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@Ensar how does one experiment with blends?! I assume you would just keep trying ingredients in different quantities until it hits the spot?! You must have to use tiny drop no?! As I would imagine a lot of expensive ingredients would go to waste in the failed experiments?!

Am I the only one who can't see the perfumes sections on the EO website, it seems to have disappeared from the tabs on the left. I have to type jungle kinam in the search box and then navigate to oud perfumes :S

You're welcome, but the one I gave you was raw, organic local honey from bees in Wolverhampton not Yemeni sidr :)

I have never been good as describing scents or writing but here's my two scents! What I loved about AK, was the incense I sniffed from the closed bottle, on application that incense disappeared but made a reappearance somewhere in the dry down. With the Ltd I get that smoke and incense right...

The green pheonix has landed. I feel that this oud was distilled especially for me. Just as I was getting into the greener notes and craving AK's smoke, this beauty comes along. I also get some beautiful sweetness in the top. This really is a great oud and definitely my favourite category...

SOTD is courtesy of my beloved brother @Abasfrag and it is the dark and magical elixir known as Oud Khidr. Along with IO's Semkhor, this is the only other hindi which I actually 'like' at this stage of my oud journey and I think thats partly due to the fact I get the dark smokey vibes of Aroha...

@Ensar , is Jing Shen Lu what you'd call a kyen oil? Is that even a category :S

Soon me thinks, ان شا ء الله, soon :P

When Adam first sent me a sample of Jing Shen Lu I told him that I appreciated its depth but I would need to spend some more time with it before making my mind up. A couple of months has passed since then and now I find myself coming back from work everyday, going straight to my oud box...

Jing Shen Lu - I think this oil surpasses quite a few wild oils I've smelled. The minty greeness is sublime.

Thanks for your response Taha, جزاك الله خير it is starting to make sense to me now and is getting interesting! What are the best examples of oils from different regions that best express the oleoresin scent of wood from that region? At the stage in the oud journey I am, I feel I can wear...

Am I correct in thinking that the scent of the actual Oleoresin differs from region to region however through variations in condensor type, water type, distillation type etc the oleoresin resin scent of a different region can be mimicked? How does a distiller decide which auxiliary notes he...

Hope you get well soon brother! How is your daughter?!

Oud Mostafa 5 today from what's left of my Sample vial :(. For someone who is still a bit scared of Hindis, there is something about his that makes me dig my nose into wrist again and a again!

From the perspective of an outsider and a newbie there seems to be a whole load of low blows/indirect digs and innuendos across threads/forums. For someone who just wanted to enjoy oud, the truth seems to getting murkier by the day and I can't help but feel the period calm before a storm - it's...

This is something I had been wondering about recently, has is ever gone horribly wrong? My assumption is that with the higher quality wood, distillation disasters would still yield a 'good/nice' smelling oil?

Wow, I had never thought of oud like that before, very interesting indeed and I completely agree.

Alhamdulillah, the oud scene has been a little quiet for me in the last couple of weeks, in and around 3-4 hours sleep a night, the only fecal aroma I have been sniffing is my 3 week old's nappies!

Beautiful! I was referring to the picture with A35, A35 and A59 (Oud Ahmed and Royale etc). Its looks as if there is a sample vial within the jar.

In the case of the last photo, are you using those little jars to house your sample vials? Or is there wood in those jars?!