Mystical Lotus: Blue Brunei

Unless you were around during the early Oriscent days, you’ve probably never heard of one the most exquisite ouds ever distilled.

Not only is it one of the oldest Brunei ouds in the world, it’s superior to even the rarest Brunei ouds out there (as you may know, any quality high-grade Brunei oud is rare) because of the fact that the wood it was distilled from is graded as Brunei kinam…

That’s why I’ve stopped selling this oud more than a decade ago, and have kept it in my private collection without ever offering a single bottle. 

It’s so precious and so dear to me, I hardly ever uncap the bottle. Blue Brunei dates back to the golden years of Oriscent, and anybody who was fortunate enough to acquire a bottle back then till this day speaks of how there’s never been anything like it since. 

So, wouldn’t uncap it, never mind use it without very good reason.

Mystical Lotus is not only reason enough – it’s the perfect perfume to showcase Blue Brunei. 

This exclusive edition gives you the same super extravagant Mystical Lotus you read about below, and then adds a gram Blue Brunei per 50ml, which brings the total concentration of this perfume close to 60% to give you a decked-out bottle of pure blue indulgence.

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Blue lotus. Oh, how this name gets abused.

If you’re like me and you’ve tried dozens of different blue lotus extracts, you’d know they’re like oud. There’s the good, the bad, and the “they must have mislabeled this one” extracts.

This particular lily is one that’s always a mission to acquire. It’s why I only occasionally sell it neat (if you own it, you know what I mean) and reserve most of it to make Blue Kalbar, where it’s the core component, and which forms the foundation upon which this semi-bespoke edition was built.

Mystical Lotus, though……… there’s double the amount of blue lotus that’s in Blue Kalbar in here – on top of what’s in Blue Kalbar already!

The math doesn’t add up, I know. It shouldn’t because Mystical Lotus isn’t a perfume. It’s not an extrait de… anything. At ~60% concentration, I’m surprised the atomizer can even handle the spray!

Blue Kalbar was already a luxury perfume. 20+ natural ingredients bolstering the creamy blue lily’s narcotic effect. It’s a sensual fragrance with carnal appeal exactly because that’s what blue lotus in bed with frangipani does to a smell.

When you then add 6 grams more blue lotus in a 50 ml bottle, you already have a pricey tincture right there. But it’s only the beginning of the story.

How do you make Blue Kalbar bluer?

I don’t think you can. But what you can do is add another fat layer of blue, which this edition does in spades in the form of Blue Brunei.

Since Blue Kalbar forms the base of Mystical Lotus, you get all the orange blossom, Ambra ’92, civet, and Green Papua that was in the original by default. Man, I want to stop wiring and go take a spritz…

— It’s not that you get double the blue lotus on top of the existing dose, and that the whole perfume then goes deep diving in Brunei. It’s what comes next that’s nuts.

Add 2.5 grams of Taifi Sultani.

Then add 1 gram of Maroke SQ.

Then add 1 gram of Mélange Priveé SQ.

Then get them all high on SQ’s ancient ambergris.

There’s method to this madness. Maroke SQ and Mélange Priveé SQ are the perfect duo on their own and I can’t think of a superior combo to join with Blue Brunei’s pristine herbascious sultry cool if you want to capture the juicy facets of the melange against the deep incense profile of vintage Maroke (i.e. the smell of Oud Royale No 1).

And Taifi Sultani added to the rose already in BK is what makes all those ouds so diffusive – it’s why the finest old-school mukhallats are just that: rose and oud. All the while, the blue feels the sandy breeze, that oceanic, stony-pebble scent of excellent ambergris.

I’ve never even made something like this for myself. The compound alone is almost double the concentration of my own ‘Private Blend’. It’s so good it’s become my new private blend, the perfume I’ve personally been using. That’s the magic of these collabs – that these scents are born, given the chance to live, and that you can now own a bottle yourself.

The most exquisite flowers – blue lotus, rose, frangipani, and orange blossom drinking gallons of vintage sinking-grade ouds from a royal treasury that is now officially shut. Mystical Lotus is a heady, insanely dense, rich and extravagant to the point where cost was never a factor. The only thing that prevented Abhishek and me from doing more was that you’d end up with an attar too thick to spray.

Imagine that blue Brunei resin dripping from blue lotus petals. And the Ta’ifi roses and the vintage Maroke oud bubbling up from the bottom, and that vintage mélange………

⦿ On top of everything, your bottle contains pieces of kyara skins to give the fragrance an added kinamic edge. 

Mystical Lotus is not a casual spray. This scent dresses you in a totally different kind of style. It’s the kind of perfume that goes with a stylish blue croc leather suitcase and an elegant snakeskin jacket.…………

Extremely limited.

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