Origin: Thailand — Trat, Cultivated | Age: 3+ Years

Not all Trat's are the same.

Overripe apricot, soft and a little bruised, you know what I'm talking about. The kind that you can smell from your kitchen countertop. Tropical fruit trailing behind, green still clinging to the edges. Galangal cuts through, sharp and peppery. Kaffir lime lifts it, bright and citrus-green. 

Some light florals drift in next, but this note isn't strong. Soft wood settles as well.

Base comes along with Mild resin, clean timber, nothing dark or heavy. This oud takes you to a coastal orchard at the edge of a gem town, fruit trees planted where the soil runs red with laterite, salt air drifting in off the river. It's the smell of somewhere easy, somewhere you would visit on vacation, no work or offices here. No ache, just be present, relax and you're good.

Top: Overripe apricot, tropical fruit, galangal, kaffir lime
Heart: Light floral, soft wood
Base: Mild resin, clean timber

Origin: Cambodian — Wild  |  Age: 5+ Years

Fruity, nectarines, figs, leathery, bark, hay. Alive... It reminds me of walking into deep jungle right after rain, when the ground's still soft and everything smells like it's growing. Heavy air. A little dangerous in a good way.

There's also something of an old spice market in the oud. You know, sacks of dried tamarind piled up, black pepper dust in the air, ever so slight. Smell that gets into your clothes and doesn't leave. Underneath that you get the raisins, dried, like it has left out in the sun too long.

There are some slight animalic bits, but ever so. So light that it won't turn away oud novices. But enough so that there's this ferality to the oil. It develops when on the skin. Watch how it morphs into something else. Something wild. ;) 

Top Nectarine, fig, leathery bark.

Heart Tamarind, black pepper, hay.

Base Raisin, barn, animalic wink.

Origin: Indonesia — Tarakan, Wild  |  Longevity: 8+ hours

Indonesian Tarakan oud has a reputation built on smoke and leather, and the Tarakan Wild delivers both. Dark chocolate, raw wood, and a leathery darkness that is full and assured. No barn. A slight sweetness coming through to compliment the other notes. Distilled Pre-Covid. 

The base is warm amber, smoke, and deep resin that will remain on your skin.

Top: Dark chocolate, raw wood  |  Heart: Leather, dense wood, dark spice  |  Base: Warm amber, smoke, deep resin

Origin: Malaysia — Peninsular West, Wild | Longevity: 8+ hours

West Malaysian oud is the understated one, easy to overlook until you've worn it enough to miss it. This oil opens with cool, clean wood and a faint green lift, composed from the first moment. Aged 20+ Years.

The heart settles into dry wood with a thread of mild leather and a soft, barely-there floral. 

The dry-down is clean resin with a subtle amber warmth and a whisper of smoke. Stable. A strong reference for the Malaysian chapter of any collection.

Aged 20+ years after distillation. The years morphs the scent into some mysterious, almost un-graspable. Wild-harvested Peninsular Malaysian, very refined. Crowd favorite by far. 

Top: Cool wood, clean green | Heart: Dry wood, mild leather, light floral | Base: Clean resin, subtle amber, faint smoke

Origin: Khao Yai, Thailand - Wild | Age: 1+ Year

Sugar first. It's airy and there's some sort of lift. The silage is good, but it also feels lightweight at the same time. Very nuanced oud. One of those ouds that I really struggle to describe, because it's very unlike most ouds on the market. Intriguing. 

There's this smell that reminds me of rain, fresh rain. That feeling of looking out through the window with the raindrops on the glass. Relatively heavy rain, not to the extent of a storm, but enough to feel cozy indoors.  

It's got some fresh timber, teak, pale. White wood. That fresh cut wood smell. Powdery sweetness settles in and mixes with some light florals drifting around. A little fruity as well, longan, dates, mangosteen. Simply Wonderful.

Top: Airy sugar, fresh rain, lift

Heart: Fresh-cut timber, pale teak, white wood

Base: Powdery sweetness, light florals, soft resin

Origin: Thailand — Prachinburi, Wild | Age: 20+ Years

Palm sugar forward, dark and sticky. Tamarind right behind it, tangy-sweet, enrapturing. Lemongrass threading through, bruised perfectly (If you have crushed lemongrass, you know the feeling). Honeyed tobacco, slow and warm, and jackfruit rounding it out, ripe, heavy, sweet in that tropical way.

Then star anise comes next, a little medicinal, a little warm, but very very slight. Dried longan alongside it. Green mango emerges, sour-sharp, before it settles into fresh teak, Dry bark. Tree sap, a little unexpected, a little sticky. I mean this is rubber country after all, and this oud won't let you forget where it's from, haha. 

Loud, Alive. Absolutely intoxicating. 

Top: Palm sugar, tamarind, lemongrass
Heart: Star anise, dried longan, green mango
Base: Fresh teak, dry bark, tree sap, menthol

Reviews

"it opens with a note i love- a kind of very thick sandalwoody oud cinnamon quality, it becomes intoxicatingly rounded and sweeter for the first thirty minutes. then in the mid it moves more towards a resinous and slightly bitter quality. the cinnamon remains and is joined by coffee, leather and a slight berry note. it’s very nice." - Slater (Ouddict.com), USA

Origin: Myanmar (Burma), Wild | Age: 10+ Years

Village pagoda right out the gate. That smell of a pagoda that's stood at the edge of town for generations, incense burning for decades has soaked into the stone. Dark resin, myrrh, sweet memories of childhood in south east Asia.

Quickly behind it, a subtle sweetness. Oak wood too, not fruity sweet, more like woody sweet, like the wood itself has a little sugar baked in. Aged rosewood settles in alongside.

Saddle leather comes through, worn in, the kind that's been sitting for years, not fresh from the tanner. Camphor lifts it, faint, medicinal. Just enough to clear your head.

This oud takes you to an old house by the riverside, stone steps in its garden worn smooth by centuries of bare feet. Damp cellar, old pebbles underneath, cold to the touch even in your imagination. It's got that feeling of returning somewhere after years away, a little unsure of what you'll find, and finding it exactly as it was. 

Top: Village pagoda, dark resin, Subtle sweetness
Heart: Oak wood, aged rosewood, Saddle leather
Base: Cellar, pebbles, camphor

Origin: Indonesia — Merauke, Papua, Wild  |  Age: 10+ Years

(Language used in the title is Jawi, not Arabic)

Grassy sweetness is what comes to mind. Forest floor, moist soil. Fresh leaves blowing in the wind. Who doesn't love the notes of fresh cut grass. Imagine walking on the forest floor after a summer storm, with the sun coming back through the canopy.

Don't underestimate the sweetness. It's light, but it's present, a little bit of golden-brown sugar crystals. This oud isn't exactly sweet in the fruity sense like some of my other ouds. It's sweet in the gourmand vanilla + sugar sense. But still less vanilla and more sugar. 

There is a very nice smokey note. Many ouds have smokey notes that are a little bit burnt. I'm not a fan of those, and I doubt many people are. This Merauke has as beautiful balance of smoke along with the earthiness. Crisp dry Logs in the forest, beside a warm cozy campfire. 

This oud is grounded, and slow. It's got calm written all over it. Gives me an ache, yearning for a few months in the countryside. It's comfortable and secure. It'll give you bittersweet feelings, a longing for a time and place that you can't quite put your finger on.

Top: Fresh cut grass, leaves in wind, Cold stone

Heart: Forest floor, wet soil, golden sugar sweetness

Base: Dry logs, campfire smoke, earthy calm

Origin: West Malaysia, Wild | Age: 18+ Years

Opens ethereal, I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Green, the classic earth and forest floor. Slight smoke somewhere behind that, but rest assured the smokiness isn't too overpowering.

Sweetness is present as well, a little like honey, some apple notes. Woody base is quite solid as well. Definitely woody. It's resinous, creamy, but ever so slightly. There's notes of salt as well(interestingly). Forest floor hits hard with this one.

I had a hard time describing this one. It smelled similar to the very first west Malaysian that I launched, but it's also slightly different. It's more airy and elusive. If that one was a tree trunk, this oud would be the branches. Delicate and soft.

This oud feels like it's running and standing still at the same time.

Top
Resinous, Green, sweet

Heart
Creamy, Apple, Woody

Base
Temple Smoke, Wood, Airy

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