Take the finest sinking-grade oud wood imaginable, send it to India, and you'll make the Sultan real happy. You might just distill the most incredible oud oil in history in the process. But then, what do you do? After distilling Oud Royale, you'd have thought there was little to be wished for in the way of tweaks or improvements. Or... quite a bit!
For our second batch of sinking-grade raw materials, we really outdid ourselves. We took the sickest sinking-grade granules, and instead of steel, we put them in a copper pot. The jungle was not too far off from the first batch, so the scent spectrum was meant to be dead-on in that regard. And it was... only better. Much, much better.
'Oud Sultani', as we called it, is the best oil Ensar Oud has ever distilled. While Oud Royale was just about the most masculine and kingly oud one could ever produce, if we were commissioned to produce an oil of equal stature for a Queen, it would be none other than Oud Sultani.
Take the high-pitched, austere, incense-y notes that steel imparts on the finest raw materials, and instead imbue the oil with a delicate floral aura which can only be gotten from a copper pot.
There's good reason why traditional attars in India are exclusively done in copper pots, and why oud oils are exclusively cooked in steel. But this wasn't going to be your typical oud oil, after all. Just about the absolute best raw materials ever used in oud distillation went into the production of Oud Sultani.
You get to know oud. You know what to expect from a Borneo – the color, the viscosity, the light sweet notes – and you know what a traditional Hindi smells like. And what happens if you skip the soak. You know Papuans, with their green leafy coolness; Cambodians with their sweet fruity glaze. – Above it all, there's a category of oud oil to which none of these labels apply. It's the one extracted from sinking-grade oud wood. Compared to Borneos, Hindis, Cambodis – it just doesn't compare.
This is Perfume. The quintessential heart of that ecstasy that grips your chest when you inhale something of incredible beauty, where everything else is just an approximation or a metaphor. Compared to Oud Sultani, even an oil like Sheikh's Borneo only offers a pale metaphor as to what oud really is, or what it can be.
This is your chance to enter an olfactory time machine and go back in time to experience what real oud is supposed to smell like.
For our second batch of sinking-grade raw materials, we really outdid ourselves. We took the sickest sinking-grade granules, and instead of steel, we put them in a copper pot. The jungle was not too far off from the first batch, so the scent spectrum was meant to be dead-on in that regard. And it was... only better. Much, much better.
'Oud Sultani', as we called it, is the best oil Ensar Oud has ever distilled. While Oud Royale was just about the most masculine and kingly oud one could ever produce, if we were commissioned to produce an oil of equal stature for a Queen, it would be none other than Oud Sultani.
Take the high-pitched, austere, incense-y notes that steel imparts on the finest raw materials, and instead imbue the oil with a delicate floral aura which can only be gotten from a copper pot.
There's good reason why traditional attars in India are exclusively done in copper pots, and why oud oils are exclusively cooked in steel. But this wasn't going to be your typical oud oil, after all. Just about the absolute best raw materials ever used in oud distillation went into the production of Oud Sultani.
You get to know oud. You know what to expect from a Borneo – the color, the viscosity, the light sweet notes – and you know what a traditional Hindi smells like. And what happens if you skip the soak. You know Papuans, with their green leafy coolness; Cambodians with their sweet fruity glaze. – Above it all, there's a category of oud oil to which none of these labels apply. It's the one extracted from sinking-grade oud wood. Compared to Borneos, Hindis, Cambodis – it just doesn't compare.
This is Perfume. The quintessential heart of that ecstasy that grips your chest when you inhale something of incredible beauty, where everything else is just an approximation or a metaphor. Compared to Oud Sultani, even an oil like Sheikh's Borneo only offers a pale metaphor as to what oud really is, or what it can be.
This is your chance to enter an olfactory time machine and go back in time to experience what real oud is supposed to smell like.