Blue Malay Agar Aura

Prehistory:
I have known about Agar Aura for a few years and read a lot, yet I never dared to try his oils. The way that led me to his oils were his perfumes. In February 2021, I decided to buy the 3rd new releases (Java, "Al-Arabiya | Agar Aura" and Khmer Kinam). The blind purchase was worth it, but more on that in another post. Because of this purchase, I contacted Taha and asked him for his recommendation on the best way to get started with his oils. After some email, I decided to go with Blue Malay after all, even though I was looking for something "leathery," "dark," and "thick" at the time.

Now for the Blue Malay:
Oud oils from the region I have already smelled several times and knew roughly what to expect. After Tigerwood Royale and Tigerwood 1990 I had a pretty good idea how Malaysian Oud smells: jungle-like, dark green, deep, slightly smoky, mossy with facets of old wood and metal. But I was very wrong about my own "knowledge". When I first smelled Blue Malay, I couldn't find words at first. Yet I knew at that moment that BM had nothing to do with the above candidates. And since 123lole321 has described the "brain freeze" so beautifully, I would like to start at the point and talk a little about the fragrance.

Blue Malay is a cold oil, which makes you feel like you're coming out of a warm forest cabin and breathing in the fresh air at -20C. That's how cold it feels to me. The sun is shining, but the cold is not to be underestimated. On the snow you can see the reflection of the sun's rays coming through the overhanging tree branches. That coldness accompanies the scent as it turns brown-woody, with sweet resins in the background. It's as if a tree has been melted and poured into the small bottle. The resins become thick honey, the sweetness of which you can almost taste. Now comes the earth, dark earth, but you can smell it very clearly. You can imagine it exactly, in high resolution. After a while, you leave this depth through the blueberries, which seem a bit tart. A layer of golden amber slowly forms on the blueberries, acting like a prism. Now the rays of the other notes are broken and the scent becomes more turbulent. In an instant, you smell everything described above again, but me 10 times faster. The experience is simply beyond words. After about 9-10 hours on the skin, the scent becomes calmer, with a pleasant "woodiness" and crushed violet flowers.

It wasn't what I expected, but I fell in love with the scent. The studying is still not over, but I wore it every day for a month and every day it surprised me anew! It was the Blue Malay that led to other oils from Taha. However, this one is unique for me!