Jungle: Malaysia
Aged: 19 Years (2001)
Aged: 19 Years (2001)
The quality of the wood and the sheer age of the oil makes it literally impossible to reproduce. And Royal rulers who have long-standing ties with the people who own such olfactory relics are among the few who’ll ever get the... explore ››
$369
Jungle: Malinau
Aged: 15 years (2005)
Aged: 15 years (2005)
Borneo 50K doesn't smell like Kyara. It's not supposed to. Instead, 50K is sweet like Borneo 3000, celestial like Borneo 4000. Since you want to enrich your collection a thousand-fold, know that this is vintage Oud at its finest
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$1,000
Jungle: Vietnam
Aged: 6 Years (2014)
Aged: 6 Years (2014)
I know of only two recent attempts at distilling Vietnamese oud. Both batches commanded $1,500 - $2,000 / 3 gr, and both yields were minuscule (I don’t need to tell you that wild incense-grade Vietnamese agarwood is rare and expensive)... explore ››
$1,000
Jungle: Malaysia
Aged: 9 years (2011)
Aged: 9 years (2011)
We teamed up with the agarwood tycoons of Singapore and China and took the costliest Malaysian agarwood money could buy and prepared a cargo of the most fragrant wood ever to be gathered in Malaysia
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$3,335
Jungle: Kelantan
Aged: 19 Years (2001)
Aged: 19 Years (2001)
Were we to redistill sinking-grade Kelantan wood today, the price of a bottle would be no less than $10,000. And that’s without a decade and a half worth of aging! But we didn’t have to dish out $30-50,000 / kg for the... explore ››
$2,085
Here you’ve got the chance to turn back the clock and add a number of legendary oud profiles to your palette. Oud that can otherwise only be found from private collectors who – let’s face it – have every right to be a bit reluctant about... explore ››
$815
Jungle: Cambodia
Aged: 44 Years (1976)
Aged: 44 Years (1976)
There’s a third oil I’ve ‘inherited’ which means more to me than the other two. An oil that means more to me than green Kyara itself. An oil I haven’t told many people about simply because of the awesome humility it makes you feel to be... explore ››
$1,125
Jungle: Sumatra
Aged: 35 Years (1985)
Aged: 35 Years (1985)
Our distiller didn’t have a crystal ball to tell him this wood would be worth thousands per kilogram somewhere down the line. So he did the best that he could for the time he was in, which was to cook the absolute best oil. That was his... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Vietnam
Aged: 8 Years (2012)
Aged: 8 Years (2012)
We can’t go back in time four years or deflate the astronomical costs of wild Vietnamese agarwood. We can’t un-string the $50,000 bangles, un-carve the miniatures, or revive the jungles and plant back the centennial trees. It takes... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Sumbawa | New Guinea
Distilled: 2017
Distilled: 2017
These are the same New Guinea shavings that went into Sultan Murad and Sultan Fatih – the very last of them. The aroma captures every bit the caliber of the early Sultans, packing the same tenacity and silage. But this time... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Hainan Island
Distilled: 2004
Distilled: 2004
Ancient perfumery regarded the natural scent of the body as the ultimate love scent. Rather than hide it by any means possible, it aimed to enhance it and make it louder. Far from an embarrassed cover-up, Chinese Exclusive celebrates our archetypal pheromonal
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Jungle: Hainan
Aged: 15 Years (2005)
Aged: 15 Years (2005)
Notes of ambergris, sweet mahogany and deer musk hurl the scent into a pheromonal olfactory zenith that’s as primordial as the Himalayas, with strong longevity even in humid weather, and a soulstirring kinam drydown that evokes the most... reminisce ››
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Jungles: New Guinea | Brunei
Aged: 6 Years (2014)
Aged: 6 Years (2014)
The physical lengths we went through to make Sultan Mustafa isn’t something anybody just does to make a bottle of ‘affordable’ oud. The fatigue and disregard for counting pennies and pounds only hits you afterward when you see your... reminisce ››
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Jungle: New Guinea
Distilled: 2015
Distilled: 2015
The sencha-mellow, clean kinam incense scent whispers, never shouts. Its therapeutic value is on par with burning raw New Guinea incense straight, if not more. Because the scent lingers for hours, the effect is continuous and thus often ... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Sri Lanka | New Guinea
Distilled: 2017
Distilled: 2017
If you’re ready to sign up for more graduate studies in the scent of oud resin, not accessory notes, then here you’ve got the oleoresin on full display. At the risk of putting down a bottle of oud that sold for $1,000 more, quality-wise... reminisce ››
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Cultivation: Trat
Aged: 8 years (2012)
Aged: 8 years (2012)
Perhaps the prettiest oud you can wear, Oud Yusuf also ranks as the most flawless orchestration of scent notes you'll ever encounter in single origin oud oil. Subtler than the finest Borneos' berried craze, it combines all the
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When the wealthiest man of all time wrote his Song of Songs, Indian 'Aloes' was not only not endangered and on the verge of extinction - it was the only oud known. The caravans made their way to the Holy Land from the East, carrying musk pods... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Meghalaya
Aged: 12 Years (2007)
Aged: 12 Years (2007)
It musters herculean strength only to remain gentle and soft, radiating sunshine and sweet dried plums on the surface of his unfathomable depth. It boasts a milk chocolate smoothness laced with sumptuous tuberose, fig, toffee and... reminisce ››
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Jungle: China
Aged: 15 Years (2005)
Aged: 15 Years (2005)
We didn’t play around in those days. We distilled oud the way it had been distilled for centuries, only with a different kind of obsession and attention to detail – just a tad more OCD than the old timers had. We weren’t out to re-invent the wheel. We just wanted to... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Nagaland
Aged: 11 years (2009)
Aged: 11 years (2009)
Oud has become so pasteurized and homogenized, you hardly recognize it. Bleached. Stripped with harsh chemicals. Rather than energize it, mainstream fakery has all but castrated the dead-on oomph of old oud—that dried-fruit, tobacco-heavy, bear-fur feel of a proper Hindi. If you... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam
Aged: 8 Years (2012)
Aged: 8 Years (2012)
They say the perfumer’s road ends with oud, and that your oud journey docks in Assam. To discover why, all you have to do is.... inhale.... and exhale. A piercing Indian incense note defines the heart of the fragrance. Behind a... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Sumba | New Guinea
Distilled: 2016
Distilled: 2016
If only we had more materials to work with, I’d be distilling New Guinea-Sumbas non-stop. The scent is just so delectably perfumey – I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s even more accessible than Oud Yusuf, and just as floral – without losing its oudy zing one iota... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Yunnan
Aged: 17 years (2003)
Aged: 17 years (2003)
If there’s anything in the world of Oud that’s even rarer than Vietnamese Kyara, it is Yunnan Oud. Yunnan Oud is so rare, I’ve only smelled one batch in my entire career. It so prized amid Chinese collectors it commands the same price as wild Vietnamese oils... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Aged: 16 Years (2004-5)
Aged: 16 Years (2004-5)
Royale No 5 doesn’t just share the ‘vintage agarwood liqueur’ facets of the first Royale, like the '85 did. This is an actual Maroke and the distillation style is the same as Royale I. The royal incense profile never quiets down... reminisce ››
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Jungle: New Guinea | Borneo
Aged: 6 Years (2014)
Aged: 6 Years (2014)
Sultan Abdül Hamit is a milestone in pure oud distillation and modern perfumery. When Ernest Beaux set out to create Chanel No 5 he looked beyond the norm of single profile scents. He wasn't out to capture the essence of rose or jasmine anymore. ... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Manipur
Aged: 5 Years (2015)
Aged: 5 Years (2015)
Copper is the metal of choice for extracting floral aromatics because of its even thermal distribution properties, and the delicacy of its interaction with our ancient agallochas fired this scent into an olfactory farremoved from the orthodox farm barn
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Jungle: Maroke
Aged: 14 Years (2006)
Aged: 14 Years (2006)
Everything you know about demand and supply tells you that the asking price for Maroke 2006 should take into account it’s current replacement cost. We’re talking about a caliber of wild agarwood that’s on the verge of extinction, takes... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Meghalaya
Aged: 11 Years (May 2009)
Aged: 11 Years (May 2009)
Unlike other Hindis, the generally sharp barnyard character is less pronounced and the top-notes less pungent. Instead of the gradual change in the oil's profile, the aroma remains marvelously monotonous, for those occasions where you simply want an essence... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Bhutan
Aged: 8 years (2012)
Aged: 8 years (2012)
Nirvata Muana is all exotic high-mountain wildflowers. Rich, lush, expansive. Spicy, pollenesque, white chocolate vanillicious, injected with tuberose, frangipani, and freesia. Mysore’s smooth cream, coupled with the tenacity of forest honey... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Aged: 30 Years (1990)
Aged: 30 Years (1990)
Even the China Market capos know the notes of my oils, and they refer to it as the ‘Sultani tone’. If a piece of wood has the scent characteristics of Oud Royale 1, they immediately jack up the price, saying ‘This one has the Sultani tone’... reminisce ››
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Jungle: New Guinea
Distilled: 2015
Distilled: 2015
If you’re a Kodo aficionado or frequently fumigate with agarwood, you know the delicate scales of quality the scent of agarwood smoke ascends through. Some incense connoisseurs spend a whole evening simply in search of
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Jungle: Meghalaya
Aged: 11 years (2009)
Aged: 11 years (2009)
Even Oud Nuh's mellow appeal is slightly smokier compared to the sweetness of Oud Isa. Even the airiest Borneo has to fight hard to compete with its liveliness; the fruitiest Cambodi has to dig deep. To the Western palate, Oud Isa might well be the most... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam-China Border
Distilled: 2017
Distilled: 2017
If ‘old-school’ is your thing, you’re in the wrong place. We’ve got fantastic old-school ouds on offer, but Assamugo Senkoh is not one of them. That doesn’t mean it lacks even a splinter of the primordial pull you find in... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam
Aged: 8 years (2012)
Aged: 8 years (2012)
The sensual allure of the original Borneo 3000 meets the meditative power of the highest calibre Indian agarwood to create an olfactory wonder that sets a new record for Indian Oud. The sillage is great and unobtrusive, ideal to
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Jungle: Bhutan
Aged: 7 years (2011)
Aged: 7 years (2011)
White frangipani with a subtle citrus peel topnote, delicate nuances of tuberose laced with ultra fine CO2-extracted Mysore sandalwood from decades ago, and a fruity fusion of apricots, persimmons and candied rotab dates... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Sri Lanka
Distilled: 2017
Distilled: 2017
I’ve been enamored, seduced by— and in love—with this Naya. You crave it day in, day out, all night. The white champaka kisses, a rejuvenating summersault into its aquamarine Ahhhhh! Serene, tuberose sweet, suckled by... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Papua New Guinea
Aged: 13 Years (2005)
Aged: 13 Years (2005)
Focused on the same theme of narcotic kinam smoke, Port Moresby takes the gargantuan scent of heated green kyara chips notches higher than its famed twin. The dense-resined New Guinea Gyrinops that went into it made Port Moresby a historic masterpiece... reminisce ››
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Jungles: New Guinea | Brunei
Aged: 4 Years (2014)
Aged: 4 Years (2014)
The physical lengths we went through to make Sultan Ahmet isn’t something anybody just does to make a bottle of ‘affordable’ oud. The fatigue and disregard for counting pennies and pounds only hits you afterward when you see your... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Vietnam
Aged: 12 Years (2004)
Aged: 12 Years (2004)
These were not oils that you sold to make money. Scents like these are impossible to attach a dollar figure to, because they are priceless. These were brand builders. Oils that not only made a company but spurred an entire market where there was none before... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Pursat | Koh Kong
Distilled: 1976 | 2014
Distilled: 1976 | 2014
Kambodi 1976 is an insanely great Pursat distillation that’s older than many of us, and last sold for $3,500 a bottle. The Pursatian quality adds the final vintage flare to our rendition of old-school Koh Kong for an oud scent you would have had a hard time finding even... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Pursat
Aged: 11 Years (2005)
Aged: 11 Years (2005)
I’ve used and abused, tested, reviewed, and distilled more Cambodian oud than I can remember. ‘Cambodi’ is probably the profile I’m most familiar with – as an oud man in today’s scene, you have to be… ‘Cambodi’ must be the most... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan market makes me think of car prices in Singapore… for the price of a low spec Kia, you can drive an E-Class in the States. In Ceylon, you have to pay incense-grade oil prices for grade C oud oils. Even the ‘higher’ grade ouds still contain a good dose of... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Borneo
Aged: 4 years (2012)
Aged: 4 years (2012)
Each batch in the project contained only wild-harvested agarwood. We didn’t settle for just ‘wild’ either. We sourced a variety of aquilaria subspecies—not just malaccensis or microcarpas—to capture more of the complete Borneo scent spectrum
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Jungle: New Guinea / Sumatra
Aged: 1 Year (2015)
Aged: 1 Year (2015)
You can Kodo the daylights out of an oud chip for hours on end, or you can fry it on a scorching coal and be done in a minute. But an untrained nose has trouble picking up the subtleties of low temp heating, while a trained nose hates to... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Cambodia
Aged: 6 Years (2011)
Aged: 6 Years (2011)
I searched high and low, traversing through distillery after distillery to make this oud. I smelled the good, the bad, and the downright ugly… all until I laid my hands on this batch. This is probably the most yummy Cambodi you can... reminisce ››
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Jungle: New Guinea
Aged: 6 years (2010)
Aged: 6 years (2010)
You wanted Oriscent back, so here you go! Kyara LTD, re-done from New Guinea gyrinops in 2010. This is the oil that triggered the entire Sultan Series and its unlimited takes on PNG gyrinops – and the only one out of the series that was distilled 100% Oriscent style... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Aged: 10 Years (2006)
Aged: 10 Years (2006)
Sandalwood’s been my pet love since before Mysore became as barren of wild sandal as Hainan has of wild aloes. For me, doing a sandaloud fusion was something personal; an OCD itch I needed to scratch. But here’s the catch: you’re shackled by... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Koh Kong
Aged: 2 Years (2014)
Aged: 2 Years (2014)
The Great Cambodian Experiment was all about capturing the vintage red aroma of old time, now no more, Koh Kong ouds. Laced with Mr. Nhek’s red well water, the oils in the series – Kambodi Kuwwa, Kambodi X, Chen Xiang Khmer, and... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Distillation: 2015
Distillation: 2015
I’ve said it before, Maroke ouds are a nightmare to distill! The yield kills you every time and supply is scant. But, as with Maroke Sultan, we tried to cut the cost at no expense to the quality, to craft an artisanal Maroke oud that belongs on the
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Jungle: Sumatra | New Guinea
Distilled: 2015
Distilled: 2015
Apart from some astounding new scent chords that were created by this synergy, the weirdest thing for me is that it smells almost exactly like some top shelf Malaysian oud that has nothing to do with either New Guinea or
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Jungle: Koh Kong
Aged: 2 years (2014)
Aged: 2 years (2014)
He wouldn’t part with either of them, not for love or money. The Koh Kong one impressed me so much that my whole focus turned to capturing that same smell again and it’s the scent that’s become the benchmark for all the Cambodian ouds I’ve made since...
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Jungle: Myanmar
Aged: 7 years (2008)
Aged: 7 years (2008)
As unique a profile as Oud Khidr, Oud Nuh and Assam Kinam. There is a softness, a powderiness and an altogether different character to it. Deep down that bottomless goodness lay blood orange zest, musk, ancient woods, civet, animalic elixirs from other eons
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Jungle: Koh Kong
Distilled: 2014
Distilled: 2014
Koh Kong was the Mecca of Cambodian oud distillation. Now, the oud scene there is dead, with rusted pots piled up and stowed away. You get distillation going on in Pursat and elsewhere and these have their own scent profile. But they’re not proper
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Jungle: Papua
The green of sitting in the backseat of a taxicab taking you from the ginseng and oolong tasting room to the distillery in the Taiwanese countryside... beaded bangles carved out of precious old Vietnamese stock ($150,000 for 8 or 9 mm beads)
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Jungle: Sumatra
Distilled: 2014
Distilled: 2014
With this ultra rare batch, we turned that Sumatran oudiness into a jaw-dropping fruitilicious magnificence unlike we've ever experienced ourselves in any oud—our Taiwanese distillations included. The scent is pristinely clean and for a Sumatran distill, supremely
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Jungle: Sumatra
Distilled: 2015
Distilled: 2015
A well crafted Sumatran oil hits just the right balance between earth, incense and woods. I love SS because it's clean cut and to the point. It's Sumatran oud to the bone, with a pine leaf crispness cloaked in an incense heartnote. One of the most surprizing notes you find is a sweet purple
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Jungle: Koh Kong
Aged: 2 Years (2014)
Aged: 2 Years (2014)
Take a break from the unripe berries and the cherries. Take a step back from those pasteurised ‘Cambodis’. Most of us who come to oud for the first time come from a scentscape that does not approve of oud! (Think back to the time you first smelled those funky ... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Distilled: 2015
Distilled: 2015
You could steam distill the daylights out of Maroke wood and probably get a much better yield. For sure, you'll save yourself two months of insanity at the disitllery and a lot of money. But the unique hydro/steel set-up we used to juice this beauty turned
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Jungle: Sumatra
Distilled: 2015
Distilled: 2015
Even though Candan is known to produce a powerhouse fragrance, the beauty and purity of the straight Candan scent goes missing between notes of leather and plums when co-distilled with other species of aquilaria, and ends up giving you a
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Jungle: New Guinea
Exactly as if you're inhaling bubbling burst of vapor straight from a burning oud chip, dense green heart notes embody Sultan Orhan's agar kernel. This piercing oud wood smokiness makes this oil especially therapeutic, with a scent that
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Jungle: Maroke
Aged: 1 year (2014)
Aged: 1 year (2014)
This oud throws you back to the sixties, sends you trekking to a Jamaican village or a Cali commune—wherever you find patchouli and counter culture. It’s an aroma that screams NATURAL. Jungle black. Pure agar core, wild grown
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Jungle: Koh Kong
Aged: 1 Year (2014)
Aged: 1 Year (2014)
This is the scent that brought oud onto the world stage. With Chen Xiang Khmer as a scent reference, you'll appreciate where all the modern Cambodi, Thai and north Malaysian ouds come from. Age your bottle a little and you'll discover a pure bred
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Somewhere in a Shanghai penthouse, a wealthy oudhead is missing an agarwood bangle. A Beijing business baron’s display case stares back empty. Taipei’s illustrious incense tycoon is missing his most sought-after ingredient
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Jungle: Papua
Aged: 7 Years (2007)
Aged: 7 Years (2007)
During our collaboration on the Sultan Series, our Thai distiller said to me: “I don’t know how you do it. You can consistently get ‘the green’ smell, no matter what wood you use.” Now, guess what the secret behind the green smell is... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Aged: 7 years (2008)
Aged: 7 years (2008)
If you’re a Maroke-and-nothing-but-Maroke connoisseur, this profile adds a gentler dimension to its darker twins Maroke 2004 and Maroke LTD. Faint notes of cinnamon, cacao and guana bana on the back burner make the scent progression ... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Papua New Guinea
Distilled: 2004
Distilled: 2004
Wild Maroke agarwood—pitch black resin—distilled in 2004—in Taiwan—by one of the greatest craftsmen the agarwood scene has ever known—and then aged for a decade!... All that, for just $100 more than what you’ll pay anywhere else for oils distilled last month... reminisce ››
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Jungle: New Guinea
Distilled: 2014
Distilled: 2014
The new Sultan Murad is an oil that I enjoy eating as much as I adore putting it on my skin. I took great pains to ensure the oil is edible by manning the pot in person throughout soak and distillation, and this has turned my Great Cambodian Experiment upside down... reminisce ››
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State of Sarawak
2012
2012
I kept inhaling in search of my Borneo, but the rose was all over the night air, everywhere, hovering above us like a cloud. If you opened your mouth you could taste it. Then something interesting happened and I caught a whiff of the wood... reminisce ››
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Cultivation: Trat
Aged: 7 Year (2012)
Aged: 7 Year (2012)
To tone down oud by skipping the soak – to take the oomph out of oud, so to speak – is to... not produce oud. Oud is characterized and identified by that selfsame note – the pungent, strong, powerful, sometimes overwhelming... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Cambodia
1989-2013
1989-2013
Acting like a first time tourist while the customs officer asked for my ID and entry form, I’d be lying if I said my heart didn’t skip a beat every now and then. Missing the meeting would be a greater loss than being sent back to Bangkok with an empty wallet
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Jungle: North Cachar
Distilled: January 2009
Distilled: January 2009
Take Assam Black, multiply its blackness by about three, intensify its oudiness to the point where all typical Assam notes disappear to make way for the woodiest, deepest South Papua oud you've ever inhaled, and you've got - a major problem... reminisce ››
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Chanthaburi Province
Aged: 3 years (2011)
Aged: 3 years (2011)
Narcotic a la the finest jasmine, Oud Yaqoub is already the finest Cambodi you'll ever lay nostrils on. Age it a year or two, and you'll be in possession of one of the Greats of all time. Ethereal without being light, an uplifting jasmine note fuses into... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Distilled: 2004
Distilled: 2004
Just about the rarest oil from Maroke you can ever get ahold of, this is the first distillation conducted by our Taiwanese wizard who produced Kyara de Kalbar, Royal Kinam, Kyara LTD, Borneo 4000, Kyara Koutan, and many other legends which now command much higher... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Jayapura
Distilled: March 2010
Distilled: March 2010
If Borneo oils take you for a mid-day stroll along a dry forest path on a blue-sky summer day, Oud Emerald invites you for an early morning jog deep into the jungle, where pine leaves glitter with the clean morning dew... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Cambodia, Khao Yai
Distilled: 2012
Distilled: 2012
Qi Nam Khmer will never come again, and I myself had no idea what a true incense-grade Cambodi could smell like, until I laid my nostrils on Khmer... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam
Distilled: 2012
Distilled: 2012
Each exquisite note you expect to find in a bottle of artisanal oud with the label ‘Assam’ on it, you’ll discover in Sur Fleur. Once you become more intimate with the scent’s hypnotic cadence, these recurring themes reveal themselves unexpectedly, beautifully... reminisce ››
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West Borneo & Trat
July 2009
July 2009
I recall him putting some precious Vietnamese kyara carving dust on his low heat electric burner (specially designed for kyara chips) as he handed me the oil. And he gave me some green kyara powder to chew on and keep under my tongue. With a numbed mouth and a... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam
Distilled: 2011
Distilled: 2011
There might be no Kyara in Assam. But only in Assam do you find Muana, a heart note of serenity not even Kyara can capture and just as rare. You might have smelled it when burning crazy-grade Assam wood chips, but pick it up in an oud oil... this is a first.... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Jayapura
Crafted: 2004
Crafted: 2004
Who'd ever think oud could be green? The Arabs, with their synthetic oud 'mukhallats', maintain that oud should be a reddish brown, or as black as possible. Not to mention thick like molasses, so that you could hardly get it out of the bottle... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Burma
Distilled: 2005
Distilled: 2005
While green kyara has been traditionally thought to originate in the jungles of Vietnam, the scientific, Latin name for kyara would indicate otherwise. In English, Aquilaria Sinensis translates to Chinese Aquilaria. So the true origin of kyara is China, not Vietnam!... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Borneo
Distilled: 2007
Distilled: 2007
Possessing a bold femininity, and a depth that is nearly dramatic in play with its sweetness, Borneo Kinam is far from your everyday Borneo Oud. As the oil dries down, its floral notes come alive - slightly rosy with the fading fragrance of plumerias... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Chanthaburi
Distilled: 2013
Distilled: 2013
In effect, what we’re doing is to buy 2000 ten-gram packets from Baiedo’s premium agarwood incense range and then instead of pulling out the burner, we head off to the distillery. This is, according to everybody in the oud producing world you will ever meet, pure insanity.... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Tarakan
Distilled: 2005
Distilled: 2005
When I first sampled this oil in our distiller's Jakarta home, I couldn't but fall in love with it. He told me his colleagues were poking fun at him when they saw it: 'Why do you make such costly oud, friend? Have you gone crazy?'... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Bhutan
Distilled: 2012
Distilled: 2012
The almost mythical appreciation the Japanese attribute to it has made kyara familiar to anybody who knows something about agarwood, and if you look hard enough you’ll find some. In contrast, this might be the first time... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam
Distilled: 2006
Distilled: 2006
When the wealthiest man of all time wrote his Song of Songs, Indian 'Aloes' was not only not endangered and on the verge of extinction - it was the only oud known. The caravans made their way to the Holy Land from the East, carrying musk pods... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Chanthaburi
Distilled: 2008
Distilled: 2008
Ishaq radiates a suave and smooth presence with fine ethereal sweet woody notes that include tea, frangipani and neroli-like nuances. Out of all the citrus flowers, linden blossom comes to mind. The narcotic spicy floral notes of golden champaca... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Bhutan
Distilled: May 2009
Distilled: May 2009
In agarwood trees, the resin formation starts off in a circular pattern, growing inwards. The thin layer of hard resin embracing the heartwood is known as seah, while the wood beneath it is called kien. If seah is allowed to mature properly, this is what turns into... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Hong Kong
Distilled: 2007
Distilled: 2007
Fortunately for us, the Japanese bigwigs that regulate the trade of kinam have been fooled into believing it only comes from Vietnam. It doesn't occur to them that the scientific term they use to identify kinam - Aquilaria sinensis - denotes another origin for their coveted... reminisce ››
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Source: Cambodia
Distilled: 2014
Distilled: 2014
Agarwood collectors across Cambodia started to cash in on their stowed away stashes when the Chinese market started to boom. Some of them began clearing their display cabinets four to six years ago, while others only decided to give in since a year ago.... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Tarakan
Distilled: 2005
Distilled: 2005
Sheer elegance and impeccable taste mark its aromatic quality, as it is devoid of all harshness, leathery notes, and dull linearity. Much more than a costly fragrance, this oil possesses a spirituality that has been cherished by the messengers of God... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Hainan
Distilled: 2007
Distilled: 2007
Nutmeg and acacia, wild-honey wafting through the woody iridescence of Chinese Exclusive Oud. Sweet China's zesty, tangy, orange-peel aroma atop a latakia tobacco smell thoroughly evokes a sense of antiquity. Wondering through this aromatic labyrinth... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Meghalaya
Distilled: May 2008
Distilled: May 2008
Predecessor to Oud Nuh, Oud Isa and Oud Ayoub, Assam Kinam is only preceded by Oud Yunus, in our line of wild, ancient Meghalayan distillations. Mature, exotic and warm, resplendent and rich - it boasts a unique and unrivaled aloeswood character... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Distilled: 2004
Distilled: 2004
Its dark jungly depth keeps radiating in spicy purple notes for hours and hours on end. Hoping to find the bottom of the scent while comparing it to Oud Royale, you'll feel like a sultan without a crown. Or an aborigine not needing one?... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Assam
Distilled: 2006
Distilled: 2006
If you want that wild Indian oud fragrance which is the stuff of legends and wonders of the past, you must opt for the rarities - the exotic specimens of Assam oud which are now harvested in the jungles of of Bhutan, Nagaland and Manipur... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Brunei
Distilled: 2007
Distilled: 2007
This question had been irking me for a long time. Especially since our old Brunei Supreme was a co-extraction of Brunei, Indonesian, Malaysian and Indian agarwood. What would the ultimate Brunei Oud offer? What new vistas for the soul to discover?... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Borneo
Distilled: 2007
Distilled: 2007
On another occasion we walked into a warehouse where a large supply of wood was spread out across the floor being dried and prepared for distillation. The only problem was that the wood was... well... not agarwood. Good firewood perhaps, but not oud... reminisce ››
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Crafted: 2010
Artisanal oud is not for those who wear oud oil just for the sake of wearing some smell. If you have a refined sense for anything perfume, the point is the oud and the bliss it delivers. Oud lovers take pleasure in every minute they spend drowned in its magic... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Michina
Distilled: 2007
Distilled: 2007
Without really fitting in anywhere, Kyara Koutan makes for a truly interesting study. Infatuated aesthetes will be unable to resists the oil's tantalizing depth and spiritual allure. Olfactory adventurers will return to it time and again, sure to be enthralled by every whiff... reminisce ››
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Jungle: Maroke
Distilled: 1982
Distilled: 1982
Oud oil is normally extracted from wood that ranges from $20 to a few hundred dollars per kilogram. The quality of agarwood that is burned as incense, and which costs several thousand per kilogram, as a rule, never gets used in the distillation of agarwood oil... reminisce ››
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