Oud Royale: Philippines

Oud Royale is the union of a thousand miracles. The decades-long maturation of kyen morphing into seah… resinification as it gradually thickens from oil to oleoresin to hard, undistillable resin… the marriage between oleoresin in a branch, heartwood from the trunk and the famed ‘anthole’ wood from claw-shaped roots. Leyte’s soil and the angle at which the woodpeckers pecked… and yes, even the nibling of those Filipino ants.

Some Filipino batches smell like… nothing. Some of the blackest logs smell like firewood. Then you’ve got Leyte, and the Abuyog jungles especially, which grows agarwood from another planet. The bluest, most beautiful floral oud aroma I’ve encountered. 

Oud Royale denotes an oud that is of a different order. And rare Filipino’s crisp petrichor juicy oud oozing aroma deserves the title. This oceanic island cool lush with blueberries and a hint of vanilla that gives it a deep resinous sweetness that’s to die for.

If we wanted to reproduce Oud Royale 1 and set out today, Philippino materials are probably the only kind that lives up to the quality. Those virgin jungles that grew the only centennial giants that could compare to colossal Marokes that were transmuted into Sultan Qaboos’ Royale almost half a century ago.

But Leyte oud has peaked. Abuyog is dry. Tawi Tawi… when was the last time you heard that? So, I believe we now have a comprehensive grasp of Filipino oud and its rainbow of different smells. It’s from this vantage point that you can go after the best this archipelago has to offer.

While Pinoy LTD gives you the clinical kinamic rendition of the finest Filipino oud, Oud Royale: Philippines is our closing chapter more than ten years later and gives you a Filipino oud unlike you’ve smelled before. Lush, delicious even, with that dense resinous savory blueberry sweet oceanic blau that doesn’t exist except in the soil of Mindanao. And now, here – bottled.

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