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I have been layering People's Ceylon with Zakir's vintage Kewda Attar recently and the result is absolutely spectacular. Walla patta, sandalwood and florals like frangipani make for an outstandingly elegant combination.
Today ORSL and RBO Sri Lankan Sandal for another such experiment. It's a winner.
Today ORSL and RBO Sri Lankan Sandal for another such experiment. It's a winner.
great question. i do think most of us will find it very valuable to get some info however loose and general from distillers on how they forsee a given oil changing. in the world of wine, it is expected of us to forecast maturity date and map out the development of a given wine. our patrons demand it.
oud of the night last night with yoga practice: not really oud but agarwood extract and none other than imperial sinesis. sweet, creamy, pure and delicious. very gourmand and very deeply satisfying. doesnt have layers and nuances that are formed from distillation process but who cares, so satisfying.
I’d find it very educational to hear a forecast from distillers/vendors for their oils, and from a sales and marketing perspective, I can’t see it doing any harm. I’d be interested to hear from any longtime collectors if their predictions have come true over the years for any oils they’ve been watching.
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was meant to be... i coincidentally found a sample vial of green papua in my jacket pocket (not a jacket i normally wear) and happend to have abdus selam at the office. a swipe of each on the neck and wow wow wow. the best part is how drastically different the scent is when i am sitting in the office where was when i went for a walk outside in the cold and rain. what i pick out that really speaks to me is the delicious gourmand top note of what i think must be sumba and how it works with all the beautiful and 100 shades of green as seen in both GP and the gyrinops of abdus selam. i can imagine a dot of kinamantan or a dot of royal malinau along these two swipes sending me over to the moon.
was meant to be... i coincidentally found a sample vial of green papua in my jacket pocket (not a jacket i normally wear) and happend to have abdus selam at the office. a swipe of each on the neck and wow wow wow. the best part is how drastically different the scent is when i am sitting in the office where was when i went for a walk outside in the cold and rain. what i pick out that really speaks to me is the delicious gourmand top note of what i think must be sumba and how it works with all the beautiful and 100 shades of green as seen in both GP and the gyrinops of abdus selam. i can imagine a dot of kinamantan or a dot of royal malinau along these two swipes sending me over to the moon.
In the world of Ensar Oud, we generally don't have to make such forecasts because as standard practice we wouldn't release an oil before doing the aging in-house. We have batches that are a decade old that are still aging. Numerous oils from the mid- to late 2000's that remain unreleased. Generally, when we release an oil, it means that the aging process has accomplished its most important task of removing any 'technique' notes or 'auxilliary' notes leaving only the raw material & terroir (as with Rasoul's wines).
Of course, there are exceptions. Sinharaja X was one of them. We intentionally released this oil as a PR statement to counter certain claims on the market that our oils are 'overpriced' as compared with vendors X, Y, Z. We went to the same distillery employed by vendor X, inspected the feedstock, improved it by a margin of 30%, and then immediately released the oil (vendor X's oil was sold fresh off the still) at around 40% less than the competitor's price.
This, as I am sure you can appreciate, was done not to harm our competitor but to debunk a market myth.
Of course, there are exceptions. Sinharaja X was one of them. We intentionally released this oil as a PR statement to counter certain claims on the market that our oils are 'overpriced' as compared with vendors X, Y, Z. We went to the same distillery employed by vendor X, inspected the feedstock, improved it by a margin of 30%, and then immediately released the oil (vendor X's oil was sold fresh off the still) at around 40% less than the competitor's price.
This, as I am sure you can appreciate, was done not to harm our competitor but to debunk a market myth.
Ayu. Malaysian oils are very unique and my first experiences with them long ago were a bit awkward. Ayu does not hide its Malay roots, in fact if flaunts them. I would say if i tried this oil at the beginning of my journey, I would not get it. Now, oils like this are so moving. It bursts with energy and light.
Xiang Liao Ling (Ensar) - dark, spicy, earthy, herbal - quite a heady bouquet! Am starting to really like this oil - it's a style of Maroke oud, similar to Royal #5 (EO) and Sultan's Succor (AA) that I did not like much initially - but they are growing on me! My Maroke journey started with Maroke 2004, and then went to Maroke LTD - very different scent profiles than XLL and its ilk. A rough analogy is the difference between the fruity Cambodian style and the moreso animalic or tobacco type Cambodians..