One man’s journey into the world of Agarwood
Posted in Ensar's Oud Notes on Sep 29th, 2007
Who’d ever think Oud could be green? The Arabs, with their synthetic Oud “mukhallats”, maintain that Oud should be a reddish brown, or as black as possible. Not to mention thick like molasses, so that you could hardly get it out of the bottle. – But green?! That doesn’t sound right.
Yet here I am, telling [...]
Posted in Ensar's Oud Notes on Sep 28th, 2007
We ran into some major trouble with this oil. As soon as we launched it, a customer ordered some. A few days later, we heard back from him, saying he’d received Oud Royale instead of the new Malaysian oil. He said he checked both the color and the fragrance of the oil, compared it to [...]
Posted in Ensar's Oud Notes on Sep 19th, 2007
Admittance to the private Oud room. Shhh!
Aluminum tins. Aroma chemicals, for the most part.
Assortment of different Oud based perfumes, mukhallats, DOP, etc. ‘Oudh,’ as they call it.
I can still hear him saying, “Combodi, Combodi,” mistaking me for the typical Gulf Arab.
Now what on earth is that stuff. Smells like chocolate liquor with a good dose [...]