26th April at 7.35pm: A quick update. Many parcels have left today. The situation is as follows, we still have one order left to process for the 10th (Paris retailer), one for the 11th and a lot more still for the 15th through to the 18th - mostly USA wholesale orders. The plan now is to work on orders across the weekend and by no later than Tuesday 30th - every order placed upto the 18th will be dispatched. Ideally they will all be out by Monday 29th but based on how I called it wrong recently I think it's better to call it for Tuesday. I'll update on order lead times for the 19th onwards on Monday 29th. It goes without saying that I am very sorry about the lead-time but like the lab and staff, it is now just a matter of a month or so before we are better organised, holding larger stocks of each aromatic, and in turn the lead-times will drastically improve going forward. Ok, back on Monday and thank you to everyone for the continued support. Thank you, Adam : )
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 has this to say “This custom distilled Hindi oud is more than just another ultra-high-end luxury aromatic, what we have here is genius in a bottle. Written because for many Western readers we seem to have a very fixed take overall on how a Hindi oud will smell, how it will perform and how it should be used. It’s a crying shame because if you bring money to the table, if you bring the best people to the table, the outcome is Hindi Ouds of such magnificent aromatic beauty, clean, indulgent, high-society, thought-provoking and soul-calming. When India wants to impress, no one beats them in the world of aromatics.
So, as this is my first foray into Indian oud, I employed the services of an Indian oud artisan to provide Hermitage Oils with a custom distillation. And for the record, I did my due diligence and cashed in many favours in order to obtain the services of this producer, the man behind a select few artisan oud vendors who are worshipped like modern day gods.
My objective for the producer was really simple, produce me a work of art. No budget, no constraints, just deliver me your best work. This took three months to produce, he totally delivered and left me so impressed that I already have another custom distillation underway with him.
You see this Hindi Oud plays with the brain, you register this as being Indian/Hindi oud, and yet are left wondering how it is possible because although it has the animalic core of which all other notes are fuelled from, it is at the same time free from anything obnoxiously skank, faecal or barn esq. This is a material with nothing offensive from start to finish, at least to my nose, and you would be forgiven for thinking this oud has been subjected to fractionation or is a co-distillation in order to achieve this end-result, and to be clear it hasn’t. The aroma, applied on the strip or skin (not to be evaluated from the vial), exudes aged Oriental tobacco and intensely fresh mown hay qualities (that you don’t connect with barn), with a sweetened jelly and red ripe plum themed compote, enhanced further with very smooth, fresh-cut, medium to dark woody tonalities. These woody notes are infused with floral aspects comparable to smelling chrysanthemum flowers along with trace to below the lines of conscious detection levels of incense, smoke, resin, castoreum and hyraceum qualities that really give the whole experience a lot of indulgent warmth, weight and mightiness. Very clean, very palatable throughout, high-society, easy to wear, and 1000% masculine with a very clean woody incense dry-down. Applied on my skin type I get approximately 4 hours of wear from a single swipe.
This is wild oud produced via hydro-distillation, amber-orange to jewel red in colour subject to weight, and both alcohol and oil soluble. Photograph taken today 20/02/22 and please note this material is supplied in a clear glass vial and dip-stick.”
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Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
A truly high quality gem nothing i ever encountered up to now that actually i could sworn it has nothing to do with Indian oud..it has a rich heavenly aged sandalwood background infused with lots of prunella dried fruits , wet tobacco leaf..woods and mate tea lasting drydown and not much animalic and nothing barn..wild in nature a masterpiece in a bottle. You can feel the energy of a unique dna profile that make your soul transparent and freeze in time .i can’t imagine after 5 years maturation where this oil will be .i do believe that this is not a regular and easy to find indian oud and really an exception from the ordinary distillation we find mainly from Assam
Well done Adam for the gift you offered!