about new releases

#41
Thank you Ensar for putting it out there. I, myself was getting confused trying to keep my notes straight :) Can you reveal anything to us about the Purple Dervish (Koh Kong & Pursat 2011)? It seems to have slipped under the Radar? From the origin points it seems that it's Cambodian stock with a Thai distillation?
 

Ensar Oud

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#42
Purple Dervish is the second batch of Cambodi Caramel, which unlike the first batch was actually distilled in Cambodia. I named it 'purple' as that is the color that oil evokes for me every time I smell it. Here's a review someone sent me recently:

'Sweet, airy, fruity, not very woody or smoky, resinous, less herbal, less white pepper, less cinnamon and less thick than Angkor, more vanilla, sweet dried berries, green raisins along with a little bit of a bleach smell.'
 

Ensar Oud

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#45
Edited 2/8/12:

We've received complaints from customers that the list is long and confusing. We are therefore limiting the list of available ouds to what is already listed on the website. Please visit www.oriscent.com for more info.

Thank you.
 
#47
I am very interested to know about those oils from Burma. it seems to me to be a place with very few oils that comes from there or at least that I have come across. Ensar, what little information can you tell us about those (3) oils from Burma?
 
#48
I am very interested to know about those oils from Burma. it seems to me to be a place with very few oils that comes from there or at least that I have come across. Ensar, what little information can you tell us about those (3) oils from Burma?
Curous about those as well, Burma is the birthplace of Kyara Koutan and Kyara LTD :)

Wouldn't mind finding out what Kyara Kalbar is like too!
 

Ensar Oud

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#49
Oud Ebrahim & Oud Zachariyya are the predecessors, and Oud Shuayb is the successor of Oud Mostafa. All part of the same family, yet each one displaying unique characteristics. Ebrahim is powdery and ethereal, and according to the distiller, "This is the finest oil I have ever made for you." Zachariyya, on the other hand, is the ultimate classic Hindi. All notes of olive leaf are now gone, and all that remains is the smoky, dark and decadent, overwhelmingly powerful heart of an ultra fine aged Hindi, which is exactly what I was aiming to accomplish by aging it this long.

Oud Shuayb is relatively young, however it displays unique characteristics of an almost Vietnamese profile. I'm very eager to see what this is going to age into.

Given the way they're coming along, I'd say Zachariyya will be first on the scene, then Ebrahim, then Shuayb.

Igor, I regret to tell you these are all proud members of the classic Hindi family, so none of these will be to your liking, I'm afraid.
 
#50
What's Kyara Kalbar like? And how similar the new Oud Royale will be to the original? Since they both are from Maroke and if the new one is hydrodistilled too, perhaps they are not too different from each other?
 

Ensar Oud

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#51
You have Kyara de Kalbar in Encens Khmer. If you detect a Borneoesque heart in that oil, it's definitely Kyara de Kalbar. All the powdery ethereal notes are from it. Whereas the fruity dark base is the Cambodi.

The old and new Oud Royale can be said to be the base and heart notes of the same oil; with the differences that are usually entailed in such an arrangement. The base notes being more resinous, deeper, fathomless, woodier, incense; the heart being more floral, vibrant, exuberant, with an almost minty green note I find ever soaring higher and higher.

And you guessed it, No 3 is steam distillation, hence the different pitch; it does not have the depth of the original, but it has a height the original lacks. Floral mint meets the darkest syrupy incense woods.

The vigor of this oil is clearly seen when and if you blend it with something. A drop is enough to have an alchemical effect and transmute an entire orchestration irretrievably; whereas add as much as you may (or can afford to!) of the Royale No 1 to a blend, and it'll sink deeper and deeper, only showing itself at the very last of the dry down.
 
#54
I had a chance to revisit Oud Yusha just now and I just remembered what the strawberry note reminds me of! Those little pink strawberry cookies that used to cost 5 cents per cookie and there were lemon flavor, plain and the strawberry, the strawberry have a buttery sweet flavor to them and the cookies were shaped like flowers. Anyone whose ever had any know what I'm talking about, weird but true, I all of a sudden am craving those cookies!

Ok enough f my rant!
 
#57
Ensar, many thanks for providing details of your upcoming oils. Just a few more questions regarding these oils if you may:

- You mention the Ibrahim to be ethereal and powdery. Does it display any 'Borneoesque' qualities like the Nuh? How similar or different is it to the Nuh?

- We know very little about the Meghalayan oils Isa and Yunus. Can you tell us a little more about these two?

- The Borneo 5000 sounds very interesting. Any further info on this? and, how does it compare with the Borneo 3000 and 4000?

Thanks
 
#60
If anybody likes oud sweet,resinous,balsamic and ambery ,go to OUD IDREES(Buthan2008).
I bought the second this week.To my "taste" ,it is the best one !