Oudselect

#21
Oudselect's "Borneo Gold"

I bought samples from Yasin (Oudselect) a couple years ago, early on when the company had only been around a short time. I really liked the Borneo Gold. It had a beautiful, pure ethereal fragrance and no off-notes of any kind. Oudselect is always offering 'sales' and I wound up purchasing five 3ml. bottles of Borneo Gold, thinking I could always sell a few bottles and still get my own at a reasonable price. But when the bottles came they didn't smell like the original sample. The smell was similar but just without the outstanding ethereal quality of the original. I asked Yasin about it and he admitted that the Borneo Gold I had purchased was from a later batch of Borneo Gold. I wanted to return the bottles I had purchased since they were not of the quality of what I had sampled and eventually I did, though not without some difficulty. My conclusion: "Borneo Gold" sometimes is of good quality, but how often I don't know and one should be very clear with Oudselect whether what you are buying is from the same batch as what you have sampled. I know their source but he will not sell directly as he has a wholesale arrangement with Oudselect. Dorian
 
#23
Hi AbuAyoob, No, none at all. The Borneo Gold I got smelled great...very ethereal...otherwise I would not have ordered 5 bottles after I tried the sample. The second and third batches which followed were not outstanding like the first but were still pleasant, just not what I had ordered. Dorian