China Sayang

Don’t ask me what the jungle was. And I won’t tell you anything about the distillation style. Save that this is a sister batch to an old Oriscent legend by the name of Sweet China.

If you’ve tried Sweet China before, you know exactly what you’re in for. If you haven’t…

When the world of oud has all gone unitone honey and non-oud, you need an oil like China Sayang to remind you what real oud smells like. And no, it’s not a soaking technique…

The grand orange peel atop latakia tobacco scent so dear to the old timers is due to the sheer quality of wood used to breed this tiger, coupled with eleven years’ aging, coupled with the fact that Chinese Oud is just about the most coveted species on the planet… coupled with a couple other facts…

There’s something about the oud of the early days of Oriscent… There’s reason people still talk about it today, and use it as the benchmark to compare everything else to. The depth is just different. The breadth is different. The wow factor is completely different… Some call it horizontal complexity. I call it the Real Deal.

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 craft the finest oud anyone had ever smelled.

It was Mr Jong’s cousin who manned the pots back in those days. I remember a lady going around the distilleries saying, “No pig fat, guaranteed.” Always tried to sell me her oils. Melinda, or Marinda, I forget what her name was, but she was a Canadian lady, married to a Chinese guy who knew some sort of colonel. Seeing what I was doing, she built herself a website counting to do big business in the name of Chinese Oud. Gone is her website, and I don’t know where she ended up. But I ended up keeping my Chinese Exclusive, as well as several other batches for a rainy day like this.

I don’t want to bore you to death about how great the wood was and the kind of techniques we used because that kind of talk has started to really get to me. The bottom line is, the honeyed, tobacco’d, Hunan tiger’s armpits atop the crispiest breath of orange blossom, citrus zest, and the faintest hint of kinam in the basenotes make this the best Chinese oil I have released to date.

If you miss the old days and you’re tired of the juice everyone is selling and you wish you could go back to 2005 and put me out of business, let me make it easy for you… China Sayang is the answer to your deepest, wildest, most insatiable oud crave.

Featured Testimonials…

Tried many chinese oud oils but this one is mind blowing. In a world saturated with uniform honeyed notes and devoid of genuine oud, China Sayang emerges as an exquisite reminder of authentic oud’s essence.

 

The sublime blend of grand orange peel and latakia tobacco, treasured by connoisseurs of yesteryear, owes its richness to the unparalleled quality of wood nurturing this exceptional tiger.

 

This oil having eighteen years of meticulous aging, its fragrance stands as a testament to the unparalleled allure of Chinese Oud.

—Syed S. / Pakistan

We often perceive a scent’s structure as in layers of Top, Heart and Base …

 

Like the layers of a cake but you could only go from top to bottom and not all at layers at once…

 

I like to perceive the structure, with the Base not as a bottom layer …

 

To me Base is like a Nail through all the layers, keeping everything around it and together …

 

So that everything that has been “Nailed” together have to shred in pieces with time, leaving only the Nail left there …

 

That’s one of my selection criterion as well, when i wanna rate a scent in terms of quality and craft …

 

China Sayang is the definition of such structure to me

 

The first blow would give you a hint of an almost kinamic whiff

 

Leaving you scratching your head for if it was something else

 

Because there are layers and layers of a lot of accords “Nailed” with that kinamic note …

 

You’d experience a lot of exotics from dry citrus peels to cooked herbs to almost wet dripping tobacco to even honeycomb and a lot more …

 

But that kinamic feel poking it’s head slowly as the layers gets shedded until, standing is the only thing that was keeping everything together.

—Saad K / USA