I guess it’s allergies as things are in crazy bloom mode here in Northern California, so I am dealing with a runny nose and sneezing. But that is not going to stop me from enjoying some oils. Cubano from AA. A potent mix of oud, tobacco, spices and wood. Cuts through the congestion like a hot knife through butter.
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Swipe of the night to help manage and keep my mind off of my chronic low back pain that flared up badly today. 4 years has gone by since my nasty 35 feet rock climbing fall and I still suffer so much. Last 6 months were the best months yet with discomfort and even few weeks of totally pain free time and only with minor flair ups here and there until yesterday when the agonizing pain in all its might came back and growing stronger today. Don’t take your health for granted fellow community friends.
Port moresbey:
Holly Molly. Damn, this is one fine oud! Finer much finer than I remember. Last time I tried it was probably 2-3 months ago. It has the unique ensar bitter dna in the heart and the essence of the same note I find in sultan ahmet, abdus selam etc but seems even higher quality here. I even detect kinam. Maybe is a phantom scent brother Stefan talks about. I don’t know but I am loving it. Real or not.
Borneo Kalimantan fans and maroke filaria fans should all have a bit of this oil. Even fans of aceh.
The best part is how round and relaxed yet massively powerful this oil is. So goood. Mother Nature is the best perfumer of all. And in this case the distillers job is to not mess about and ruin the gift of nature. Kudos ensar and team for allowing the inner and natural beauty of this agarwood to shine. I may be making a fool of myself here and maybe (strongly doubt it) this oil is also partly awesome b/c of technique. But to my nose and experience so far it just shows the quality of the wood in all its naked glory in low heat with perhaps some heat spikes. Exceptional stuff and for the first time I prefer this over the more top note heavy and vaporous kinamantan that I consider a close cousin or even sibling to this tamed beast.
Port moresbey:
Holly Molly. Damn, this is one fine oud! Finer much finer than I remember. Last time I tried it was probably 2-3 months ago. It has the unique ensar bitter dna in the heart and the essence of the same note I find in sultan ahmet, abdus selam etc but seems even higher quality here. I even detect kinam. Maybe is a phantom scent brother Stefan talks about. I don’t know but I am loving it. Real or not.
Borneo Kalimantan fans and maroke filaria fans should all have a bit of this oil. Even fans of aceh.
The best part is how round and relaxed yet massively powerful this oil is. So goood. Mother Nature is the best perfumer of all. And in this case the distillers job is to not mess about and ruin the gift of nature. Kudos ensar and team for allowing the inner and natural beauty of this agarwood to shine. I may be making a fool of myself here and maybe (strongly doubt it) this oil is also partly awesome b/c of technique. But to my nose and experience so far it just shows the quality of the wood in all its naked glory in low heat with perhaps some heat spikes. Exceptional stuff and for the first time I prefer this over the more top note heavy and vaporous kinamantan that I consider a close cousin or even sibling to this tamed beast.
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Hey brother, sorry about your back giving you trouble. Come on down and I’ll be happy to fix you right up, lol!
Seriously though, I hope it gets better soon
The Port Moresby is just an epic legendary oil. It is so unique and of such high quality, it sits near the top of my list overall. All these oils from Ensar become perceptively even better with repeat study. We are fortunate to be able to experience oud of this caliber.
Seriously though, I hope it gets better soon
The Port Moresby is just an epic legendary oil. It is so unique and of such high quality, it sits near the top of my list overall. All these oils from Ensar become perceptively even better with repeat study. We are fortunate to be able to experience oud of this caliber.
Talk about Nasty Falls!,,,,,,,yeeeoooowwwzzaaaa
I’m glad you survived it, although the flare-ups is no consolation
Yeah, the Port Moresby belongs to a special league of oils. However, I believe that the method of distillation plays a bigger part in it’s wonderful profile.
I think this because of the lack of sinking grade resinousness in PM compared to others like OR1, Oud Sultani, Kannan Koh, etc. I feel that PM is the product of chasing the smoke of the Green Dragon (aka quest for kinam)
I’m glad you survived it, although the flare-ups is no consolation
Yeah, the Port Moresby belongs to a special league of oils. However, I believe that the method of distillation plays a bigger part in it’s wonderful profile.
I think this because of the lack of sinking grade resinousness in PM compared to others like OR1, Oud Sultani, Kannan Koh, etc. I feel that PM is the product of chasing the smoke of the Green Dragon
(aka quest for kinam)
Welcome back @Oudamberlove and speedy recovery!
@Rasoul S, that's NONSENSE
Forgive me for yelling, I'm just kidding. But seriously, I understand how you feel about Vietnamese oils because I feel that way about Hindi oils. I think about the sheer number of tweaks that can be employed to distill Hindi oils. The results range from oils that display more the nature of the wood like Lalitya and Chugoku Senkoh, to oils that highlight clean fermentation like House of Misk’s Assam 2016 and Ensar’s Oud Zachariyya. Sultan Series-esque oils like Oud Hud with blue-black oceanic notes; coffee’d tobacco oils like Agarwood Assam’s Kanglei; butter spiced sandalwoody oils like Assam 3000; Hindis that’ll make you feel like you’re wearing a Vietnamese like Oud Shuayb; heart of Koh Kong oils like Oud Nuh; ethereal bitter Borneo Hindis like Assam Kinam. I could go on, but I just can’t see any other region competing with Hindis for variety.
GualPearl Solide is one of many I haven’t sampled. The idea of a solid Oud I can shmear on like cream cheese on my morning lox bagel sounds quite intriguing though. Does it sit close to the skin like KZ85 and Sinensis?
On the contrary I find HINDI oils to have more similarities than differences with one another.
at the end though all roads lead to Vietnam
my 2 cents.
at the end though all roads lead to Vietnam
my 2 cents.
Forgive me for yelling, I'm just kidding. But seriously, I understand how you feel about Vietnamese oils because I feel that way about Hindi oils. I think about the sheer number of tweaks that can be employed to distill Hindi oils. The results range from oils that display more the nature of the wood like Lalitya and Chugoku Senkoh, to oils that highlight clean fermentation like House of Misk’s Assam 2016 and Ensar’s Oud Zachariyya. Sultan Series-esque oils like Oud Hud with blue-black oceanic notes; coffee’d tobacco oils like Agarwood Assam’s Kanglei; butter spiced sandalwoody oils like Assam 3000; Hindis that’ll make you feel like you’re wearing a Vietnamese like Oud Shuayb; heart of Koh Kong oils like Oud Nuh; ethereal bitter Borneo Hindis like Assam Kinam. I could go on, but I just can’t see any other region competing with Hindis for variety.
GualPearl Solide is one of many I haven’t sampled. The idea of a solid Oud I can shmear on like cream cheese on my morning lox bagel sounds quite intriguing though. Does it sit close to the skin like KZ85 and Sinensis?
i may if ok give you a call and have a quick chat about the main issue i have. good to get an opinion of a surgeon.
back to port moresbey, it is so good. we really are fortunate to live in this era. past eras may have had better wood and got to spoil themselves with overt kinam heating but today's oud fans get to see a much larger picture with all the very many different distillates offered. do you also pick up a barebone kinam note in this oil? or its just in my head. i swear to god after wearing nha trang ltd i see high-quality oils as even higher quality and mid quality oils as an even lesser one.
back to port moresbey, it is so good. we really are fortunate to live in this era. past eras may have had better wood and got to spoil themselves with overt kinam heating but today's oud fans get to see a much larger picture with all the very many different distillates offered. do you also pick up a barebone kinam note in this oil? or its just in my head. i swear to god after wearing nha trang ltd i see high-quality oils as even higher quality and mid quality oils as an even lesser one.
brother @PEARL , no one with a level head can disagree with above. let me try again. i was talking about the agarwood itself and how one cant really put cambodi and specially malay wood in one category of their own. i mean that is true with all regions but for me specially true in these two areas. think about it, from hirta, maleccesnis, beccariana, crassna and the rare rostrata. in cambodia koh kong sings a very different song than koh kood and pursat. and then closer to vietnam we of course see the legendary kinamic bitter buzzing wood.
one day. maybe. hopefully, i can not only tolerate but fully appreciate chinese and hindi oils like i do with vietnamese and malay.
one day. maybe. hopefully, i can not only tolerate but fully appreciate chinese and hindi oils like i do with vietnamese and malay.
@PEARL re guallam solide... first off i agree fully that IO sinesis sit very close to the skin, but the kz85 not so much. i wont call it a kinamantan or malinau or a highly vapours malay but is not a quiet oil for me. guallam solide has more complexity both vertically and horizantally than the other two. in initial stages is fairly loud but then it quiets down. need to wear again to see if it ever enters the quiet close to skin phase like abdus selam, kenmei, etc. but off memory it never gets that quiet.
lastly there is a perfume and feminine perfume at that quality to this oil in the beginning that is interesting and at least makes me feel funny wearing it on myself. but this stage doesnt last too long.
lastly there is a perfume and feminine perfume at that quality to this oil in the beginning that is interesting and at least makes me feel funny wearing it on myself. but this stage doesnt last too long.
Talk about Nasty Falls!,,,,,,,yeeeoooowwwzzaaaa
I’m glad you survived it, although the flare-ups is no consolation
Yeah, the Port Moresby belongs to a special league of oils. However, I believe that the method of distillation plays a bigger part in it’s wonderful profile.
I think this because of the lack of sinking grade resinousness in PM compared to others like OR1, Oud Sultani, Kannan Koh, etc. I feel that PM is the product of chasing the smoke of the Green Dragon (aka quest for kinam)
I’m glad you survived it, although the flare-ups is no consolation
Yeah, the Port Moresby belongs to a special league of oils. However, I believe that the method of distillation plays a bigger part in it’s wonderful profile.
I think this because of the lack of sinking grade resinousness in PM compared to others like OR1, Oud Sultani, Kannan Koh, etc. I feel that PM is the product of chasing the smoke of the Green Dragon
(aka quest for kinam)
Nothing wrong with having preferences for certain regions than others. Although we all love oud, it’s likely that we all enjoy it in a slightly different way.
For example....to me....OM4 and OM5...Priceless
For example....to me....OM4 and OM5...Priceless
If there was a bow down emoji, I would use a line of it!!
OR85 for me tonight. The deep oudyness of this oil is just unmatched. Dark camphorous, liquor like, almost black ink/graphite notes dominate this beauty. A medicinal dark gem. The aging is clearly part of the secret sauce here, not to mention killer wood. A reference oil.
OR85 for me tonight. The deep oudyness of this oil is just unmatched. Dark camphorous, liquor like, almost black ink/graphite notes dominate this beauty. A medicinal dark gem. The aging is clearly part of the secret sauce here, not to mention killer wood. A reference oil.
This morning I put on AgarAura’s Ketenangan. This oil was a gift from my younger brother who bought this a couple of years back. It remained in my possession but I never opened it to smell it. Well he gave me a full sample vile and today I wanted to try this. I sure am glad I tried this oil. This is wild gyrinops from the Sumbawa island.
This oil is a hybrid between Borneo and Papua oils and has such a unique twist of aroma of something very special. This is done old school style and the sweet notes are not the ones that throw you off but rather it brings you closer and closer wanting to sniff it more and more. The dry down is super awesome and that’s where you get to smell the sheer greatness of this oil.
A true blessing to have smelled this gem of a oil!
This afternoon I got to try my newest addition AgarAura’s Syed Ascent. First of all this oil is a sheer monster in a bottle. The first initial hit of this oil and I was blown away. The Aquilaria Filaria aka Supreme Meroke agarwood in this oil is not like a car or truck hitting you but rather a heavy locomotive train traveling at 100 mph. Gone in this are the jungly notes which can throw off people. This oil has some of the most pleasant notes of nature that of a beautiful waterfall hitting the rocks and gently landing onto the grass and trees aroma.
The silage of this oil well to give you an example I put a small tiny dot probably the size of a mosquito head this afternoon around 1:30 pm and right now is 9:20 pm and I could clearly still smell the beautiful Marokeness in this oil.
As @Taha said it smooth yet potent. More to come on this one of a kind oil. A true honor to have tried this!!
This oil is a hybrid between Borneo and Papua oils and has such a unique twist of aroma of something very special. This is done old school style and the sweet notes are not the ones that throw you off but rather it brings you closer and closer wanting to sniff it more and more. The dry down is super awesome and that’s where you get to smell the sheer greatness of this oil.
A true blessing to have smelled this gem of a oil!
This afternoon I got to try my newest addition AgarAura’s Syed Ascent. First of all this oil is a sheer monster in a bottle. The first initial hit of this oil and I was blown away. The Aquilaria Filaria aka Supreme Meroke agarwood in this oil is not like a car or truck hitting you but rather a heavy locomotive train traveling at 100 mph. Gone in this are the jungly notes which can throw off people. This oil has some of the most pleasant notes of nature that of a beautiful waterfall hitting the rocks and gently landing onto the grass and trees aroma.
The silage of this oil well to give you an example I put a small tiny dot probably the size of a mosquito head this afternoon around 1:30 pm and right now is 9:20 pm and I could clearly still smell the beautiful Marokeness in this oil.
As @Taha said it smooth yet potent. More to come on this one of a kind oil. A true honor to have tried this!!