12/31/2022 0 Comments Lbandymusic oud sultan![]() ![]() Their linear profiles also make them hard to use in a composition – blend such ouds with rose or orris butter, for example, and the rose and orris will dominate.Īuxiliary-rich oud offers you more in terms of perfumery. The accessory notes bubbling from the oud mean a hundred different micro-interactions with the cast of ingredients around it.Ĭertain ouds are stripped of auxiliary notes and have unitone buzz from start to finish, and they’re difficult to incorporate into a perfume. Its layeredness and olfactory density makes Sultani 1975 a fantastic oud to use in a perfume. The Sultan’s distillation style is all about auxiliary notes-the lush plums and raspberries, thick sweet molasses and oud smoke wafting through them all. Access to a precious batch of vintage sinking-grade oud happily pushes you over the edge, and practically compels you to create this perfume. If the Sultan’s own oud in your hands isn’t reason enough to finally step up to the pitch, there would never be a right time. I wasn’t going to make the mistake again. Now that the royal treasury is shut, it still feels surreal that we had this brief moment to descend into oud paradise and bring a distillation that precedes Oud Sultani by 20+ years back with us. That you’d, eight years later, gain direct access to Sultan Qaboos’ collection was unthinkable. Surely, we would never unearth anything comparable again. Why the distiller got in touch with us and how we ended up spending weeks on an island near Penang to finalize the deal is a story for another day, but in the end, I could never bring myself to use such precious oud in a perfume. We were going all around the oud world for years and nobody was making oud like what the Sultan had made. At that point, in 2012, it would have been easier to rob a bank than to get into Sultan Qaboos’ vault. You may not know this, but Oud Sultani and Oud Ahmad (twin sinking-grade distillations from 2001) were directly obtained from one of the Sultan’s distillers. So, how are you supposed to compose a perfume built on such a class of oud? Nobody makes them (it’s too expensive), and certainly nobody ages one for forty years. ![]() There are no sinking-grade distillations around. Naturally, I’ve been mulling over the idea for years and years waiting for the right time, the right… something … for things to fall into place to actually create Oud Sultani, the perfume. I started making attars and perfumes almost two decades ago and “Oud Sultani” has been a defining fragrance throughout. ![]() Oud Sultani, the long sold-out oud oil, was a resinous floral fusion that when I showed it to an olfactory savant in Thailand ( this one), he said – without me telling him anything about the oil-that “this is one of those rare, old Malaysians… the ones that smell like flowers.” Imagine Oud Royale… but draped in a dark blue purple floral garb that has baffled oud lovers till this day. ![]()
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