Thick spread of fig jam, plums and nectarines. And raw tupelo honey. A resinous amber undercurrent. The precious woods dry down makes you tingle. Copper distilled, almost two years ago. No chemical fertilizers. No pesticides. Just some chicken droppings and rain water. Cambodi addicts beware! There are moments it smells so fruity it reminds […]
Category Archives: The Oud Journey
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; […]
Take the most resinated organic agarwood money can buy, grind it up into dust, juice it up into oil, and what do you get? Japanese incense, in a bottle! Part 1: At the grinder: Incense grade organic Thai agarwood, ground up into dust. Part 2: As we come in to pour the incense grade dust […]
This time, we didn’t set out on our journey to the Far East to find wild agarwood. We came here to confirm reports that wild agarwood is on the brink of extinction, and from what we’ve seen we can no longer in good conscience get involved with extracting Oud oil from wild harvested agarwood trees. […]
We’re astonished at how much support we’ve received from our customers since our last email announcing Ensar’s going organic! We’ve arrived at our first stop, Cambodia, and will be visiting plantations across the countryside over the next few weeks, before heading out to meet with farmers and distillers throughout the Far East, from Laos to Thailand, […]
We’ve tried to report something of the drama that is unfolding in the Oud world as we speak. The Chinese wood-carving market is laying claim to all wild agarwood trees that remain standing in the jungles of the Far East. We can join them in the scramble for what remains, but what we’re seeing out […]
Over-exposure to inferior ‘Oud-based’ fragrances on offer all over, coupled with a lack of experience with the kind of aroma real connoisseurs go after, leaves many misinformed when it comes to what makes good Oud good Oud. Your first encounter with Oud might very well have been an enlightening moment, or even a completely insignificant one. […]
Oud collectors have been waiting since 2004 for us to launch a Cambodian Oud. They have complained to me in person and in public about my reluctance to launch a ‘Cambodi’ on Oriscent. This whole time, I have maintained that the so-called Cambodi oils that are marketed by the Khaliji Oud conglomerates tell the story […]