SOTD

Honestly, no. Even though I have a sample and it should be oxidised, it smells quite similar to when I first smelled it - perhaps just a little less oomph and a bit more mellow, but that's it.

What has changed is my understanding of the Malay signature, which unfortunately I find very difficult to describe, but perhaps I could say bitter, zinging green cola. However with Sutera Ungu it has all this honey dripping over it, and it's less zesty. Perhaps this is due to its being from Terengganu...

EO Jing Shen Lu
Great stuff. Cant believe it isnt wild.

Sultan Abdus Selam. #ILOVETHISOIL. Just makes me happy. Nuff said.

Agreed!
Keeping a full bottle nearby is a wise idea, with an extra one in reserve in case spring happens again sometime in the future.
In fact, this is a good time to announce that here at Simla House, we’ve proclaimed Sultan Abdüs Selam as the Official Oud of Spring ~ 2018 .

I can get behind that.

Today....
Sultan Mujeeb (alias Kodo Master)

....an oil has to be darn good to have an alias

Thirded

FO Bio Ingravatesa.

This is a plantation raised Thai oil. If, as was done in this case, agarwood farmers decide that it's in their interest to let the wood and the infection mature sufficiently, we will no longer have to worry about access to lovely smelling oil.

BI is just such a happy, friendly oil. There’s nothing severe or spiritual about it-it’s just so pleasant! There’s fruit, but it’s more like those little nougats with the fruit candy chunks inside. Just below the fruit is a gentle rasp of smoke like a fire that’s just starting to catch from kindling shavings. The effect is cooling with the barest touch of menthol and humid riverside air. Nothing flat or bland about it. Just really happy, fresh and pleasing. How does it smell? It smells good.

EO Sultan Abdus Selam
My first time trying it. Lives up to the hype.

Revisited Tigerwood Royale
A nice resinous note greeted me

Coco Zen Feel Oud.

Very smokey damp and dark scent. Starts becoming drier as the scent develop, very deep and dark, and intensively woody. Not animalic or skanky at all. Smells like a damp log of wood. A very masculine woody scent. Deep in the drydown the scent has a lovely smokey woody quality, like a genuine wood is being burnt in the fire. At times on some wearings i get a intense smooth milky chocolate which is beautiful.

Performance is brilliant, last a very long time with good projection and sillage.

@Handsome Smells Welcome to the forum!
Yup, Adam make a fine oil indeed!

Thank you for the warm welcome. I'll be making a short intro to myself in the Just Starting sub forum shortly. Yes Brother Adam makes beautiful oils as well as sprays .

Swipes for tonight...
Ayu on the left,,,Dr. Hindi on the right

Royal Malinau. Beautiful, violet creamsicle sweet notes. Just a gorgeous regal oil that is truly for special occasions.

A study of the evolving Sinharaja X for the early morning, and a thrice swiped Oud Hud during the course of the afternoon. I love oud from the Sub Continent, and this one is very comforting and smooth.

AA Wanmei at morning ...

Stunning subtle vietnamese with woody base.

OR85 this evening from my treasured sample.
The only Ouds I truly crave are the antique ones. With each passing day, I am more enamored by them. OR85, Encens Royale (1985), Tigerwood 95 and OS90.
The deep deep deep jungle oudiness overtakes my soul.
Subhanallah.

Scent of the night and wow what a night. Get this.

First volcano’d a drop of @tyson black celestial sandal wood and allowed my cashmere sweater to bathe over all its nano molecule size vapours. Is like one literally flying and running into a cloud that you have to fly thru except that cloud is aromatic. And it’s scent: the perfect sandalwood.

Nuff said.

Swipe of kenmei on the wrist except a particularly thick swipe. excessive . Wow. What a Journey. I dig the green oil Kyara notes in this oil.

Nha Trang ltd on the upper lips. Jesus. Is like a vortex opening. One jumps in it without choice. Surrendered. And exits in a different planet. Scent of true old wood true heart wood. True king super king and beyond base material. That is the scent here. As much as a scent as it is, and i yell you it is, this oil is also all about its energetic beauties. The emotions it triggers once the concoction of molecules pass our bbb and lands in our amygdala. Rare oil to be used with great respect that every wear means a step closer to the end of an era. A scent profile to be lost forever and never to return. That is not what I feel but what I have first hand experienced in my intense 9 month study in Oud. trying to procure Vietnamese wood of all micro origins, all vendors to all grades to all sorts of suppliers... to get to the bottom of the scene of Vietnam wood. Very important for me because I find Vietnamese Oud oil and agarwood to be the apogee. The peak of the crescendo. The top note. The Pavarotti’s vains sticking out. That moment of majesty.

Wow. What a night it must have been.