Black Friday @ EO

Oudamberlove

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I ve been trying to get in touch with brother Adam for this and Sayang. I need both these in my arsenal. Nothing comapares to EO imho. This is pure Oud devotion.
Well, Ensar's exemplary oils fill the demand for those seeking the finest. Although my collection includes oils of lesser quality which satisfy for everyday wear, a collection would be sadly lacking without a few bottles of Ensar's oils. My treasure chest contains a lot of his gems;)
 
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kooolaid79

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Well, Ensar's exemplary oils fill the demand for those seeking the finest. Although my collection includes oils of lesser quality which satisfy for everyday wear, a collection would be sadly lacking without a few bottles of Ensar's oils. My treasure chest contains a lot of his gems;)
Might have to come and check them out when I am in the Bay Area next time. ;):)
 

Ensar Oud

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NHA TRANG LTD



Cambodia’s got Koh Kong and Laos has Pusong, but there’s no place in the oud world more cherished than Nha Trang. I don’t know of oud more sought-after than oud from this small coastal strip renowned for dishing up the most expensive kyara on the planet.

Vietnamese hunters get arrested across the Far East in hopes of finding what they once found locally. Trek into the most virgin jungles in Borneo and 9/10 times you’ll find an abandoned camp left by Vietnamese poachers.

That’s because Nha Trang is the Mecca of Kyara and jungles were tapped early on and now the gold rush has long since passed. Most we’re left with is NT fame, the legend it left behind, and the strips of vintage kinam sold in private backrooms across China and Japan. You basically only get cultivated trees growing there now, the odd batch of unearthed wild wood, and plenty of Malaysian imports to trick folks into buying the ‘latest harvest’.

But despite the fame, there’s a story to Nha Trang that has hardly been told…

Between the kinam and the wild harvests that ended up with collectors of rare agarwood over the years, nobody ever had the spunk to actually make oil from those harvests – any of them. The reason it’s hard to find any high-grade Nha Trang wood is because few even think of selling theirs…… If that’s how they feel about the wood, imagine how they’d feel about Nha Trang oil, which is a gazillion times rarer than any batch of insanely good wood from NT.

But in making Nha Trang LTD, you’re not after just any batch and you’re not just talking about centennial mother-trees harvested back in the heydays either. If you can track down any kind of high-grade Nha Trang oil, count yourself lucky. Unearth a bottle of incense-grade Nha Trang oud and you’ve struck gold.

But who distills ancient incense-grade Nha Trang wood? Certainly nobody would even think about distilling the sinking stuff which on the wood market fetches the highest prices. Today, you’re looking at what used to be kinam prices for proper incense grade Nha Trang.

Nha Trang LTD isn’t just a pure incense-grade distillation. 25% of the wood that went into its making was sinking-grade.

That you’ve got the chance to get your hands on oud like this should make you cry. Not just because it’s incense-grade Nha Trang, sinking and next to impossible to imagine it ever being produced.

Nha Trang agarwood is so revered because its profile is distinctly kinamic. In fact, incense-grade Nha Trang could get traded as kinam because it smells so similar. Hard as it is to find and expensive as it is to buy, distill a good batch of pure incense-grade Nha Trang wood today and you’re almost guaranteed to get a whiff of kinam in there. Distill the mother trees that grew right next to the kyara trees – often containing kyara themselves – and you’ve got oud from an era of agarwood that’s the stuff of legend. We’re not talking about a hint of kinam anymore. You ARE smelling kinam; the very DNA that permeates this famed East Vietnamese jungle.

Now, add the sinking-grade black incense strips and you’ve just catapulted into a different dimension. Here, the kyara profile is even more acute and much smoother (lesser grades will give you a cruder twangy hue of it). Think of it this way: high-end Nha Trang oud oil is you burning a shaving of kyara at a slightly higher temp than the Kōdō masters would have you do. Nha Trang LTD puts the sliver at the perfect ultra low temp to reveal kinam’s succulent finesse as it fuses its trademark bitterness with a creamy come-hither! that makes for a single note that’s just ‘OMG!’

The scent is voluptuous because it’s just straight up Beautiful. I don’t mean floral (which many people confuse with aromatic beauty). I mean a primal scent that moves you; awes you. A scent that’s as unique to this legendary province as Hainan is to China.

Don’t expect a bombardment of different scent notes. This oil is pristinely linear and lets you look out onto an olfactory field where you’re struck with immediate beauty and perfection, not counting how many different kinds of flowers grow there or how high the hills are. A single tune of awe that reverberates into the drydown.

I’m not gonna go into the distillation details. Suffice to say you can’t just throw a bag of sinking Nha Trang agarwood into the boiler like that. As far as I’m concerned there’s only one way to distill such nose-numbingly good agarwood and that’s the classic Oriscent way. The process takes long and costs a fortune (we’ve still got over $250K to go in paying it off) but it’s the only way to get you a bottle of Nha Trang LTD.

Forget about Oud Royale 1. If there’s one oud I’d want to be remembered for, it’s this one. If there’s just one oud you could ever experience, let it be a swipe of Nha Trang LTD. Gun to my head, if I had to give it all up and choose just one oud to keep for the rest of my days, it’d have to be Nha Trang LTD.

Vietnamese oud doesn’t – cannot – get better than this. Numerous people can quote me saying, “This is the most beautiful oud I’ve ever smelled” pretty much every time I take a swipe of it. So, if you’ve been chasing the rainbow of Vietnamese agarwood, stop. This is the one.

Smelling this calibre oud will probably do to you what it did to me: render just about every other kind of oud irrelevant. A scent so primal, so sensual it casts a shadow over everything else and it’s as if you’re smelling oud for the first time.

Then something magical happens. After getting lost in it and you finally do take a swipe of another oud, it hits you just how truly it enhances your appreciation of all ouds. You’ll look with new eyes at even something as different as a Maroke. But the most dramatic duet is with Chinese oud. Smell this and smell quality Chinese oud on your other wrist and it’s like you’re spiraling down a path that ends up with you in an olfactory asylum, bats in the belfry and wishing for more. That’s Nha Trang for you.

Price: $4,500 / 3gr.
On sale for a limited time only.
 

bhanny

Well-Known Member
NHA TRANG LTD



Cambodia’s got Koh Kong and Laos has Pusong, but there’s no place in the oud world more cherished than Nha Trang. I don’t know of oud more sought-after than oud from this small coastal strip renowned for dishing up the most expensive kyara on the planet.

Vietnamese hunters get arrested across the Far East in hopes of finding what they once found locally. Trek into the most virgin jungles in Borneo and 9/10 times you’ll find an abandoned camp left by Vietnamese poachers.

That’s because Nha Trang is the Mecca of Kyara and jungles were tapped early on and now the gold rush has long since passed. Most we’re left with is NT fame, the legend it left behind, and the strips of vintage kinam sold in private backrooms across China and Japan. You basically only get cultivated trees growing there now, the odd batch of unearthed wild wood, and plenty of Malaysian imports to trick folks into buying the ‘latest harvest’.

But despite the fame, there’s a story to Nha Trang that has hardly been told…

Between the kinam and the wild harvests that ended up with collectors of rare agarwood over the years, nobody ever had the spunk to actually make oil from those harvests – any of them. The reason it’s hard to find any high-grade Nha Trang wood is because few even think of selling theirs…… If that’s how they feel about the wood, imagine how they’d feel about Nha Trang oil, which is a gazillion times rarer than any batch of insanely good wood from NT.

But in making Nha Trang LTD, you’re not after just any batch and you’re not just talking about centennial mother-trees harvested back in the heydays either. If you can track down any kind of high-grade Nha Trang oil, count yourself lucky. Unearth a bottle of incense-grade Nha Trang oud and you’ve struck gold.

But who distills ancient incense-grade Nha Trang wood? Certainly nobody would even think about distilling the sinking stuff which on the wood market fetches the highest prices. Today, you’re looking at what used to be kinam prices for proper incense grade Nha Trang.

Nha Trang LTD isn’t just a pure incense-grade distillation. 25% of the wood that went into its making was sinking-grade.

That you’ve got the chance to get your hands on oud like this should make you cry. Not just because it’s incense-grade Nha Trang, sinking and next to impossible to imagine it ever being produced.

Nha Trang agarwood is so revered because its profile is distinctly kinamic. In fact, incense-grade Nha Trang could get traded as kinam because it smells so similar. Hard as it is to find and expensive as it is to buy, distill a good batch of pure incense-grade Nha Trang wood today and you’re almost guaranteed to get a whiff of kinam in there. Distill the mother trees that grew right next to the kyara trees – often containing kyara themselves – and you’ve got oud from an era of agarwood that’s the stuff of legend. We’re not talking about a hint of kinam anymore. You ARE smelling kinam; the very DNA that permeates this famed East Vietnamese jungle.

Now, add the sinking-grade black incense strips and you’ve just catapulted into a different dimension. Here, the kyara profile is even more acute and much smoother (lesser grades will give you a cruder twangy hue of it). Think of it this way: high-end Nha Trang oud oil is you burning a shaving of kyara at a slightly higher temp than the Kōdō masters would have you do. Nha Trang LTD puts the sliver at the perfect ultra low temp to reveal kinam’s succulent finesse as it fuses its trademark bitterness with a creamy come-hither! that makes for a single note that’s just ‘OMG!’

The scent is voluptuous because it’s just straight up Beautiful. I don’t mean floral (which many people confuse with aromatic beauty). I mean a primal scent that moves you; awes you. A scent that’s as unique to this legendary province as Hainan is to China.

Don’t expect a bombardment of different scent notes. This oil is pristinely linear and lets you look out onto an olfactory field where you’re struck with immediate beauty and perfection, not counting how many different kinds of flowers grow there or how high the hills are. A single tune of awe that reverberates into the drydown.

I’m not gonna go into the distillation details. Suffice to say you can’t just throw a bag of sinking Nha Trang agarwood into the boiler like that. As far as I’m concerned there’s only one way to distill such nose-numbingly good agarwood and that’s the classic Oriscent way. The process takes long and costs a fortune (we’ve still got over $250K to go in paying it off) but it’s the only way to get you a bottle of Nha Trang LTD.

Forget about Oud Royale 1. If there’s one oud I’d want to be remembered for, it’s this one. If there’s just one oud you could ever experience, let it be a swipe of Nha Trang LTD. Gun to my head, if I had to give it all up and choose just one oud to keep for the rest of my days, it’d have to be Nha Trang LTD.

Vietnamese oud doesn’t – cannot – get better than this. Numerous people can quote me saying, “This is the most beautiful oud I’ve ever smelled” pretty much every time I take a swipe of it. So, if you’ve been chasing the rainbow of Vietnamese agarwood, stop. This is the one.

Smelling this calibre oud will probably do to you what it did to me: render just about every other kind of oud irrelevant. A scent so primal, so sensual it casts a shadow over everything else and it’s as if you’re smelling oud for the first time.

Then something magical happens. After getting lost in it and you finally do take a swipe of another oud, it hits you just how truly it enhances your appreciation of all ouds. You’ll look with new eyes at even something as different as a Maroke. But the most dramatic duet is with Chinese oud. Smell this and smell quality Chinese oud on your other wrist and it’s like you’re spiraling down a path that ends up with you in an olfactory asylum, bats in the belfry and wishing for more. That’s Nha Trang for you.

Price: $4,500 / 3gr.
On sale for a limited time only.
Wish I had posted at the time. This oud, this freaking oil, it's beauty continually leaves me speechless. Breathless even. My fairly brief yet amazing oud journey has taken me to Nha Trang LTD. It is everything Ensar describes above, and even more.
 

Ensar Oud

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OUD SULTANI 1990

If you ever thought of splurging on Kambodi 1976 but simply lack the financing, here’s your chance.

I was still a kid when this oil was distilled. I didn’t have a camera back then, so I can’t show you any shots of the process. Youtube wasn’t around, either.

But what we know from veteran hunters is that 30 years ago, you didn’t have trouble tapping into untouched jungles with fat centennial Aquilarias standing tall. Unlike now, where they’re mostly dead and dug up from underground…

There’s a reason Oud Royale 1 was a Maroke. It’s the same reason Arabs are crazy about Maroke wood. That inimitable note of resinous agarwoody decadence simply cannot be coaxed out of other strains of Aquilaria. Even the China Market capos know the notes of my oils, and they refer to it as the ‘Sultani tone’. If a piece of wood has the scent characteristics of Oud Royale 1, they immediately jack up the price, saying ‘This one has the Sultani tone.’

I’ll be the first to admit I can’t make this oud today. You can’t replicate 27 years of natural aging. You can’t breathe life back into the G-gen trees two meters down in the mud. You can’t un-carve all the beads and trinkets.

Here is regal, vintage agarwood liqueur that’s dry as vermouth and red as rooibos. Oud that was cooked not in copper or steel but crafted by antiquity, and aged three decades for good measure.

1990 has got that mellow medicinal profile only ooold aged ouds throw at you – that tingling of heavy resin that lets you know, before anything else, that you’re smelling the best oud from back in the day. You’re also paying no more than what you would have for a bottle 10 years ago.

Don’t be surprised if you mistake this for a vintage 1970s Pursat. You’d never expect the piercing deep red note in what ought to be a darker jungly shade of Marokean blue. And the penetrating red keeps firing right down to the drydown, which in the most uncanny whiff pinpoints the spot where Oud Royale 1 once stood.

Oud Royale 1985 sold out in a whiplash, and we don’t predict this oil will be around very long. To ensure you don’t miss out, we recommend you pre-order yours today.

Note: I had Oud Sultani 1990 specially flown from Amman so that I could keep it in my private collection. I never thought this day would come. I will need to have it flown back to Amman before I can get your order out to you. We will do our utmost to have it shipped as quick as humanly possible, and no later than September 21st.
 
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RobertOne

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Ensar Bashing Post.

Yes, you read that right. I am going to 'bash' Ensar just as so many Mr. Poopybuttholes have done before me.

Well, I can now state to everyone here that Ensar has been equaled in beauty and for less and for more.

I was able to buy gallons, GALLONS of liquid (for less than a third of a bottle of his Ouds!) that brought me transcendent joy. The vendors name were unfamiliar in the world of Oud and all diverse such as Shell, Valero, Wawa but they all sold this comparible 'standard' with only 10% ethanol added.

So, as I applied Ensar's two meisterwerks and the moment of totality arrived, as day became night in a bare minute, as the face of the moon covered the sun completely.

Lo!

I beheld the majesty of the crown of creation, the corona, once more. All who have seen this with their own eyes know that any picture or recording can never fully capture it's glory, glory, hallelujah

So Ensar, for just $60 and 13 brutal hours of solid driving I experienced beauty that equalled your Oud. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself now as it only took the glory of the entire Sun and the Moon in conjunction to do it.
 

Ensar Oud

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Ensar Bashing Post.

Yes, you read that right. I am going to 'bash' Ensar just as so many Mr. Poopybuttholes have done before me.

Well, I can now state to everyone here that Ensar has been equaled in beauty and for less and for more.

I was able to buy gallons, GALLONS of liquid (for less than a third of a bottle of his Ouds!) that brought me transcendent joy. The vendors name were unfamiliar in the world of Oud and all diverse such as Shell, Valero, Wawa but they all sold this comparible 'standard' with only 10% ethanol added.

So, as I applied Ensar's two meisterwerks and the moment of totality arrived, as day became night in a bare minute, as the face of the moon covered the sun completely.

Lo!

I beheld the majesty of the crown of creation, the corona, once more. All who have seen this with their own eyes know that any picture or recording can never fully capture it's glory, glory, hallelujah

So Ensar, for just $60 and 13 brutal hours of solid driving I experienced beauty that equalled your Oud. I hope you feel ashamed of yourself now as it only took the glory of the entire Sun and the Moon in conjunction to do it.
Something tells me you'd really dig Borneo Diesel.... :)
 

Ensar Oud

Well-Known Member
Book a ticket to Tokyo or Shanghai. Run yourself into a maze through the mighty Emirati malls. Scour eBay, AliBaba and Facebook until you’re seeing double. That’s what people do to find oud like this. Go through lists of distillers sponsored by fellow vendors. Do whatever you need to do… and let me know how it goes.

For all the hunting, the back-forum PM-ing, WhatsApping and marketing campaigns to bring back the golden days of oud, the results have been miserable. The 150 year-old Cambodis turn out to be force-oxidized plantation oils, and those old Malaysis make you wonder who let the wet dog in. Show me just one actual high grade Maroke muattaq.

Let’s face it, most of the old ouds out there just smell old. Dusty, sunned to death, all the tasty twang sucked out of ’em. That’s if you even find ’em. You’ve heard of the Thaqeels and Kalakassis, but name a couple of real oldies?

For all the talk about ancestral vaults, secret distillation textbooks and ancient traditions that my grandfather was never privy to, I have yet to see another Oud Sultani 1990 emerge from these vaults. For all the ‘artisanal’ oud (for cheap!) said to be so widely available, I have yet to lay my nostrils on one of these ‘bargains’.

Collectors reminisce about the old days, how they wish they’d stocked up when the golden oldies were still going for $550, ten years ago. Ahem. If you came to oud through the Oriscent arch, this vintage Sultani is a one-way ticket back in time, price and all.




There’s a reason Oud Royale 1 was a Maroke. It’s the same reason Arabs are crazy about Maroke wood. That inimitable note of resinous agarwoody decadence simply cannot be coaxed out of other strains of Aquilaria. Even the China Market capos know the notes of my oils, and they refer to it as the ‘Sultani tone’. If a piece of wood has the scent characteristics of Oud Royale 1, they immediately jack up the price, saying ‘This one has the Sultani tone.’
I’ll be the first to admit I can’t make this oud today. You can’t replicate 27 years of natural aging. You can’t breathe life back into the G-gen trees two meters down in the mud. You can’t un-carve all the beads and trinkets.

Here is regal, vintage agarwood liqueur that’s dry as vermouth and red as rooibos. Oud that was cooked not in copper or steel but crafted by antiquity, and aged three decades for good measure.

1990 has got that mellow medicinal profile only ooold aged ouds throw at you – that tingling of heavy resin that lets you know, before anything else, that you’re smelling the best oud from back in the day. You’re also paying no more than what you would have for a bottle 10 years ago.

Don’t be surprised if you mistake this for a vintage 1970s Pursat. You’d never expect the piercing deep red note in what ought to be a darker jungly shade of Marokean blue. And the penetrating red keeps firing right down to the drydown, which in the most uncanny whiff pinpoints the spot where Oud Royale 1 once stood.

Oud Royale 1985 sold out in a whiplash, and we don’t predict this oil will be around very long. To ensure you don’t miss out, we recommend you pre-order yours today.
 
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RobertOne

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No one should buy this.

Despite all my previous reviews it's really not worth anything anyway, quite mediocre and unremarkable.

Just get some hugo boss instead or anything on sale from dollar general.

Of course, this has absolutely no bearing about hypothetical plans by an equally hypothetical Scottish person to buy litres of it. Oh no, no, no my dearies, how could you even think such a ridiculous notion?

:rolleyes: