SOTD

[kesiro]

Today was a bunch of different stuff:
Kinam Attar - really oudy oil with big longevity!!
Syed’s Mahabali- non-barn barn profile. With dark cherries on top
Baraka Teraka- a Hindi with really delectable airy piercing hay/barn goodness

 

[Muaz F Aslam]

it is neither from Assam, nor is it Organic

Exactly my reaction !!!

 

[Nikhil S]

China Sayang evening swipe. Soulful. Meditative. Intense dose of woodiness at the top. Piercing sharp pulsations like the a Japanese monk beating the drums followed a sudden drop of temperature. Everything becomes silent. I feel like I am sitting under the Bodhi tree focused and enlightened. It purifies the air around me. I don't understand Chinese beyond this. Orange peel, floral minty tones from some other Chinese oils are unique and pleasing but not reflective of the agar core. China Sayang gives Chinese Oud meaning.

 

[kesiro]

Tigerwood 1995. Rich and mesmerizing. This may be the most ‘oudy’oud in my collection. The resinous depth just fills the soul. A camphorous liqueur base with a very subtle sweetness. This oil is Oud to me. Perfect.

 

[Nikhil S]

Tigerwood 1995. Rich and mesmerizing. This may be the most ‘oudy’oud in my collection. The resinous depth just fills the soul. A camphorous liqueur base with a very subtle sweetness. This oil is Oud to me. Perfect.

Stunning oil indeed How does it compare it to Royale ?

 

[kesiro]

Stunning oil indeed How does it compare it to Royale ?

I am going to do a head to head either later today of tomorrow and get back to you on that.

 

[Rasoul S]

Tigerwood 1995. Rich and mesmerizing. This may be the most ‘oudy’oud in my collection. The resinous depth just fills the soul. A camphorous liqueur base with a very subtle sweetness. This oil is Oud to me. Perfect.

maybe one day... in its current stage of evolution while beautiful i cant get past teh overt camphor notes. the image and memory that comes to me each and every time is back pain and scent of tiger balm and icy/hot patch...

 

[Rasoul S]

China Sayang evening swipe. Soulful. Meditative. Intense dose of woodiness at the top. Piercing sharp pulsations like the a Japanese monk beating the drums followed a sudden drop of temperature. Everything becomes silent. I feel like I am sitting under the Bodhi tree focused and enlightened. It purifies the air around me. I don't understand Chinese beyond this. Orange peel, floral minty tones from some other Chinese oils are unique and pleasing but not reflective of the agar core. China Sayang gives Chinese Oud meaning.

while i get all of those notes the one that i see first and then keeps coming out again and again is bitter roots. specially ginseng. then bitter orange peel. Chinese herbal dispensary and the scent of high toned cleaning products, alcohol, etc. in hosptials.

 

[JohnH]

It's my daughter's 31st birthday today so there can only be one oud for us here - Oud Royale 1985, a year older than she is.
If you've got children make the most of your time with them because one day you'll look back and the years will seem like they've just flown by.

 

[Larry K.]

Ensar’s Green Papua. A few minutes in I was thinking GP was a woody medicinal, and frankly I was wondering why Ensar says he bathes in the stuff every day. I got a bit distracted and stopped thinking about it. Then all of a sudden I started thinking about a Walla Patta chip (sent to me by a kind Gaharu member) on my Subitism heater running at about eight volts. Wispy floral, sweet, Good-N-Plenty candy, incensy tendrils of fragrance put me into reverie for a few moments, and then I realized that there was no wood on a heater. There was just oud on my arm. Maybe this is an aha moment when I finally realized something about oud I didn’t know before. Or maybe GP has the ability to mimic a gently heated chip of wood. Either way, a new clue and the game is afoot again!

 

[Larry K.]

It's my daughter's 31st birthday today so there can only be one oud for us here - Oud Royale 1985, a year older than she is.
If you've got children make the most of your time with them because one day you'll look back and the years will seem like they've just flown by.

John, truer words were never spoken.

 

[kooolaid79]

Dhul Q for me today. This high caliber of incense oudh oil is perfect to wear just before Friday prayers.

 

[Rasoul S]

Ensar’s Green Papua. A few minutes in I was thinking GP was a woody medicinal, and frankly I was wondering why Ensar says he bathes in the stuff every day. I got a bit distracted and stopped thinking about it. Then all of a sudden I started thinking about a Walla Patta chip (sent to me by a kind Gaharu member) on my Subitism heater running at about eight volts. Wispy floral, sweet, Good-N-Plenty candy, incensy tendrils of fragrance put me into reverie for a few moments, and then I realized that there was no wood on a heater. There was just oud on my arm. Maybe this is an aha moment when I finally realized something about oud I didn’t know before. Or maybe GP has the ability to mimic a gently heated chip of wood. Either way, a new clue and the game is afoot again!

i hear you. similar experience has happend to me. not with GP but with other oils.

 

[kesiro]

Ensar’s Green Papua. A few minutes in I was thinking GP was a woody medicinal, and frankly I was wondering why Ensar says he bathes in the stuff every day. I got a bit distracted and stopped thinking about it. Then all of a sudden I started thinking about a Walla Patta chip (sent to me by a kind Gaharu member) on my Subitism heater running at about eight volts. Wispy floral, sweet, Good-N-Plenty candy, incensy tendrils of fragrance put me into reverie for a few moments, and then I realized that there was no wood on a heater. There was just oud on my arm. Maybe this is an aha moment when I finally realized something about oud I didn’t know before. Or maybe GP has the ability to mimic a gently heated chip of wood. Either way, a new clue and the game is afoot again!

That is a very cool story Larry. I think this is representative of really good oils. They can pull off some magic tricks.

 

[Simla House]

Ensar’s Green Papua. A few minutes in I was thinking GP was a woody medicinal, and frankly I was wondering why Ensar says he bathes in the stuff every day. I got a bit distracted and stopped thinking about it. Then all of a sudden I started thinking about a Walla Patta chip (sent to me by a kind Gaharu member) on my Subitism heater running at about eight volts. Wispy floral, sweet, Good-N-Plenty candy, incensy tendrils of fragrance put me into reverie for a few moments, and then I realized that there was no wood on a heater. There was just oud on my arm. Maybe this is an aha moment when I finally realized something about oud I didn’t know before. Or maybe GP has the ability to mimic a gently heated chip of wood. Either way, a new clue and the game is afoot again!

I hope you get to spend more time with GP, it's fantastically calming and transformative, according to me.
Out of curiosity, what kind of climate are you in? It's amazing to experience oud in different places; how the notes change, how your thoughts change...

 

[Simla House]

Happy Jummah/Friday to all the oud lovers everywhere.

OM5 for me today.
Huge thank you to the brother that helped me locate an extra bottle of OM5.
Jazak Allah Khair.
I sadly missed out during the final moments of its availability earlier this year, so it’s arrival today is indeed cause for a deep swipe, and deep thanks for this reunion.

 

[RobertOne]

Today was another fun day for me, oh wait, no.

First Swipe today was 100k santal FO. Seconds FO again with Din Dang and finally a tiny drop of Blue Malau that was traced right round the outermost of my nostrils.

I inhaled like a man freed from an iron lung.

 

[Nikhil S]

while i get all of those notes the one that i see first and then keeps coming out again and again is bitter roots. specially ginseng. then bitter orange peel. Chinese herbal dispensary and the scent of high toned cleaning products, alcohol, etc. in hosptials.

In my humble experience which basically started with loving Crassna/Trat oils what I have found is Chinese/Burmese/Indian oils are very very demanding on the senses and the environment. They are a challenge to be studied. I used to hate these Burmese and Yunnan sorta oils. Now I would give an arm and a leg to have such medicinal oils in my collection. They have an unmatched spiritual tangent. Probably not as good as fragrance.

 

[kooolaid79]

Happy Jummah/Friday to all the oud lovers everywhere.

OM5 for me today.
Huge thank you to the brother that helped me locate an extra bottle of OM5.
Jazak Allah Khair.
I sadly missed out during the final moments of its availability earlier this year, so it’s arrival today is indeed cause for a deep swipe, and deep thanks for this reunion.

I thought you said OMG when i first noticed OM5 but yes OMG sounds absolutely perfect for this scenario. Many many congratulations on getting an extra bottle of one of my favorite Ouds. I too was blessed by picking up another bottle earlier this year and hopefully I won't have to touch it for the next 5 years.

 

[Nikhil S]

Sote is a large swipe of Nhek 1976. This opens up funky buttery salty like Laos. Then the Laos goes away give a super beautiful chinese floral custard. I love this oil but it reminds me highly of Hainan Arabi by FO. The first time it didn't I could really say it was a beautiful Crassna. This times it opens like Mai Wan Lao of Agar Aura and Hainan Arabi by FO. Still a gorgeous modern Oud oil with a short lived traditional barnyward opening. Anyone can chime in ??