SOTD

~A Coburn

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Another great day for Hainan 2005! Although wait... Isn't every day!?!?!?
It steadily climbs my top favorite list the more I go to it, a single thread from Kyara LTD, but that's enough!
No hairy Gorgonzola cheese here but that bright blood orange kyara note that pierces through the oriental undertone.
A refreshing splash that has some serious tenacity! I know just from one application this morning, I'll be winding down my day with it tonight...
 

~A Coburn

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Lol, the cat's pajamas!!!
Honestly it baffles me how many perceive a animalic funktabulous opening to it. Every-time I apply it that piercing bright kinam comes straight to the top and persists throughout.
There have been a few days in which the source bottle has a hairy tone, but come back to it in a few hours or the next day and I find it singing a bright tune!
Maybe Hainan and I are just meant for each other, after all I much prefer it over China Sayang, and I know many would disagree... =)
 

JohnH

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Lol, the cat's pajamas!!!
Honestly it baffles me how many perceive a animalic funktabulous opening to it. Every-time I apply it that piercing bright kinam comes straight to the top and persists throughout.
There have been a few days in which the source bottle has a hairy tone, but come back to it in a few hours or the next day and I find it singing a bright tune!
Maybe Hainan and I are just meant for each other, after all I much prefer it over China Sayang, and I know many would disagree... =)
Hi Adam, hope all's well.
What is a 'hairy tone' please? I've not heard the term before.
I also much prefer the Hainan and I think it will be my SOTD too, it should brighten what is a very grey and wet day here.
 

~A Coburn

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Hi Adam, hope all's well.
What is a 'hairy tone' please? I've not heard the term before.
I also much prefer the Hainan and I think it will be my SOTD too, it should brighten what is a very grey and wet day here.
Hey John, well that 'hairy tone' that I'm referring to only seems to come from Chinese oils, and especially if they've been sealed for some time... Yup, sure enough, I just checked another bottle and it's there... It's a kind of dull wool or silk profile, once it's swiped or aired out it doesn't stick around...

When I say tone, it's because it's not exactly the scent note but just within the portion of the scent spectrum. Just like how an oud can be floral without smelling like one particular flower. As Rasoul said earlier, it's the behavior of the scent, not the note itself.
 

JohnH

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Hey John, well that 'hairy tone' that I'm referring to only seems to come from Chinese oils, and especially if they've been sealed for some time... Yup, sure enough, I just checked another bottle and it's there... It's a kind of dull wool or silk profile, once it's swiped or aired out it doesn't stick around...

When I say tone, it's because it's not exactly the scent note but just within the portion of the scent spectrum. Just like how an oud can be floral without smelling like one particular flower. As Rasoul said earlier, it's the behavior of the scent, not the note itself.
Ah, I see, interesting. Mmmm, I can just imagine opening those source bottles!
 

~A Coburn

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I've actually often thought where I could post my amazement as I open the source bottles... There are times in which I hardly recognize an oud and I experience it almost every day. Green Papua for example revealed something new to me each time I opened it over the last month... To me it gets better as the weather heats up. And just yesterday Sultani 1990 morphed into a Sumatran profile, at first whiff I could have confused it will OR85!
 

5MeO

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Hey there Adam, perhaps "animalic" isn't the right tone - a very hard scent to describe for a non-expert like me! Several of the Chinese oils (except the new Royal Kinam or Yunna Kinam) from Ensar though, they have a certain signature that is highly distinct - an orange peel + musk type + atypical barn scent profile - I get this with Hainan 2005 as well, though what I like so much about Hainan 2005 is that there's much more to it than that..
 

JohnH

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Oud Yunus was one of the first ouds I bought - well before I appreciated Hindi style ouds - I initially thought "wow, they should call this 'Oud Anus' instead!" A neophyte was I, however, not appreciating yet some of the finest things in the oud world.. Nowadays Oud Yunus is among my favorite in this category - it's like an archetypal Hindi oud - straightforward, intense on the barn, but revealing also a sweet buttery quality after a bit on the skin..
I would have loved to have smelt Oud Yunus when it was a younger beast, so I could compare between then and now.
 

5MeO

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Indeed good sir! It's remarkable I got hooked on oud in the first place, given my initial experiences with it. The first oils I tried were from an ebay vendor from whom I had bought some (in retrospect, low quality) agarwood chips from. The vendor included a few tiny samples of oud - these were foul barnyard ouds and one that was not barnyard but smelled like industrial solvents or something. Nevertheless, something about the smell intrigued me, and by chance I found Ensar's site. Intrigued by the lavish descriptions and what appeared to me to be astronomical prices (for what I thought was just "essential oil") I ordered up samples of Oud Yusuf, Bois de Borneo, and Oud Dhul Kifl - needless to say I was dazzled by these oils and thus fell down the rabbit hole.. Oud Yunus shortly followed, but I had yet to acquire the barnyard appreciation..
 

Rasoul S

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Another great day for Hainan 2005! Although wait... Isn't every day!?!?!?
It steadily climbs my top favorite list the more I go to it, a single thread from Kyara LTD, but that's enough!
No hairy Gorgonzola cheese here but that bright blood orange kyara note that pierces through the oriental undertone.
A refreshing splash that has some serious tenacity! I know just from one application this morning, I'll be winding down my day with it tonight...
One of those oils. Easily.
 

~A Coburn

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It's raining here in the desert today, and that's reason to celebrate!!!
To match the day's mood it'll be a handsome swipe of Oud Dhul Q!
The next best thing to sitting next to an open-hearth fireplace complete with the rain beating down on the tin roof!
Can't get much more relaxing than that... Actually, where's the hot chocolate? =)
 

~A Coburn

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Ensar Midori Qi. Outstanding Oil! Fresh breeze flowing through A mountain forest. I will say no more. No plans to release this one ?
A fresh breeze is an excellent reference for Midori Q...Lol you had to say it.
Now it's Dhul Q behind the ears and Midori Qi on the hand and the contrast opens them both up!
With Borneos there are the dry woody profiles, and the wet herbaceous Kinamantan-ish profiles, and Midori Qi is definitely the latter.
Open, airy, ozone and petrichor, a freshness above the canopy of temperate mixed-broadleaf forest complete with fern-like undergrowth, and just beneath the fougère is a dried pine-needle astringency as if to claim relations to Chugoku...
 
SOTN the last week has been a tiny touch of Assam Organic Meghalaya every night to wind down. I have to thank @Oudamberlove for the constant SOTD posts and his poop emojis. It really got me curious. Then @~A Coburn Sent me a tiny sample with one of my orders. I sniffed it and put it away for a month or so. I came back to it and found myself constantly sniffing the vial. I SERIOUSLY did not want to like it because I can see how offensive it could be to people that are used to synthetic fragrances. I was worried that a full bottle would not see good use, but this became my alone time oil. However, I have to say that I absolutely love this oil. It is so rich, deep and mellow. The depth of this oil is incredible. If I had the funds, I would buy a Tola of this. It’s an excellent oil. I will refrain from calling it an excellent Hindi oil because it’s just an excellent oil period when I compare it to oils from all regions. The best part is that it’s distilled from wild trees. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some poop to enjoy.