope I get the chance to test all the other PB, including semi bespokes. Nevertheless which one you own, you can’t go wrong with this composition.
The last time I wore Private Blend, my body heat broadcast its performance radius and I noticed it drew the positive reaction from a woman on the train.
I could tell she was trying to figure out what was hitting her olfactory senses and drawing her in.
She actually moved about six inches closer, which is saying something on NYC MTA trains. I don’t think she recognized or figured out I was the source, but the effect of Private Blend was evident.
A common quote requently used in the operating room is “the enemy of good is better”. Ensar has definitely been able to elegantly walk that line with grace and sophistication. MashaAllah. Just when you thought you’ve smelled the pinnacle…
Ensar Oud, these are all absolutely unbelievable and another level. Private Blend is the most beautiful fragrance I have ever smelled, these are worth every dollar spent! I can’t wait for what’s next!
This is phenomenal. Love, love, love for me.
The apex of musk parfum has been set for the rest of human history.
EO Private blend is passion in a bottle. It blasts with the beauty of human life, it’s wars, it’s love, it’s compassion all at once like the brass section in a symphony reminding man “This is you, all of your light and darkness reduces to beauty”. As it cools and settles it’s as if you woke up from a dream and you realize you’re at a fragrant rosewood table with an angelic being cutting fruits and revealing gentle insights of our human nature. It would be unfair if this formula isn’t saved in a vault or taught.
I am holding my bottle in my hand at this very moment, and getting many compliments from friends, co workers and even strangers in a very short time.
Starts with an explosion of natural sweet smells, I’m picturing the sweetest blackberries and tea. Decadent. The sweetness is tamed early as the scent progresses, but remains throughout. And then. The second explosion: musk. It hits you hard, it demands presence. This perfume gives me feelings I have honestly never experienced before. It is sensual and animalistic, but unlike anything experienced in synthetic perfumes.
Private blend is amazing, the opening made me say “what’s this, where did I smell this fruit before, ah citrus passion fruit” I was still thinking this when a spicy glorious potent musk and some extremely clean tobacco, came on, then other notes that I have never smelled before. Now I understand why this Buddhist monk forced Ensar the man to sell his personal glorious private blend, but thanks is due to this monk that dared to hold on, and not let go of the first gem. This is a must have for musk and Oud lovers.
To be able to get a taste of the real deal is truly a blessing. There’s not a single dollar I have spent on Ensar Oud that I regret, everything is absolutely phenomenal.
As for the Private blend, I really like the opening which has a fresh herbal note. Followed by the candy like sweetness and the musk in the back ground which is present trough. I get a bit of pepper and spice as well. I put in on at 9am on my clothes. . Unfortunately I entered an Indian restaurant at 2pm and the scent almost completely disappeared. I’m not sure if it’s the effect of the strong spices. I will have to test it out again.
Doesn’t give that stomach bothering nauseating feeling like store bought perfume or cologne.
So far I have only tried a small spray of the private collection. I will need to try a couple more times before I can fully appreciate it. So far I find it very unique. Not what I expected. The musk is much milder than what i thought it would be and it settles to a sweet skin smell but not something unpleasant. A little bubble gum and spice.
I don’t have words to describe this EO Private blend, all I know that I love this EO Private blend so much I had to buy 2 more, the sweetness is so lovely.
I’ve never smelled musk this potent yet elegant and sensual. I want to smell like this all the time. It has a sweetness to it that entices and entangles the senses. Truly a work of art. Well Done.
Oh my word, now I know why this is the special jewel in your parfum crown. It transports you to your most special of times and firmly holds you right there, no confusion, no drama or hardship, simply in short sitting on a beach at night with your loved one’s looking at the stars of your achievements the joy that comes with it, then the breeze comes over. You guessed it private blend parfum. My fragrance friends the stars await.
I was very pleased wearing this perfume. This is a very special and exclusive perfume so that I’d like to wear it on a special occasion. The perfume takes time to change, and what a journey it is! In the beginning, it gave me a masculine profile with leather, tobacco, dried fruits, and fresh fruits such as plum. Then a beautiful rose started appearing, I could smell so many flowers… I think it is becoming more feminine after time. At some point, I found a similarity with legendary Chanel No.5, which I presented to my mom (neroli, ylang-ylang, peach, bergamot), but it was probably one of the reflections of the real nature of Private Blend. Later on, it has developed some woody accords (creamy Sandalwood, cedar) with flower touch (perhaps, Jasmine). In conclusion, it is a Great perfume! I am very glad that Mr Ensar made a decision of sharing this treasure with people. This is a real perfume craftmanship.
