01/15/2024
DrB1414
146 Reviews
DrB1414
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Quality Time with the Sultan
Chugoku Naya from Ensar Oud. I believe this one is a co-distillation of Chinese and Indian Agarwood, though I might be wrong. Anyway, it has a Hindi profile written all over it. It is the only Hindi Oud Oil in my collection, and that's because it succeeds in striking a perfect balance that I rarely enjoyed with other Hindi oils. They'd be either too focused on the top notes or too barny and leathery without enough delicacy. Chugoku Naya strikes the perfect balance for my tastes.
The name is misleading as it literally translates to "Chinese Barn". The oil does have some barny facets, however, they are smooth and always kept under control. It displays a beautiful vertical evolution with two main phases. The first one is dominated by strong gourmand facets, and the second one manifests leathery, wood, and sweet hay-like aromas. The top is filled with the most mouth-watering notes such as Turkish Baklavas drenched in syrup and honey, sprinkled with almonds and pistachio, and served with steamed milk topped with cinnamon. It almost makes you want to bite your arm off. Like sitting in a palace with the Sultan and serving the most exquisite delicacies. The heart of the oil slowly calms down the feast and introduces the hay note together with a dusty vanillic quality. From here on, the gourmand profile is slowly replaced by creamy white florals, and a medicinal, band-aid-like accord. There is still sweetness from the cinnamon and the hay notes. The wood reveals itself in the base, manifesting a strong, brown leather facet while the medicinal quality fades away and the vanilla powder chord pushes till the end. It settles down as a leathery wood with vanilla, powdery hay, and a tolerable barnyard aroma. The Sultan invites his guests after the big feast to the stables to show them the horses and they all take a ride at sunset on the palace grounds.
A beautiful, majestic journey that only the best Indian Agarwood oils have unfolded to me thus far. Yet, this one in particular remained my favorite. The color spectrum spans brown, golden, yellow, white, and green.
IG:@memory.of.scents
The name is misleading as it literally translates to "Chinese Barn". The oil does have some barny facets, however, they are smooth and always kept under control. It displays a beautiful vertical evolution with two main phases. The first one is dominated by strong gourmand facets, and the second one manifests leathery, wood, and sweet hay-like aromas. The top is filled with the most mouth-watering notes such as Turkish Baklavas drenched in syrup and honey, sprinkled with almonds and pistachio, and served with steamed milk topped with cinnamon. It almost makes you want to bite your arm off. Like sitting in a palace with the Sultan and serving the most exquisite delicacies. The heart of the oil slowly calms down the feast and introduces the hay note together with a dusty vanillic quality. From here on, the gourmand profile is slowly replaced by creamy white florals, and a medicinal, band-aid-like accord. There is still sweetness from the cinnamon and the hay notes. The wood reveals itself in the base, manifesting a strong, brown leather facet while the medicinal quality fades away and the vanilla powder chord pushes till the end. It settles down as a leathery wood with vanilla, powdery hay, and a tolerable barnyard aroma. The Sultan invites his guests after the big feast to the stables to show them the horses and they all take a ride at sunset on the palace grounds.
A beautiful, majestic journey that only the best Indian Agarwood oils have unfolded to me thus far. Yet, this one in particular remained my favorite. The color spectrum spans brown, golden, yellow, white, and green.
IG:@memory.of.scents
