Khao Yai Royal Oud E.O. Plantation 2019. (All out Incense profile)
Adam Michael has this to say “My first plantation Khao Yai, and everything considered, this maybe is the best value plantation oud available today. This is also a super limited edition as there is no more of this batch in the marketplace now.
I love wild ouds and at the same time have never understood the snobbery towards plantation oud personally. My view is whether wild or plantation, good oud is good oud. And this Khao Yai is a winner all day long and gets my full endorsement as one of the best plantation ouds I have ever experienced that could challenge Wild Khao offerings that are 4X the price.
This is classic Khao Yai from start to finish – an all out heavenly powdery incense and rich resinous affair. That is the profile, nothing else, nothing more and boy oh boy is this a work horse. Subject to weight/volume the colour is amber red to deep amber (almost black). 10 hours on my skin type (optimal form for 7 hours) and the aromatic for perfumers who need a solid performing powdery incense note – that is also a comparable note to that of Turkish black storax. 10 out of 10 product.
Botanical Name: Aquilaria crassna
Origin: Thailand
Alcohol Soluble: Yes
Oil Soluble: Yes
Produced 2019
Oud purchases of 2.5g upwards are provided in our own custom glass attar bottle with glass dipstick and metallic cap. Please refer to photography. The green label is applied to plantation ouds and the mustard yellow label is applied to our selection of wild ouds.
2 reviews for Khao Yai Royal Oud E.O. Plantation 2019. (All out Incense profile)
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Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
What makes this oud so special is that it’s a plantation distillation that has the magnificent perfection and performance of wild distillation..it’s so clean and refined almost as it gets close to an antique super rare sandalwood oil, those that in there level of quality shares notes of honey, apricots and magnolia pure love notes, soaked and matured in pure gold and hidden in a private collector’s house..khao yai oud has the power to calm your mind and has a way of manipulating your senses with its warm dripping feeling of incence that actually you can wear it as a perfume alone …absolutely amazing !!
Kai Leon Art Parfumeur (verified owner) –
Instantly gratifying and easily enjoyable – as this Oud has a very sleek projection – from the very first breathe-in, and it continues to grow its charms with the time progression. It is not easy to dissect its scent analytically as it is both so instantaneously captivating with its pleasure and so smoothly intertwining, merging all the notes – hense the term ‘sleek’ came to miind – and so the scent glides in a continuous dynamic equilibrium – of all its facets fused together into a monolith projection, which indeed gives a feel of linearity, while in fact it is not simplistic at all (like many plantation Ouds can be) – it is just really well-polished and genuinely elegant, seamless and ‘symmetrical’ – unifying the multitude into a single mandala.
It reminds me of both ‘Black Prachin’ and ‘Thai Empress’ – yet smoother than the first and more vigorous than the latter, combining vivacious character with gentle manners – fresh but also sufficiently substantial, transparent and breathy yet zesty and voluminous, straightforward in the character yet managing to entertain with twists and nuances practically subliminally (and it takes all my professional experience to discern its constituting elements):
fine lacquered Japanese furniture (in the shades of deep maroon and black shiny varnish) is next to the rugged sea-floating driftwood – immersed in smokeless fumes of incense in a Zen shrine, marine-air and wet crumbling rocks’ tones – next to deep-forest’ soil with a lightest savory touch of ‘Noble Rot’ (the most beautiful, unique and coveted ‘fungal’ note – to my taste), delicate prune/dry apricot compote – morphing into even more delicate floral wiff (phantom of Lily?) – all floating above suave resinous core.
As the scent progresses to the Heart stage, the powdery incense comes more forward, occasionally turning into a whisper of finest aged white Ambergris, expanding the impression of the ambience of Zen shrine on a cliff, with a hermit buddhist saint meditating in it – pure, timeless, tranquil, wise, elusively smiling (and occasionally chuckling), enlightened yet shrouded in comforting shadows… Enchanting.