I figured I love Cambodi oils enough that they deserve their own thread.
As a brief background, I was a die hard hindi fan for the past 2 years or so, my collection attests to that. While I still love them, my focus has shifted and ive come down with a serious case of cambodi fever.
One of the first cambodi oils to grace my senses was Kambodi Kadeem (EO), since then I have only come to realise what a rare specimen of a cambodi that oil is and I am always surprised that discussion never blew up about it. It is still one of my main loves and after yesterdays post thoughts even came to mind of making reference to it as the ‘Oud Nuh of cambodia’.
So why is that oil so unique? Well...people always think red when it comes to cambodi oils, the fruityness too but thats a different discussion. What struck me about KK is that is not red at all but yellow in both colour scent profile.
Since then I have sampled and bought many other cambodi oils and their common link is always the redness...until recently when Ensar released Kasaya, another oil of the yellow profile and one which I actually did not hesitate to buy two bottles of…
Back to the present....
Moving on from there brings me to perhaps the two most unique cambodi oils I have tried to date. Chien Pu Cha (Ensars PK of cambodia) and Tahas recent distill..Khmer special K (KSK).
Since I mentioned CPC in my previous post, I will pick up my discussion there as I feel my description did not do justice and was perhaps slightly inaccurate as well. The colour is a glorious butterscotch yellow, the scent so deep and composed in its sweetness I struggle to put a concise description to it. The bitterness I mentioned before is almost completely subdued by its deep rounded sweet profile. It has a powdered softness to it which is might also use to describe some of what can be experienced in Tokusen Tai. I actually cannot wait to see how Ensar describes this oil. I find it to be detached from any fruity associations that cambodi oils usually align with
Now, Tahas Khmer special K. Another oil which has rocked my cambodi boat and reshaped my experience and understanding of what this region of agarwood oil has to offer. In my humble opinion, it is on of the greatest (if not THE greatest) of Tahas creations to date that I have had the privilege to try.
Now what is interesting is that these two oils (CPC and KSK) are so profoundly different from one another. When Taha told me about the oil I hesitated to buy it wondering whether the descriptions of Kinam would mean it would bear too much of a similarity to CPC and that I might prefer a more radically different oil to invest my money in.
Compared to CPC’s smoother and more rounded profile, KSK is a firey beast with bouncing top notes. To my nose, it boasts an approach on the red spectrum without ever being there (Purple???), I am not able to detect any ‘green’ notes (yet?)..that kinam green is more present in Ensars CPC. In discussing the wood itself, Taha said it came from a very rare batch of wood and I would venture a guess that it may have even been somewhere at the cambodi-vietnam boarder. Strangely enough, if I were to make a comparison, CPC has more in common with Tokusen that it does with KSK...go figure.
So my conclusions are I still love cambodis and wonder what other experiences have yet to be discovered..I have spent the last year collecting some pretty sweet batches of Cambodi wood and really cant get enough of the stuff.
note:
I posted this at the risk that someone else is going to go ahead and pick up the remaining drops of KSK available before I can collect enough funds for it...but this is not an oil to miss out on. From what I understand CPC is also an extremely limited batch so I am glad I snagged it for safe keeping.
Welcoming more contributions from Cambodi lovers and particularly thoughts on KSK...
As a brief background, I was a die hard hindi fan for the past 2 years or so, my collection attests to that. While I still love them, my focus has shifted and ive come down with a serious case of cambodi fever.
One of the first cambodi oils to grace my senses was Kambodi Kadeem (EO), since then I have only come to realise what a rare specimen of a cambodi that oil is and I am always surprised that discussion never blew up about it. It is still one of my main loves and after yesterdays post thoughts even came to mind of making reference to it as the ‘Oud Nuh of cambodia’.
So why is that oil so unique? Well...people always think red when it comes to cambodi oils, the fruityness too but thats a different discussion. What struck me about KK is that is not red at all but yellow in both colour scent profile.
Since then I have sampled and bought many other cambodi oils and their common link is always the redness...until recently when Ensar released Kasaya, another oil of the yellow profile and one which I actually did not hesitate to buy two bottles of…
Back to the present....
Moving on from there brings me to perhaps the two most unique cambodi oils I have tried to date. Chien Pu Cha (Ensars PK of cambodia) and Tahas recent distill..Khmer special K (KSK).
Since I mentioned CPC in my previous post, I will pick up my discussion there as I feel my description did not do justice and was perhaps slightly inaccurate as well. The colour is a glorious butterscotch yellow, the scent so deep and composed in its sweetness I struggle to put a concise description to it. The bitterness I mentioned before is almost completely subdued by its deep rounded sweet profile. It has a powdered softness to it which is might also use to describe some of what can be experienced in Tokusen Tai. I actually cannot wait to see how Ensar describes this oil. I find it to be detached from any fruity associations that cambodi oils usually align with
Now, Tahas Khmer special K. Another oil which has rocked my cambodi boat and reshaped my experience and understanding of what this region of agarwood oil has to offer. In my humble opinion, it is on of the greatest (if not THE greatest) of Tahas creations to date that I have had the privilege to try.
Now what is interesting is that these two oils (CPC and KSK) are so profoundly different from one another. When Taha told me about the oil I hesitated to buy it wondering whether the descriptions of Kinam would mean it would bear too much of a similarity to CPC and that I might prefer a more radically different oil to invest my money in.
Compared to CPC’s smoother and more rounded profile, KSK is a firey beast with bouncing top notes. To my nose, it boasts an approach on the red spectrum without ever being there (Purple???), I am not able to detect any ‘green’ notes (yet?)..that kinam green is more present in Ensars CPC. In discussing the wood itself, Taha said it came from a very rare batch of wood and I would venture a guess that it may have even been somewhere at the cambodi-vietnam boarder. Strangely enough, if I were to make a comparison, CPC has more in common with Tokusen that it does with KSK...go figure.
So my conclusions are I still love cambodis and wonder what other experiences have yet to be discovered..I have spent the last year collecting some pretty sweet batches of Cambodi wood and really cant get enough of the stuff.
note:
I posted this at the risk that someone else is going to go ahead and pick up the remaining drops of KSK available before I can collect enough funds for it...but this is not an oil to miss out on. From what I understand CPC is also an extremely limited batch so I am glad I snagged it for safe keeping.
Welcoming more contributions from Cambodi lovers and particularly thoughts on KSK...
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