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~A Coburn

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EO Borneo Zazen,

The piercing jasmine is toned down and rounded off with the muskiest Szechuan pepper note I’ve ever experienced, with that tingling buzz feeling all the while. Performs like the original with a single drop lasting all day excellent cool weather frag to compliment your accoutrements.

The color also makes me wonder if Rose absolute was used within, although I don’t pick up on a Rose note at all?
 
EO Kinam Rouge. One of my faves. Nuanced, well balanced and has a couple very unique notes. I love that little touch of black pepper in some of the higher end oils. I’m just reassessing some of my more recent purchases to see if I want to stock up a little more on any of them during what I expect will be upcoming Christmas/Boxing day promos.
 
I love this forum and have missed it. I was unaware that Gaharu.com had changed to Oudville. I am inspired by the experiences and sharing of others. In the last 21 months I have amassed a collection of over 100 oud oils as well as oud woods, attars, and other fragrances from Ensar. I am truly grateful and indebted to the artistic and creative vision of the team at Ensar Oud. The quality and uniqueness of everything I've tried is simply amazing.
Last Thursday I came home from work and had but a 10 hour turnaround between shifts before reporting back for a long 12 hour shift during which we launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station. Unfortunately the craft did not make it to its destination and is landing in New Mexico today. I tried to get a few hours of sleep before going back to work which is difficult during the afternoon. I put a nice swipe of the new Satori Fusho under my nose and was transported into a really relaxed & blissful state of awe and appreciation for what artists are able to create from trees. I am blessed to be able to experiment with and learn from these heaven sent fragrances.
Today I'm enjoying EO Oud Ertugrul while toasting some Pinoy Privee on the Subitism heater. Christmas is almost here in Florida on a grey and rainy contemplative day.
 
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Rasoul S

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On pure whim, EO Sultan Beyazit this evening. An all Papua New Guinea oil and a magnificent one at that. Passes the 10 second inhalation test with flying colors.
i wore it few days ago too martin. legendary oil of right in the top 10. las night i had quite the moment. was nursing my back spasm y heating wood and enjoying mon koh style and i reached for a bag of "new guniea signature" from ensar that i had bought years ago. 2 or more? it was a modest priced wood too. iirc $20 or under a gram. maybe less even. anyways, it too has pieces with variable profiles, but i didnt know hiding in that stash is a small but still decent enough size piece that when heated it has that exact almost replica of the sultan oils and none more so than that sour sweet blue green profile that is what beyazit is all about. i really have to thank brian (bhanny) for sharing this oil with me and allowing me to procure some back in the days...
 

Rasoul S

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@mikhalil Kinam rouge is a mighty fine oil. nice balance of sweet and bitter. a hypothetical best balance of cambodi red and Vietnam bitter and dry profile mixed together. a very complex oil vertically and horizontally speaking. only other oil that comes to mind that is even more complex in recent oils is mustafa 7 (karbi anglong oil). hainan 05 too if you can get passed that generous medicinal, musky, kinamic wall...
 

Rasoul S

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@timoudthy good to have you and good to be back, although i never left...

ertugrul is a beast... a refined beast with just enough spunk and maturity balance. like a warrior in his early thirties? somehow i am off the malinau train that i was on all my oud life for the moment. i will be back spring/summer time i am sure. and ertugrul for me has just enough of that defined malinau signature of orange vanilla creamiscle and bright sunshine vacation profile that i am thrown off and not allowed to study its other nuances fairly.

while trying to keep my mind off my extremely painful low back spasm, i am one wrist glued to nose with oud royale 2004. lovely oil that can be enjoyed as a mustache wear. gentle, softspoken and quite mature. in fact so much so that i wish it had more going on on the top note. is not totally void of it, but i wished for more. the profile is closest to green papua, just a bit darker, bit more green rather than spice. a bit more liqueur than wine. ... i am tempted to make an amalgam green oil as or04 as its base but a solo drop of the mighty dark roasted coffee like OR5 and to accentuate the age and antqiuity, a drop or two fo papuamantan. to add mind buzz, i may go crazy and do half a drop of papuya 02 (oriscent unreleased 4-5K tier oi, iirc...) or port moresbey an almost equally level oil. but i feel is till need something lighter green, younger and more piercing top note in the mix too.. do you have port papua that was released along papumantan maybe a year ago?

@Micheal Smith
what do you think micheal? you have port papua and tired or04. do you see it fitting my vision above?

anyone else has port papua or a whole bunch of green oils to share their opinion? we the vancouver oud guild micheal, @Simla House and I, LOVE our green oils. so coem to us for oud talk, esp when its green ;)

actually, everyone is encouraged and welcome to share what would be your version of the best amalgam "green" oil and help me make mine... hopefully we get enough input going to move this to its own seperate thread and from there it would be great to start similar topics: best amalgam barny oil, fruity oil, oceanic, bitter, etc etc. layering adn blends are fun. i didnt think much of it in past, when it tried american oud from ensar i was blown away by its complexity and engaging quality. high quality, integrated and unintegrated notes, keeps it super exciting. i also LOVE oud ahmad and tigerwood royale combo. dot of ahmad on and dabbed, then twr swiped over it.
 
while trying to keep my mind off my extremely painful low back spasm, i am one wrist glued to nose with oud royale 2004. lovely oil that can be enjoyed as a mustache wear. gentle, softspoken and quite mature. in fact so much so that i wish it had more going on on the top note. is not totally void of it, but i wished for more. the profile is closest to green papua, just a bit darker, bit more green rather than spice. a bit more liqueur than wine
I have long considered Green Papua one of my favorites, although I just picked up a gram of OR 04, and though I’ve only swiped it once so far, I’m tempted to say I favor it. Seems like some slightly more interesting things going on in the top note section whereas GP is more unilateral, and overall strikes me as a slightly higher quality oil. Almost considering buying up a little more, and offloading some of the back up GP I purchased. What do you think?
 
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Rasoul S

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I hear you. Or04 like sultan salahudin is a more regal green oil compared to GP which has more spice and sweetness. Different aesthetics. On a serious note if you do decide to part ways with you GP, let me k ow.
 
@mikhalil and @Rasoul S : putting Oud Royale 2004 against Green Papua, 2014: do you think hypothetically if Green Papua could catch up in age, it’d exhibit the same degree of depth from the maturation?
I’m 100% sure your answer to that question, with all your years of study and expertise, would be better than mine. But since you asked, my understanding from paying attention to knowledgeable people over the last couple years is that the top/opening notes are the first to go, and I feel the top notes are what puts OR04 on a different level than GP. After 45 minutes of a blissful “Royale” opening, a more traditional Papuan drydown emerges (and keeps giving for 8 hours or more), that to me is quite similar to GP, which has more of a consistent profile throughout use.
 
I hear you. Or04 like sultan salahudin is a more regal green oil compared to GP which has more spice and sweetness. Different aesthetics. On a serious note if you do decide to part ways with you GP, let me k ow.
I do think I’ll be willing to part ways with an unused bottle of my Green Papua. I also have a bottle of Kinamantan from the recent limited re-release that I have up on eBay. Just wasn’t my cup of tea. A sale would be fine but what I’d like even more is a trade with someone who has any Tigerwood 95, Sultani ‘90 or Encens/Oud Royale ‘85 that I can bolster my supplies with. Feel free to hit me up!
 

Rasoul S

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@mikhalil and @Rasoul S : putting Oud Royale 2004 against Green Papua, 2014: do you think hypothetically if Green Papua could catch up in age, it’d exhibit the same degree of depth from the maturation?
i dont know. i would like to think GP with enough age with develop that liqueur note but i dont know for sure. or04 is awesome. no doubt. regal, poised. deep. for my taste GP still sits a touch higher. hopefully my amalgam oil will marry the best of the qualities...
 

Rasoul S

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the mighty sultan salahudin came out to play today. almost every bit as awesome as its higher tier sultan brothers. and this is like gp and or04 had a child and the child grew up to become james bond. dashing, regal, poised and ah so perfect.

later in the day, i skipped dessert and instead went for two sweeeeet oils: yusuf (apricot nectar) and american oud (the multi faceted blend).
 
Yesterday; Hainan Ultima by IO, by far the best hainan and the best IO I have ever tried!

Agarwood Assam, Meitei;
I got a gentle fermentation notes in the opening, a little bit red/rusty orange; that's the kind of fermented note I can enjoy! (I can't say that I Love that kind of notes, but I can appreciate it.) Then, I find the color of the oil opaque. I got rusty, brown and black. I got this fermented notes that slowly turn to be what people call leathery, but it's very subtle.
I find the smell of the background very dusty, like the smell of a incense ash paste, and a little bit of resin.
The smell is very dense and dark, it's interesting for that, and it's probably a pretty good offering for that kind of oud.
But they are not my style anymore.
 
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We invited another couple over for NYE last night. Of course I had to bring out (some of) my collection. The only two everyone agreed upon (2 ladies, one man) were Borneo 3000 (this year’s release) and the OR04 I can’t stop touting. A couple more swipes in, and I’m convinced this is one of those special, once every year or two kinds of oils. Being a little deeper/darker, I was actually surprised both women approved of it, but I guess western noses are just drawn to the Papuans. They thought my other two faves, ER85 and TW95 were “very strong,” probably trying to say they didn’t like them in a nice way, but like with anything, some things are acquired. Probably the vast majority of people who don’t smoke cigars wouldn’t know the difference between a $5 and a $200 one. I didn’t even bother bringing out the real heavyweights like Oud Ahmad or Kinam Rouge. There’s no way the nuances of those oils would mean anything to first timers.
 

~A Coburn

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I was just asked about what oud to wear with a suit, and of course the heavyweights come to mind. Oud Ahmad and Kinam Rouge would be my go-to for any lux tux event, but my experience with Purple Sumatora today has just added another oil to the roster.

The regal opulence of the opening is dignified but the underlying chili pepper note adds a provocative edge and over an hour in the projection is just increasing and not until about the one hour mark did I taste of the refreshing cola note, in this case tinged with purple continually backed by an ultra lux silky resinous tone smoldering beneath.

Purple Sumatora is one of those ouds that exhibits the true meaning of Artisanal oud oil, excellent performance, scent development, and allure.