Alshareef Ridhwan
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Tiny sample v-vials ... easy to carry dozens in small pouches or Ensar oud or little plastic boxes. Even I do the same when I go out from my house for a few days ... I usually don't carry any single bottle but lots of v-vials which contained lots of tiny 'swipes'.
Typical 'Oud-al-Hind' or 'Hind-Mouttaq' or something ... I bought some bottles before I start getting into 'natural'-'wild'-'artisanal' ouds. Very strong barnyard/animalic indian with secret synthetics & maybe some glycerin ... I don't know. Before I started artisanal pure ouds I spent minimum $4500-$5000 behind these. Most of them cost $40-$50-$70-$100+. Companies were Abdul Samad Al Quraishi/Junaid Al Shams/Ajmal/Makkas etc etc etc. Introduced by the best shop in my country as 'Best-Pure-Ouds'. Quraishi's were most expensive. After I smell & got amazed & thus became fond of Artisan (preciously Ensar Oud) _ I don't even use 'King Abdullah' or 'Al-Moulok' very easily even after having it ! also Kalakassi 120 years old _ which are considerably the topmost high-ends from Quraishi! I saw they are giving massive discounts from many days!
Mark from 'The World In Scents' who presented quraishi in USA ... recently stopped dealing quraishi for some 'too much synthetics' reasons ... he also sells natural ouds from Agar Aura & also from Rising Phonix (JK) _ told me that a bottle of 120/150 years Kalakassi ($500+/$1000+) actually contains only 5% original 120/150 years old Kalakassi oud ... rest of that filled with normal cheap 'Kalakas oil' which is not aged & a lots of synthetics as well. This thing & 'Oud Thaqeel' are the 'Best Ouds' in arab world! After spoiling big bucks _ I know well about those 'Synthetic Gulf Oceans' ...
https://store.asqgrp.com/stores/international/al-aoud/incense.html
https://store.asqgrp.com/stores/international/collections/the-one.html
Typical 'Oud-al-Hind' or 'Hind-Mouttaq' or something ... I bought some bottles before I start getting into 'natural'-'wild'-'artisanal' ouds. Very strong barnyard/animalic indian with secret synthetics & maybe some glycerin ... I don't know. Before I started artisanal pure ouds I spent minimum $4500-$5000 behind these. Most of them cost $40-$50-$70-$100+. Companies were Abdul Samad Al Quraishi/Junaid Al Shams/Ajmal/Makkas etc etc etc. Introduced by the best shop in my country as 'Best-Pure-Ouds'. Quraishi's were most expensive. After I smell & got amazed & thus became fond of Artisan (preciously Ensar Oud) _ I don't even use 'King Abdullah' or 'Al-Moulok' very easily even after having it ! also Kalakassi 120 years old _ which are considerably the topmost high-ends from Quraishi! I saw they are giving massive discounts from many days!
Mark from 'The World In Scents' who presented quraishi in USA ... recently stopped dealing quraishi for some 'too much synthetics' reasons ... he also sells natural ouds from Agar Aura & also from Rising Phonix (JK) _ told me that a bottle of 120/150 years Kalakassi ($500+/$1000+) actually contains only 5% original 120/150 years old Kalakassi oud ... rest of that filled with normal cheap 'Kalakas oil' which is not aged & a lots of synthetics as well. This thing & 'Oud Thaqeel' are the 'Best Ouds' in arab world! After spoiling big bucks _ I know well about those 'Synthetic Gulf Oceans' ...
https://store.asqgrp.com/stores/international/al-aoud/incense.html
https://store.asqgrp.com/stores/international/collections/the-one.html
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Well, after being held up for nearly an hour at US Customs & Border Patrol – my borrowed Al Shareef collection all ransacked and ultimately stuck in Vancouver with the rest of my suitcase – I couldn't give two hoots about Canadian sensitivities.... I'd carefully planned my Air Canada swipes, mind you.... Starting with Ceylon No 1, then considered some Royal Chen Xiang or Sutera Ungu (gifted by the Shaykh himself during my pilgrimage).... It ended up being a pure Vietnamese kinam extract from 1998 though. I was that pissed.
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Anyway I thought Ridhwan is quite an unique oil as there is a sweet muskiness threading from the start to the end. Just wonder if anyone has experienced the same scent profile.
From Jawed's description, this oil is a blend of oils from Assam, Malaysia and Cambodia. I was expecting a juxtaposition of scents from these regions and definitely the muskiness was quite unexpected. The closest oil I can think with remote similarity will be Oud Ahmad.
From Jawed's description, this oil is a blend of oils from Assam, Malaysia and Cambodia. I was expecting a juxtaposition of scents from these regions and definitely the muskiness was quite unexpected. The closest oil I can think with remote similarity will be Oud Ahmad.