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Ensar Oud

Ensar Oud

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It's live now! ~ http://ensaroud.com/en/product/aku-akira/172

I have no Laos Oud on hand at the moment, and I doubt any wild harvested materials remain for us to work with. After speaking to Chris Hoeth, the king of the Laotian jungles, the prospect is glummer than I myself would have liked to believe. If you thought we were exaggerating when we spoke about the End of Oud, you should give Chris a call and see how you feel after hanging up the phone. :(

On the brighter side of things, there IS hope for organically cultivated Laotian oud, and this is indeed something worth looking into. I'll keep this in mind the next time I'm in that neck of the woods! ;)
 
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Thomas S.

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Oh yes! Laotian oils - I am all for it!
Please let me know when there is something coming up.

It is interesting to see that several Cultivated Ouds sold out so fast, while one of your first Cultivated releases, Assam Organic, is still available.
After all, if I remember correctly, the initial amount / yield of that oil was less than, say, that of Yusuf (the yield of Yusuf was roughly ten times as much!).
Other cultivated oils such as Oud al Kaabah or Oud Mostafa Nr.4 sold out in a few months.

My own Assam Organic is maturing nicely. The initial barnyard is more and more receding, and the more sweet notes of cedar and other woods are developing slowly.
I am looking forward to the aging process, and I predict that Assam Organic will become something very special. It has the potential to turn into one of the greatest Hindis.
 
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bigbloke

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Another vote for a Laotian oil! I emailed Chris enquiring about Laotian oils and the reply was negative; what he has is already sold/bought and of increasingly low quality :(
 
Ensar Oud

Ensar Oud

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You're right about the Assam Organic, @Thomas S. Oud Yusuf was a much larger batch to begin with, and that sold out a while back, while the Assam Organic has been here since 2010 (albeit this particular batch hit the site around 2012, if I'm not mistaken). The thing working against the AO is its traditional Hindi character, which is a hurdle for most Western oud wearers, be they novices or experienced ouddicts.

To me, the scent of a fine traditional Assam has always been the apex of what agarwood oil has to offer, part of the reason being that this is the end product of a craft dating back millenia – an artisanal aromatic crafted as it used to be thousands of years ago, with firewood-heated stills, collected by hand, processed in exactly the same way as the Oud Hindi of times gone by.

Imagine if you could get a perfume from 1,000 years ago, intact, exactly as it used to smell back then.... Well, traditional Indian Oud is exactly that. It's not exactly Calvin Klein, but then again neither are natural ambergris, raw musk, castoreum or civet. Each of these timeless aromatics has a raw character untampered by modernity or technology, and this is exactly what we seek them out for.

To take Indian Oud and strip it of its raw primordial power by 'tweaking' the distillation technique is like taking a warrior from a thousand years ago, stripping him of his handcrafted leather-and-iron armor and putting Ralph Lauren clothes on him.... It's missing the point, to say the least.

From another angle, if Indian Oud is not fermented, then its simply not Indian Oud. Think wine and grape juice. Without the fermentation, you don't get wine, or vinegar, or pickles. You get grape juice and cucumbers. Indian Oud is a fermented aromatic. The olfactory and chemical properties are different between fermented and unfermented Indian agarwood oil.

It is my personal conviction that the psychoactive & anxiolytic properties of Oud al Hindi are lost without the fermentation.

PS: If you're wondering about Indian Oud being used as medicine, you can refer to the hadith of the prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم‎) who advised a woman whose daughter was suffering from pleurisy to "Use Indian aloes, for it contains the cure for seven diseases." The hadith does not list the other diseases, however the Shaykhs of our path have long used it as an antidepressant and anxiolytic for people with flight anxiety, mood disorders, etc.
 
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Gaianmind

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The first time I wore a Hindi Oud I was overwhelmed by the funk wafting up from my wrist, and since have stayed away from them. But there is this fascination I have with my bottle of Oud Mostafa #4. I find myself drawn to deeply sniffing the top of the unopened bottle almost every night, then I rub the top of the plastic applicator on my mustache, and I get that funky smell that I'm really growing to love!
 
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abdullah

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Yesterday i received Aroha Kyako and Satore Kensho.
Aroha i never felt that smell in my life,waves of cinamom and sweet spices. Wonderful.
But the Satore i found in its drydown nothing less than KYARA LTD 2005. Great smell.
 
Ensar Oud

Ensar Oud

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Gaianmind said:
I find myself drawn to deeply sniffing the top of the unopened bottle almost every night, then I rub the top of the plastic applicator on my mustache, and I get that funky smell that I'm really growing to love!
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Yep, that sounds like classic Funk Initiation to me! It started like that for me back in 2004 with a process that resembles what you describe to the T! I'd get up in the middle of the night, unscrew the top of my 'Pure Indian Oud' bottle, take a whiff, apply a needlehead's worth, go back to bed.... two-three times a night! It didn't help that the Sheikh was particularly fond of Oud, either.

So when he heard of my barnyard reveries he decided enough was enough. He booked me a plane ticket and said, 'You better spend your honeymoon in Indonesia. Get me the best Oud money can buy. Here's your plane ticket and the ticket for your wife. You have a stopover in Dubai. When you get back, we'll see if you're steam-distilled or hydro-cooked!'
 
Alirican2

Alirican2

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So today I got the Kong Hak all the way in Pakistan. Yeah! DHL rocks! So let's describe the smell at first application it smells like a normal Cambodian fruity smell like that of Yusuf, and Oud al Kabbah of course with the exception of the different techniques put into it. For example, to me the Kabbah has a hindi/cambodian flavor but still is sweet lasting throughout its usage. Kong Hak has the same Cambodian sweetness on first application BUT after about 30 mins the woody tones of an original cambodian oudh of the great past starts to come forth in the background with the sweetness dominating. So we start to see sweet and a bit of wood come about (very light). It's still too early to describe it further so i'll end it here as I just applied it about 30 mins ago.
 
Rasoul S

Rasoul S

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kooolaid79 said:
What ever happened to this thread and it’s members. Just went over a few pages and gained more knowledge as usual. We got to find these old members. They did a lot of contribution to this forum, the likes of this thread.
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Amen. Would be awesome if more esteemed members can reach out
 
kesiro

kesiro

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I am happy to contribute. Not a new release but a new oil to try. Maluku from Taha. This hydrodistilled masterpiece is just beyond my expectations. For those that have tried Royal Malinau and the Pilipinas 1, this marries the best of each into a singular oil of staggering beauty. The quality of this wood must have been insane. It is more juicy smelling then the P1 which is a little bit more austere (in a good way). And it is a bit more incensy than the incredibly luscious Royal Malinau. Now, supposedly, the scent is supposed to intensify in the next few months. If that happens, I assume this oil will be illegal. :p You just cant get more addictive then this trio.

Saint, can you hear me brother??? Rasoul, you as well?
 
saint458

saint458

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kesiro said:
I am happy to contribute. Not a new release but a new oil to try. Maluku from Taha. This hydrodistilled masterpiece is just beyond my expectations. For those that have tried Royal Malinau and the Pilipinas 1, this marries the best of each into a singular oil of staggering beauty. The quality of this wood must have been insane. It is more juicy smelling then the P1 which is a little bit more austere (in a good way). And it is a bit more incensy than the incredibly luscious Royal Malinau. Now, supposedly, the scent is supposed to intensify in the next few months. If that happens, I assume this oil will be illegal. :p You just cant get more addictive then this trio.

Saint, can you hear me brother??? Rasoul, you as well?
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Loud & clear ...
 
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