Vintage New Guinea

Imagine you could step through your front door into a fragrant cloud of Ertugrul Gazi sprinkled across your living room. A soul-stirring resinous aroma more austere than the spicier varieties of Indochina, earthier than any Malay. Olde oud that’s practically impossible to get hold of now…

Vintage oud pieces that go back right to the frontier when the Papua New Guinea jungles were opened for harvest.

The scent seriously makes time stand still. Once you zoom into the aroma, you’re instantly absorbed and the only thought that comes to mind is, ‘Where to find a smell like this today?’ Intoxicating.

Heating them at low temperature is ideal to experience the full aroma. The fragrance projects wonderfully at low temp, which gives you the chance to savor the scent of virgin Papua New Guinean gaharu from decades ago up close.

Few people will ever know what it took back then to access the jungle these pieces hail from. The danger, the betrayal, the politics, riverboats and legs all black from leeches. Stories straight out of Heart of Darkness.

That’s why veteran oud men hold onto wood like this. Why I’ve held on to these pieces for many years now. There’s the sentiment, yes – but more than anything, it’s the scent that throws you back all those years that really gets you. When it comes to true oud appreciation, just like Oud Mahmoud is a time portal through which you gaze upon a scentscape unlike any you’ve seen in new-age ouds, it’s olde aloes like these pieces that share precious access to forgotten smells.

This is your chance to own genuine pieces of oud history.

16.5 gr:

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29.6 gr: