Description
Sher Shah is an Incense Grade Assamese+Burmese Oud/Agarwood oil (Agallocha+Crassna) but has a profile I’ve never found in ouds from these regions!
Combining the unique qualities of Assamese, and Burmese Agarwood, specifically Agallocha and Crassna.
Scent profile:
A very bitter opening with some tea and other astringent (almost green) notes and wet tobacco leaf elegantly drenched in a lovely animalic leather. The initial bitterness (similar to upper Sabah, Vietnam, Cambodia and to some extent some Indo-Filipinos) with a distant ‘charcoal smoke’
Hay is more prominent and animalic here.
It sits between classically and non-soak/new gen distilled oils – i.e., it’s overall scent profile of gentle animalic and oodles of astringent/almost verdant qualities. It is another fine example of what a careful distillation can achieve.
You have an ashen charcoal and put a nice piece of Hindi wood on, the scent which comes off it, cooling, bitter, medicinal, with a slight smell of gasoline, almost walla patta like, minus the oceanic notes.
Full spectrum Agallocha with Dry berries, apricot and salted dusted nuts with a base of pristine hindi resin and narcotic notes.
Beastly oud oil, even a tiny drop is enough to create an aromatic bubble around you.
True incense grade Hindi cooked traditionally.
Perfect for those who appreciate bold and beastly ouds!
Faris Irshad –
This oudh feels like Vietnamese wood distilled in India. It has that classic nutty Nha Trang profile of dry fruit dust, specially walnuts but a truly remarkable, vivid, everlasting Hindi core, as if you’re holding the oudh resin in your palms.
That’s what real incense grade feels like!
Marco(Mr.P) –
This is an excellent oil, brings all of the delightful facets of Hindi agallocha artfully combined with the sweet notes of crassna. I find myself most tuned into the agallocha notes, but perhaps this is because of the way they are set in this rich candy like sweetness. Lots of very tangible and engaging delicious woody and resinous notes – sophisticated and musky but not “barnyard”. A very enjoyable swipe.