Hainan 2015

Hainan 2015The crown of Chinese agarwood, Hainan is the holy grail for collectors from this part of the oud world. With vintage wild batches fetching eye watering sums, the challenge to distill and obtain vintage oils only becomes more difficult. The Chinese oud world is insular. Gaining access to these stocks is astonishingly difficult, requiring years of relationship building and the exchange of significant amounts of money and agarwood. What unlocks after

the depth of the relationship between collector and oil

with Taif's geography

at last a stockpile of vintage wood curated for the royal court and the VIPs was now available to regular people without connections

by far the most aromatic wood at room temp I'd experienced

There's a tier to SQ oud oil that only few have access to

By this point everyone in fragrance will be familiar with SQ

A Malaysian pairing: 1980s vintage Kelantan oil alongside sinking-grade Terengganu heartwood

a time when dense sinking agarwood was nothing but abundant in the quantities needed for the oils of the Royal court

Irian has a special place in the hearts of Arab collectors

A small stretch of Vietnamese coastline that has produced some of the most legendary oils and the greatest specimens of agarwood and kinam the world has ever known

Sultani 1982 needs no more introduction

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