Odd skin profile when wearing ouds?

#1
My skin oddly makes the base note (s) at the heart of the oud predominate, while pushing all other parts of the profile to floating lightly on a breeze around, which means I have to inhale deeply to smell them properly.

So, for something like Assam 3000, I get the heart notes of addictive incense wood mixed with powerful spicy smoke as the main scent (Assam Royale?)

For Tigerwood 1995, I get the pure dark jungle shade of oud wood on a burner, mixed with the lush hue of purple.

For Xiang Lao Ling, I get a lightly sharp and green waft which I'm suspecting is the essence of kyara green (it tingles my nose and smells lightly of a green tint mixed with a wiff of camphor and perhaps a touch of minty jungle wood) mixed with loose wet soil.

Is this the kyara scent, and anybody else have skin like this?

If so, I recommend we auction off sterilized patches of it to the highest bidder (since we essentially get the perfect scent of the most desirable part of each oud profile in most cases as a result, especially if the kyara holds true). :D Thus, we will always have plentiful money for oud!

If anybody is interested, PM me. I charge $200 for enough skin for the back of one hand, although rates vary depending on how premium the spot is for appreciating oud (highest rate for face and wrists!)

However, I also accept oud as payment. If anybody wants a gradual complete transplant of skin, I will gleefully accept a full bottle of Oud Royale, Kyara LTD or a few tolas of Assam 3000 as paymemt in lieu of $. :D :D :D
 
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m.arif

Active Member
#2
Aha. aside from the skin offer...

I once visited Taha and tried out his hindi Mahabali and Fera. On my skin, it smelled cleaner, while on Taha's, it smelled more rugged and animalic. Then Taha asked "Did you consume honey the past few days?", something like that. Indeed I consumed honey prior to that visit. So apparently even that may cause subjective changes to each individual's experience with oud (or any other fragrance).

Maybe @Taha can shed more light on this.
 
#3
Yup! I applied a tiny amount of a few testers to a finger of each hand, and consequently had faint profiles of the most prominent oud's scent mixed into my sweat (on each respective side)- it was really weird and somewhat funny. :)
 

PEARL

Well-Known Member
#6
I wonder if it's the way the oil reacts with your skin vs the way you perceive certain notes vs your ability to perceive certain notes.
Many times you'll experience different notes in oils the better you get to know that oil. Also, if you're comparing how you perceive an oil vs what you've seen written by others remember that it's their experience using their words which may differ from your own.
 
#8
@PEARL: For verification, I checked the same oud on someone else's skin. I smelled each note distinctly, whereas on my skin the base note almost dissolves everything else into a faint whif, with an extremely strong and un-washable scent of lillies (Used Oud Yusuf). :)

Hence, my use of only strong heart-noted ouds (as are those from India, Malaysia and Cambodia).

I will give them each one more go (leaving them on the whole day) to see. If I am not deluding myself, my selection of oud becomes much simpler. :)

Any other countries with oud profiles with powerful base note other than the three mentioned (Borneo, China, Vietnam all lacked it- Cambodia has it as fruit, India and Malaysia as incense wood and spice/purple jungle).

Thanks