Purple Kinam

The Oriscent aesthetic is simply impossible to capture in a spray perfume. Should the artist be afflicted with a disorder – like OCD, or an incorrigible Don Quixote complex – he’ll at best be a lot poorer in the end than when he set out to pursue such a pipe dream.

To put it bluntly, if you were to take Purple Kinam the oil and simply dilute it in ethanol, throw in a few kinam chips for good measure, you wouldn’t end up with a Purple Kinam spray. Apart from an experiment in foolhardiness, it would amount to several bottles of the best oud on Earth, wasted.

Unless, of course, the Oriscent aesthetic is something that only comes to life within the wirings of the artist’s olfactory underbrain – and whatever gets run through such a sophisticated kodo mill is automatically transmuted into resinous brainzap: A scent of pure Zen from start to finish… extragalactic purple fruits and flowers decked out for Space X’s crew to behold just as they reach the edge of space….

Imagine you could bottle up that juice and drench it in lush auxiliary notes of violet and vintage French iris from the 1950s… Thick sweet slabs of sticky resin and purple oud vapor wafting through it all to turn that buzzing purple nectar into a perfume of the sickest caliber…

A spritz exudes this peppery kewda note lacquered in the purple glaze courtesy of vintage Myitkyinean sinker juice – the highest caliber ever extracted – coupled with that rare batch of iris extracted about 70 years ago, injected with the heady liqueur of Juhi plus the narcotic blue waterlily.

Then you’ve got the nitros of the fragrance cranked up to take the powdery creamy iris lily dance and drench it in the greatest Malaysian oud in existence—yes, I was actually sick enough to pour the Purple Kinam into your bottle…

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—THE VIOLET GATE—
(juicy, seduction, sensual)

Raspberry + Strawberry

red-glaze bite / juicy provocation

Ward Isfahani + Turkish Rose

spice-honey dew / Persian heat meets Anatolian silk

Blue Lotus

creamy / erotic calm

—THE RESIN CURRENT—
(beauty, pollen, flavor)

Rose de Mai

butter-thick petals / floral gravity

Mimosa + Rice

powdered honey / milky grains team

Black Tea + Patchouli

tannic, bitter / moist soil

—THE PURPLE REMAINS—
(skin, earth, kinam)

Purple Kinam + Yunnan Oud + Myitkyina Oud

sinking resin engine / smoky jungle blood

Tobacco + Mushroom

narcotic calm / forest trail umami

Vetiver + Cedarwood

root smoke / dry wood frame

Ambergris + Mongolian Musk

salted animal light / pheromonal pull

The late Sultan championed a distillation style designed to suck out as rich and layered a fragrance as possible from the highest quality materials, while my kyara Sifu’s path is to extract his signature bitter-sweet monkoh narcotique, slowly.

So, smell those underwater clinkers blast their incense as they creak into every crevice of the scent gushing with ruh gulab layered with violet leaf and cassie absolute, all welded to the backbone of an oud that’s indistinguishable from certified Japanese purple kinam on the heater.

What you perhaps won’t smell as distinctly is an in-house infusion of Royal Tonkin musk into a super rare batch of Sinensis (nope, not Ha Tinh LTD). The zesty, savory flavor of the Chinese oud adds this biting sweetness, magnified by the pheromonal Tonkin musk, to the kinamic mantra.

The scent of Purple Kinam doesn’t let you delve down a scent breakdown. Instead, you smell the voluptuous, purple body of the oud that makes up the composition, lacquered in tens of other ingredients not meant to be note-picked or analyzed but smelled, all in one go… Slowly, deliberately punctuating the aroma in a thousand petals of resin abuzz with the nectar of purple alien bees on the tail of Space X’s spaceship as it re-entered space…