Assalamualaikum brothers,صباحُ الخير, good morning. Yesterday meet one of the longest serving oud wholesaler in Singapore. Told him that I would like to learn and adventure oud and thank God that he accepted my request, though the meeting was 8am Sunday morning. He showed me all the ‘stuffs’ from wild to mix wild and also when someone purchased and mix them to then call it from their own countries ??!! Such unethical practice and I was so shocked. Only a trained nose can indentify the ‘mix’, yeah it’s a sad thing but it’s the truth. Well Long story cut short, we had a wonderful time fire camping while he reminisces the days of his past since late 70’s and I was truly intrigued. A bonus question I asked was, since he has a bundle of incense grade chips, why not distill it to make out of this world dehn al oudh, guees what his reply was, ‘are you nuts!?’
The yield will be so Low and the price will sky rocket and who the heck will buy that kind of oil. So I just end the conversation there on the oil part and we continue our campfire and gazing at his Kyara, singking and whatever stash he had. Oud on the plate was, Cambodi/Indo Kinam/Brunei Kinam (he was almost knocked out too), Maroke and all the Borneo’s and India/Bangladesh. Got lost into a psychedelic mode and literally forgot my next appointment.