23rd April at 4.10pm: Unfortunately, regarding the message below and lead-times, I called it wrong. My apologies. As such all orders placed upto the 15th - and about half of those placed on the 16th, will leave by Friday 26th. On Thursday no collections are possible by couriers as it's a national holiday here in Italy. On the subject of SDS, the company handling this for us, has written to me today, acknowledged more are owed to us (submitted in December and January) and that they are now working on producing the final lot of SDS for us. This includes Plantation, Wild and Jungle ouds that many of you ask about. Next, I have spent the past year (literally) sampling ambrette seed e.o and absolutes from various producers and resellers to no avail. They all smell really poor compared to what I carried. They are too nutty, too fatty, too vegetative, too lacklustre, falling away very fast, and really dont showcase the musky textured qualities of a top ambrette properly. Even the big naturals brands are all obtaining and selling sucky poor man's ambrette at the moment. Written as I have decided to move over to carrying ambrette CO2 and this will be in place until I can find a wow absolute and E.O again. CO2 is still not on par with what I had, but it offers a far better profile on the musky front than the abs and e.os in the market place right now. This CO2 will be in stock by early May. Next, we will put all the non.eu destinations we can supply to, back on our website on May 6th - so U.A.E, UK, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Australia. On the new product front, the next batch of 10 superstars will be released on the 20th May - lots more roses planned. And I will get started on expanding the bulk wholesale side of the business very soon - more aromatics and offered in larger weights as standard - likely upto a kilo on the website. Ok I will write again by Monday. Thank you, Adam : )
19th April at 5pm: Quick update to first say I have now added the following big ticket aromatics to the website: Italian Oakwood Absolute, Organic Georgian Rose Raduga Otto and finally Persian P.E.A Intense Rose (Otto). Orders, as I type with exception to 3 orders, every order placed up until the 11th has left with the couriers. By Monday 22nd, all orders placed up until the 14th will leave with couriers and I will type again across Monday with another update. Bulk Wholesale orders that still need to be manually typed and billed will be done so by Tuesday 23rd. Thank you, Adam : )
15th April at 5.30pm: Today I am running behind but I am happy to say that along with all E.U countries, we now can supply to the USA again. USA switched on just now and the Mysore Sandalwood 4 year aged E.O offer is extended for a week for USA clients to enjoy too. By Wednesday 17th all orders from the 9th April will be dispatched with DHL. Although we are rather full-on with orders at the moment, the lead time will improve significantly very shortly. Reason being since reopening the focus has been solely on building stocks up and we have staff coming on as well now (at last!). I will write again on Wednesday regarding lead times. This week my tasks are to get on top of the SDS we are owed by the company we have employed to handle this. And other than this I am adamant I will update the bulk wholesale list with more aromatics. Finally for now - the following 11 aromatics have recently been added to the site - French Rose Geranium E.O, Sandalwood Mysore E.O 4 Year Aged, Tuscan Olive Leaf Absolute, Mitti Attar (Petrichor), Persian Queen of Roses (Otto), Tomato Leaf Absolute, Oud Assami Skank E.O V.1, South Indian 10 Year Aged Vetiver E.O, Bengali Nagarmotha E.O, VIolet Leaf Concrete, Italian Helichrysum Absolute S.G. Thank you, Adam : )
Adam Michael and Eleonora Scalseggi have this to say “This is jungle grown oud obtained from the border between the Indian state of Meghalaya and Bangladeshi city of Sylhet. Yes, this could be marketed as being wild oud like others would do so, however in this instance what we have here is human involvement prior to the tree being felled hence using the term …. jungle-grown instead of wild. To expand further, the human involvement would include possibly planting oud seedlings in the jungle, removing trees that are too close together and thus competing for the soils nutrients and sunlight. At that point the tree is left to grow in the jungle, but it will also be cut/scratched to enable the tree’s protection function to kick in and in turn speed up the process of obtaining the oud.
Aromatically if you think that oud cannot be both animalic and non-offensive then this soaked Meghalayan Indian oud might seriously challenge your convictions, like it did for us.
This Meghalaya oud (often more expensive than Assamese) is one of those rare Indian oud materials that manages to master the fine balance between animalic and non-repulsive. It does open with barnyard notes, wood-smoke, the smell of animals and civet tonalities, and yet it feels very cosy and comforting, velvety and enveloping like a furry blanket you want to snuggle in. Within the first hour and from the strip, this material starts to settle down, the dominant animalic qualities soften slightly and in doing so, the aroma of castoreum and grinded hyraceum shine through and take centre stage. This follows on with an aroma comparable to smelling aged nagarmotha, so a musty, dry woody, rooty, earthy and trace spice-tinged encapsulated profile. Throughout the whole experience the cresol-varnish aspects flitter in and out of detection and for me within an eight-hour period from the strip I detect leather, hot-slate, dry straw, tamarind, Oriental tobacco profiles with some gourmand chestnut paste, red salt, liquorice and caramel fudge.
So clearly this isn’t a clean, incense-y type oud, and if incense-y clean oud is the profile you are looking for then this is not for you and Thai ouds would be the better option. If, however, you are considering venturing in animalic ouds and are a bit apprehensive about the barnyard notes, or if you find Cambodi oud a bit too poo-y to your liking, this material’s better balance and a smoother profile could just hit the spot. Still a barnyard material yes, but with more gentle ways about it, and of truly outstanding quality.”
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Kevin A (verified owner) –
I bought the first time on this site Oud Malaysian and I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality. So I decided to order with a friend in order to test almost all the ouds. So I tested this Indian oil yesterday. I have a special relationship with this origin because I knew the world of Oud with these 10 years ago so I’m used to the animal, goaty and powerful side that we often find in this variety. Result: superb very refined smell as I expected and for my part what I find extraordinary is that I smell a hint of cocoa 😍 !!!! Then after a few hours, the animal side fades and a very pure smell of Indian oil remains on my wrist.Bravo
Kevin
FRANCE
Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
Oud meghalayan is the spirit of the jungle in the bottle that each time you opened to sniff it you give birth again and again to that imaginary beast till you become addicted! Its fragrance its really to the edge. Elegance, royal, deep but wild.. musky, balsamic and cutting edge barny at the same time and as if infused deep with lots of apple and plum fruits that gives its angelic balance..And this is the first impression! It has a great longevity till meghalayan walk you through heaven! I’m amazed!
Wilco L (verified owner) –
Frankly, this oud was disappointing to me. It has no longevity. I was curious about the agallocha variety but I think I will choose crassna from now on, considering the difference in price. It is not worth it, there’s great oud oils on hermitage and even though I love the scent of this jungle oud there is little longevity. I would not recommend buying 1 ml unless you want to use it as a note in a perfume composition or in an attar where you don’t want the oud to overwhelm the other scents. Perhaps the other ouds I ordered are just very strong. In any case, I love those and I will buy more, but this one I think is too mild to be a perfume on its own, which is what I have come to expect from other oud oils from hermitage I have tried. While the opening is BOOM it quickly fades away, I wish the lovely scent would last longer.