EO 2 OG: Chiem Po Chai

Chiem Po Chai is an unreleased Oriscent oud which is, alonside the likes of Kamboche, the highest caliber Cambodi you could ever hope to smell. They were actually distilled alongside each other after a crazy rigamarole to hunt down the raw materials, prep them, and transport them by hand to our distillery in Taiwan.

The scent is so unique, even experienced Cambodian oud connoisseurs will be amazed at its profile. While Kamboche is bitter, medicinal, and kinamic, Chiem Po Chai gives you a super unsual, incense-heavy Cambodi with an undertone of the 60s-70s red ripe magic wafting all over.

And it’s how SIX grams of Chiem Po Chai’s incense red aroma dances with the musky signature of EO 2 that takes this edition off the charts.

To make things more itneresting, this composition is the original No 2 composition to showcase the force of this precious Cambodi.

The musk deer is coy, nocturnal, and lives in rough mountain terrain—high up there in the Afghan, Himalayan mountains. They’re so difficult to study that there was still confusion about the seven species well into the mid-2000s. Setting up cameras at twilight on steep, remote rock faces is no easy task, and takes more than a meager grant—and then to actually capture it all. Imagine the challenge to perfumery…

If you’re new to the world of musk, these differences may make as much sense as comparing Terengganu oud to Adam’s Peak walla does. But to anyone who has smelled Oud Sultani and Suriranka…………

Instead of following the mainstream commercial trail where musc means anything, you’re thrown off the beaten track with musk drinking black tea under a canopy of cedar.

Stunning rose and coriander waltz onto the floor with subtle wafts of rare grandiflorum on top in a primal, peppery scent of steaming bedroom sweat, spent.

From musk’s animalic bite to the husky heart bulging with civet and spice, EO2 entrances your nose like Paul Nicklen’s lens does the eye. From the colored slopes of Namaqualand to remote shrubs lining surfing coasts and riwoches galloping through breathtaking mountain routes.

No 1 was a humble addition to the mighty cuir tradition. EO 2, a tribute to the cornerstone of all things fragrant: musc. And this edition boats not just the finest Cambodi oud you could wish for, but also loads of it!