Just about the absolute best raw materials ever used in oud distillation went into the production of Oud Sultani. But this wasn't going to be your typical oud oil, after all. There's good reason why traditional attars in India are exclusively done in copper pots, and why oud oils are exclusively cooked in steel. Take the high-pitched, austere, incense-y notes that steel imparts on the finest raw materials, and instead imbue the oil with a delicate floral aura which can only be gotten from a copper pot. While Oud Royale was just about the most masculine and kingly oud one could ever produce, if we were commissioned to produce an oil of equal stature for a Queen, it would be none other than Oud Sultani. 'Oud Sultani', as we called it, is the best oil Ensar Oud has ever distilled. The jungle was not too far off from the first batch, so the scent spectrum was meant to be dead-on in that regard. We took the sickest sinking-grade granules, and instead of steel, we put them in a copper pot. quite a bit!įor our second batch of sinking-grade raw materials, we really outdid ourselves. But then, what do you do? After distilling Oud Royale, you'd have thought there was little to be wished for in the way of tweaks or improvements. You might just distill the most incredible oud oil in history in the process. No ‘gassing’ required.Take the finest sinking-grade oud wood imaginable, send it to India, and you'll make the Sultan real happy. This oil does not have an expiration date. Extracted by traditional means, without the use of synthetic chemicals. To ensure you don’t miss out, we recommend you order yours today.Īll natural and chemical-free. Oud Royale 1985 sold out in a whiplash, and we don’t predict this oil will be around very long. And the penetrating red keeps firing right down to the dry-down, which in the most uncanny whiff pinpoints the spot where Oud Royale 1 once stood. You’d never expect the piercing deep red note in what ought to be a darker jungly shade of Marokean blue. You’re also paying no more than what you would have for a bottle 10 years ago.ĭon’t be surprised if you mistake this for a vintage 1970s Pursat. Oud that was cooked not in copper or steel but crafted by antiquity, and aged three decades for good measure.ġ990 has got that mellow medicinal profile only ooold aged ouds throw at you – that tingling of heavy resin that lets you know, before anything else, that you’re smelling the best oud from back in the day. Here is regal, vintage agarwood liqueur that’s dry as vermouth and red as rooibos. You can’t un-carve all the beads and trinkets. You can’t breathe life back into the G-gen trees two meters down in the mud. You can’t replicate 27 years of natural aging. I’ll be the first to admit I can’t make this oud today. If a piece of wood has the scent characteristics of Oud Royale 1, they immediately jack up the price, saying ‘This one has the Sultani tone.’ Even the China Market capos know the notes of my oils, and they refer to it as the ‘Sultani tone’. That inimitable note of resinous agarwoody decadence simply cannot be coaxed out of other strains of Aquilaria. It’s the same reason Arabs are crazy about Maroke wood. There’s a reason Oud Royale 1 was a Maroke. If you came to oud through the Oriscent arch, this vintage Sultani is a one-way ticket back in time, price and all. For all the ‘artisanal’ oud (for cheap!) said to be so widely available, I have yet to lay my nostrils on one of these bargains.Ĭollectors reminisce about the old days, how they wish they’d stocked up when the golden oldies were still going for $550, ten years ago. You’ve heard of the Thaqeels and Kalakassis, but name a couple of real oldies?įor all the talk about ancestral vaults, secret distillation textbooks and ancient traditions that my grandfather was never privy to, I have yet to see another Oud Sultani 1990 emerge from these vaults. Dusty, sunned to death, all the tasty twang sucked out of ’em. Let’s face it, most of the old ouds out there just smell old. Show me just one actual high grade Maroke muattaq. The 150 year-old Cambodis turn out to be force-oxidized plantation oils, and those old Malaysis make you wonder who let the wet dog in.
Do whatever you need to do… and let me know how it goes.įor all the hunting, the back-forum PM-ing, WhatsApping and marketing campaigns to bring back the golden days of oud, the results have been miserable. Go through lists of distillers sponsored by fellow vendors. That’s what people do to find oud like this.
Scour eBay, AliBaba and Facebook until you’re seeing double. Run yourself into a maze through the mighty Emirati malls.
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