HINDI OUD
Honeybush
bulgarian rose
cinnamon
champaca
rooibos
LEATHERY NOTES
FRUITY NOTES
‘Take the pheromonal allure of Borneo 3000 and double it. Infuse it with the meditative power of the highest calibre Indian agarwood and you’ve got oud that plays with your senses like no other oud. It’s not easy for me to say this, but this might well be the most addictive oil in our archives – even more so than most Cambodis. The olfactory pull is strong. Its psychoactive effects real. You can feel the scent, just as strong oolong tickles your nerves or sipping too much betel juice makes you stare at the wall until someone tugs you out of your daze.
The sillage is great and unobtrusive. Just beware of perfume junkies on the floor – the magic will attract them from across the room and they won’t leave you alone until they know which boutique you just came from. THIS is the Western oud scent true agarheads have been dying to try – the one Christian and Yves wished they could use as their key ingredient.
If you do think you pick up a trace of barn, that’s not barn. For as long as anyone can remember, barnyard always = Hindi, so anything Hindi evokes that pastural oomph it’s renowned for. But what you smell here is the echo of that agallochaean heart you could never really penetrate fully, hidden beneath weeks and months of crude soaking. You’re not smelling a faint hint of barn – there IS no barn. You’re smelling 100% wild-harvested Assam oud, stripped of the soak and the bare hands, dressed in retro garb that’s totally avant garde.
Assam 3000 is all tea leaves and spices, flowers and a dash of citrus. Honeybush infused with Bulgarian rose. Especially during the opening. Raspberry jam oozing in the background. The faintest cinnamon spiciness, gently steeped rooibos (tell me that’s not wild rooibos twigs you’re smelling!) and champaca. That’s what make this oil so incredible, it’s a beauty and one beast of a scent bank. Your nose will be free diving deep into a fragrant floral wonder that can be anything but Oud al Hindi.
I’ve been asked why I haven’t launched an Indian oil in a while. The answer is simple: With a mighty oil like Assam 3000 available, why would I?
If I could sell Assam Black again today, there’s no way I’m letting it go for less than $550. And yes, that’s a cultivated oil. So, how’s this for Making Oud Cheap Again?… Wild…… not planted by men and left to grow…… WILD as in decades old, need a machete in the jungle to get it, Assam Oud. The kind of profile any true Assam addict can sniff out a mile away. The kind that’s selling here for a very short #I’m gonna keep making this statement time only, at a stupid price.
PS: Did I mention it’s been aged 5 years?’- Ensar Oud
ENSAR OUD