Oud Royale 1985 (EO).. When I split the bottle I had of this I wound up with an additional .46g left over in addition to the .5g that I had saved for myself - there was to be .5g left over but some stays in the bottle. Anyway, there were no takers, and so I kept that extra .46g for myself but, forgot I had! I thought I had wound up trading it to someone at some point because I hadn't seen it until a few days ago - happy discovery! So I transferred .25g of it to a .1ml v-vial, and the remainder I dissolved in perfumer's alcohol and put in a 1ml v-vial. In the original bottle, the last .25g or so that was stuck in the bottle, I diluted with 2ml of perfumer's alcohol. I can say one thing, OR1985 is awesome as an EDT/EDP this way (some ouds work better diluted than others)!
Does anyone know if dissolving oud in perfumer's alcohol will "preserve" it? Would it continue to age do you think, or once it gets dissolved in alcohol it just remains stable at that point?
Anyhow, OR1985 is tremendous, the aged quality is so satisfying - rich rich rich in character.. Recall that Ensar sold this oil for $550 per 3g bottle - a wonderful gift to our community that I take this opportunity to remind us of.. Easily this is in my top 10 fav oils of all time, and competes for favorite..
Now, I know that Ensar says the trees were different back then and simply aging some of these newer oils won't get the same result - but, I can't help but hope that 30 years from now when I open the caps from one of these dazzling modern ouds, they too will have transmuted into that epic "agarwood liquor" type thing of OR1985.. I think part of it though is that back when they distilled it in 1985 they did a cruder extraction - at the time the oil had tons of richness but was also probably a bit harsh or unrefined - now though age has taken the rough edges of it leaving this magnificent ball of earthy/sweet/bitter/floral/green/mineral.
Does anyone know if dissolving oud in perfumer's alcohol will "preserve" it? Would it continue to age do you think, or once it gets dissolved in alcohol it just remains stable at that point?
Anyhow, OR1985 is tremendous, the aged quality is so satisfying - rich rich rich in character.. Recall that Ensar sold this oil for $550 per 3g bottle - a wonderful gift to our community that I take this opportunity to remind us of.. Easily this is in my top 10 fav oils of all time, and competes for favorite..
Now, I know that Ensar says the trees were different back then and simply aging some of these newer oils won't get the same result - but, I can't help but hope that 30 years from now when I open the caps from one of these dazzling modern ouds, they too will have transmuted into that epic "agarwood liquor" type thing of OR1985.. I think part of it though is that back when they distilled it in 1985 they did a cruder extraction - at the time the oil had tons of richness but was also probably a bit harsh or unrefined - now though age has taken the rough edges of it leaving this magnificent ball of earthy/sweet/bitter/floral/green/mineral.
