SOTD

Thank you for that beautiful information Doc!

Sultan Suleyman (EO) - amazing co-distill of New Guinea and Malaysian wood - sublime!

To me, some smell like cucumbers, others like freshwater little fish, yet others like fresh mimosa flowers & frangipani. Some can be incensey, others dank & musty (low grade log distills). The absolute worst are the white wood juices that don't smell at all like Walla but like cheap crassna runs squeezed out of musty white wood.

The very best of them you want to keep in a museum, well out of the reach of the prying hands of Ouddicts.

Aroha Kyaku LTD today. A serous oud. Empowering.

Please tell us which ones are those Sidi. The quality from which you produced Sultan Salman? Sinharja X? Or is it something, you haven't shown the world yet?

Ha! Both Sultan Salman & Sinharaja X contained some hardcore resinous agarwood, and I'd never launch anything I wasn't 100% satisfied with. But the oils I'm referring to here are distillations so arduous and difficult to pull off it's like pulling teeth to get them done. And when the oil is finally collected, and that supreme test of patience finally overcome, and you smell that cool cucumber note, punctuated by mimosa and blue green transparent aquatic life such as you smell on a pristine beach off the coast of the Maldives, you experience such trepidation at the thought of jumping through all the thousand hoops all over again, you'd rather just hold onto the oil so you can untwist the blue cap of the Pyrex each night before bed, apply the meagrest of swipes on your wrists and neck, take a deep breath, and tell Kruger the next morning he needs to pack up and move to Sri Lanka..........

Today I wore the beautiful Archipelago. Something about this Oudh which is so lovely. The complexity, the debtness, and the sweet richness of something sweet/jungly will always keep this Oudh very near and dear to me.

I had a very fine day of oud.

Oud Ahmad to begin - the most wonderful masculine scent; refined, dignified, but with a raw red note which provides a ripple of strength.

Then Ceylon No. 1 - my most beloved oud, even more breathtaking than the first day I smelled it, a golden beauty that calls me home.

Before bed...I think Lankan incense calls: Sinharaja X

@Shabby That is an absolutely epic line up. I salute you!!

Thats the way to go!

Ahhhhh Yesssss,
nothing better than a Fine Oud Day.

It's like being lifted-up to the clouds

I got the duo of Harita (which continues to amaze) and Tokusen Tai for the fireworks celebration tonight.

But you already have the fireworks on. Everything else will be unequal.

Thank you denizens. Thanks to all your encouragement I think I'll embark on another Fine Oud Day.

To start: Purple Kinam's violet light show on my left hand, and Borneo 5000's narcotic siren song on my right.

@kesiro Harita is my most worn oud of recent times, the best thing about it for me is how it blooms on the skin, giving strong cooling wafts in the heat.

Big guns today. Maroke Kinam and Vietnam Special K.

Beautiful to read. I went for Kyara LTD v.2 in the evening to accompany a long walk. It is the supreme oud oil experience.

Oh man. K LTD!!! You are right. There may be a rare number of Ouds in that elite category, but none best it as the supreme experience. Awesome!!!

Today, on the 4th of July, I swiped some remaining FO Dr. Hindi, really enjoyed it's cherry tabac funkiness.

Also, to all Americans on the forum, I wish you all a happy ungrateful colonial traitor's day.

You threw our fine tea in the harbour and ever since have been unable to brew a decent cup. Tsk.

Come, in the name of sanity, return yourselves to the reign of her glorious majesty and her prime minister.

Tigerwood Royale
Easily climbing the ranks as one of my top favourites this year.
Every stage of it elevates my mood and state of mind.
If you're one of the few here that haven't tried it yet, jump happily off the fence into it's resinous wonderland.

That is actually what I have on right now. I am past the medicinal-musk-camphor-green and well into the dry down, which is reminiscent of the resinous depths of OR85. Love this one