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Brunei

pure oud oil (attar)
Sale price£113.00 GBP

Surrounded by the oud powerhouses of Malaysia and Indonesia, Brunei's oud is the pound for pound champion. For such a tiny region, it produces some of the greatest oud there is.

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Brunei
Brunei Sale price£113.00 GBP

Brunei

The pound for pound champion

Brunei

Borneo, 2000s

Brunei

For such a tiny region, Brunei produces some of the greatest oud there is, essentially becoming the Nha Trang of Borneo. No other region here gives the sense of joy that Brunei does.

Unique aroma, eye watering quality and consistency are but a few reasons to list for why we've fallen in love with this region. Yet artisanal oud oils from Brunei are painstakingly rare to come across.

But with the right vision and the right material, alongside the right process, absolute beauty can be achieved with its illustrious and precious oud.

nawadir al arab

the story behind the collection

nawadir al arab

Nawadir Al Arab [The Rarities of Arabs] was named for the heritage this collection hails from, a collection of fragrant jewels unearthed from a vault of one of the greatest collectors of agarwood there ever was.

Each oil has been aged for over ten years, perhaps never conceived for public release. By fate we were fortunate to be invited to take from this collection what we could. How we wish we could return for more.

the story

unparalleled

the story

A natural orange and red coloured oil, retaining a slight salty and medicinal like tone in the heart notes.

Infusing the opening are sweet and medicinal kinam like tones, as if one were heating some of the finest Brunei agarwood, a type called soft silk in traditional grading systems, and known as Brunei kinam to others. The dry down is the most distinct one could find in a Brunei oil.

the scent

the scent

  • Nuts
  • Spices
  • Honey
  • Salted caramel
  • Kinam
  • Incense
  • Tonka
  • Vanilla

It elegantly opens with notes of nuts and spices, sharply transcending into a honey and salted caramel like sweetness, drying down to an abundance of honey, nuts, spices, incense, tonka, vanilla and fruits.

the scent of royalty

one precious tola

the scent of royalty

The total yield of this oil was restricted to around 10 tolas (some 120mls or grams). Such was the beauty of this oil, one royal Sheikha had reserved it all, yet by persistence we were able to obtain one precious tola for our own collection: the same tola we open up to the world here.

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lab grade vials

securing oud for the future

lab grade vials

Storing your oud oil correctly is the final step in the journey of an ultra high grade oil.

We make that easy with our selection of laboratory vials from J.G. Finneran and DWK Wheaton (Next Gen V-Vials), manufactured in the USA and perfect for long term storage and aging.

Alternatively, for the daily users preferring the traditional quarter tola bottles, our glass bottles use glass dipsticks, making application easy and keeping your oil safe from any plastic contamination.