Sultani 1975

Make no mistake, this is easily a $2,500+ oil. Anyone else would have sold it for more, and it would still have been a bargain because nothing distilled today compares.

While ‘oud’ is more popular than ever before, making high-grade artisanal ouds in our times gets more expensive by the day. That’s why several of my own wild ouds sold for more than Sultani 1975, and many alternatives on the current market are shadows in comparison to this beast of an oil – yet they’re more expensive…

This is your chance not just to own a part of history, but to swipe king super quality oud with decades more aging than any distiller today can wish for or realistically pull off – and swipe it freely!

Ever since we introduced Sultan Qaboos’ own ouds, numerous knock-offs started to proliferate on the market. Whenever a rarity like this oud is unearthed, you can bet you’ll quickly see a throng of bootleggers ready to scavenge and unleash a flood of forgeries trying to make up for lost time.

Now that the Sultan’s treasury is closed and nobody has access to his private collection, opportunists saw an opening…

We have first-hand accounts of how dealers in Oman and across the UAE are trying to create a marketplace for ‘Sultani’ ouds – despite the treasury being closed – by gathering empty crystal bottles and asking wholesalers to fill them up in order to sell generic oils distilled last year as the Sultan’s.

(The mukhallats are the most obvious – some are straight-up filled with mainstream perfumery compounds, while the “Ta’ifi” rose is subtly diluted with geraniol, phenylethyl alcohol, and citronellol.)

By hook or by crook, there’s simply no way to recreate the smell of Sultani 1975 even if you distilled the same caliber agarwood the same way today – you’d still have to make up the 30-40 years the oud was stowed away to age in the Sultan’s vault. 

Leave aside that the generation of trees this oud was distilled from is no more; let’s say you actually did find the same caliber vintage agarwood…

How much would that cost you? Logistics & production costs alone would exceed what you can buy Sultani 1975 for here today. And that half-a-decade the oil sat brewing in the dark – a Royal gift, literally.

The scent is Sultani. A signature chord in the ouds commissioned by Sultan Qaboos that were distilled for him personally – the wood flown in from various jungles and distilled in his own distillery in Oman. The ouds he chose to wear himself.

An opening note of dry low-temp incense; a crystalline, piercing kinamic edge in the first two seconds that distinctly tells you the quality of the agarwood this oil comes from.

A few minutes in and you smell the signature red, velvety Myitkyina sweetness drenched in purple kinam without the linear scent progression or the profile smelling ‘thin’ – the high-pitched, rich incense chord at the opening lasts all the way, while the waves of purple kinam heave and crash round it to give the oil a thick, layered profile: the Sultani profile.

The Sultan was into full-on, un-fractionated resinous wholesomeness. None of the anemic stuff we see being produced in our day.

The aroma is so rich you should wear two or three swipes on different spots simultaneously… you’ll pick up different notes in each swipe! Better yet, swipe those three swipes 10 minutes apart and, even though they share the same DNA, it’s like you’re wearing three different vintage Sultanis… That’s the kind of layeredness & complexity we’re talking about.

I thought long and hard about selling this oud at all. Not because I don’t want to share this irreplaceable distillation with you, but because of what I could have done with it instead… To get the most out of this masterpiece, my idea was to use it in a new perfume composition…

But I think it’s about time we recalibrate the market. Time for you to clear the cache and reset your benchmarks. More importantly, it’s time to sniff your nose numb on oud from another era; a scent so beautiful, so oud-dense and layered the ouds of our day hardly qualify as oud at all by comparison.

…and it’s not just that this is royal vintage oud distilled before many of us were even born. Based on its resemblance to the depth and pitch of oils like Oud Sultani & Oud Ahmad, Sultani 1975 must contain at least a fair bit of sinking-grade materials for it to capture such resinous depth and complexity. The pristine incense notes, the deep purple kinamic veneer, wafts of floral-infused ancient oud chips on low-temp shooting straight up your frontal lobe – the entire smell screams of stupendous quality agarwood.

Our fortune (and by extension, yours) is that we were honored to have direct access to the Sultan’s vault and managed to negotiate a fantastic deal on Sultani 1975 on everyone’s behalf.

That’s why you’re able to acquire a peerless bottle of vintage oud direct from the Sultan’s osmotheque today for less than what others are selling ‘artisanal’ medium-grade ouds distilled last month.

Featured Testimonials…

Its vintage vibe puts me in a good mood and applied on my beard I get whiffs of it the whole day…

I do not remember the region it comes from, but I can say it’s the best I have…

—Ruggero M / Italy

I love 75; it’s very smooth and I can tell its an aged oil.

—Ramiz A. / UK

Just wanted to give you an update. I received my package today and finally got a chance to try Sultani 1975.

My first impression is wow – to me there is a very strong kinamic buzz that immediately permeates my senses and goes straight to my brain. Extremely resinous, and if I smell it enough, even a hint of sweetness. It feels almost unreal that it can be this potent. About a half an hour in it mellows out a little into something still very kinamic, but still addicting to smell. The kinamic buzz wavers in and out but you still get a strong heavy base of oud. I will have to apply it a few more times to truly understand this mysterious oil!

—Masrour B. / USA

This is a gorgeous aged oud, with a purple brown Malaysian vibe to it. Ensar’s aged ouds have no parallel in the oud world that I have found. As with Tigerwood 1995, Cambodi 1976 and others there is a certain liqueur type quality that no amount of finessing a young oud can bring about. Rich, bottomless depth. For the price this is a must-have.

—Josh M. / USA