SOTD

Hi everyone. Pardon my absence and brevity tonight. I’ll be back with some back posts and reply backs to posts here and privately.
I do have a good excuse. i had our little boy for a week while mama was on a work trip, as u can imagine he kicked the crap out of me in the energy department. So i has no time to myself. Mama is back now for last few days yet I haven’t posted. Why again? This time cause I was blissing out night after night on these nectars: royal kinam 2.0. Kyara Ltd 2.0. Kannan Koh and oud sultani juxtaposed. Oud ahmad joined party and so did twr. It was a vintage long gone malay era party. And then it was the sultan series night. The NG Co distills: salahudin. Abdus selam. Suleyman. Beyazit. Abdul hamit. Holly molly. These are guaranteed to be future legends the way kannan koh and LTD. Oils are to us today! Another topic for another day.

I’ll be back to share some thoughts on these but I’ll leave you with one little nugget. Royal kinam 2.0 must be on everyone’s list. Truly. Ahead of other names. Not saying it is decided and Royal kinam is the winner of all time, no, not that. But it is the most likable and easier to grasp of top ensar/oriscent oils. First to go for from above list. Easily. I’ll share more when i go an a mi I kid fast. Probably in a 1-2 days.
Rasoul, you inspire me with every posting. I am blessed to have been able to afford a good variety of the ones you have mentioned. I have not developed your eloquence of descriptions but sure appreciate how you express the love you have for these most magnificent of fragrances. Fragrances that truly cross the line from the "pretty"concoctions of commercial perfumery to life changing ethers of bliss created by artists from God given raw materials. I am not a religious man per se but I commune daily with the universe when I am around these blessed oils. It's funny to me how I get this, and yet, sometimes when I share these with others, they don't. I guess, like they say "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." I express my gratitude daily.
 
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Rasoul S

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I am back! And here is what I have to say about royal kinam 2.0

first off this may sound contradictory as I previously said this oil is monotone like nha trang Ltd. while it is not as layered and doesn’t have quite the distinct and clear stages and scent progression of kyara Ltd 2.0, compared to nha trang it is not as monotone.

In sum, basically this oil starts with that oriscent signature that all oils regardless of their origin have. A “red” note. Then there is the medicinal stage. Bitter stage. Bitersweet stage and then just that insane awesome honey sinesis sweetness till the dogs come home. Easily lasts 8-10 hours on me and sometimes even more than 12.

This oil over others, only cause is basically a scent of bygone era, Wild sinesis is nonexistent. Also b/c of that progression vs mono quality, I t makes it an easier oil to recommend. Lastly, more people will get a chance to try kinam in their life but not many will get their hands on truly old stock truly ancient heartwood from nha trang or pusong etc. royal kinam is as close of an oil to the actual hainanese kinam itself as I have ever seen.
Fragrant Barbour Imperial has green kinam scents but not the vibrations of feel of kinam. Like a copy vs the original. Like being present at an epic concert vs hearing it on the radio... ditto many other oils that capture the kinam aroma (mostly) but not the energy and tactile quality. Many of agar aura top oils would fit here too: from VsK to ksk (basically all special K oils) to kenmei/wanmei... these are oil very good to awesome oils. They smell wicked. But they lack that oomph. That oudy oud marrow that is seen in 5k tier oils like royal kinam.
I hope all oud and fragrant lovers be able to try this oil one day. Open invite for swipes to those who visit us in vancouver.
 
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Alkhadra

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I can't remember the last time I've just been sat down at home. Ever since August it's been city to city, then out to the desert, then back to the city, then country to country, continent to continent. The moment I walk through the doors of my home, my family greets me as I go pack my bags to go off somewhere else... :confused:

My SOTD: Kilatan
It rained a bit today and it really brought out the sweeter notes. I'm really enjoying Oud this season. Not just one or two swipes. I'm drenched in the stuff.
 

~A Coburn

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I can't remember the last time I've just been sat down at home. Ever since August it's been city to city, then out to the desert, then back to the city, then country to country, continent to continent. The moment I walk through the doors of my home, my family greets me as I go pack my bags to go off somewhere else... :confused:
Haha, that sounds familiar. . .
 
This weekend I kept coming back to Satori Fusho. This oil is really fantastic. So layered, so many interesting things poking through here and there throughout the dry down. If this is the future of cultivated oils once the plantation trees have time to grow, the future is bright!

Also had Sultani 90 come up in my late night rotation this weekend. So amazing, And I love how these good quality aged oils are still with you the morning after.
 
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~A Coburn

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This weekend I kept coming back to Satori Fusho. This oil is really fantastic. So layered, so many interesting things poking through here and there throughout the dry down. If this is the future of cultivated oils once the plantation trees have time to grow, the future is bright!

Also had Sultani 90 come up in my late night rotation this weekend. So amazing, And I love how these good quality aged oils are still with you the morning after.
I'm going to go get a swipe of Satori Fusho right now!

I wish this was the direction all 'organic' oud oils were going. But crunch the numbers. . .

No big plantation out there is going to separate a particular quality of wood from the rest and set it aside for four years until there's enough to distill. They'll throw it in with the rest to boost yields and out will come the monotonous linear profile the world is coming to know as 'natural oud.'

That being said, we can hope and pray that there will always be eccentric individuals crazy enough to sponsor such projects as Satori Fusho and Oud Yaqoub and to make some available to experience.
 

Rasoul S

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Kinamantan! An old and one of the original full bottle buys. I loved this oil forever until the day some months ago I found it too diffiusive and strong. I am back to loving it.

it has a facet of the red baram wood with that hard to pinpoint yet very high pitched spice. Like an amalgam of multi baking spices. Cinnamon can be distinctly felt but there is more. Cardamom, nutmeg, clove and more. All wrapped with a thin sheet of a green minty cooling note. Not really mint nor camphor but somewhat related to them. It does remind me of port moresbey in its vaporous opening and long drydown. Many shades lighter in green though. Great oil and very similar to Central Kalimantan wood i procurers vial Kz with a dash or three of red baram added to the mix.
 

Rasoul S

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The other night I tried al hashimi adan. What a beast of an oil. Cooked in that royale/sultan style. Endlessly fat, rich and full. Brown butter notes still dominate. Herbs like winter savory and tarragon are there. Less of that sweet filipino note, more of the green/savory side. No harshness or sharp notes. For my taste I still prefer it to settle and get more subdued and nuanced, but from time to time is really a joy to celebrate all its youthful wualities and that baby fat on it. Yummmm

before that for yoga practice and meditation I wore the rainbow Hindi: agar aura nashila. Touch blue but mostly pink and purple. More of a high mountain naga vibe despite upper Assam source. Super delicate and nuanced. Low projection. Personal oil. Great on mustache area.
Juxtaposed was the mighty shah jahan. Contender in my top 3 fave Hindi oils. Sunshine and liquid gold in a bottle. Some suuuuuper delicate and subtle notes of hay but nothing else that points to its agalocha/Hindi origin. No barn. Clean as a whistle and plenty of mind buzz. Lasts long. Smelling nashila after this is hard. Not much registers.
 
Driving home tonight on Tropical Trail up Merritt Island along the Banana River (nearly full moon above) sunroof open 60° F (16 C) cool air rushing in through the moonroof. Returning home from a wine tasting down at the Green Turtle in Indian Harbour Beach.
Inhaling deeply Kalbar 3000. How blessed can one be? The scent is so divine in the cool night air. I am humbled in thankfulness that this kind of experience is possible. I cannot describe in detail the nuances of this fragrance other than to say it strikes such a chord in my awareness of how profoundly good something can smell. Two years ago right now I'd have never guessed something like this was out there. Though I wasn't, per se, looking for this, when I discovered it a new level of passion was kindled! I feel most fortunate that I was open to experiencing all that these scents have to offer to both physical senses and spiritual awareness. No man-made chemical perfume can approach the depth, richness and authenticity these enthralling distillations offer. Thanks to Ensar Oud for what they have made available. Inspiring works of art. Eternally grateful for how these marvelous fragrances enrich my life!
Sunday night we are launching a Solar Orbiter from Cape Canaveral, a joint project of NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) that will study the Sun up close( relatively speaking), taking high-resolution images of the Sun's poles for the first time, and seeking tounderstand the Sun-Earth connection, its magnetic fields and plasma physics. Learning about of our local star is critical as we depend more on space based satellite networks and begin again to venture out to the moon and Mars.
 
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Rasoul S

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Been a great past few days: kannan Koh. Sultani. Twr. Green papua. Sultan beyazit and salahudin. Royal guallam. Kyara Ltd 2.0 and nha trang ltd. Also Port moresbey a few days before that. But one oil has again come on top for me. Yet again royal kinam 2.0 is the one I strongly get pulled to and feel it’s magenrtic powers. When is on the oriscent signature of steel, iron, blood note wrapped around a bitter ethereal note yet around a medicinal profile and a static buzz. Not sharp and high pitches like Taha’s top tier but more rounded and toned down yet still very much outward. Think purple kinam. Hello... an oil with silage of miles...
 

Simla House

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Today's swipe turned out to be a duo for comparison.
Being a big fan of Chugoku Senkoh, I thought I'd dig it out and give it a whirl with the new Chugoku Jinko.

The sample of Chugoku Senkoh i’m testing today is from a freshly opened 1gr v-vial that was split from another 3g v vial and put into storage. I’ve been wearing the remnants of my original Chugoku .3 sample vial on and off since last week, and that one has become somewhat devoid of the base notes due to years of opening and closing, oxidizing, climactic abuse, travelling, refilling from a larger vial, and sharing with friends. The searing aqueous top notes are still gorgeous though.

From this fresh vial, the opening of CS presents that familiar aqueous note that I love. That clean, slightly cooling, stratospheric, aged citrus, tangy bit of high altitude sunshine. Subsequent evolving notes include leather, a psychedelic pasture of golden hay, followed by the emergence of some nutty Sinensis elements. I confess I don’t have a lot of reference for Chinese oils, I only have China Sayang. I’ve tried a few in passing, and like them quite a bit, just haven’t acquired them yet.

With a little blotting on the skin, tart, high-mountain red berries unfold along with my original observation years ago of a “violet” candy type sweetness. Still perceivable, and a welcome bit of nostalgia. Dry down brings forth more wet minerals, and passing breeze from a tobacco saddle that flew by a few minutes back. 2 hours later, and I'm imagining a cup of lapsang steeping nearby.

Switching over to a small swipe of Chugoku Jinko, it's an immediate denser, solid kick-drum drop in contrast to CS on the other arm. Sweeter, “hindi-like” (sans barn) ….the milky sweetness is making me remember something perhaps from one of the Muanas something or other similar that I've tried from Rasoul’s library. Hopefully he can add his two-cents in the coming days. Delightful. A tiny dustiness rising after the first 10 minutes, like the aftermath of rider that has recently gone by, and then teeter-tottering back and forth between sweet milk and a mellow CS “tanginess”. This is certainly from the Chugoku family, and is a pleasant cousin. Third micro-swipe: dense opening triple stamped, and a bit more saddle leather/ hay upfront before the sweeter note reveals itself. Pleasurable sweetness. Dry-down tips it’s hat to the Chugoku family shield as it rides off into the high mountain sunset. A very well priced oil, even more so at the current sale price. @Micheal Smith , I think you should try this. Guilt free swipes, as they say.

Get samples of your own, take the challenge, and post your thoughts, would love to hear them. I’d like to bring out the Chugoku Naya one of these days, and revisit that as well.
 
The other night I tried al hashimi adan. What a beast of an oil. Cooked in that royale/sultan style. Endlessly fat, rich and full. Brown butter notes still dominate. Herbs like winter savory and tarragon are there. Less of that sweet filipino note, more of the green/savory side. No harshness or sharp notes. For my taste I still prefer it to settle and get more subdued and nuanced, but from time to time is really a joy to celebrate all its youthful wualities and that baby fat on it. Yummmm

before that for yoga practice and meditation I wore the rainbow Hindi: agar aura nashila. Touch blue but mostly pink and purple. More of a high mountain naga vibe despite upper Assam source. Super delicate and nuanced. Low projection. Personal oil. Great on mustache area.
Juxtaposed was the mighty shah jahan. Contender in my top 3 fave Hindi oils. Sunshine and liquid gold in a bottle. Some suuuuuper delicate and subtle notes of hay but nothing else that points to its agalocha/Hindi origin. No barn. Clean as a whistle and plenty of mind buzz. Lasts long. Smelling nashila after this is hard. Not much registers.
Could say a bit more about the "royale/sultan style" cooking and what that necessarily entails and how it compares to other styles? Or perhaps link to another resource? :)
 

Rasoul S

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Today's swipe turned out to be a duo for comparison.
Being a big fan of Chugoku Senkoh, I thought I'd dig it out and give it a whirl with the new Chugoku Jinko.

The sample of Chugoku Senkoh i’m testing today is from a freshly opened 1gr v-vial that was split from another 3g v vial and put into storage. I’ve been wearing the remnants of my original Chugoku .3 sample vial on and off since last week, and that one has become somewhat devoid of the base notes due to years of opening and closing, oxidizing, climactic abuse, travelling, refilling from a larger vial, and sharing with friends. The searing aqueous top notes are still gorgeous though.

From this fresh vial, the opening of CS presents that familiar aqueous note that I love. That clean, slightly cooling, stratospheric, aged citrus, tangy bit of high altitude sunshine. Subsequent evolving notes include leather, a psychedelic pasture of golden hay, followed by the emergence of some nutty Sinensis elements. I confess I don’t have a lot of reference for Chinese oils, I only have China Sayang. I’ve tried a few in passing, and like them quite a bit, just haven’t acquired them yet.

With a little blotting on the skin, tart, high-mountain red berries unfold along with my original observation years ago of a “violet” candy type sweetness. Still perceivable, and a welcome bit of nostalgia. Dry down brings forth more wet minerals, and passing breeze from a tobacco saddle that flew by a few minutes back. 2 hours later, and I'm imagining a cup of lapsang steeping nearby.

Switching over to a small swipe of Chugoku Jinko, it's an immediate denser, solid kick-drum drop in contrast to CS on the other arm. Sweeter, “hindi-like” (sans barn) ….the milky sweetness is making me remember something perhaps from one of the Muanas something or other similar that I've tried from Rasoul’s library. Hopefully he can add his two-cents in the coming days. Delightful. A tiny dustiness rising after the first 10 minutes, like the aftermath of rider that has recently gone by, and then teeter-tottering back and forth between sweet milk and a mellow CS “tanginess”. This is certainly from the Chugoku family, and is a pleasant cousin. Third micro-swipe: dense opening triple stamped, and a bit more saddle leather/ hay upfront before the sweeter note reveals itself. Pleasurable sweetness. Dry-down tips it’s hat to the Chugoku family shield as it rides off into the high mountain sunset. A very well priced oil, even more so at the current sale price. @Micheal Smith , I think you should try this. Guilt free swipes, as they say.

Get samples of your own, take the challenge, and post your thoughts, would love to hear them. I’d like to bring out the Chugoku Naya one of these days, and revisit that as well.
I mean how can I follow that. I can’t. But here is an analytical mind juxtaposed that of an artist and someone who experiences oud with their heart and soul.

Chugoku jinko is indeed a sibling of the trio of chugoku senkoh, chugoku naya and assamugo senkoh.

in short: Impressed. Considering the price, then my answer changes to very impressed.

if you ever wondered what assamugo and chugoku senkoh were all about but couldn’t get the oil or wasn’t in your budget; then I say run and grab this! 80+% same dna at 1/3 or is it 1/4 of the price!!!! Not just in notes but the equalizer level of the treb, mid, base. Not saying is copy cat. No. CS has extra kick to the balls in the opening and two extra kick in the groin in the drydown. Yet we are in vicinity. Jinko is in close ballpark of all aforementioned trio.

closest to to my nose is assamugo then chugoku senkoh. by a margin of a hair. The most contrast is with naya which is sweeter, more floral, higher pitches and fatter yet. nay is The biggest of the 4 and the one that for my nose and liking is years away from its peak.

This jinko here though is totally 100% relaxed in its own skin and ready to go. Smooth. Subtle. Round. Polite. Just the perfect kiss of sweetness. Not enough to ever make u think of possibly Nagaland or Bhutan or manipur origin, but enough to be more approachable than senkoh.

Baaam