EO's Sultan Sufyan
Sultan Sufyan-My first thought was one of bewilderment. The oil has a particular familiarity while being an entirely new, exotic and unique experience. The notes are similar but so distant from the notes in oils from India, Cambodia, Thailand, Bhutan, Borneo, Malaysia, etc. It's as if this oil resides in a parallel universe, something extraterrestrial; there is a mild sweetness, medicinal and purplish blue-grey, I want to say fruity but it doesn't smell like any earthly fruit. The incense to me it is not vapory or kinamic, but rather a heavy and dense high grade medicinal resin extract.
The fruits-Imagine having a plum grown in the jungles of the movie Avatar. A plum turned inside out, where the hard shell of the pit is on outside and one has to crack that shell to get to the moist flesh. That would be an approximation of the fruit note in Sultan Sufyan, truly other worldly, bizarre and surreal. It's quite cartoonish, a caricature, nothing else like it on the typical Middle Eastern oud market, an anomaly but all oud. A glimpse into the mind of a mad scientist, beautiful.
