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@Ensar thanks for the warm welcome! Its great that you have ventured into Sri Lanka. When are we expecting an oil? It would be interesting to compare to the other Sri Lankan oils which i have.
 

Taha

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o_O
...and here I thought you wanted to keep your Ceylons a secret! The previous Ceylon brews you have are probably more than the quantity of everything in the market - combined (and that's just the ones I know of).

By the way, I'm getting anxiety just looking at the photo... maybe its just the camera angle (?), but it seems the retort stand wants to go down to the floor (or is that not a retort stand?), please fix it! :p You know how much anxiety I get if even something as 'trivial' as the drip rate increases from 1 drop per 10 seconds to 1 drop per 7 seconds.
Wishing you all the best with this brew, and super curious to see how it compares to your others you've showed me.
 

Taha

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What am I missing? o_O
The clamp appears to be perfectly perpendicular to the stand. So the clamp should be set to a non-perpendicular angle to the stand? (yikes!)
And why should the stand be slanted? I'd love for you (or Ensar!) to ouducate me on this, as I really truly cannot comprehend that angle (nor the pink ribbons). :D
 
Wearing Feel oud Borneo FERA.. very smooth and seems to get stronger as time goes by.. Has that oudiness cloud at the end..


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kesiro

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Wearing Feel oud Borneo FERA.. very smooth and seems to get stronger as time goes by.. Has that oudiness cloud at the end..


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Could not agree with you more. I referred specifically to this oil in my new thread on aging. This one is getting better and better.
 
Could not agree with you more. I referred specifically to this oil in my new thread on aging. This one is getting better and better.
Hahaha perfect timing huh?? Yeah I think I'm going to leave this one alone and dig into it every now and then.. I really really enjoy this one.


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kesiro

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Hahaha perfect timing huh?? Yeah I think I'm going to leave this one alone and dig into it every now and then.. I really really enjoy this one.


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I agree but I think it is really fun and informative to try it every once in a while to see how it develops.
 

5MeO

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Speaking of Fera - I wore Taha's Indian oil "Fera" today - rich animalic and soul wood smell - not fermented though, just natural animalic - very very nice..
 

PEARL

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The smooth, charismatic red barn of the Hindi Oud Nuh; the soul satisfying, psychedelic red tobacco of the Vietnamese Kinam Rouge; the alluring red medicinal resin and majestic royalty of King Koh Kong and Kambodi '76, and every bit as Cambodian, the bittersweet dried hibiscus treat-Ensar Oud~K.
 

kesiro

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Mr. P. In your honor, Oud Hud is my scent of the morning, or at least until the alcohol of the surgical scrub washes it off.
I commented on this Oud when I got it. I think it has it all. As your perfect description implies as well. This is one of the most deeply satisfying Ouds on many levels.
 

Ensar Oud

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Finally got to try Sinensis by IO, thanks to a gun-slingin' sheriff ;)

Reminds me a whole lot of Eden Botanicals' CO2 Assam extract. The pollen, the balsam, the seabreeze elements are all there (accessory notes that go hand-in-hand with CO2 extraction). This being sinensis agarwood though, it is closer to my heart than Eden's agallocha extract.

This would make a superb perfumery ingredient for the natural perfumer looking to incorporate a soft yet tenacious agarwood heart note in a blend, at a relatively low cost. I am assuming it is from Guangdong materials?
 
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Finally got to try Sinensis by IO, thanks to a gun-slingin' sheriff ;)

Reminds me a whole lot of Eden Botanicals' CO2 Assam extract. The pollen, the balsam, the seabreeze elements are all there (accessory notes that go hand-in-hand with CO2 extraction). This being sinensis agarwood though, it is closer to my heart than Eden's agallocha extract.

This would make a superb perfumery ingredient for the natural perfumer looking to incorporate a soft yet tenacious agarwood heart note in a blend, at a relatively low cost. I am assuming it is from Guangdong materials?
It's actually from a plantation in Hainan, Fragrant Harbour was from Guangdong material.