11/14/2012
Apicius
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Apicius
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Amber and Pure Oud
Dehnal Oud usually stands for natural oud, not the synthetic replacements. How cheap can a Dehnal Oud be and still share this understanding? AbuSafiyya has taken this into the lineup of his shop Orientmisk.de, and with 20 € / 3 ml, it is a bit more expensive than the other oils. Thanks for sending me samples! For this still very low price, nobody offers a pure natural oud, and so, a typical Arabian amber joins in.
Kalimantan is the Indonesian name for Borneo which indicates the origin of the employed oud. Ouds from Borneo may not count in as the most intense and dark ones – these are the Indian – and so it is the amber note makes Dehnal Oud Kalimantan fit into the well-known scheme of darkness and intensity.
Amber as it is being used in Arabian perfumery seems to be something different from the same note in western perfumes. Whereas I associate our amber with a very vague and indefinite dry smokiness, the Arabic version which I also had the chance to meet elsewhere appears to be rather wet and juicy. It can even remind you of strongly smoked bacon or ham. Also Grandma's amber necklace, accidentally forgotten on a hotplate, may evaporate similar fumes.
The juicy smoke and resin note of Arabian amber is quite nearby our western perception of how oud should be, and the not so experienced may even fail to find a difference. At least, ambery notes seem to play a certain role in the synthetic oud bases, if, for instance, you look into the description of Givaudan's Black Agar Givco 215.
After all, Dehnal Oud Kalimantan fits in with the oud hype, but it is worth testing nevertheless. At last, I would describe this fragrance as ethereal, smoked and woody. This simple perfume surely would never have left the workshop of a western perfumer as it is. In order to achieve a good price, he would have pasted it with lots of vanilla and tonka, then added a presumably weird head and middle note, and given it the name of some dead movie actor.
Kalimantan is the Indonesian name for Borneo which indicates the origin of the employed oud. Ouds from Borneo may not count in as the most intense and dark ones – these are the Indian – and so it is the amber note makes Dehnal Oud Kalimantan fit into the well-known scheme of darkness and intensity.
Amber as it is being used in Arabian perfumery seems to be something different from the same note in western perfumes. Whereas I associate our amber with a very vague and indefinite dry smokiness, the Arabic version which I also had the chance to meet elsewhere appears to be rather wet and juicy. It can even remind you of strongly smoked bacon or ham. Also Grandma's amber necklace, accidentally forgotten on a hotplate, may evaporate similar fumes.
The juicy smoke and resin note of Arabian amber is quite nearby our western perception of how oud should be, and the not so experienced may even fail to find a difference. At least, ambery notes seem to play a certain role in the synthetic oud bases, if, for instance, you look into the description of Givaudan's Black Agar Givco 215.
After all, Dehnal Oud Kalimantan fits in with the oud hype, but it is worth testing nevertheless. At last, I would describe this fragrance as ethereal, smoked and woody. This simple perfume surely would never have left the workshop of a western perfumer as it is. In order to achieve a good price, he would have pasted it with lots of vanilla and tonka, then added a presumably weird head and middle note, and given it the name of some dead movie actor.
