Oud Sultani 15ml By Ensar Oud
At first inhale, the Walla-cool brightness of SURIRA strikes you like sunlight piercing an underwater coral bloom – its mimosalicious marine sparkle gives you more oceanic blue compared to the brooding gravitas of a Brunei Kynam. And yet, when you smell them side by side, the green-tinted cool of Walla’s incense soul smells like it was made for this eruption of ouds and flowers, as champacas swirl in monkoh smoke.
Certain ouds are stripped of auxiliary notes and have unitone buzz from start to finish, and they’re difficult to incorporate into a perfume. 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.
Auxiliary-rich oud offers you more in terms of perfumery. Pair iris root and rose with incense-grade artisanal Sri Lankan oud, and you end up with a new fragrance. As if the auxiliary notes each sip from the orris and rose to create a series of small alterations to create a new scent, one that’s different from the parts that make it.
Surira
Nepalese Spikenard
Bourbon Vanilla
Vintage Orris
Castoreum
Jasmine
Rose
Violet Leaf
Tigerwood
Raw Agarwood Resin
These are some of the notes that have been welded by the blue resinous grip of Surira, which have been transmuted by the only Tonkin Musk Absolute in existence (made in-house), metamorphosed by the Sultan’s own Ambergris, transformed by the final fusion of the entire blend.
Oud Sultani’s signature is a wild, auxiliary-licious concoction that ditches any monkoh serenity for a deep purple floral heart characteristic of “one of those rare, old Malaysians… the ones that smell like flowers” punctuated with the heavy toned duo of violet leaf and rare Nepalese spikenard infused into crimson jasmine petals sweetened by castoreum.
Many people won’t be able to handle smelling our in-house Tonkin musk absolute neat; it’s that raw. But in Oud Sultani, that raw tenacity turns into an exalting, savory sweet glow, brighter as you smell the spritz mid-air, while once it settles on your skin or collar, you’d smell the sweet purple orris oudy liqueur up-close.
This semi-bespoke edition features an extraordinary Sri Lankan distillation: Surira, an oud that oozes the exquisite oceanic aquatic resinous sheen of majestic Walla Pattas. Oud like this, as rich as this, as floral pitch-perfect full-spectrum comes around once in a lifetime.
