The resin has spoken....
@Shabby there has been recent discussion elsewhere on the topic of "Let oleoresin talk", I applaud your ability to recognize context as it relates to discussion and for you actually reading the content of letting the oleoresin talk, round of applause. The topic of letting the oleoresin talk confers the relationship to resinous features in the wood and how certain notes and/or features are palpable and expressed in the oil, despite there being no actual oleoresin in the oil. Anybody that actually has read this discourse can pick that up.
We've established that there is no resin/oleoresin in oils distilled from agarwood, it has to be extracted; that is objective, scientific fact. How is it that you vendor ASO can use phrases in your own marketing such as, "When you apply it on the skin, multiple waves of heat, bitter sweet spices not Ky nam itself but wow what an amazing derivative of it, fragrant rum, ambergrisified rose, and the distinct powdery but sweetly
resinous note of the Vietnamese" for one oil or, "Then comes a wave of lovely rich fruits dusted in the finest of cinnamon powder and caressed with the whisper of rose that transcends into velvety wood sap, brushed woods, Oudh
resin and a basket of woody spices" for another, or "However imagine this, the scent of oozing oudh
resin bubbling in a caldron without the smoke simply pure oudh vapour hitting your olfactory senses. Fragrant herbs,
resinous woods, deep dark ripened fruits, a breeze of floral clay, even some peppery spices" for yet another oil. Then, at the same time affirm and negatively criticize others usage of the term oleoresin in relation to oud oils as a misuse and bastardization of the term because it's not objectively and scientifically sound, and is only a marketing tactic. Dude, you do the same exact thing!!!! How is it that your oils can have resinous notes of Vietnam and Oudh resin and baskets of woody spice, having no resin, while you contend that others oils can't have features of the oleoresin based on the scientific, objective absence of it in oils and that it's wrong for them to use the term? Easy, because it's the duplicitous, contradictory, pot calling the kettle black nature of the content in many of your post. ASO, according to your own mandate for only quantitative, objective, scientific fact, you have misused and bastardized the terms resin and resinous in relation to oud oils for there is no resin in distilled agarwood oils and you’ve done so directly in you marketing as a tactic, period. Ambergrisified??? Where’d you get that from? As much as you like to criticize the story, you verbiage, adjectives, even the cadence of your flowery prose mimics the words of another.
Now, in reality I have no problem with ASO's usage of resin/resinous in relation to oils nor do I have a problem with the participants of this thread that have used the term oleoresin in relation to oils as in each case they are used as qualifiers to describe something that as
@Shabby stated, I know "where they're coming from", it's contextual not literal; just some of the possible vernacular and jargon of the community. But for someone, anyone to negatively criticize and nearly condemn others for doing exactly what they are doing is in extremely poor taste. Besides that, who has given anyone the authority to attempt to dictate how anyone else expresses themselves or experiences oud.