SOTD

JohnH

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EO Oud Yunus.
I can remember when I was fed up with the oud world and listed this for sale, along with all of my other oils. Looking back I'm very glad it didn't sell, I think I would have been cutting off my nose to spite my face and I no longer let anything spoil my enjoyment of oud.
 

5MeO

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Oud Yunus was one of the first ouds I bought - well before I appreciated Hindi style ouds - I initially thought "wow, they should call this 'Oud Anus' instead!" A neophyte was I, however, not appreciating yet some of the finest things in the oud world.. Nowadays Oud Yunus is among my favorite in this category - it's like an archetypal Hindi oud - straightforward, intense on the barn, but revealing also a sweet buttery quality after a bit on the skin..
 

kesiro

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Keeping with the Hindi motif, (and yunus being one of the best I have), today it’s a revisit with Meitei old Manipur from Zak. What a spectacular aged Hindi. Smoked beef, pepper, spices, incense, deliciously integrated hints of animalic Hindi goodness.
 

Rasoul S

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EO Kyara Ltd 2.0
Not yet released. Very different source of raw material compared to first version. Iirc Vietnam meets Cambodian kyara shavings and Hainan skins.

Monster oil but a gentle giant. Very balanced and instead of smacking you on the head it instead gently grabs you by the collar and pulls you in.

Fav part is the very impressive evolution to drydown and the overall weight.

With some oils is just super clear the base material were nuts and the juicing perfect. This is one of them.

I encourage oud heads to secure 0.3 gram of this oil for it is unlike anything else.

Last comment: this is by far the most incensy oil I have come across. Kyara enju/ Kyara kokoh
 

kesiro

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Pilipinas 1. Echoing my discussion with Shabby, this oil just haunts you. There is a serenity to this oils effect on the wearer, but in an exhilerating sense. It is like a window to a higher level of awareness with its own stepladder to help you look through. It is a transcendantal experience. One of the finest oils I have ever experienced.
 

Rasoul S

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Pilipinas 1. Echoing my discussion with Shabby, this oil just haunts you. There is a serenity to this oils effect on the wearer, but in an exhilerating sense. It is like a window to a higher level of awareness with its own stepladder to help you look through. It is a transcendantal experience. One of the finest oils I have ever experienced.
Totally. Key words being serenity and transcendental. I wana add refined and elegant too. Amongst my top 3 most treasured oud from taha and easily top 5 of any and all Oud I have tried to date. His Royal malinau and kenmei right there while kanzen wanmei and kekasihku a mere foot apart.
 

Rasoul S

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Hmm...having seen the status of the 'Back to Basics' thread, as well as having one of my interlocutors in private message disappear, I know what my SOTD is:

Something fishy.

I'll try some Chugoku Senkoh to see if it will help...
CS was my mustache oil wear to bed. Such a tricky oil. Upon first wear it feels light and diluted. Weak and subdued. An oil that one thinks the scent will flee in an hour or two. Except it turns out is not light but lithe. Not subdued but rather restrained. And lasting ooomph? A whole day and even longer.
 

Nikhil S

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FO Sri Lankan Artisan. It actually aged. It is beautiful. I am not what grade or technique was used here but I do get a definite Oudiness at its base above which the unique dry, spicy, vaporous notes of Walla stand. It really makes me feel happy. Affordable, reliable and definitely meticulous. The ORSL has more incense, more gravity. I am not that much into green, blue Ouds or the strange Marokes. Yet to be able to appreciate them. But I like what distillers can do with small budgets. I need the definite Wood note. Velvet Kyen and Choco Bo Rai even though were really affordable and done from so called Organic wood by far exceed their value on aging. I mean the Kyen smells so great now. There’s a definite truth to aging. I feel Adam doesn’t believe in aging. But I surely do. And I think one Sri Lankan is enough for life hahaha. Cheers everybody.
 
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Oudamberlove

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Noon Swipe:
Over to Laos today with IO Sasong Sungsud
Mmmmmmmmmm nice tobacco, from what I’ve tried, only bested by the tobacco in Kinam Rouge.

There’s barn is SasongS, but it is not of the garbage type:D

I just wish our modern-day Oud Artisans had plenty of Laos wild wood to work with. Certainly they would churn out wonderful oils.......that’s the confidence I have in Laotian Agarwood.

Night Swipe:
AA L’essentiel Cambodgien
Yummmmmm

What a wonderful day full of auxiliary notes well executed.
 

Rasoul S

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Borneo diesel
Beast. Big vaporous top note but not at the expense of losing base. No. This oil in fact has a stupid long and big base. An incensy one too ala Kyara Ltd or port moresbey or kinamantan.

In fact speaking of kinamantan, borneo diesel is like a hypothetical blend of kinamantan, purple kinam, a serious maroke like port moresbey or Syed ascent and the shimmer quality of malinau. Not the scent but behavior.