Oud Royale

In 1982, Sultan Qaboos sealed a glass flask with his royal wax stamp. Inside it was Oud Royale.

His instruction was simple: distill the finest oud possible – whatever that required. Oud Royale was the result of that command.

In 2004, a sealed crystal flask arrived directly from the royal palace. With it came a second – filled with Ward Sultani, a rose oil known only to a few. What these bottles contained was of a different order. Decades later, nothing has come close.

We spent sixteen years searching for something comparable. Flasks were sourced, flown across continents, examined – and sent back.

Until the royal perfumers, contacted in search of Tibetan musk, mentioned one remaining bottle.

That bottle is here.

Oud Royale (1982) is the foundation of this perfume.

Oud of this caliber means more to its keeper than even kinam. It’s not something you sell. The fact that it’s here, in this bottle, available to you, will go down in history.

The concentration of oleoresin-rich agarwood is apparent from the first whiff. Compress the output of today’s finest distillers into a single drop, and it would not approach this depth.

EO1 was meant to be all oud and leather, drenched in ambergris – and I always wanted to create a private edition for myself. The Sultan’s collection provided everything it needed.

The ambergris binding this composition comes from the Sultan’s own reserves — aged, settled, and decades deep. The carrier itself is built on that same foundation. Sultan Qaboos’s ambergris is so precious that the tincture alone, with no perfume inside, would be worth this price. You see £2,500 perfumes where the most expensive ingredient is vetiver. This is not that world.

If all one seeks from perfume is projection or persistence, this is not for you. Oud Royale is made for those who understand what time does to oud, amber, and musk – and what it does not.

This Monument edition also contains Sultan Qaboos’ private stock of aged Ta’ifi rose and his own jasmine – both from the 1980s, both irreplaceable.

Ghalias were made for sultans. This is what one smells like.

Each bottle contains a piece of antique Mongolian musk from the Sultan’s private collection – raw, unprocessed, selected individually – worth more than most perfumes cost to produce. We’re not adding the piece as a gesture. It will, over time, transmute the already amber-saturated carrier into something that has no modern comparison.

NOTES: Oud Royale (1982) · SQ Ambergris · Aged Ta’ifi Rose (1980s) · Aged Jasmine (1980s) · Lavender · Civet · Tobacco · Vanilla · Oakmoss · Frankincense

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