This is the scent that brought oud onto the world stage. With Chen Xiang Khmer as a scent reference, you'll appreciate where all the modern Cambodi, Thai and north Malaysian ouds come from. Age your bottle a little and you'll discover a pure bred
We didn't play around in those days. We distilled oud the way it had been distilled for centuries, only with a different kind of obsession and attention to detail – just a tad more OCD than the old timers had. We weren't out to re-invent the wheel. We just wanted to
Each batch in the project contained only wild-harvested agarwood. We didn't settle for just 'wild' either. We sourced a variety of aquilaria subspecies—not just malaccensis or microcarpas—to capture more of the complete Borneo scent spectrum
You wanted Oriscent back, so here you go! Kyara LTD, re-done from New Guinea gyrinops in 2010. This is the oil that triggered the entire Sultan Series and its unlimited takes on PNG gyrinops – and the only one out of the series that was distilled 100% Oriscent style
He wouldn't part with either of them, not for love or money. The Koh Kong one impressed me so much that my whole focus turned to capturing that same smell again and it's the scent that's become the benchmark for all the Cambodian ouds I've made since...
These were not oils that you sold to make money. Scents like these are impossible to attach a dollar figure to, because they are priceless. These were brand builders. Oils that not only made a company but spurred an entire market where there was none before
