Jungle Kinam Ensar Oud Pure Parfum

A pretty nice sweet tea and incense opening, with a smoked woody aroma. It doesn't really feel like a jungle aesthetic here, but i'm liking the combination, but i do have to say it's a bit basic, the oud is pretty peculiar though, not a strong one, but you can still get a whiff every now and then, which is a decent addition. To be honest, i'm not sure why this one is priced so high, it's a fairly simplistic earthy sweet herbal fragrance, incense, oud and sage, kind of overdone, but the different blending is keeping this afloat. It makes me feel like they were kind of running out of ideas so this was born, personally i'd never buy something like this for such a ludicrous price, sure it's an amazing incense fragrance, but that's where it stops, nothing really justifying a purchase here, worth a smell though.

To describe this scent I would say I get a roasted coffee bean smell with a smoky green vetiver, which is not what it is supposed to smell like (I know) but I cannot get that image out of my head. It is unfortunately not for me. The vetiver presence is really strong for me and I probably would appreciate it more if it wasn't for the Ensar Oud pricing. I am not criticizing the blend or ingredients it just isn't for me, way too green in a smoky way. If you are looking for a smoky jungle vibe, Jungle Kinam would be a good fit.

Maybe the green papuan oud is just too much for me

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.