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I've gotten a few requests for my thoughts on Port Jaya, so I thought I'd share them for everyone:
Port Jaya fits in with the Green Papua, Archipelago, Archinam, and Port Moresby crowd but its got a chip off the Maroke shoulder.
The concordance it has with the Malinau component makes it an intriguing and compelling wear.
As the oil is dropped on the skin, a pea green peppermint top note commences, giving way to a marine aquatic vibe that emerges as you dab, or rub it in. The accord is reminiscent of ambergris complete with the frothing ocean salts that cure the precious substances over the months or years it may take to be discovered, and the algae clung to its crevices.
On the skin, 45 minutes in, Port Jaya began flying, the projection increased and a new note emerged, a deeply resinous inkiness that emerges from fine Marokés, evoking images of a feather quill in its pot. Hours pass within this phase, the scent remaining consistent on the skin.
The dark undertones work to support the sweet creamed raspberry honey frothing at the top while the freshness of the ethereal top notes brighten them.
Four hours in they harmonize into a new fresh accord reminding me of Suriranka Senkoh’s green-apple-honey top notes, albeit a few hues more herbaceous. The ‘minty’ note was fleeting and only noticeable in the beginning.
Lovers of the Archipelago genre will appreciate the variance and unique notes Port Jaya adds to the scent spectrum. The sliver of the Maroké note adds a nuance of challenge for the uninitiated, though it’s just the outskirts of the jungle and not the dense center like Xiang Liao Ling, or Maroke Asgon so it can be worn casually, and generally enjoyed.
The duality of it presents a unique opportunity for the #Oudept to appreciate a zoomed in case study.
Hope you enjoy...
Port Jaya fits in with the Green Papua, Archipelago, Archinam, and Port Moresby crowd but its got a chip off the Maroke shoulder.
The concordance it has with the Malinau component makes it an intriguing and compelling wear.
As the oil is dropped on the skin, a pea green peppermint top note commences, giving way to a marine aquatic vibe that emerges as you dab, or rub it in. The accord is reminiscent of ambergris complete with the frothing ocean salts that cure the precious substances over the months or years it may take to be discovered, and the algae clung to its crevices.
On the skin, 45 minutes in, Port Jaya began flying, the projection increased and a new note emerged, a deeply resinous inkiness that emerges from fine Marokés, evoking images of a feather quill in its pot. Hours pass within this phase, the scent remaining consistent on the skin.
The dark undertones work to support the sweet creamed raspberry honey frothing at the top while the freshness of the ethereal top notes brighten them.
Four hours in they harmonize into a new fresh accord reminding me of Suriranka Senkoh’s green-apple-honey top notes, albeit a few hues more herbaceous. The ‘minty’ note was fleeting and only noticeable in the beginning.
Lovers of the Archipelago genre will appreciate the variance and unique notes Port Jaya adds to the scent spectrum. The sliver of the Maroké note adds a nuance of challenge for the uninitiated, though it’s just the outskirts of the jungle and not the dense center like Xiang Liao Ling, or Maroke Asgon so it can be worn casually, and generally enjoyed.
The duality of it presents a unique opportunity for the #Oudept to appreciate a zoomed in case study.
Hope you enjoy...
Doesn’t get more blokey than Oud Musa. This Nagaland Agallocha hits you in the face with blue cheese, sweaty saddle, orange zest, bear fur, and various animal funks. This initial wildness is reigned in by notes of tobacco, eucalyptus, and dried fruit, in a base of salted caramel, wild honey, musk, and ambergris. It has a distinctive, masculine, deep red-brown profile colour.
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Absolutely love it! Your mention of bear fur transported me back to my stay in Alaska... A frontier like I've never experienced since. It was spawning season so I could literally pull out 2 lb Salmon from the creek with my bare hands... Naturally we were visited by a family of brown bears that had the same idea.. Probably shouldn't have followed them, but I felt safe being on a kayak... looking back though, what was I thinking... as if they can't swim
Giving some love to Czar Sultan over the last few days.
A serious guava note blasts during the opening followed by a welcome cooling astringency.
A background freshness I've come to associate with Ceylon, yet clearly originating from something else with its fruit tone.
Overall it's like a tropical island breeze with an underlying peppered bergamont accord.
Love to hand this one out, and great daily use for the summer!
A serious guava note blasts during the opening followed by a welcome cooling astringency.
A background freshness I've come to associate with Ceylon, yet clearly originating from something else with its fruit tone.
Overall it's like a tropical island breeze with an underlying peppered bergamont accord.
Love to hand this one out, and great daily use for the summer!
@Anthony You know, swipes is the operative word, and I admire that you're bold enough to do so.
I think too often we tend to just dab these oils on, a single dot to suffice for personal enjoyment, just enough to take 'sips' of throughout the day or to 'study.'
Maybe you've been there too, lifting your hand to take a whiff, and again two minutes later... and again.
By the third or fourth time you start to look around to see if anyone else notices...
You start sneaking whiffs and trying to find inconspicuous ways of accomplishing the task so as not to look like an addict; applying it to the tips of your fingers so it looks like you're itching your nose, or going full intensity and putting it straight on your philtrum...
But as the Oudept that you are, take a full swipe of that oud... actually I challenge you, take two! And if it's the artisanal ouds that I know and love, I can guarantee you're in for an experience like never before, and that your life will be enriched thereby.
I've heard it all too often as of late, ouds like Kusuma and Aroha Kush 'rival the likes of Oud Yusuf,' and I get it, there are similarities, but when I pry a little further I find out dots of Oud Yusuf were worn compared to swipes of the other... so what would two generous swipes of Oud Yusuf, or Wang Liao Kuo reveal?
Well I say it's time to see just how far down the rabbit hole goes!
I can hear it already...
"Why oh why, didn't I take the blue pill..."
I think too often we tend to just dab these oils on, a single dot to suffice for personal enjoyment, just enough to take 'sips' of throughout the day or to 'study.'
Maybe you've been there too, lifting your hand to take a whiff, and again two minutes later... and again.
By the third or fourth time you start to look around to see if anyone else notices...
You start sneaking whiffs and trying to find inconspicuous ways of accomplishing the task so as not to look like an addict; applying it to the tips of your fingers so it looks like you're itching your nose, or going full intensity and putting it straight on your philtrum...
But as the Oudept that you are, take a full swipe of that oud... actually I challenge you, take two! And if it's the artisanal ouds that I know and love, I can guarantee you're in for an experience like never before, and that your life will be enriched thereby.
I've heard it all too often as of late, ouds like Kusuma and Aroha Kush 'rival the likes of Oud Yusuf,' and I get it, there are similarities, but when I pry a little further I find out dots of Oud Yusuf were worn compared to swipes of the other... so what would two generous swipes of Oud Yusuf, or Wang Liao Kuo reveal?
Well I say it's time to see just how far down the rabbit hole goes!
I can hear it already...
"Why oh why, didn't I take the blue pill..."
Oud shibli last night
For me the perfect balanced Hindi. Has it all. Minute funk minute fermented notes meet a round calm silky honey sweetened black tea note. Mildly sweet maybe at half of nirvata muana and plenty enjoyable. Similar enough to one of my other favorite hindis: royal imphal
Today was a comparative wear of Borneo diesel and white kinam. Oriscent signature is evident in both. More of that “red” vibe to BD while WK is more yellow. BD is an oriscent oil first then malinau and WK is at this stage of its evolution nearly 50-50. It used to be malinau first.
Can’t go wrong with either. A bit more heart and too notes in WK and more base yanked to the top in BD.
These are two mighty fine malinau oils and something that any and all fans of Borneo need to have some on hand.
For me the perfect balanced Hindi. Has it all. Minute funk minute fermented notes meet a round calm silky honey sweetened black tea note. Mildly sweet maybe at half of nirvata muana and plenty enjoyable. Similar enough to one of my other favorite hindis: royal imphal
Today was a comparative wear of Borneo diesel and white kinam. Oriscent signature is evident in both. More of that “red” vibe to BD while WK is more yellow. BD is an oriscent oil first then malinau and WK is at this stage of its evolution nearly 50-50. It used to be malinau first.
Can’t go wrong with either. A bit more heart and too notes in WK and more base yanked to the top in BD.
These are two mighty fine malinau oils and something that any and all fans of Borneo need to have some on hand.