Khao Yai 100 Year-Old 10g

'We've lost our minds, and our sense of time,' Ensar said, shaking his head. We had yet to pray isha, and it was almost fajr time. But we felt like it was still midnight!

We'd just spent the best part of the night engulfed in the smoke of Khao Yai oud chips, talking about how spacey our minds had become.

'Boy, the mental... incredible,' Ensar muttered to himself as the burner was sizzling up the last chip for the night.

As for relieving stress, there's no doubt. But all those anecdotes about meditating monks and samurai warriors swearing by the 'power' of agarwood incense suddenly became more than just ancient references to something most of us never really take too seriously.

It was clear that these bubbling Khao Yai nuggets on the burner had everything to do with a certain mood we found ourselves in; making you more receptive to certain thoughts and emotions. We were fascinated by how the peculiar frame of mind made us appreciate, as if for the first time, the part agarwood plays in meditation rituals.

It was also clear why we never felt quite this spaced-out from burning oud before. These chips are simply a different kind of agarwood altogether. From the same forest in Khao Yai, one batch is from a single eighty year-old tree, the other from a hundred year-old tree. This is as old school as it gets; as close as you'll ever come to the authentic Cambodi oud burning experience.

You'd have to know more than a couple of people in the agarwood world today just to hear about a tree that's eighty years old. Never mind a hundred! And for most, hearing about such a tree is where the story ends. Actually holding chips from a hundred year-old, wild Cambodian oud tree in your hands is something very few people can say they've had the privilege to do.

To the locals who grew up hearing about the adventures of oud hunters, as well as the oud brokers themselves, these chips were enough to raise a few eyebrows – knowing just what it means to have acquired some at this time; wishing they were the ones showing them to us.

These chips are all but identical to the ones we ground up for the distillation of the Khao Yai Experiment. Wallowing in a fragrant haze with a swipe of this breathtaking oil on your wrist is just so unique – so complete – an oud experience I don't even know what more there is to say.... Get a Khao Yai chip, a bottle of Khao Yai, and hit the heights!