Oud / Color Association

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eddeyboub

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Hi,

Given a recent post about oud and color association I thought it could be fun to try and see what color we associate with some ouds to see how objective this can be. Here is initially a quick list I can come up with:

white / yellow
- Cerylon n.1, Bois De Borneo

red
- Kinam Rouge, King Koh Kong, Oud Yaqub, Basic Kinam

redish / light green
- Oud Yusuf, Jin Shen Lu

green
- Borneo Kinam III

dark green
- Chen Xiang Qi, Port Morsby, Archipelago

purple
- Purple Kinam, Berkilau

dark / brown
- Oud Yunus, or any classic "hindis", Encens d'Angkor

black
- Maroke 2004, Maroke Muah, Oud Royal 5, Sultan Succore, etc.

I would be very keen to hear what ouds you associate with colors, and if there are colors you associate with ouds I haven't listed that you associate with ouds, for example I could never associate blue with an oud.
 
kooolaid79

kooolaid79

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Borneo 3000, medium orange/light brown
Borneo 2000, light goldish orange
Tigerwood 95, brownish
Tigerwood Royale, dark brownish/hint of black
Aroha Kyaku, brown/black
Dhul Q, black/brown
Asaam Kinam, Maroon/brown
Purple Papua, green/yellow
Yoshi, redish/orange
 
RobertOne

RobertOne

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eddeyboub said:
Hi,

Given a recent post about oud and color association I thought it could be fun to try and see what color we associate with some ouds to see how objective this can be. Here is initially a quick list I can come up with:

white / yellow
- Cerylon n.1, Bois De Borneo

red
- Kinam Rouge, King Koh Kong, Oud Yaqub, Basic Kinam

redish / light green
- Oud Yusuf, Jin Shen Lu

green
- Borneo Kinam III

dark green
- Chen Xiang Qi, Port Morsby, Archipelago

purple
- Purple Kinam, Berkilau

dark / brown
- Oud Yunus, or any classic "hindis", Encens d'Angkor

black
- Maroke 2004, Maroke Muah, Oud Royal 5, Sultan Succore, etc.

I would be very keen to hear what ouds you associate with colors, and if there are colors you associate with ouds I haven't listed that you associate with ouds, for example I could never associate blue with an oud.
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eddeyboub

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Thanks! there are some colors I would never have thought to use to describe a scent as gold and teal, opens a new perspective. I had a think as to how I associated the color, and somehow it probably relates to taste / food, maybe thats why I can't associate certain colors with oud.

Its very interesting to see other people associating different colors on some ouds and also agreeing on some, it has to be quite subjective at some point.
 
RobertOne

RobertOne

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eddeyboub said:
Thanks! there are some colors I would never have thought to use to describe a scent as gold and teal, opens a new perspective. I had a think as to how I associated the color, and somehow it probably relates to taste / food, maybe thats why I can't associate certain colors with oud.

Its very interesting to see other people associating different colors on some ouds and also agreeing on some, it has to be quite subjective at some point.
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I agree with you about the colour variation, but remember that scent varies massively between the sexes, phenotypes and even with twins due to developmental differences.

Saying that, the minute I see an Oud described, for example, as 'puce' 'taupe' or even 'amaranth' then I will be bringing my baseball bat.
 
Steel Hyaena

Steel Hyaena

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I have this little problem. That problem is that I am a writer. So... you won't necessarily get 'orange', you're likely to get 'cinnabar' or possibly 'tenné'. And you may very well get 'amaranth', but maybe not in description of oud! Also, I wear scents that are more traditionally associated with males. Unless one is talking about something like a very pure, clear floral, I'm going to be sidling past to reach for the wood or spice notes. And with the Gods as my witnesses, no one needs to come at me with vanilla and think I will wear it. Eat it? Sure. But it's cloyingly, stickily sweet. If my scent receptors could cause me to get diabetes, it would be vanilla that would do it. I like it with other things, but these girls that sashay past me in this sugary gag-a-maggot cloud of not just vanilla, but VANILLA make me want to lose my lunch.
 
Steel Hyaena

Steel Hyaena

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Probably, since Ensar turns anything he touches to gold! But everything I have ever smelled that has vanilla as its main component has been too sweet for me. I had to ask a friend of mine to custom-make a scrub I use with a different oil, because the vanilla was killing me. I was also not fond of it as grapefruit. Seems like a lot of what I don't like would be 'foodish' aromas.
 
Steel Hyaena

Steel Hyaena

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My Dhul Q experience went like... black. Completely aphotic black, like anthracite coal, oil smoke or cavedark. But then, just like one experiences fireflies. there was a glint of true, primal red. Then another... then another. And then, I was standing in a giant geode of aromas. Flares of creosote-leaf vermilion. Glints of scarlet mesquite. Threads of the pure and sharp fire that is unique to oud alone. All lying against the black, black, black of a slightly indolic and depthless night.

It was a night on fire.
 
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