Casual musings on a bunch of oud I have in sample vials:
Back to blind testing last few nights for fun and to keep the senses sharp.
Some discoveries or otherwise fleets of thoughts that came to me during this eve’s 20 randomly picked mixed vial blind test.
Imperial oud konnaung and new imperial
burma are both a note I have only ever smelled In these two IO oils. No other burma. No other vendor. A bitter yet soft yellow fruit note yet medicinal and indochinese in dna
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Oud zach is far more barnier now than a year or so ago. Yet along oud shuayb is distinctly horsy. No sheep or cows or goats here. It is a distinct horse sadalleather note. Despite the beauty and complexity is far too much for me to actually wear and roll in it
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Duhl q has a sticky Yusuf fruit note in it that hadn’t registered for me to this potency extent to date.
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Sultan Abdül Hamit is the single most successful “smoky” “oud chip bubbling under your skin” oud. I must say I am not a fan of this genre. It masks the beauty of those precious oleoresin. Some will rightfully disagree and I agree to disagree. My issue is a personal one.
Anyways the message is I will gladly andfrequently wear Abdül Hamit for you.
Oils in genre I have tried: Aroha, two difreleases of duhl q, philipina 2, kencana 3, sigyria walla by IO.
Most successful to my liking was philipina 2 and sigyria. Both after few months at least of release date though and few airings.
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ASO layth
Has a good whack of what I associate with trat
agarwood for a cambodi. Of course are present those cambodi notes. Think yusuf jsl adams thai I forget the name, tony Bolton’s....
Taha has a cambodi too that is dressed as trat: Koh kood. A cambodi vacationing in
Thailand.
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Pursat 05 and more recent one 12? Are super psychoactive. Big time psychedelic notes. Pursat 05 has a purple blue scent to it. Iris crossed with violet.
Brain interrupts to send me a message:
Rasoul, cambodis are not your thing. Move on for now revisit in 6 months or later.
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One last impression I got for the second time in a while: EO port moresbey is a damn fine oil belonging in a subset of legends of the legends category. Is not just a great but a great if greats. It smells to me what one envisions of new funnies in ones eyes mind.
The presentation of the notes in this oil. Ahhhh so round and polite. Aged notes. Young notes. All in line performing like a grand symphony. Those kinamic bitter tingling notes don’t exactly suck either. Brilliant stuff. I wish I had more than what I began with originally 0.3.