Funk and the Nose of the Beholder

Aleata

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#41
Does it have the same top note Of Purple Kinam ? Making me wonder , Nearest I came to PK was Sumatra Q tiq from F.O , Purple Kinam Top Note has a Aged Basmati Rice from the 1950 grown organically and splicing open 1 slice of the beautiful grain has same top Note of Purple Kinam, there's Times I hang out at my Local Corner store waiting for the Butcher and I sit in a room full Of Basmati Rice and Beautiful top note Of Purple Kinam hits the nose for a Moment , Store Owner Ask me Why I smile every time when I Sit in that Room , I try explaining and he looks at me baffled. :oops:
Basmati rice as Purple Kinam top note, so true, well found. Check Borneo* from House of Misk, very close to Purple Kinam, really impressive.
 
#42
@Aleata when you say its closed to PK the same sillage ? same longevity ? same nuclear scent ?
i think i will try it and i say if it the same of the legend PK
i dont see a borneo in the house of misk website you contact him directly ?
 
#43
Hi. Indeed, it is strange, borneo* is not available now. In fact, he sent me a sample of it with some other stuff, approximatively 1 month ago.
So, I would say same "nuclear scent", same characteristic aroma, strong, powerful&ethereal. In my humble opinion the similarities are phenomenal.
I am about to send a package to Mumbai for a distiller, in which is my sample (0.13ml) of Purple Kinam :). It is an exchange for 2ml of good indian oil.
In fact, I did not really appreciate Purple Kinam EO nor Borneo* HOM, so I am making a swap.
 
#44
Feel Oud Sumatra Q Tiq and Blue Malay share the same profile , Price is down to Earth and you won't have to mortgage your liver and Kidney , If we stay away from Old Aggarwood Mother Trees & Kinamic Oils the Jungles won't cry anymore , different people are opposite , rather mowing down the Jungles and rape and pillage all trees set the market High at the end , Being More proactive than destructive is the way to go , but distillers don't think about the future of Oud , it's about the present not the future , we are all going to die one day and what Kind of Legacy do we want to leave our Children , "My Dad chopped all those trees down & never replanted one tree back in the Jungle " , Hence on the Day Judgement the tree will talk against us or for us. Some people do it for the Love, and some for the Money , Hence Oud Industry is tainted, and dangerous way to earn income by mowing down the jungles , If distillers or hunters ( don't forget who sponsors the Hunters , The distillers ) cut 1 Wild Tree , & re plant 10 in the same vicinity , hence the Future of Ouds looks good , But if we go and start chopping and not re planting the Future of Oud is Doomed for sure , The Hand reaps what it sows , a True mystic will protect Nature , Hence we need more Hippies from the 60's to come back and teach there way of living . Don't forget these Hippies now control the World , Maybe the distillers needs some Berkley Acid to see the Horizon and then they would understand Nature. ;)
 
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Hi. Indeed, it is strange, borneo* is not available now. In fact, he sent me a sample of it with some other stuff, approximatively 1 month ago.
So, I would say same "nuclear scent", same characteristic aroma, strong, powerful&ethereal. In my humble opinion the similarities are phenomenal.
I am about to send a package to Mumbai for a distiller, in which is my sample (0.13ml) of Purple Kinam :). It is an exchange for 2ml of good indian oil.
In fact, I did not really appreciate Purple Kinam EO nor Borneo* HOM, so I am making a swap.
oredred is placed for borneo of HOM and i have purple kinam i will see if the siimilaritie are phenomenal lol
 

kesiro

Well-Known Member
#46
Hi. Indeed, it is strange, borneo* is not available now. In fact, he sent me a sample of it with some other stuff, approximatively 1 month ago.
So, I would say same "nuclear scent", same characteristic aroma, strong, powerful&ethereal. In my humble opinion the similarities are phenomenal.
I am about to send a package to Mumbai for a distiller, in which is my sample (0.13ml) of Purple Kinam :). It is an exchange for 2ml of good indian oil.
In fact, I did not really appreciate Purple Kinam EO nor Borneo* HOM, so I am making a swap.
Well I smell a rat. When I hear you say you did not apprciate PK and are trading it for some 'good' Indian oil, I cannot take your comments seriously. And anybody who has had experience with PK is going to feel the same way.
 
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Alkhadra

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#48
Well I smell a rat. When I hear you say you did not apprciate PK and are trading it for some 'good' Indian oil, I cannot take your comments seriously. And anybody who has had experience with PK is going to feel the same way.
Hmmm, I would agree. But then again, I have friends who would trade Brunei Kinam for adulterated hindis. So one mans trash, another mans treasure. Maybe it is not the quality they don't like, but rather it is the profile. When I started off buying Ouds from online vendors and smelt Aroha Kyaku for the first time I thought I had wasted $165 bucks and bought into the hype. :D It smelt like a wet ash-tray. However as my nose became more accustomed, it climbed up the ladder and became one of my favorite to go to Ouds, and the notes opened up for me, as my nose was better able to distinguish notes and appreciate depth.

Hi. Indeed, it is strange, borneo* is not available now. In fact, he sent me a sample of it with some other stuff, approximatively 1 month ago.
So, I would say same "nuclear scent", same characteristic aroma, strong, powerful&ethereal. In my humble opinion the similarities are phenomenal.
I am about to send a package to Mumbai for a distiller, in which is my sample (0.13ml) of Purple Kinam :). It is an exchange for 2ml of good indian oil.
In fact, I did not really appreciate Purple Kinam EO nor Borneo* HOM, so I am making a swap.
Don't be so quick to get rid of oils and trade my friend, sometimes after trading, as our nose develops more we wonder why we got rid of that bottle of liquid gold. :confused: It might or might not happen, I say give it a bit more time.
 
#49
Hence voting with our $$$$$ is the best way then , Giving my $$$$$ to a distiller that cares for the eco system that distils the oils for the passion and love of nature is rare , so rare I only know one person in this world that does it, and his clientele is rising , and Yes he has a Store On 'Etsy' and doing very well MashaAllah , Unless you meet more hippies , that is amazing cause there philosophy will rub on the person . Once again being proactive is the key, not destructive , I give one Example millions of times , In Kansas the Ginseng Trade is Supreme , The Chinese are the biggest buyers of Kansas Ginseng ( Just like the Chinese are the biggest buyers of Aggarwood , They are purchasing all the trees in Bangladesh now ) , The best Ginseng in the World is from Kansas, its the Cold Variety not the Hot one , Korean Ginseng Is Hot Ginseng & Kansas Ginseng is Cold. So when the Ginseng Hunter goes on there plot of Forest and Picks up a 20 year old Root , He or she re Plants the seed right away !!!!!!, Hence the Future of Ginseng looks good always , but if a poacher goes on there land and starts ripping the Roots and not re planting, then the Future of Ginseng is Doomed , I know couple of Ginseng pickers in Kansas advised me that they will shoot any poacher on there land and ask Questions later , In Bangladesh In the Chittagong National Forest they have agar Trees that are over 700 Years Old and Still Producing Seeds ( The Future Of Oud Looks Good as long we don't Cut mother trees down , Migrating birds Eat the seed and poop it out on there Journey hence Aggar seeds are spread ,the way nature meant to be , But if we cut the Mother down then for sure we need to re plant cause birds will not migrate with the seeds , there were Muslim rulers in the past that made Bird Feeders with all type of Seeds , Hence Birds and Trees go hand to Hand , If there was a Nest in that tree and you chopped the tree down and Destroyed the Nest with the Birds Family , There is karma on that also , Sufi Mystics in My Village are against cutting any tree with a birds Nest cause you are destroying there house, In Pakistan they also have a shoot to kill policy on Wild Gazelles that produce Musk , Hence the Gazelles population is rebounding , thank God) , the Military and Game wardens have a shoot to kill policy if any Poacher is Found in the Chittagong Forest , Hence the Best Conclusion is talking to all the South East Asian Countries to have a strict policy of Shoot to kill poachers if found poaching Aggarwood and any Fauna ,then may be the distillers will think twice about there career path.
 
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kooolaid79

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#50
Well I smell a rat. When I hear you say you did not apprciate PK and are trading it for some 'good' Indian oil, I cannot take your comments seriously. And anybody who has had experience with PK is going to feel the same way.
I agree Dr! How can no one like the Purple Kinam. The moment I got a chance to smell that, I wonder if you remember the action of both me and my brother. We just looked at each other and then said Maaaaaaaaaan.
It truly was one of the most beautiful Oudhs my nose has smelled.
 
#51
Purple Kinam is Beautiful but may be for some its not , Kinda like Coffee some people like dark roast, and some people like light roasted beans ☕️, hence each person has a right of there opinion and needs to be respected , when I used to make hip hop instrumentals back in the days , I would take feed back , if it was a negative feed back saying " Ish there no base line on that track " I go back to the drawing board in the studio and start working again , but I even made mistakes by accident & my peers said "Ish the sickest beat I heard from you" , so interesting how people see & hear & smell things give there personal feed back I respect that & also , even if its negative I respect that , that's every humans right to give negative or positive feed back , but watch if you live in North Korea or Saudi Arabia, you will locked you up in a heart beat . Hence like the late great thelonious monk his skills was criticized but at the end He opened the Door for many artists who make beats that are off beat and back on beat , meaning on the metronome. ☕️
 
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kesiro

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#52
I agree Dr! How can no one like the Purple Kinam. The moment I got a chance to smell that, I wonder if you remember the action of both me and my brother. We just looked at each other and then said Maaaaaaaaaan.
It truly was one of the most beautiful Oudhs my nose has smelled.
I absolutely remember that. The look's on your faces were priceless.

@Royal Bengal Oud- The reason I made the comment about the PK is because unlike some oils, Hindi, Borneo, Chinese for example, which have very distinct profiles which may be challenging to some people, PK is just so uniquely pleasant, deep and rich, that I have never encountered anyone who tried it that wasn't floored at first sniff. It is universal in its appeal. The quality and profile is so incredibly high rate, I just cannot trust those comments.
 
#53
Purple Kinam is Beautiful but may be for some its not , Kinda like Coffee some people like dark roast, and some people like light roasted beans ☕️, hence each person has a right of there opinion and needs to be respected , when I used to make hip hop instrumentals back in the days , I would take feed back , if it was a negative feed back saying " Ish there no base line on that track " I go back to the drawing board in the studio and start working again , but I even made mistakes by accident & my peers said "Ish the sickest beat I heard from you" , so interesting how people see & hear & smell things give there personal feed back I respect that & also , even if its negative I respect that , that's every humans right to give negative or positive feed back , but watch if you live in North Korea or Saudi Arabia, you will locked you up in a heart beat . Hence like the late great thelonious monk his skills was criticized but at the end He opened the Door for many artists who make beats that are off beat and back on beat , meaning on the metronome. ☕️
Exactly everyone is different, not rat.
I do not like oils like the type of is oud Sultany or any Borneos that everyone is saying oh they are So amazing perfume like.
I am paying a lot more than perfume is worth and like my oud to smell like oud not like a nice perfume.
 

kesiro

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#54
Exactly everyone is different, not rat.
I do not like oils like the type of is oud Sultany or any Borneos that everyone is saying oh they are So amazing perfume like.
I am paying a lot more than perfume is worth and like my oud to smell like oud not like a nice perfume.
I see. So you have personal experience with Purple Kinam and I mean more than sniffing a vial?
 
#55
No with PK I was just speaking in general that I do not like oils like oud Sultany or any type of Borneos that so many people are amezade by the perfume type oils. So I don't see anything strange for someone to swap PK for a good Hindi oil.
 
#56
Aleata, order a 0.15 ml sample to try PK finds oil that for him is exactly like PK for 15 times less than the price of PK full bottle and swaps his 0.13 ml of PK for a 2 ml. Of good Hindi oud, what so strange here?
For Aleata this is a win-win situation.
 
#57
I absolutely remember that. The look's on your faces were priceless.

@Royal Bengal Oud- The reason I made the comment about the PK is because unlike some oils, Hindi, Borneo, Chinese for example, which have very distinct profiles which may be challenging to some people, PK is just so uniquely pleasant, deep and rich, that I have never encountered anyone who tried it that wasn't floored at first sniff. It is universal in its appeal. The quality and profile is so incredibly high rate, I just cannot trust those comments.
I totally agree , everyone has right for there opinion , I Like PK , it's a unique perfume scent that is majestic , but may be there someone on this planet that disagrees and am Ok with that , Feedback is aight , as long the person giving the feed back does not hit you in the guts God Forbid , If my CEO of my Company starts bashing Verizon at an investor meeting , I can guarantee you who won't be the CEO that long , hence giving accolades of your competition and saying 'they are doing this to get more clients , then we have to do this- etc " , Healthy competition is awesome , and any feedback is awesome , as Long the Owner of any company takes a clients feed back & implements it , that's having the ears on the streets , listening to your clients , making a Bond with the target market hence having a client for life , that's for any industry ,feed back is needed all the time .
 
#58
One reason I like PK , no peat Moss Vibe , Malaysians Ouds have that Peat Moss Vibe and Muddy tone that me no like , not PK , I tell it has a top note of Basmati Rice from 1950 grow organically and take a fresh grain and slice it , for 10 seconds the Top note is exact profile from PK , not lying bros , Nice scent , I have 0.15 Sample I got from Ensar , Everyone likes , but had couple of friends that did not like it , hence I was baffled and understood that there taste is more on the Cambodi side , I respected my homies feed back and proceeding to understands peoples taste .
 
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kesiro

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#59
OK, I am going to put this to the test and ordered a sample. I will provide an objective assessment when I get it.

Here is part of a review from the website:
"There is nothing I mean nothing that HOM Borneo Bliss similar with PK scent wise apart from the initial performance being piecing vaporous airy and crystalline with slight monotonicity leading to rapid decrescendo after the topnotes disappear leaving PK with soapy fougere-like drydown that is difficult to match
 

Ensar Oud

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#60
One reason I like PK , no peat Moss Vibe , Malaysians Ouds have that Peat Moss Vibe and Muddy tone that me no like , not PK , I tell it has a top note of Basmati Rice from 1950 grow originally and take a fresh grain and slice it , for 10 seconds the Top note is exact profile from PK , not lying bros , Nice scent , I have 0.15 Sample I got from Ensar , Everyone likes , but had couple of friends that did not like it , hence I was baffled and understood that there taste is more on the Cambodi side , I respected my homies feed back and proceeding to understands peoples taste .
Now just how were you able to figure out that we cooked Purple Kinam in an old rice cooker from the 1950s?!?

Putting down Purple Kinam says nothing about the oil...