Choron
£28.00 – £179.00
£21.00 – £134.25
£21.00 – £134.25
Golden Sylhet 2021
£18.00 – £469.00
£13.50 – £351.75
£13.50 – £351.75
Oud Sheikh Najd
Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 6 customer ratings
(6 customer reviews)
Sometimes, you just want something honest from the get-go. A jet-black coffee that’s a little too burnt and a little too bitter. But you love it for that. It gives you exactly what you want and not an inch more.
Oud Sheikh Najd is just that. No fancy shenanigans or fairy-tale notes. Just a beautifully straight, basenote-heavy Hindi-esque oud that delivers. Predictable? Yes. Enjoyable? Very much so.
Distilled in Sylhet in 2018, it opens up with a rich balsamic sourness akin to a cheesy note, spices, woods, incensiness, mild barnyard and a deeply earthy oudiness along with a very subtle touch of sweetness. The scent overall remains soothingly straight throughout, eventually fading away after several hours into a spicy-woody drydown.
Note:
- This is a traditional Hindi oud distillation which I would recommend for lovers of such profiles. However, if it’s your first time experiencing a traditional Hindi, please note that barnyard, animalics and cheesy notes form part of the profile, and while it’s an acquired taste and can be very beautiful to some, it can be quite challenging for those unacquainted with it.
SKU:
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Category: Wild Oud
Reviews (6)
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Wild Oud Sample Set
Rated 5.00 out of 5
£41.25
This Wild Oud Oil Sample Set includes tiny micro-vial samples (approximately 2 drops) of each of the oud oils currently in store, as well as unscented toothpicks for application. The oils (and cost of this set) will change depending on their availability.
My aim is to make these sample sets very affordable so that you can test as many oils as possible before deciding to go for full bottles. The quantity in each vial is small but sufficient for at least two wears in my estimation.
The current wild oud oils included in this set are:
• Malinau Hijau
• Sumbawa
• Aceh Flora
• Choron
• Sylhet Orchard
• Golden Sylhet
You can read more about each of these oils on their individual listings.
Just to emphasise again, many of these oils are limited and can go out of stock quickly; therefore this list will be subject to change depending on availability of oils. I will of course update this list with any changes (including price) so that you know what you're getting.
Notes:
• The image is for illustration only, it does not show the number/colour/profile of oils you will receive.
Malinau Hijau
Rated 5.00 out of 5
£41.25 – £299.25
When it comes to the world of oud, there’s a rare shade that catches the eye.
Hijau as they call it in Malay. Akhdarr. Green. The shimmering jade of the oud world that’s as rare as it sounds and always a treat.
But not all green gaharus are the same of course. There’s the green oceanic marine of the Ceylons, the green cola-jungle vibes of the Acehnese, and the green bitter-cacao incensiness of the Meraukes.
And then there’s this hijau.
Where the other greens dive with you to the dark depths of oceans and incense-laden jungles, this takes you very much in the opposite direction. Up and up for a breath of fresh air, high above the waves and wilderness, and up into the cotton-candied clouds of Malinau’s air.
It doesn’t smell of cotton-candied clouds, of course (?) but opens up instead with a beautiful airiness, a soft powdery cloud of bergamot-like citrus alongside wildflowers and honey, all underpinned by the tiniest hint of violet leaf’s green powderiness in the background.
With time, this incredible opening slowly settles and gains in sweetness, slightly resembling to me the tart and powdery scent of raspberries, or a mysterious narcotic floral of the tropics, before eventually arriving at its sweet green oudy drydown.
Artisanally distilled from high grade wild Malinau oud, the result is nothing short of sensational. One waft of this will tell you all you need to know about why true Malinau is one of the most sought-after profiles of Borneo - itself replete with many other treasured regions - and why its gorgeous old gaharus are only getting rarer with every passing year.
Choron
Rated 4.91 out of 5
£21.00 – £134.25
Hailing from the ancient cradle of oud, this is a special 2018 co-distillation of incense-grade oud collected from various regions of Al Hind and beyond.
Artisanally distilled, with a short soak, low temperature cook, and several years of ageing now, it’s transformed into a beautifully balanced and rounded profile over time: A very refined Hindi oud full of character and depth, and yet void of all things animalics and barn.
As a high-grade Hindi, this can easily be called Kalakassi, but that term is actually a misnomer: an inaccurately-used label that’s often attached to top-drawer Hindis nowadays for marketing purposes*.
*(Kalakassi actually refers to one of the shapes of Hindi oud (wood). When a piece of oud is large and concave, i.e. resembles the shape of a banana leaf, it’s classified as Kalakassi, but that has no bearing on its grade or how resinated it is, simply its shape).
And hence, I decided to forgo this name for Choron instead, the Bengali distiller’s name for oud shavings. And not any shavings were used here; but the highly resinated shavings of wild, incense-grade oud. And the result is this gorgeous beauty…
Ultra-smooth, buttery almost, and complex, it opens up with a waft of soft incense, spices, and gentle tobacco around its beautifully dark Hindi oudy core.
As the scent develops, it gains slightly in sweetness, molasses now perhaps, contrasted by tobacco, woods, spices and leather, with a hint of hay and a clean barn somewhere in the distance, before eventually descending into a soft woody and spicy drydown.
Choron is most definitely not a loud Hindi oud roaring with animalics and barn, but it also isn’t a squeaky clean new-gen lacking in complexity and depth. Instead, it’s perhaps what many of its namesakes would love to be: A beautiful, delicate, tightrope walk between the two that shows you what Hindi oud, done right, can be.
Aceh Flora
Rated 5.00 out of 5
£19.50 – £116.25
A sensually green, zero-soak, wild oud oil from Aceh province in Indonesia, Oud Aceh Flora is a sweet, floral, and minty green beauty that reflects, in my mind, the flora of the jungle from where it hails, hence the name.
Swiping on the arm, it opens up with a strong blast of all shades of green: bright, grassy, mentholic, minty, jungly and vetivery notes, all accompanied by what reminds me of the powdery scent of rice flour, and perhaps a soft whisper of vanilla in the background.
Softening and sweetening as the scent progresses, this exquisitely bright, sweet and sour red cherry emerges, weaving in-between the soft vanilla and dark green jungles to produce what some may call a cola vibe that is simply beautiful.
Overall, however, this remains a dark green jungle-type oud which, alongside the gorgeous red cherry note mentioned earlier, also has floral, leathery, vetivery, mossy and even an almost dark, diesel-like facet to it which is hard to accurately describe, but makes it a fascinating oil in any collection.
KHAYAM –
Love it – potent , different, long lasting, tingles and delights… ride this one out – def an oud high 🙂
Les –
Bilaal –
The oudh smells great. Jazakallah
Umid (verified owner) –
Nasra nasra –
beautiful oud oil gorgeous 😍 smell if anybody want to buy pure natural oud oil buy from his shop will buy again thank u Muhammad i really appreciate those 2 samples stay bless 👍✨🎇
Paul langton –
very pleased with my purchase, its very strong deep fragrance. Ashworth oud highly recommend