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Ruh Khus 2020
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This is a beautiful example of India’s famed Ruh Khus, the essential oil distilled from the roots of wild vetiver plants (Vetiveria zizanioides) in northern India.
Distilled in 2020, it now has a beautifully soft and rounded profile with almost no harsh notes, displaying a soft and yet ultra-dense character instead (much like oud and sandalwood, vetiver improves with age, the scent becoming deeper and more rounded).
Testing on my skin, it opens up with a quiet, complex and yet very smooth leathery and rooty profile – a touch more than others I’ve encountered – before slowly revealing its classic Ruh Khus profile: an incredibly rich bouquet of green grass along with leafy, earthy, rooty, leathery and woody notes that lasts for many hours.
Gorgeous worn neat as a standalone attar, its excellent tenacity and fixative properties also make it an exceptional base note and ingredient in natural perfumery, working well in fougères, chypres and mossy, woody and green accords amongst others.
Note:
• As with all natural materials, the scent, colour, and profile can vary slightly from batch to batch. Please note reviews include those from previous batches
Collection: Kannauj Chronicles
In the Kannauj Chronicles, I explore and share with you the wonderful natural oils and attars of India’s historic perfume capital, Kannauj. The oils in this collection are pure botanical extracts and attars distilled in sandalwood oil by some of Kannauj’s most renowned and trusted artisans, who share our passion for distilling the highest quality of aromatics and attars.
These attars are distilled using the ancient ‘deg and bhapka’ apparatus; a traditional distilling method largely unchanged for 400 years. I hope you enjoy these breathtaking scents of nature from a bygone era, an era fast being forgotten in today’s race towards modernity and industrialisation at all costs.
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This is an exceptionally beautiful Bourbon Vetiver essential oil from Reunion Islands that is rich and complex and yet ultra suave and smooth, making it gorgeous worn as an attar or as an ingredient in the natural perfumer's arsenal.
Testing on my skin, the aroma immediately oozes with the soft warmth of baked earth, clay, roots and dry soil with a touch of woods, petrichor and campfire smoke. I also detect a beautiful undercurrent of warm sweetness throughout, calling to mind labdanum, tolu balsam, sandalwood, and a variety of other resins and woods that it would pair well with.
As a heavy base note, it displays typical soft projection with incredible tenacity, lasting for many days on a paper strip. It also makes for a great study in comparison with Ruh Khus, the wild North Indian variety, which is a much more green, grassy and wet soily affair.
Overall, this is a truly beautiful vetiver oil and one that I'd definitely recommend for vetiver connoisseurs and natural perfume enthusiasts alike.
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This is a gorgeous iron-distilled Indian patchouli oil bursting with its characteristically sweet, warm, rich, herbaceous, spicy, minty, woody, and earthy profile that makes it so valuable in natural perfumery and perfumery at large.
Comparing this Indian distillation to the more common Indonesian one, I personally prefer the Indian variety due to its deeper and richer profile that feels more earthy, chocolaty, and almost caramel-like in its sweetness, compared with its more herbaceous, minty and fruity Indonesian counterpart that feels lighter and more top-note heavy.
An incredibly versatile oil due to its outstandingly beautiful and complex profile, patchouli is a great fixative that can find use in almost all accords, from earthy, green and forest-type blends to spicy orientals, florals, and woods. It also improves with ageing if stored correctly, and should become smoother, rounder and fuller in profile with time.
Santal Ceylon Red
Distilled from wild santal roots in 2021, Santal Ceylon Red is a gorgeous Sri Lankan sandalwood oil oozing with notes of gourmand red woodiness throughout.
Unlike many other Sri Lankan santals which open with sharp piney-camphoric top notes - which I also adore - this oil is all about deeply rich base woods from the get-go.
Opening with freshly sawn woods alongside perhaps a slightly lactonic touch, it soon begins to transform into a sweet honeyed profile that reminds me of powdered almonds and tonka bean’s coumarinic marzipan-like goodness.
This golden-hued coumarin-like sweetness balances out a base of freshly sawn, almost dark red woods throughout the oil's journey, with some creaminess, and perhaps even a slightly musky animalic warmth deep down in its layers adding to its beautiful complexity and depth.
Overall, with its rich woody character and gorgeous sweetness, this makes for an exceptional sandalwood oil to wear neat. I also think it would work fantastically in blends and macerations, especially where musk or civet is used or where a strong woody character is desired.
Santal Ceylon Silk
Just like Ceylon Red, this is a wild Sri Lankan santal that has aged beautifully since it was distilled in 2021. Very much unlike CR, however, Ceylon Silk replaces those deep gourmand woody hues with a gorgeously airy and smooth butteriness throughout its olfactory journey.
Testing on the skin, its initial sharp green piney top notes after distillation have almost completely disappeared, with the oil now a lot more smooth and rounded from start to finish.
It opens up with a beautifully rich butteriness that's delicate and airy, and yet so very buttery at the same time. To me, it's quite reminiscent of Mysore's famed sandalwoods, minus the lime opening that typify oils from that region.
As the scent progresses, you might also pick up on a hint of powdery nuttiness or earthiness, especially in the later stages. This powdery earthiness is not the soily facet found in vetiver, but a much more light and airy note that reminds me of Mitti attar's delicate nuttiness.
Overall, this is a fantastic sandalwood oil that I'd very highly recommend if you're looking for a light, clean, and yet beautifully rich and buttery sandalwood oil to wear neat. I think it would also work fantastically well in almost any attar or perfume blend, providing an incredibly smooth base without overwhelming the rest of the composition.
Lesley –
Really like this. Smooth and more subtle than some vetiver but has its own prescense and gentleness.
Manohar –
Absolutely authentic,very pleased indeed.Love it
Oliver –
An absolutely glorious vetiver
Elise –
This is the scent I have been looking for all my life, this is basically IT! I have a collection of over 100 essential oils and I have been blending for over 25 years in the hope of finding the one scent that can define me, and here we have it… Muhammad is an absolute top star man, this is my second purchase from him and it certainly won’t be my last. The packaging is adorable and I really appreciated the complimentary sample. Buy with confidence, fellow Etsy-ers.
Sulaiman (verified owner) –
Really good khus, hits all the notes I’d want any vetiver to and is extremely balanced starting off with fresh grass and sweet green notes just as Muhammad explained, and dries down to bring in darker earthy scents and some light smoke. Would definitely recommend.
Jonathan E. (verified owner) –
My first Indian Khus (vetiver) so not much basis for comparison–smells very very grassy-green, less earthy than I had imagined, and slightly watery. I was hoping for something a little richer and deeper, but that may not be what Khus is about.
Mick –
Great oil and amazing packaging from AshworthOud. Muhammad was great to communicate with – thanks for the extra samples!
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Samuel Egglenton –
kalmek17 –
Responsive seller and excellent quality product.
Nasra nasra –
I really love the ruh kuhs oil Muhammed soo kind to add extra sample will buy again next time with same shop thumbs up 👍✨🎇
Simone –
Quality/price ratio over the top. Really recommented
SusanD –
It’s a beautiful vetiver. It has been helping me when I find it hard to sleep; a drop massaged into the third eye works wonders for this.
Susan D –
It’s a beautiful vetiver. It has been helping me when I find it hard to sleepÉ
Nasra nasra –
MASHALLAH the best ruh khus oil my favorite ❤ 😍 thank u soo much for the gift Muhammad May Allah pak always keep u bless Ameen 🙌
Lachlan Neal –
Simply the best Khus IÕve sampled to date. Beautifully balanced, neither too dark or too light. Works wonderfully in high heat as a daily oil to wear to work. A refined masculine aroma, classic. nWould also be a great addition for any perfumers out there!
JCA –
A very good quality Khus that will only get better with time. Jazak Allah Khair for the speedy processing. All items were well packaged and arrived on time.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Devin –
I’m new to Ruh Khus but I can tell u this stuff is amazing its reminiscent of oud I only smear a little behind each ear and the scent still projects 12hrs later I absolutely love it the free samples nare also very nice the bottle and glass dipstick are top of the line quality same as you would get from Ensar. Ruh Khus is my new favorite thank you
Imran –
Smells really nice. Deep and earthy.
Musafir –
Came nicely packed in vials. Very strong smell and then it eases into a comfy and warm scent. Love it.
Tahira L Bateman –
Thankyou , the scent I was looking for.
yusuf –
Charlie T (verified owner) –
My first experience of Ruh Khus and wow… mossy, earthy, cool and dank initially and drying down to a delicious herbaceous warmth that lasts and lasts. Absolutely love this. Muhammad was a pleasure to purchase from and kindly upgraded my patchouli oil to a larger size. The patchouli,bytheway,Highly recommend!!!
charlie tekulve (verified owner) –
Mossy mysterious beauty
Ashley (verified owner) –
I decided to seek out Ruh Khus from another seller when my usual seller (the wonderful Abdullah at Mellifluence Perfumes) unfortunately did not have any in stock at the time. I stumbled upon Ashworth Oud online via an online search, and decided to order Ruh Khus from here. I am very happy with the purchase; the oil is of fantastic quality, long lasting, and smells refreshing. The seller dispatched the item (and some lovely samples) quickly in a well presented package. No issues whatsoever and very happy with the purchase.