Black Friday @ EO

I should have done this with Oud Royale 1. Should have done it with Borneo 3000... Kyara LTD... Royal Kinam... Kyara Koutan. I did it with Oud Sultani. I'm DOING it with Purple Kinam. After today (or tomorrow, depending on where you live in the world) it will no longer be offered for sale.

This is your LAST CHANCE to own Purple Kinam.

Omg, amazing oil , have a tiny sample from the EO sample collection, and potent and superb profile on Steroids, i personally don't like Malaysia profile , but not PK, love purple Kinam , , florals from another Galaxy and no peat moss vibe ,☕️☕️☕️

It's a sad moment for lovers of truly great Oud but completely understandable, Ensar.

PK is the one you should wear for your children's weddings, your birthdays and on the ruination of your enemies.

Enjoy it.

If I could double-like your post I would. Only thing I want to say is, I don't have any enemies. From my side, there is no enmity. Nor do I have a need to hate. Those who feel compelled to hate and live their lives in enmity are recompensed by that very fact. Vitriol only corrodes its own vessel.

It is quite the tribute to pay someone, to spend your days hating them. I thank my 'enemies' for that.

Only the Oudh lovers will understand the depth of this statement of yours!

There are a few oils I regret selling

Indeed, you have to know when to keep certain gems locked into your personal treasure chest

It's remarkable how Ensar maintains his composure amidst constant attacks, I would like to think it's because he's a cool guy, but what it probably is..........it's the effect one experiences when constantly graced with swipes of top notch oud

Such wisdom and character beyond your years @Ensar

Oh Crikey, everyone.

I thought of my sentiments as this:


Not This!

It is (was) an un-believable oil.
My cosmic muse.
I will treasure what I still possess for as long as I can sniff.
There might be a time during my final swipes of PK that I question my resolve to never borrow money.
Farewell, supernatural Space-Oud.........

VIETNAM KINAM

Here’s your chance to let Japanese-certified kinam engrave the red dragon’s tongue-numbing breath into your brain so deep it’ll haunt you every time you take a whiff of anything else.

Oud lovers might smell kinam once in their lives. Or never. Kinam is the Red Sulphur of all things fragrant. The Holy Grail of olfaction. It’s the most sought after and precious strand of agarwood in the world, second to none. The medicinal bitterness of the scent is intoxicating to no end, like no other pleasure known to man.

Anyone who keeps their eye on kinam prices would have noticed how the big Japanese houses have dramatically jacked up the price of kinam within this last year. For established and respected companies to do this is very telling.

Because there’s so much buzz about kinam and so many haven’t had the chance (or the funds) to experience it, we wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to own your own stash of authentic Vietnamese kinam.

The Japanese houses sell a minimum of 1 gr of this exact caliber. To make things easier on your wallet, we’re giving you the option to get .5 gr instead. To sweeten the deal even further, we’re offering it for $200 less than the current market price.

If kinam is on your bucket list (and it certainly ought to be!) now’s the time to make your move.

Wow! Is this the same Yamada Matsu that was offered in the Royal Kinam kit?

Yes sir!

That’s great news. I was wondering if this would ever be offered outside of the kit. I’ll inquire with the Duke when I email him later today.

Brunei Kinam

I’ve heated a whole lot of this wood. At the distillery, over unending cups of oolong, the wooden kyara heaters would get passed around: “Bunnei” the distiller would say in Hokkien, giving a thumbs up as if to say, “I told you so!”

The next heater would come: “Haillam…”

The next one: “Guallam…”

To my disbelief, all of the “Kilams” had a similar bitterness at the core that was merely shrouded in different top notes.

Legend has it that the whole “Brunei Kinam” story is a marketing ploy invented by the Chinese when they ran out of Vietnamese Kyara. To me, it makes little difference who invented the story. I can spend the rest of my days heating Brunei Kinam.

The smoke of this wood is the story of my life. I’ve made oil from it, and it ranks well beyond anything any king or emperor has smelled, no matter how illustrious. And no, it’s no marketing story (or the oil would be for sale). Louis XIV may have slept next to the Mona Lisa, but he never smelled my Brunei Kinam. All of art revolves around the “ecstasy” factor, the power to transport the beholder. Few olfactory vistas are so grand they make you groan, where you want to pull your hair out from pure ecstasy.

Dark resinous top notes unfurl into the bitter core of Hainanese Kinam. The greenness of Vietnam Kyara is lacking. The profile is more purple blue than yuzu green. Some people report a milk note shrouded in signature Bruneian purple. I only get bitter-blue with the red effervescence of Hainanese Kinam in the background.

Wearing a greasy bangle of fast plummeting Brunei Kinam is no less appealing to me than wearing a Vietnamese. The bitter medicinal madness is about the same on the wrist. At room temperature, the scent is equally narcotic. That is the secret of kinam. It requires very low heat to unfold all of its secrets. Sometimes, no heat at all is required.

My closing oration at this year's London OudFest:

"We shall go on to the end. We shall make it cheap again. We shall make it cheaper in France, we shall make it cheaper on the seas and oceans, we shall make it cheap with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our oil, whatever the cost may be, we shall make it cheaper on the beaches, we shall cheapen it on the landing grounds, we shall make it cheap again in the fields and in the streets, we shall make it cheaper in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Assamugo Senkoh

Assamugo Senkoh takes Chugoku’s new-school sinensis, shakes it up, serves it back from the other side of the border with an upper Assamese groove that’s never smelled so… Chinese.

To be inaugurated into the Senkoh series, an oud must personify the scent of heated oleoresin. And, by extension, get you utterly addicted without consent. Swipe follows swipe, after swipe. The meditating monks were onto something after all. And this is why. The addiction factor blows the lid off the kettle. The scent progression is flawless and intentionally linear – Senkoh is minimalist beauty, distilled. Rooibos spicy, sinensis bitter (i.e. the slightest touch of orange twang… that teases… then demands a second swipe, a third. Hint: Better get two bottles off the bat).

If ‘old-school’ is your thing, you’re in the wrong place. We’ve got fantastic old-school ouds on offer, but Assamugo Senkoh is not one of them. That doesn’t mean it lacks even a splinter of the primordial pull you find in quality vintage oils. Precisely the opposite…

The Assamugo mania hits you hard exactly because it oozes with such primal tenacity. Ask me if it’s meditative, it is. Calming, definitely. Ideal for winter, absolutely. Its virgin pull makes this an oud that’s more inviting than caviar. Crave the zesty sensuality of ultra rare Chinese oud, combo-ed with a tailored clean-cut version of the musky Himalayan swagger. This is it. I almost want to say Assamugo pre-dates old-school. It’s that pristine. The naked scent of sinensis, stripped of any funky rawness, with a tattoo of a wildflower agallocha running along its spine.

To craft Assamugo Senkoh, we used an exclusive batch of agarwood harvested along the Northern Assam/Chinese border, distilled in the most untraditional way. So, ‘Is it Chinese or is it Hindi?’

Nu-perfumery drunk on New Guinea gyrinops turned a new leaf in Chugoku Senkoh. Suriranka Senkoh took you out on an oceanic odyssey. Assamugo Senkoh takes you to the origin of oud, before soaking and doping hit the scene. You could literally see just about everyone who got a swipe of it during the recent UK OudFest take a whiff… then another… pupils expanding… and another. That’s how you know.

Note: The replacement cost to distill Assamugo Senkoh again would command a price tag of no less than $995 a bottle. But, as this was distilled in conjunction with the Chugoku project we got an incredible deal on the present batch, and so we’re able to pass down the savings.

Discover what makes oud ‘Senkoh’.


Here's what people are saying about Assamugo Senkoh:

Maybe you should have called it the Assakicko!

This is just a spectacular oil. Nuff' said. If Yoshi and Chugoku Senkoh had a love child, this would be it. The combination of those 2 is greater than the sum of the two individual oils. Simply an astonishing oil. If people thought Chugoku had an addictive quality, this one easily tops it for me. It is Chugoku with a more cloying sweetness. The scent of gold. Did I mention I love this oil? – Phil, USA

One unreleased nu-parfum, a discontinued Legend, and a batch of Priveé you won't find anywhere else… all straight from the source of the Sultan's signature.

I'm gonna get some flak for this, I know. But I'm reviving an oud that was for many a game-changer, trend setter, and to me personally one of the most intoxicating oils ever distilled (that's why I stopped selling it). And I'm discounting it to death.

As for Sultan Süleyman, I'm only making it available today (until the official release – many months, if not years from now) at such an insane discount we'll have to do overtime to make up for it.

……But it's New Guinea Saturday and there's no stopping me!

I am cursing myself for missing this deal. I have overspent on fragrant things last month. So have to keep it in check. Otherwise would have jumped on all 3. Look at those chips. Jawdrop...

@Ensar please advise if you are planning a Merry Malaysian Tuesday or Wednesday. I will have to take out a bank loan. You are killing me. .