Hi im new to this forum this is my first post.
I have a few questions.
First
masstika i have the musk tincture from Profumo and the ultimate musk from Sharif and also tried Hamfirls so called musk oils but i dont think that any of these are the real musk i am looking for.
Maybe they really received a pod from a deer from siberia or anywhere else but maybe not from the
real musk deer.
Maybe the real musk deer is so rare that this guys in russia or elsewhere hunt other deers from other species that also have those pods.
And with that possibility combined with the rarity of it, i believe it is extreme hard to find and get.
And who can today really claim to know how real musk smells like.
But i dont give up
You said that you have musk from SMK, is it similar to Profumos musk tincture? Or is it different?
Several years ago when i visited Al Madinah, i was able to visite the grave of Uthman Ibn Affan in Al Baqi graveyard.
I could smell a fragrance coming out of that grave that i never smelled in my entire life. No fragrance i smelled could even come close this.
So i decided to make tabarruk with the grave while my friends kept the guy waiting there busy. (By the way tabarruk is a allowed matter and it is confirmed and well knwon that Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal permitted it, see Al Ilal Wa Marifat Ar-Rijal).
The earth that came in contact with some pieces of my clothes took the fragrance and it lasted alsmost 5 years. Believe it or not i even washed them a few times and i was still able to smell it.
So my point is that i believe that this fragrance i smelld there and that was with me several years, is what musk smells like. I dont really know what it was but i think that it was musk.
One sentence to describe it, it was glowing.
I never smelled something like it ever again until i ordered "musk grains" from hamfirl. I was very upset when i saw that he actually send me something charcoalded.
Then i decided to take the cap of vial which contained the charcoal and i could smell a very light scent of what i smelled at Uthmans grave. Ver very light scent of it. But no scent of it in the grains or oil.
He didnt admit that he send me charcoal but later he decided to send me vials of his "musk oils". I checked them and their caps but didnt find anything.
The only one i did not test was his tonquin oil but its price is to high for testing since i already gave him money for sometihng i never really received and he didnt offer a sample.
As i said before, i didnt give up. Maybe some day i will find it or maybe if it became too rare not.
Regarding my second question
I read in the basenotes forum that Taha said that the best ambergris he had was the absolute from bruce SMK if i remember correctly.
So here is the question. Since i dont have that experience to distunguish and wealth to test all kinds ambergris available on the net i would like to know about your opinions regarding the comparison of that Ambergris of Bruce SMK, Qurashi (he has to expensive and a blue one), and one guy called douglas who was also mentioned by someone.
I tried Sharifs Ambergris White Gold and it was very sweet. Is this how rl good ambergris smells like?
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