A full-on Tigerwood oud perfume – with an exclusive Tiger’s Eye stone cap to boot – this edition is the first and the last of its kind.
I can confidently say that because I haven’t come across another vintage tigerwood distillation in all my years tracking down vintage ouds. The only other person I know of who owns some is the queen of Abu Dhabi herself. And even if there was another Tigerwood perfume, will it contain King Super?
The leathery tenor, the mahogany sprinkled with mint with that deep – deep – resinous profile that’s as close to Oud Sultani (2001) as I can think of easily makes it among the most prized ouds on Earth. And it makes crafting a perfume rendition of it a Herculean challenge.
TOP
Black Tea
Black pepper
Clove
HEART
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BASE
Sumatora (Oud)
Tigerwood (Oud)
King Super (Oud)
Cacao
Coffee
Patchouli
Tobacco
Oakwood
Oakmoss
Peru Balsam
Kashmiri Musk
Bourbon Vanilla
Raw Agarwood Resin
Black Ambergris SQ
Clearly, this is a highly unorthodox scent structure.
A base-heavy blast that ain’t pretty, I’ll tell you that. There’s not even a single flower in here. It’s all resinous ooze, raw cacao lacquered in coffee rolled in tobacco, and oaked-up beyond what’s legit.
Usually, top and heart notes make the perfume. It’s the scent’s first impression, the notes you judge it by. Tigerwood goes straight for the kill, right down to the oud base. Coffee up front, with the top notes listed here just as a footnote. You hardly smell them distinctly – added as background decor showing off the beast in the cage.
The problem is… those top and heart notes project well. They may be fleeting, but they’re diffusive and are what gives lift to a fragrance. The only way to pull off a base-dominant perfume like this is if you’ve got the nitro boosters other perfumers aren’t privy to: loads and loads of raw agarwood resin, Kashmiri musk, and black ambergris.
You may think, “why black ambergris?”
I typically prefer and use white/grey ambergris because of its ‘cleaner’ stoney scent. But it’s exactly because of black amber’s growling potency, its formidable tenacity (have you smelled it raw?) that it’s the main carrier escorting Tigerwood Royale. It’s the same reason you’ve got raw oud resin in the carrier (who does that?) and the grittiest of all musks, Kashmiri, as the third musketeer.
And, man, are these rocks black. They’re so insanely old that they’re beyond what a trained eye could date. The only reason you even have them crushed into your bottle is because Sultan Qaboos and his predecessors never dared to do it themselves!
As I’ve said before, having Tigerwood oud in my collection is akin to being honored with an olfactory Nobel Prize.
There’s been so much demand for a new Tigerwood perfume, I wanted to shoot this new edition off the charts. To do that, we let the panther in.
In case you didn’t know, if you’d allow Tigerwood to mature for another decade or three, the resnation pattern will eventually turn from tiger to black panther – the resin will become denser and denser until the Tigerwood eventually turns into King Super sinkers.
To let your nose feast on the full transition, this edition contains six grams of King Super, added on top of the original concentration of Tigerwood.
If we went by the market prices for these, both Tigerwood and King Super ought to sell for far more than what we priced them at here. In fact, both these ouds could set the market prices because both of them cannot be distilled today – they are benchmark ouds.
Tigerwood comes in various grades and, if found, sells for up to $5,000 / kg, where quality tigerwood is especially sought after in the carving market (authentic bangles go for several thousand apiece).
So, go out tomorrow and buy the cheapest batch of tigerwood, juice up the most phenomenal yield, and… for the price of Tigerwood 1995 you won’t even be able to pay off the wood!
Now, take a vintage sinking-grade distillation that pre-dates Tigerwood 1995 by ten to fifteen years…
I officially discontinued selling any Tigerwood neat a long time ago already to be used to make perfumes like this. To then have a Tigerwood-King Super duo…… This is the only perfume of its kind.
In addition to these exceptional ouds, this bespoke edition also features Sumatora, a super fine Sumatran distillation that accompanies the Tiger King and douses them in its wild resinous aroma.
It’s only because these ouds were not distilled today and that we’re not charging what they’re actually worth and that they were [irresponsibly] dunked into “a perfect oud perfume” that this perfume even exists.
*This bespoke edition contains an enhanced concentration of Tigerwood oud, Sumatora, plus a full a 6 grams of King Super.
Reviews of previous edition…
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Dark smokey ambergris, Dark smokey Oud firewood
with a minty touch.
I’m glad I finally got my hands on this perfume as I had missed the first time around. And based on what I’ve tried from previous versions, I can see the DNA is pretty much the same just with some minor adjustments. Only wished there were 30ml bottles instead of only 10ml.
—Jesse G
/ Canada
King Super takes the original Tigerwood and refines it. The scent profile is identical: dark, soily, black-resinous forest with a touch of coffee, smoke, and light Peru balsam sweetness. But the rougher edges are sanded down and the quality of the new Oud brings a slight sparkle and a subtly camphoric lift to the brew. This is a rich, rich, RICH scent, lovely in its bewitching, uncompromisingly black way. Even at the higher price point, I’m still shocked that this hasn’t sold out.
—Nathan P
/ USA
Resinous – Vanillic – Slightly Citric – Incense Smoke – Crispy clean note – Long Lasting…
—Travis H
/ USA
The top notes of Black Tea, Black Pepper, and Clove ignite the composition with a spicy, smoky introduction. Imagine a smoldering campfire in a misty jungle, the air thick with the warmth of exotic spices and the subtle sharpness of tea leaves. The clove adds an earthy sweetness that hints at the richness to come.
As it involves, this is where Tigerwood King Super roars to life. The dual-oud foundation—Tigerwood 1995 and King Super—is a masterpiece in itself. It’s smoky, woody, and earthy with a feral edge that commands attention. The addition of Cacao and Coffee introduces a bitter, roasted depth, blending seamlessly with the Tobacco, Patchouli, and Oakmoss for a smoky, herbal richness.
The Kashmiri Musk adds a soft, animalic sweetness, while Bourbon Vanilla and Peru Balsam round out the composition with a creamy, balsamic warmth. The Raw
Agarwood Resin and Black Ambergris provide an enigmatic, mineral-like quality, as if the scent is pulling you into a shadowy cave lined with ancient treasures.
UPDATE:
Tigerwood King Super takes the intensity of the original and pushes it further into darker, richer territory.
The scent remains anchored by its powerful oud base, but what truly distinguishes this version are the deep, dark purple notes that swirl throughout the composition.
These purple waves add a mysterious, almost brooding layer to the fragrance, creating a dense and enigmatic aura.
There’s a sense of shadowy depth here, where the original’s warmth is now enveloped in a darker, more intense experience.
The coffee note still resonates, but it’s now surrounded by this King Super that gives the fragrance an otherworldly edge.
Tigerwood King Super is a bold, uncompromising scent for those who appreciate a fragrance with serious presence. It’s not for the faint of heart, but for those who crave something dark, rich, and unforgettable.
And don’t forget about the coffee note which we all love from the Tigerwood OG.
—Thomas W
/ Germany
The Cold and dark time of the year has finally arrived and I wasn’t sure what to wear today. Since I’ve been constantly using my chypre sultan for the last few weeks I’ve decided to make a 30 days/30perfumes month to get some variety
Gonna kick it off with the legendary Tigerwood Perfume.
Cocoa and coffee meets one of my favorite oils ever, Tigerwood Royale.
Complimented with black ambergris and a few other aromatics it turns into one of the most masculine, dark and oudy scents that I’ve tried from EO.
There are no burnt/smoky notes like in EO black/changho/Moshpit Pavarotti, it’s heavy but still balanced.
The Tigerwood oil itself is the main player in this perfume and all the other ingredients have been built around that heavy oud base without taking over. If you can get a sample or a full bottle I would highly suggest to give it a go
Projection and longevity is excellent, the leather work is incredible on the case.
UPDATE:
Pure darkness floating in a bottle covered by a beautiful leather case.
Dense wafts of Tigerwood Royale, a splash of coffe musk oakmoss and a thick base of black ambergris covering you in one of the greatest oud perfume smells that I know.
Now that it gets colder over here it’s time to get the dark and super intense ballers out of the vault and indulge them.
Few sprays of this perfume, a little swipe of the oil smeared into the beard, burning some decent incense and you’re in oud heaven
I hope that we can get some perfumes like the Tigerwood again in the future, in my opinion it’s a perfect oud perfume. Dark, masculine, extremely powerful and quite exceptional.
—Chris A
/ Germany
The first perfume I purchased from EO, and it is the most loved one in my entire collection, also my journey with EO start from Parfum forward.
The review about this is everywhere on this page – cold, dark, bold, strong, masculine, heavy, cacao, tobacco everything top-up on Tigerwood Royale => it is true, you can read all about it online but here is my story
1 spray of Tigerwood to me is like quick jab to front face with the bold of pepper spice and clove, right away come the left hook with strong coffee cacao on top of a finish right uppercut to the jaw of Tigerwood Royale + oakmoss and tobacco.
I thought Michael Tyson is done but without mercy, deliver a killing blow – a straight right to the face with dark deep spicy powerful Kashmiri Musk carry sweet resin in it.
This is why I love Tigerwood so much, it is very potent scent yet carry a lot of Oud in it but not boring at all due to cacao coffee but not sweet gourmand direction, but rather raw resinous roasted direction AND the thing make it unique stand out is bitter stinky of Kashmiri Musk.
—Jack N
/ USA
Possibly my favorite oud spray in my collection, Tigerwood was my first Ensar Oud spray that I felt was perfectly my style, a fragrance that its liquid, leather case and composition scream absolute darkness, there are no pretty notes, there are no top notes, simply an amalgamation of resins with an absurd amount of oud, the oud used here I would describe as crude gasoline, raw leather, smoke/incense (not zen like) and resinous peppery, coming from one side more commercial, the oud(malayan region) used here is for me what should be the industry standard, popular opinion wants us to think that all ouds are stinky, animalistic and unusable but once again it is simply the distortion that large companies use to hide the true to average consumer.
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Notes: Black Tea, Black pepper, Clove,Tigerwood Royale oud, Cacao, Coffee, Patchouli, Tobacco, Oakwood, Oakmoss, Peru Balsam, Kashmiri Musk, Bourbon Vanilla, Raw Agarwood Resin, Black Ambergris SQ
—Paulo C
/ USA
Good evening OUDDICTS and FRAGNATICS, not sure how many of you are college baseball fans, but I can tell you that in Louisiana, we bleed PURPLE & GOLD and love our LSU TIGERS. Well my beloved LSU TIGERS won their 7th College World Series of Baseball. So to celebrate, I doused myself in the a few of our purple and gold EO’s. That deep oudiness of the TIGERWOOD that makes you feel like you are walking on the velvety, moss covered jungle trails where the TIGERS are roaming. That TIGERLUST then gives me that animalic blast of civet mixed with a touch of ambergris that anchored a bit of smokiness from the tobacco, reminding a smoldering camp fire. Then that lighttening in a bottle, the PURPLE KINAM—enought said!!
—Jason M
/ USA
Got this beauty. Absolutely love it, if darkness had a smell , this would be it. Perfect Halloween scent…
Stop caring so much and wear what you love when ever you feel like it.
2 sprays of Tigerwood.
My favorite Dark scent in my collection.
The abyss itself.
—Sherling S
/ Dominican Republic
As I’ve always been a big fan of the tigerwood oils I’m really happy that I can share my thoughts on this release with you guys.
I remember a few months ago when my fellow oud head Marvin told me about the Tigerwood Royale and how good it is.
I’ve decided to get a bottle and once I took the applicator out I fell in love with this oil.
The powerful, dark, resinous and almost petrol like notes blew my mind and I was like, this one as a perfume would be the holy grail of oud perfumery.
Now I’m sitting here in front of this bottle of pitch black juice covered with a beautiful handmade leather case and having my thoughts about how to describe this masterpiece.
And just to let you know, I’ve never struggled that big to describe a fragrance before.
The Tigerwood perfume starts with a very powerful opening. You get a big blast of Tigerwood Royale mixed with roasted coffe, peppery notes, tobacco and cacao.
Don’t get me wrong it’s not gourmand it’s super dark and the cacao/coffee/tobacco combination works perfectly together with the tigerwood.
After a few minutes the Oakwood gets noticeable together with the ambergris and all the other ingredients, I’d say they’re more in the background to boost things up.
The main player in this composition is like the name says the Tigerwood.
You can also clearly notice that there’s Kashmir musk in it but it’s so perfectly blended into this scent that it won’t disturb the power of the TW Royale or take over.
After a while the tigerwood smell is still very dominant but the cacao/coffee and the peppery notes are softening down and you can get some very decent sweet accords.
Tbh the crazy thing about this perfume is that it’s like the tigerwood is the basic structure of a building and all the other ingredients are the facade which gets build up slowly and makes it better and better.
I really don’t know how this is possible but this perfume works completely different compared to other creations.
Usually you get top, heart and base notes which make the experience of a fragrance more structured. You can notice when a top note starts, where it ends and when the heart note begins. In this case it’s completely different because it seems that there is not really an end to the different notes they just get more softer and mix them selves with the other notes but they’re not gone completely like it’s the case in other fragrances.
You can smell them all the time and like I’ve mentioned before they’re all working as a background enhancement for the tigerwood.
Even after a few hours you still can get some hints of all the good things which have been blended into this perfume.
What I like the most of this fragrance is that the mainplayer aka Tigerwood Royale stays super strong over the whole time and that this scent lasts for a long time.
My final statement for this perfume would be: If you love dark, resinous scents and if you have been a fan of the tigerwood oils, this perfume is everything that you’ve always been looking for.
All in all this perfume is a 9.5 out of 10 for me. Maybe you wonder why it’s not a full 10 out of 10? Simply because you should always leave some room for improvement and since me and my fellow oud head Marvin have got a special edition of this fragrance with a full gram of Filipino exclusive oud in the bottle, I’m sure that this perfume is going to evolve and improve over the time
—Chris A
/ Germany
Months of anticipating a parfum built around the Tigerwood Royale Oud has come to an end. Having worn this a fair amount since receiving it, it’s easy to see why it took Ensar so long to get it right and why the wait was worth it. I present to you my written review of Tigerwood Parfum.
Within the first second of wearing this you come to understand why this is simply called “Tigerwood Parfum”. To describe the smell of Tigerwood Oud, I like to think of a metaphorical entrance gate of a Mosque—one with red mahogany doors. Rather than being etched in, deep pockets of cola coloured Resin imbued are into the wood to create geometrical patterns. As you walk through the overarching doors, you feel the dormant heat made up of years of incense burning emanate from the wood. Not smokey or spicy, but simply heat.
Whenever you walk into an empty Mosque, you often make observations which do not arise when it is bustling with people. These observations very much remind me of this fragrance.
Tigerwood Parfum feels uber opulent yet very approachable, in the same way in which a Mosque may be adorned like a palace but open to all. There is some sense of ruggedness in the way that it projects, yet the composition is extremely smooth—reminds me of how the carpet fibres retain some spring despite being smoothed out through years of use. There is a gourmand feel, but this fragrance isn’t a gourmand. There is a fruitiness which provides a thin layer of sweetness, such as dates (if you’re lucky, you might find a leftover date seed smudged into the carpet during Ramadan). Just a hint of coffee, which more so amps up the woody feel rather than make the fragrance feel caffeinated. The black ambergris in this gives it an aqueous feel that is akin to the slight alkaline taste of Zam Zam water. Either black or white pepper, but some type of pepper note is present which reminds me of the smell of some the older Rihals kept at a Mosque. My favourite aspect of this fragrance though is the way in which the Oakmoss interacts with all of this. It evokes an unmistakably nostalgic feel—the scent that comes from the pages of an antiquated Quran. I’m talking about those reddish-brown Qurans where the golden design of the cover is starting to fade, the binding is delicate, and the once coarse paper has now become smooth ivory. This aged papery feel make this fragrance so unique, yet so comforting for me.
Going back to how I would describe the Tigerwood Royale oud, all of what I say about this parfum can be said about the oud itself. It makes sense given that 15% of this composition is just pure Tigerwood Royale. Tigerwood Parfum takes all of the minor facets of the oil and amplifies it. It’s not that the doors of this metaphorical Mosque are Tigerwood, the pillars, minarets, mimbar, and dome are also Tigerwood. The burgundy indigo tinge is right there, so it’s cool that the leather case reflects that. The fragrance lasts from Fajr to Asr or Maghrib (timezone dependent) on my skin, can survive a wudhu, and projects enough for the person standing direct in the saf behind/ahead of you can smell it. Overall, I’m extremely pleased to have this in my collection!
—Sohail D
/ New Zealand
This is some incredible mind-blowing stuff
Tigerwood smells like something very old and musky type of scent which I like but I can’t figure out anything else apart from old musky notes… Love… [it] …for sure!
—Leonardo S
/ USA
Tigerwood: King Super is delightful! I’m wearing it now. The thought comes to mind that these wonderful aromatics/fragrances, are indeed an expression of God’s Love. It’s magnificent and humbling. It’s a blessing to be able to experience and enjoy such treasures/gifts! Peace and Love.
—Corrion B
/ USA
