If you're ready to sign up for more graduate studies in the scent of oud resin, not accessory notes, then here you've got the oleoresin on full display. At the risk of putting down a bottle of oud that sold for $1,000 more, quality-wise
You can Kodo the daylights out of an oud chip for hours on end, or you can fry it on a scorching coal and be done in a minute. But an untrained nose has trouble picking up the subtleties of low temp heating, while a trained nose hates to
Sultan Süleyman is a milestone in pure oud distillation and modern perfumery. When Ernest Beaux set out to create Chanel No 5 he looked beyond the norm of single profile scents. He wasn't out to capture the essence of rose or jasmine anymore
I've been enamored, seduced by— and in love—with this Naya. You crave it day in, day out, all night. The white champaka kisses, a rejuvenating summersault into its aquamarine Ahhhhh! Serene, tuberose sweet, suckled by
Suriranka Senkoh is not the kind of oud you can distill at first attempt even with the best batches of wood at your disposal. There's the temperature curves, the boiler angles, the condenser's crooked neck€¦ too many things you need to be intimately
Having been able to cross continents at a moment's fancy for most of my career, lockdown got me down hard. I can neither distill the oils I have been dreaming to distill, nor can I chase after rare harvests of the world's priciest aromatics.
With this ultra rare batch, we turned that Sumatran oudiness into a jaw-dropping fruitilicious magnificence unlike we've ever experienced ourselves in any oud—our Taiwanese distillations included. The scent is pristinely clean and for a Sumatran distill, supremely
A well crafted Sumatran oil hits just the right balance between earth, incense and woods. I love SS because it's clean cut and to the point. It's Sumatran oud to the bone, with a pine leaf crispness cloaked in an incense heartnote. One of the most surprizing notes you find is a sweet purple
Unnu Kasra is more limited than both its predecessors (only a handful of bottles are available) and is the superior oil of the three. That's why I've kept it stowed away all these years. If you wondered what all the praise for oils like
Everything you know about demand and supply tells you that the asking price for Maroke 2006 should take into account it's current replacement cost. We're talking about a caliber of wild agarwood that's on the verge of extinction, takes
