Hi Sam, as a chemist, I find your opinion on Oud oil interesting, knowledgeable and bias-free. As you have explained, the oud smell could vary due to the oud forest's origin and cultivation types. Moreover, there are several distillation types and three to six oil collection stages in each type of agarwood distillation. With zero knowledge of perfumery, I was on the hunt for oud oil for my research purpose at the beginning of this year. It is frustratingly difficult to find authentic oud oil of first cut or second cut (terminology of oil collection stage) of any origin of plantation or processing types from a marketplace or a so-called reliable source with a business interest. After visiting several oud processing plants, I finally had a rare chance to have a few cuts of oud oil on my hand. I would be happy to bring those vials to you if you wish to have a sniff!

Great video, as always. Don't be hesitant towards Oud Maleki, blend it with Oud Samrat and use in a very small amount, less than 0.5% in a perfume blend. Blends very well with Suederal.

14:34 “poop-like smell” must smell bad, and the funniest thing is you said “some people like this kind of stuff” cracked me up 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm a barista, I'm about to learn, how to make my own parfum. And, your videos is extremely helpful for every kind of me. Thanks sam.

World's best, complex and expensive Oud comes from Assam, India. Mention of agarwood (oud) is also mentioned in indian ancient script ~3000 years ago. Proud of being an Indian.

Addicted to your channel. This video’s gonna be a BANGER.

Very educational and laconic. Thank you for this content!

Hey man, your videos are amazing(literal gold)! Super informative and straightforward. Thank you for making them, keep it up!

Yes please, i would love to see a video of a perfume made with oud

Ohhhh excited for this one! I love oud notes 💫

Nice vdo,Sam. I am using BLACK AGAR for some years,but the information about other synthesics helped really.Yes I am interested in accords/formulas because you make elaborate/comprehensive ones.Once again BIG thanks 🙏.Cheers.

Your youtube is a gold mine! Thankyou very much

I have been a perfume enthusiast and have been looking for videos that go into such technical details. The closest I could find was Burr Chandler (who speaks really well), until I found this channel. Amazing! Please keep up the great work, really appreciate it!!

Great video, love it Sam! 🙌🏻👏🏻💯

Hey Sam. Great video and I'd definitely love to see you do an oud-including perfume video, and/or one on oriental-class perfumes discussing the different sub types (floral, spicy, gourmand...) there are.

Im from Kuwait and oud is part of our tradition and some of success combinations i made is wild oud very very low precentage ,Rosa damascena,sandal wood, cardamom, neroli

This is why I cringe every time I read someone say that they didn’t like an oud fragrance so they just threw it in the trash.😢

thank you and love your videos

Thank you for your commentary! Very interesting.

Thanks about to put an order in !

Hey Sam, I am unsure how aware you might be to the arab oil market. But there are many brands some of which include Surrati, Al Haramain, Swiss Arabian and many more... I recommend / am curious to see you try a bottle of their CPOs. Also not sure whether the UK has an AbdulSamad Al Qurashi store but I believe they do. I recommend you go and ask to try the Dehn Al Oud they have. I think that will give you a deeper outlook into the world of oud. Also would love to see a video of you creating a oud perfume

Thanks Sam!

Very honest guy.

Oud Maleki is my fav oud base so far, while I didn't like Oud Samrat at all and haven't used it in maybe 2 years... because it smelled mostly of strong amber molecules to me, which I don't like, and it kept smelling of them even if used as a tiny portion in a blend.. Black Agar Givco is a nice woody resinous base, would come second after Oud Maleki in my list. I have a few samples of natural oud from Russian Adam (Areej le Doré), which all smelled quite different (and quite different than expected), none of them has barnyardy, not even incensy notes, some even were fruity or had green aspects to them. You must definitely get a sample of Firmenich's Leather Oud, this would most likely make you think of Oud Maleki being clean and gym friendly 😅

Hi Sam, please show us how to make an oud accord

I only have black agar but I love it. Used it in one of my favorite colognes I’ve ever made. I called it OudManthus. It was themed around oud and osmanthus obviously haha

Black agar is so nice

I'm a big fan of oud, glad to see you covering this topic. There are some really awesome producers over here in America that will sell just a few drops of different types of wild ouds (Rising Phoenix perfumery is a great one) so I've taken advantage of that just to be able to smell some of the wild stuff without breaking the bank. I mostly agree with your assessments of these various oud reconstructions, funny enough though I find Oud Synth 10760e to be stronger than many of the others, must hit my nose differently! You are spot on about Oud Maleki, doesn't smell like oud at all, more like dirty civette with ambergris (the bad parts of both) lol. I would love to see another video with further experimentation, really fun to work with these materials in my opinion so I'd love to see how you use them!

got some information about oud in this video. thanks sam. i recently doing perfumery at my home and wanted to try some honey-malty-cereal with some oud in it. does Black Agar Givco suitable for this gourmand perfume?

Oud wood is my favourite cologne!!!

Positively u shud do an oudh based perfume also try to get hold of oudh emiri Or oudh khaslkass these two r natural oudh and the resin quality is very superior

yes, using oudh in a composition

Hello Sam Goodnight, I have 5 Oud bases, they are: Oud Synthetic 010760E, Oud Leather, Oud Firbest and Oud Samrat all by Firmenich and also Black Agar Givco 215/2 by Givaudan. for me my favorites are Oud Firbest and Black Agar, Oud Samrat has a super amber smell I think Amber Xtreme is not one of my favourites ambers, Oud 010760E is perhaps the weakest and Oud Leather is a mixture in my opinion of Oud Firbest with a Base that seems to me to be Suederal LT. I'm thinking of doing a simple composition with one of these bases, I still don't know with what, because they are very strong bases and easily dominate everything: They can almost be used alone, after all they are composed of several oils and molecules. As I'm not an expert in Oud, it doesn't seem easy for amateurs. I've already smelled several Oud perfumes and the one I think is most similar to the real thing is perhaps "The Night" by Editions Frederic Malle, a real bomb but with a bit of a barnyard smell. Best regards..

can i wear the synthetic ones youve mentioned as oud if used very slightly? or they can only be used in a perfume and not solely by regular users individually?

What do you mean by an Oud base exactly? So it's exactly that a base note so you would add a middle and top note to make a fragrance?😊

Hi sam, im from malaysia and i want to now ware can i get popular perfume fomular. I want to make it

Hello Sam, can you make us a universal accord that can be used for all scents, be it woody, floral, aquatic etc.

Very interesting! Love the tier list at the end Sam. A barn full of poo definitely not for me. 😄

First of all, thank you so much for what you do! Secondly, I don’t know if it is permitted, but it would be interesting to know what popular perfumes have each of those different food bases. Are you allowed to share that? And lastly, is there any kind of kit that a new person like myself who has maybe 100 colognescan buy two learn about individual smells?

Can you do a cheap version of this?

TRY: Maleki w/ Cinnamon Leaf+Galbanum Phenyl Hexanol+Honey Alternate notes accordingly: You'll find nuances of rose,pineapple, cherry, peach and plum in these chords

if you're not sure about the purity of the pure oud you got the assumptions in the video made it lose the main point of introducing about oud. additionally just wanted to add the poo scent in the oud is mainly from the Agarwood from India. so if you wanna try the other types (Thailand - Philippines - Cambodia - Malaysia ) you will find the woody smell but without the poo

I haven’t smelled that many oud scents but the immense trendyness of it draws me away from it. Maybe the selling point of how rare and expensive it is influences people’s perception of it

Hi Sam i am a newbie in creating perfumes, at the moment i am working with e.o. i have dilluted them to 10%. I have made the desired combination but i have noticed that the perfume is not that powerful. I have not let it to macerate, is this the reason why my combination is not long lasting/not projecting? Thanks!

Where to buy 100% oud

Can i make oud fragrance from labdanium and styrax and cedrol and cedryl acetate and vetivryl acetate thank y

perfumer's world - nice guys

Hello sam I no to oud agredecn

Does Oud bring out any interesting notes in Gourmand perfumes?

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i heard that Dealing with aroma chemicals cause cancer? Is that true?

I only work with natural oudh and for me synthetic and it's knowledge is very poor probably I m not keen in looking in that direction

Make a series"How to make perfume easily"

Now they found away to make the infection to the tree to get oud.

fecal notes

good one mate, keep it up! have u tried pretty oud firmenich? harry has it give it a try, its kinda different and easy to play with. cheers mate.