Harvested at only 85 years, the resin has not hardened to the degree of being identified as incense grade agarwood, let alonekyara. On the opening, I see the Hainan notes clearer than before and the narcotic Cambodi bitterness. It is fair to say, at this point, thatKyarais a subject we need to agree to disagree about. Some few dozen plus injections. According to the logic of not naming oils save according to their generic characteristics, using such terms as Supreme and Ateeq and Sulaiman in naming oud oils ought to be deemed equally misleading and dishonest. Once the Oriscent aesthetic grabs hold of agarwood, it doesnt matter where it comes from anymore. But this same tree is harvested at only 85 years, before the resin has hardened. WebBacterial vaginosis: Its also possible a chemical-like smell is a sign of bacterial vaginosis. WebSome foods and medications, such as asparagus or certain vitamins, can cause a noticeable urine odor, even in low concentrations. Now now, everyone takes a deep breath, calms down and takes a step back. So I just burned a bit of Kyara Houzan which is similar to Ai no Matsu but with more kyara. Its aimis to capture as correctly as possible the scent of Vietnamese Kinam, and to that end, Vietnamese, Chinese (Hong Kong & Hainan) shavings were distilled along with cleaning dust from proper Cambodian Kinam. WebCrack has an unpleasant smell when its smoked its said to smell like a mixture of chemicals and burning plastic. WebThe sea where you can smell the clean salty seabreeze, listen to the sounds of rushing water and feel the sun on your skin. Thats the motto. He maintained thatKyaracould only originate in trees of the Aquilaria Sinensis species that grew in Vietnam. Yours, now. Though nobody seems to have a clue, most agree that kyara is a mystery. Maybe even more interesting in a certain way than the Nha Trang, because of Kyaras jungle memories. To claim you know anything about kinam, you should AT LEAST have smelled the varieties offered by established Japanese houses. In many cases, the smell is What may smell supreme to one vendor might very well send you to the nearest sink to reach for the soap. So hope that helps. It is The yardstick that gets branded into your minds nose after drinking one too many cups of kinam tea, chewing one too many cuts of chinan, and lighting up way too many of those Hainan skins. Kyara. Edited: Certainly, from my very broad forays into trying everything that comes my way, expense does dictate the rarity and grade of materials, but if there's something I try to keep in mind when the siren's call strikes, is that I can fully enjoy 'cheaper' ingredients if they are blended expertly, and sometimes there's beauty in enjoying the straightforward stuff and burning with more abandon. A spring breeze across the Japanese countryside. On the surface, it looks like nobody has a clue. I have green kyara and purple kinam - and a "Genboku" AA grade kyara from Yamadamatsu - they are very nice - smell very refined and perfume like to me, rather than the coarser, more rugged smell of other agarwood.. Kyara smells a lot more like various oud oils to me than regular agarwood - it's like the perfume, concentrated essence of the wood rather than a woody smell per se.. My first thought trying Kyara was, "small piece, big smell". Mind-numbing yet mind-opening. Some believe kinam is purely a marketing gimmick. Kudos to you Ensar.Brian / USA, Kyara is certainly a contender for greatest oil of them all It is remarkable how potent it is, absolutely bursting with aromatic intensity Apparently, a small amount of actual kyara was added to the distillation perhaps it is this that gives it the extra body and richness that sets it apart from most other oils A few other Ensar oils Royal Kynam, Brunei Kynam, Yunnan Kinam apparently also had kinam in the distillation and have a similar body and richness, an extra level of decadence.Josh / USA, The Kyara is wonderful and interesting. I overall prefer the oils, but it is fun to swipe these oils and burn the wood and listen to both at the same time. Kyara defines what I do and Kyara is not only as close to kyara an oud oil can get, but one that takes you beyond the wonder of the wood into the labyrinth wonderland of oud oil where red kinam smells green smells purple smells more, all at once. Its you and I benefitting from generations of refinement. Borneo Kinam orBrunei Kinamlets you smell for yourself why the Chinese have a strong case for saying kinam isnt limited to Vietnam alone. Its length of projection an insanely awesome oil, oud lovers need to figure out a way to have a tiny bit in their scent library. This proves that Borneo is defunct and Cambodi doesnt mean what they tell you it ought to. It is the most complete and accurate kyara note in oud oil. So glad you are able to experience it. I have some Hainan kinam and it is very nice. With their gums and tongues numb, I asked them to savor the taste of the kyara, to. So I think the time has come for some clarifications to be made, and some questions to be asked. Kinam was already part of their culture before the USA even existed! Yet there is nothing smoky about the oil if it makes any sense. It's just another lovely piece of Agarwood with a few more special notes. It took me months and months to be able to find joy in sub $700 oils. The mind becomes clear and instantly stays in present moment. So, if we assume that no-one knows what constituteskyara (as you wrote) could we also safely assume thatkyarais not a genetic disposition, but is related to certain environmental factors, such as nutrients, age, climate etc? Were no longer talking sinking-grade here, or about an untapped jungle. If left to grow for another 50 years, it would yield identifiablegreenkyara. From the look on Ensars face though, I could tell he was sad I was missing out! But I also learned the overwhelming smell of burnt bread doesnt overtake the narcotic smell of Kyara.Ayub / UK, Utterly fantastic! Kiyoko The olfactory antidote to the stresses of living in a time of great disharmony and uncertainty around the world, Kyara is very probably the most beautiful fragrance I have ever smelled. All I can say is, people who havent tried these oils are missing out on what oud oil is all about and what it does to your mind. I wont blame you if you disagreeour skin chemistries are different. Its tough to beat a place called Pleasantville. The magazine picked Los Angeles as the top smelling city while Paris ranked the worst. From this evolution in kinam appreciation came two schools of thought: the Japanese and the Chinese. Otherwise, youre just talking through your teeth. Simply stunning.Phil / USA, Kyara is definitely in the running for the holy grail of oud. I thought that this is what it was supposed to smell like, but when I put my face Rather than guessing games with vague charts and descriptions, these are the smells they use as benchmarks and identifiers. During our 2017 KinamFest, we did a blind test. With time the Cambodi-like notes strengthen and kyara enju incense notes take over. Its not kyara-rich by any means, nevertheless its a really pleasant and satisfying stick to burn, with the wood noticeably smoother and more resinous and fragrant than the aloeswood version. I thought I could help you but the funny thing is that I consulted my notes and my notes on this said that I should revisit it later because I wasn't catching the kyara. One thing Ive learned is that many people who talk about kinam have not smelled kinam; not even the offerings by established Japanese houses. This might have been true two hundred years ago, but certainly doesnt apply today. I get it, though. When you want to learn about samurai swords, who do you seek out a guy in Iowa or a master in Osaka? At first sniff, one is brought into the presence of kyara, feeling its huge impact, opening up the doors of the mind to a vaster plain. Thats why you hardly see any advertised. The generation who first discovered kyara only knew it as one thing. Something folks who havent juiced this kind of oud dont know yet is that for ouds of this caliber, age is everything. And then, like magic, once I found it, I found I couldn't 'unsmell' it and go back to the innocence of the stick being simple. Ryugen was the first kyara stick I bought, it was the short box of mini sticks. For being so hard you did an amazing job! for pure kyara smells, you can consider 1) Gyokushodo en-no-sho (green oil kyara! Rather, the closest scent to Vietnamese kinam is Borneo kinam Cambodian kinam Bruneian kinam. There was once only one kind of car. Sounds good. Its beautiful, therapeutic and an experience.Brian / USA. I want to smell like butterflies. Any smell associated with mercury would be the result of other materials present in the environment and would not be from the mercury itself. Kyara is green and medicinal, with a slightly bitter herbal bite and Its good to also burn one stick at a time and maintain a steady burn routine so your nose learns to work around that acrid smell. Or the occasions I need its calming and centering presence. And so an agarwood tree who has not yet producedkyarais an agarwood tree, and not akyaratree. I pull it out on the most special occasions. This. So, thingscanget puzzling. Name :Kyara. I am new to incense, I would like to know the differences between these products. As soon as it was lit she said, wow, that smells expensive. One thing Ive learned is that many people who talk about kinam have not smelled kinam; not even the offerings by established Japanese houses. But kyara always had a special place in agarwood culture. Miu Miu is the sister label to Prada, and was founded in 1992 by Miuccia Prada. With their gums and tongues numb, I asked them to savor the taste of the kyara, breathe it in and let the green medicinal brainfreeze run through their noseand into their forehead. All this cultivated Kinam talkplaced e-bay order on January 31still waiting on it Did you get a tracking number? An inferior resin is created by the deliberate wounding of an Aquilaria tree, leaving it more susceptible to a fungal attack by using a forced method. Thatsthe kinam youre getting in this kit. I have nothing against plantation cultivated wood, be it agarwood or Kinam. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. If the Holy Grail is to capture the scent of gently heated agarwood, why not just gently heat the agarwood? And the best way to experience it is by actually heating some first hand. Just as you would, when talking about kinam, at least have an industry-standard reference like Baieidos on hand (included in this kit). I am open to ALL vendors of good oud. A teacher in Jordan once told his students about oud and why its so rare and expensive. That people arent sure what it smells like; that to them kinam doesnt really stand out from the crowd. How can anyone in his right mind, upon harvesting akyaratree, proceed to distill oil from it? Lisa smells like new books. It's a special agarwood, wonderful when heated, transcendental when used in an incense stick. There's something else going on in their blend, and it's also dark, sultry, smoky, a bit husky and gritty. Bottomless oil that comes across to me and base yanked to the top note. You dont need to know anything about incense to know that these sticks are special. In my opinion, all of Minoriens incenses are great and the Ryugen is like an upgraded version of the aloeswood and kyara. It is a heavy metal and has a silvery-white appearance. Instead, as with a sliver of kinam sizzling, you encounter a single pristine note of immediate beauty that goes beyond origin. Rather, the closest scent to Vietnamese kinam isBorneo kinamCambodian kinamBruneian kinam. Her signature scent is a combination of white musk, jasmine, and sandalwood. And my biggest swipe of it to date. Some even get hung up about the sinensis distinction, without having smelled either kinam OR sinensis. Ive been derailed, spending days on days formulating a new perfume inspired by a whiff of CeramIm still a longways off We wanted you to get a glimpse of our Oud Royale: Maluku, so here is a bag of the grandaddy wood harvested from the same (now extinct) aquilaria cumingiana trees. blue kyara jack chaitman kyara language scent True Woodict Feb 6, 2023 #1 The potency and mesmerizing effects of this psychoactive blissful meditative vibe and aroma is justifying the price of this oil, easy! I cant really explain it or compare it to this and that, other than the scent of high kyara content and minimal other ingredient incense, in particular, I get Kyara Kokoh and KZ green oil kyara incense note. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Questions? Sore as hell and in pain. Larry / USA. Sun moon and stars have lined up for me and this oil tonight. Its odor is described as woody, spicy and floral. NEW YORK I never knew I could like a smell called cheesy vomit until I visited the Museum of Food and Drink.. But historically, its accurate. Say the tree is 85 years when harvested. Sweet -- Resembles the smell of honey or sugar. Chokoh #5 and Ryugen are both high quality, exquisitely blended sticks, both relatively kyara-rich, both containing higher-quality supporting woods than the Fu-in sticks. Dogs can be trained to smell several types of cancers, including melanoma, breast and gastrointestinal cancers and some infectious diseases in humans, including malaria and Parkinsons disease. A fellow oud connoisseur, Thomas S., had this to add to the discussion: If we substitute, for the sake of this discussion, the word kyara with cherry, we see a different definition coming up. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. An aromatic aldehyde is defined as an amalgam containing the CHO radical, such as benzaldehyde, which has an odor profile reminiscent of almonds. If we look at the cherry tree simile, it would seem to indicate that akyaratree could qualify as akyaratree no matter whether it contained anykyaraor even any degree of infection: A cherry tree doesnt need to bear fruit in order to be classified as a cherry tree. If whatever-piece-of-wood fulfills certain scent characteristics, it gets the label. As is mentioned in reviews below, Kyara is the name of the oud wood most highly prized in Japan and China. Kinam is hyped up so much because few know what theyre talking about. All he says is: That is Kinam.. Or just a regular agarwood tree? It can sometimes take a good amount of time and practice to get the more subtle kyara sticks. Fav part is the very impressive evolution to drydown and the overall weight. The majority of aldehydes have strong odours, varying in smell, with most of the lower molecular weight smelling rather bad (like rotten fruits), while some of the higher molecular weight aldehydes and aromatic aldehydes smell quite pleasant, thus being used in perfumery. Generally when I buy on eBay I get one. Hot -- Resembles the smell of peppers on a fire. One thing you do learn from ancient descriptions of kyara is the simplicity: kinam is bitter or smells like a monk. But historically, its accurate. And the olfactory density is of the highest caliber, it is immediately brain-piercing. One of the things I did to help me along was to find sticks that had a aloeswood version and a kyara version. The question presents itself: Could it be that an oud oil is literally distilled fromkyarawood? Chokoh is vaguely Indian to my nose, theres a rich fragrant accord running through the wood that brings to mind natural perfumers ingredients. From the way it feels to how it smells raw, when heated, or when a saw-blade runs through it. Off-putting to my nose but too much other awesome going on that I can get past it and still derive pleasure and still crave it again.Rasoul / Canada, .25 gr high recovery V-vial, 3 gr EO-Vial. Im not offering you a mystery: We have kyara as identified by kyara experts in Japan and China, and sold as kyara by the most respected authorities in the field. All he says is: That is Kinam.. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Also, just like someone may adore their 1900 vintage Cabernet, sometimes box Zinfandel sparkles with its own charm! When was the last time youve seen any kind of Chinese agarwood for sale anywhere? For a day of reverence and remembering, it is a day for special oud. Just like using those old charts outlining the traits of different kinds of agarwood is effectively useless today sasora is sour while kyara is bitter or smells like an aristocrat in its elegance and gracefulness. Irritable and edgy. He didnt warn me that it came with a side of knafeh fresh out the oven. Regardless of their differences, what is clear is that kinam is a scent apart. Soulstirring. [:p], This dude has got not just a Rolls-Royce, hes got a whole fleet of them. Kyara might have been cheaper, as was all agarwood, back in the day when there was more of it. The smell packs so much punch, the different batches so sizzlingly synthesized into a new scent, you cant even pinpoint a single note. The name derives from Miuccia Pradas family nickname, and was established as a more youthful, playful and affordable alternative to the Prada line. They are expensive and they should be. Just how I like my Aloeswood. I said, why does any other vendor bother to stay in business when you have oils like these?. Alhamdulillah, I have had the good fortune to sample some of the best ouds from the far corners of the earth, and, clearly, Kyara is not from this world.Faisal / USA, This AM the day got started with a gentle and small application of Kyara. The scent is beautifully distinct and exquisitely rare; the golden tip at the top of the oud pyramid, regardless of the country its found in. Definitely worth a try for any Ouddict. After signing up, please check your email for your coupon. On the surface, it looks like nobody has a clue. A teeny tiny toothpick dot size will be enough. They are worth every single penny. However, sometimes the roots become infected with the fungus and these can be found underground. I hope everyone who smells these oils will give them the admiration they deserve, and I hope those who cannot do that dont get to smell them at all (i.e. Ive even been treated to kinam by esteemed distillers only to realize what they generously offered me wasnotkinam by any standard. I love the kinam note. Anyways, special oil and as far as I see it a must for any and all oud lovers. Vanilla can elevate your mood. **Five associations used to classify aloes wood aromas in ancient Japan. Not sure which other oil beats it in its longevity and beautiful evolution. In its opening. In my opinion, until somebody distil an oil from actual Kyara wood than you can actually know what is that smell you can compare it. Just gotten hold of Kevins plantation Kinam and decided to do a comparison with my selected White, Green and Black Kyara. Though nobody seems to have a clue, most agree that kyara is a mystery. WebIts not particularly high grade wood but the blend is perfect and the scent is rich and clear. In fact as I mentioned, this plantation Kinam is amazing in its own way considering the short inoculation period and the generated scent profile.
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