Siem Reap

If you ever wanted to know what “smokey-cool” smells like, get a whiff of this!

A soothing, cooling sensation darts through your head, while a fine shroud weaved out of crassna oud chips popping bubbles on the heater covers you.

The cooling aroma smells a touch tart with a bite akin to the sweet, slightly bitter taste of guava. The pleasant breeze of oud-smoke has nothing scorched about it. It’s not a crass, burning smell, but a delicate bottling of the sweet top notes you bliss out on when the first vapor starts to fly from top-notch Cambodian oud chips.

If traditional Cambodian ouds are red and fruity Thai ouds are yellow-orange on the scent spectrum, then Siem Reap is pure green. Unusual for a Cambodi…

Siem Reap was brewed in our custom-built distillery in the heart of Cambodia, set up just before the first lockdowns. Oils like Bliss du Boche are its predecessors, and the quality is every bit on point. The eccentric green crassna Cambodi aroma comes out from an elaborate co-distill of wild harvests from jungles across Cambodi, including Pursat, Koh Kong, and Pailin, that goes on for weeks in the custom setup designed to capture…… the unconventional.

The result? The guava green piercing incense profile is simple and straightforward and lets you feast on the recurring smokey-cool theme song on repeat for hours.

This is the oud that gives No 1: Siem Reap its fruity, half-sour piercing tone. If you own a bottle of No 1, I highly recommend a whiff of Siem Reap neat on your wrist to indulge in a game of olfactory hide-and-seek and experience the magic this Cambodi works in the composition. It’ll make you appreciate and enjoy No 1 like you never could have before. 

I’d normally recommend an oud like Oud Yusha or Oud Yaqoub as an oud to wear anywhere. A scent that’s accessible, easily enjoyable, a no-frill easy-to-like sweet profile, especially to anyone new to oud.

But Siem Reap easily steals the title. An everyday wear – plus the added soul only wild-harvested Cambodian oud artisanally distilled could impart. And at this price to boot……