會安 · Hội An

Written 會安 and read Huì'ān in Mandarin, Hội An means the peaceful meeting place. For centuries it was the great port of central Vietnam, where the agarwood of the highlands met the merchants of China and Japan, and where calambac, the wood Japan would come to call kyara, set sail for the imperial courts.

The region remains famed for its beautiful sinking grade pieces of wood, and this oil carries its name.

For our collectors, we almost exclusively focus first on the finest pieces from these legendary regions, and for our treasure chest of oils that priority remains.

An acquisition from many years ago now reaches the time for release. As we approach the festive season, we unveil one of our greatest oils yet.

Built delicately in layers of alternating medicinal kinamic and sweet crassna notes.

It opens with complicated, dark kinamic and medicinal flavours, reminding one of great Sinensis kinam. The heart and dry down reveal a beautiful crassna like sweetness: not the Thai type, but the complex high grade Vietnamese sweetness of dark fruits, milk, honey and tea.