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Musty aromatic woody
Jungle Kinam is probably the best of the 5 EO samples I’ve tried, but still nowhere near good enough for me to consider paying the ludicrous price.
It opens with green grassy aromatics and an odd sweet-ish note that gives it a bit of a bug spray aspect. It just feels so musty. All the EOs feel like this. Zero brightness, zero lift, just mid and base notes that don’t feel like they pop at all. On drydown it’s very woody with cedar-y and vetiver-y notes more apparent than any oud. None of the EOs I tried were particularly oud heavy, but this one in particular has pretty much zero medicinal, funky, fecal, or animalic aspects, making me question the presence of the eponymous oud Kinam at all. At this price point, this question shouldn’t even be popping up in my mind.
You can get good quality oud for ~$200/g. Even EOs own oud oils are $800/3g, which is like $266/g. A 30ml of Jungle Kinam runs you $600. Then it would be logical for it to have about 3 grams of oud in it, which would be at the very least, 20-30% of the perfume concentrate of a “parfum” concentration fragrance. It smells nowhere near that. So what am I paying for if not the raw material? The composition? It’s just not that good.
It opens with green grassy aromatics and an odd sweet-ish note that gives it a bit of a bug spray aspect. It just feels so musty. All the EOs feel like this. Zero brightness, zero lift, just mid and base notes that don’t feel like they pop at all. On drydown it’s very woody with cedar-y and vetiver-y notes more apparent than any oud. None of the EOs I tried were particularly oud heavy, but this one in particular has pretty much zero medicinal, funky, fecal, or animalic aspects, making me question the presence of the eponymous oud Kinam at all. At this price point, this question shouldn’t even be popping up in my mind.
You can get good quality oud for ~$200/g. Even EOs own oud oils are $800/3g, which is like $266/g. A 30ml of Jungle Kinam runs you $600. Then it would be logical for it to have about 3 grams of oud in it, which would be at the very least, 20-30% of the perfume concentrate of a “parfum” concentration fragrance. It smells nowhere near that. So what am I paying for if not the raw material? The composition? It’s just not that good.
Updated on 11/02/2025
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