Hello! Today I would like to show you some incredible perfume treasures -
pure natural ouds and sandalwood oils, and a perfume based on them by the unusual fragrance brand Ensar Oud.
Ensar - the creator of this brand is a specialist in oils and distillation,
who is constantly looking for the rarest and finest perfume ingredients in the most far away corners of the world and creating beautiful essences from them.
Ensar Oud is one of the few brands i know who sell their product not only to retail customers, but also to perfumers.
Several perfumers i know use Ensar Oud in their creations.
First i will show you four ouds by this brand, then two sandalwoods and one perfume based on these fine natural materials.
I would also like to remind you that it is necessary to sample all natural fragrance materials on your skin, not just on blotter paper strips.
Though I'm not going to open these samples in today's video because i opened them so many times that i can already feel the scent,
and i have some notes about each fragrance to help me not forget anything i want to say.
By the way, if you haven't seen my video about history of oud, please click on the link above to view it. (Sorry, it doesn't include english subtitles!)
Let's start with these amazing ouds!
All these ouds are so different that a person who is not familiar with this fragrant material might think that these are completely different perfume materials.
First oud is Tigerwood Royale.
The brand's website has some information about each oud they offer, and it is said that this specific oud is loved by Queen of Abu Dhabi.
When Ensar purchased this particular specimen for his brand, he saw the Queen buying the same oud for herself.
This is a Malaysian oud that is ripening since 2001, that is, seventeen years.
The feeling of Tigerwood Royale begins with a famous medicinal note, that is being tried to reproduce in synthetic oud fragrances so often.
It smells of sterile bandages, the scent is sharp and slightly spicy, with a resinous woody background.
As this oud warms up on the skin, it unfolds with a wide variety of nuances and shades of smell: sweetish, dusty and resinous.
The brightest of them for me is a warm, almost spicy note of an old sewing machine or old film cameras smell - the smell of wood, metal, leather and machine oil.
There is also something similar to the smell of old books and furniture - and for me this oud is a perfumed embodiment of an old noble house smell, a house with its history and its secrets.
Probably you have heard the story of Winchester house in California, a famous ghost mansion.
I think this house could smell like Tigerwood Royale.
This oud is uniquely worthy of royalty - it does not have any repulsive, wild, fecal aspect, which often confuses those who first try natural materials.
It is truly the king of natural perfume materials.
Next oud is called Oud Yusuf. It is an organic oud from the province of Trat in Thailand, and it is ripening since 2012.
This unusual oud also starts with a light medicinal nuance, sawdust note, Greek pickled olives, and it has a pronounced floral character, somewhat resembling powdery iris smell, enveloping the aroma of yellow flowers and perhaps even jasmine.
Oud Yusuf smells like tender, warm female skin, and over time it becomes even more woody, powdery and warm.
This oud is perhaps the most gentle, ephemeral and feminine of all that I have ever smelled.
If you dislike ouds in general but still want to find the oud that you will love - an oud like this could be the one you that should try first.
Next oud is called China Sayang.
China Sayang is an oud from China, ripening since 2005.
Its first notes are pretty sharp.
I think it has a very masculine smell, unlike Oud Yusuf.
It resembles the smell of hot asphalt, hot cinder track and it's definitely has an animalistic character, especially at first.
Also I can clearly feel nuances resembling the smell of choya nakh oil - it is a perfume material made from fried shells of sea clams - these are very sharp, dusty notes.
After an hour, it is completely transformed, acquires a cozy powderiness, sourness and becomes completely comfortable.
It turns from hot and dry at first into a cool and even slightly fresh smell, although the dryness and powderiness remain until the very end of the feeling of this fragrance.
Next oud is Green Papua, an oud from Papua, ripening since 2014.
It has an incredible start with notes of buckwheat, flowers and honey, which is accompanied later by a light shade of Cuir de Russie - birch tar and leather.
Then we can feel scents of linden, lemon balm and other herbs, as if it smells of damp walls in a Russian sauna.
For me, this oud has the most sophisticated and complex smell, and it is the most beautiful of all four.
It is the only one with pronounced sweetness combined with dryness and coolness.
This oud is one more nice option for those who generally dislike the scent of oud for its medicinal nuances.
And it's an amazing option for those who seek the unusual specimens of this fragrant material.
And it is my favorite of all four Ensar Oud ouds.
Now let's take a closer look at the two natural sandalwood oils.
Sandalwood is one of the most ancient aromatic substances produced by man and now almost as rare as agarwood
because of the massive destruction of trees by man in order to obtain its precious oil.
The price of sandalwood is constantly growing, about 25 percent per year
so that being a luxury in antiquity, sandalwood remains luxury to this day.
First sandalwood oil is called Santal Royale and it's ripening since 2013.
It is distilled from vintage wood which is about forty years old, the wood from the core of the red Mysore sandalwood.
This sandalwood is incredibly soft and tender from the very beginning.
It has bright notes of oil paint and sea salt.
It is the fragrance of a man who paints a seascape with oil paints on a windy shore, using an easel made of precious wood.
This sandalwood is very different from how i usually perceive sandalwood smell.
It is not similar to "classic" sandalwood in the same way like some of these ouds can be mistaken for other perfume materials by non-trained noses.
I recommend this oil to sandalwood connoisseurs for expansion of their perfume horizons.
Second oil is called Santal Sultan. This sandalwood is ripening since 2005.
This sandalwood is one of a kind.
It is the distillate of the roots of the rarest wild Aceh santalum album and the 100 year old heart of the Tanzanian sandalwood tree.
First 30 minutes i perceive it as a mix of harsh notes of olives and resins with light smoked hue.
An hour later, it becomes a sweet creamy prominent sandalwood smell with powdery, vanilla and sourish nuances.
Is is a very complex smell, beautiful in its subtle shades.
After an hour, i begin to notice non--sweet floral nuances in the scent, like iris or narcissus notes.
And the last fragrance is called Borneo Zen, it is a perfume based on Ensar Oud noble fragrance materials.
This is an amazing scent, unexpectedly fresh and even aquatic.
I would describe it as a wild floral freshness.
Natural oud and musk shine here, accompanied by floral, green and animalic notes.
It makes me think of bright hues of tropical flora and fauna
but not a real living nature; it's more like a romanticised, perfected image of a tropical island, like in Blue Lagoon movie.
With time this scent loses its sparkling brightness and turns into a calm, subtle scent
With oily hues, that again, remind me of oil paint smell.
You probably noticed that today i described each fragrance very briefly.
This is because despite the fact that all ouds and sandalwoods are different in their fragrance, they are still ouds and sandalwoods,
and if a person isn't familiar with the smell at all, i probably can't explain it to them.
So i thought that this brief overview will be enough for those who love natural ouds, and for those who don't - to decide whether Ensar Oud is something for them or not.
I think that this brand would be a perfect fit only for those who love pure natural perfume ingredients.
And, of course, it is a treasure find for perfumers who can use these amazing ouds to create new masterpieces.
If you're into natural fragrance materials, you are welcome to watch my video about natural musk and oud by arabian brand Absul Samad Al Qurashi (sorry, not translated into english yet!)
Thank you so much for watching my review, i hope you've enjoyed it!
xx Anisia
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