By now, everyone is well acquainted with the online Oud market and the products that these vendors have to offer. After many years of using (and enjoying) the pungentness of ASAQ Cambodis and the Barnyardiness of Ajmal's Oud Al Han, I was baffled when I ran across websites advertising 100% Pure Oud Oils. Naturally one would begin to think, well why would a vendor need to place 100% Pure on their products?, this for me raised many questions that needed to be answered. So I began to do a few google searches on 100% Pure Oud and came up with a handful of sites and articles. Long story short Oudselect was the first online vendor I purchased 100% Oud from. My initial introduction led me to purchase their Borneo Gold, Sweet Sumbawa (first batch) and Crowne Merauke ( which is no longer available).
The first bottle I opened was the Crowne Merauke and was greeted with a musky and rather muddy (wet soil) scent that surprised me as I was use to smelling ASAQ Cambodis. I was like this is different, so I moved on to the Sweet Sumbawa and was yet again surprised when I got a completely different scent than the first, with notes of burnt leather and vetiver. And lastly I sniffed the Borneo Gold, which to me the scent was familiar to and Indian Oud I had from Ajmal.
Borneo Gold is the strongest Oud I have ever smelled and owned hands down and I now have amassed quite a few over the years. This oil opened with a heavy dose of cow fertilizer and slowly gave way to a nice sweet musky scent. After getting a dose of the potency of this oil I thought damn this is what I have been missing out on all this time. I decided that I would allow the oils to sit and mature as this was one of the points of benefit that I picked up during my research. Generally 'Pure Oud' tends to get better over time when kept under the right circumstances. About two years later a week ago I opened the bottle and applied the Borneo Gold onto my hand and then my beard. The first thing I noticed was that the fertilizer smell became more tamed and balanced and the typical Borneo scent is now the body of this oil which to me is proof that aging helps an oil tremendously regardless of it's quality. Well today I can still smell the oil off of my beard after conditioning several times this week so much so that I did not put on any oils.
I know that some folks will be skeptical about Oudselect, but I can say that their oils are 100% Pure with no cut! And this is not an advertisement for this company, I just felt the need to open up a discussion about their oils as we should broaden the discussion as far as Oud is concerned.
Also my Crowne Merauke has become very pleasant and smooth and the sweet Sumbawa has developed an orange zest dry down scent which is euphoric. If anyone has any oils from oudselect let him speak now or forever Oud in Peace.
The first bottle I opened was the Crowne Merauke and was greeted with a musky and rather muddy (wet soil) scent that surprised me as I was use to smelling ASAQ Cambodis. I was like this is different, so I moved on to the Sweet Sumbawa and was yet again surprised when I got a completely different scent than the first, with notes of burnt leather and vetiver. And lastly I sniffed the Borneo Gold, which to me the scent was familiar to and Indian Oud I had from Ajmal.
Borneo Gold is the strongest Oud I have ever smelled and owned hands down and I now have amassed quite a few over the years. This oil opened with a heavy dose of cow fertilizer and slowly gave way to a nice sweet musky scent. After getting a dose of the potency of this oil I thought damn this is what I have been missing out on all this time. I decided that I would allow the oils to sit and mature as this was one of the points of benefit that I picked up during my research. Generally 'Pure Oud' tends to get better over time when kept under the right circumstances. About two years later a week ago I opened the bottle and applied the Borneo Gold onto my hand and then my beard. The first thing I noticed was that the fertilizer smell became more tamed and balanced and the typical Borneo scent is now the body of this oil which to me is proof that aging helps an oil tremendously regardless of it's quality. Well today I can still smell the oil off of my beard after conditioning several times this week so much so that I did not put on any oils.
I know that some folks will be skeptical about Oudselect, but I can say that their oils are 100% Pure with no cut! And this is not an advertisement for this company, I just felt the need to open up a discussion about their oils as we should broaden the discussion as far as Oud is concerned.
Also my Crowne Merauke has become very pleasant and smooth and the sweet Sumbawa has developed an orange zest dry down scent which is euphoric. If anyone has any oils from oudselect let him speak now or forever Oud in Peace.