Anyone familiar with this site ?

#1
Hey people,

Has anyone had experiences with this site :

http://www.agarscentsbazaar.com

I just came accross it , and want to know your thoughts on them. Are they based in Europe ?

P.s : Does anyone have any reccomendations to try on of their oudh oils / attars . They have a great variety of products and I don't know what to order :)))

Thanks for looking.
 
#2
Hello Feeble_25. I bought few items from them. I bought there (3) versions of Musk, Kashmiri, animalic and kasthuri. I can't vouch with any certainty that they contain original deer musk but they are a rather warm and seductive formulas, a bit masculine and very nice for the winter times. I have purchase a lot of their incense sticks especially the ones labeled with Oud and Sandalwood. The Oud ones I could not detect any Oud notes in them. They were closer to Indian Masala sticks tradition and the sandalwood suffered from dipping in oils which account for the heavy smoke accompanied them. Most of my purchase came with many free sample, a full 1/4 tola of different Mukhalates. All of them are quite animalic and strong. They had a very nice animalic rose. One of the nicest things I bought was the Cunnsiand Omani (Nour) Bakhoor and the Indian Ocean Ambergris which came as a cream. I also tried their clear musk (Shafaf) and their Sif Al-Hind. Most of the Mukhalates start to have the same overture that you can actually tell it's from them just by smelling couple of notes. I had a tiny sample of their sink grade Oud which was phenomenal but the prize was ridiculously expensive at around $50/gram. My issue with most of the products that I have tried that they contained Synthetics which put me off but I can see others that might not care as much about that and might enjoy their scents. I believe they used to be located in San Diego, USA but I think he has since moved to Europe. I hope this is helpful.
 
#3
majority of my purchases came from and still come from agarscents bazaar for no other reasons than there excellent customer srevice and I really enjoy their products. Been doing business with them since 2010 and have come across a few of their products that I did not like, which are few in number. Their Amber Al Oud is very animalic with the cheesie fecal notes at its base abd a health and bright ambre scent which i believe is their own recipe. The Agar Musk Black is very nice with it's soft smooth musk (their recipe) note almost like a sweet amber while the Oud appears in the dry down leaving a nice woody scent on the skin, also it last a long time on the skin. The Khalt Ateeq Oudhy, which came about when I wrote Omar and told him that I would like to have the original Khalta Ateeq with a stronger oud note so he composed the oil and it became a second version with the word Oudhy at the end. Khalta Ateeq Oudhy is a classic take on Gulf style Mukhallat, with Rose Taifi and an aged Cambodi oud, this oil has the smell of royalty and since I had the oil from 2010 untill now it has aged very nice without any off notes, which tells me this is a pure oil. like masstika said their oils are noticable (anything with amber and musk), which I think makes them very unique. Another one of my fovorites is the Ambergris Al Oud, which is dominated by the salty sweetness of the ambergris and a nice oudy dry down.

Their Ambergris oils are all very nice and smell genuine (I'm no ambergris expert) and are not sickening sweet like others i have smelt. The Wite Ambergris Chocolate Mukhallat is very nice top notes of chocolate with the ambergris wafting through like the wind in a bamboo forest. I have many of their oil too many to name here, so I would just say i love 95% of them. As far as incense I am ot a fan of any of their sandalwood sticks or cones, while every incense that has their formula of musk in them are some of the most beautiful incense i have smelled. Kahmiri Kashturi, Baked Earth in Musk, Saffron Musk, Cambodi Gold, Ambergris Rose are all the incense that have purchased over and over again. They are well made and not hard on the nose or eyes like certain japanese sticks that I own (Reiyori Koh, Ginger NP). However they do not compare to well made japanese sticks, but they are very enjoyable and you do not have to burn an entire stick in one sitting. I burn one stick for almost two weeks with just 2 min per session, which is more than enought to evelope any sized room with their scent.

Their oud chips are give and take. They had some very nice Assam chips back in 2010 Hindi Dugah which were very smooth and left a warm buttery oud scent days after the burn. I also had purchased their Golden Triangle set in 2010 when it was available which included vietnamese, malaysian and indonesian (of various islands) and cambodi chips. Of that set my least favorite were the Malaysian chips which were very salty and lacked sweetness while my favorite were the vietnamese, so much so that I kept one piece and refuse to burn it. the vienamese chips are sweet smooth and etheral, it has the same smell as Ensar's Khao Yai chips with the only difference being that the vietnamese chips are a little stronger.

along with those purchases as masstika said are many samples and i have enjoyed every sample that i recieved, they all smelled nice minus the tarakan oud sample that was a bit too strong on the burnt note. other than that my experience with AB has been pleasent and I recomend them to anyone looking to enjoy a vireity of scent be it oils or incense. hope this helps!
 
#4
Thank you so much guys for all the information. This had indeed been very helpful .
I will let you know what I think after I test some of the oils and incense.

:) Have a great day