I like wild Kyara and all, but sometimes I just don't want to spend five hundred dollars just to get a few splinters of the "real" stuff. 327 Carpenter Lane I wont blame you if you disagreeour skin chemistries are different. The leakage causes a foul-smelling discharge. Thank you. it would seem to indicate that akyaratree could qualify as akyaratree no matter whether it contained anykyaraor even any degree of infection. It starts off kinamic then slowly morphs to almost like Royal Guallam. Pity I couldnt smell all the oils Ensar wanted to show me as I had to rush off to Borneo. I hope to experience Kyara and Kinam someday soon. Some even get hung up about the sinensis distinction, without having smelled either kinam OR sinensis. Reading this you realize these texts werent meant for teaching and, as youll discover after youve delved into this kit, the Kyara Sayangs crispgreenscent reminds me of a facet of chewing and burning kinam at the same time like few other oilsdo. Nor does Brunei kinam smell like any other strand of Brunei agarwood, much like Borneo kinam stands above any other local agarwood species. Sore as hell and in pain. This evening this oil opens with more Cambodi notes on the top and mid while the base is all medicinal dark red Vietnam. Others believe that. But this oil is old and I confirmed with Ensar whatI am smelling is part of the wood and not process or matter of age. When was the last time youve seen any of these for sale anywhere? WebCertainly the Kyara is the bigger and deeper scent, with a rich dark woody quality in addition to the ethereal camphoric and green qualities a lot going on, and all of it so enjoyable But if a medical student has not yet graduated, he is not a doctor. When you want to learn about samurai swords, who do you seek out a guy in Iowa or master Osaka? A great comparison. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. It would suggest that all Malaysian, Indonesian and New Guinean agarwood trees are going to be medical students for quite a long time! It's a special agarwood, wonderful when heated, transcendental when used in an incense stick. Most authentic kyara pieces were sold to private collectors in Japan, which is how Di Ser came into possession of its own small collection of the precious wood. Heat it, chew it, suck on it until your tongue moves a bit slower than it should. It is profound.Rasoul / Canada, It is, without reservation, a piece of art. TLDR: Extraordinary (4.9/5). A teacher in Jordan once told his students about oud and why its so rare and expensive. Yours, now. Lisa smells like new books. A dark green bitter smoke. Kyara will vary by grade, region, locality inside that region. 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. Were in 2020 folks. Game over oil. But remember this: If you were still stuck in that mantra of Oud = Cambodi/Hindi only, youd never have enjoyed the depths of Papuan green or Bruneis blue. He maintained thatKyaracould only originate in trees of the Aquilaria Sinensis species that grew in Vietnam. If it was all up in the air with fluffy fairytales, there wouldnt be millions of $ changing hands like you see in these circles. But kyara always had a special place in agarwood culture. I would say other 'dark and rich sticks' that I enjoy and use regularly would be my perpetual favorite Tennendo's Enkuu, which is less smooth than the two Kyaras above but has a swirl of traditional spices, but still has this very thrummy depth to it that surpasses Minorien's Aloeswood. Go to Hong Kong, Tokyo or Taipei to meet a kinam collector and smell what he calls kinam. How long does the smell linger for most of the Minorien incense sticks? Kyara was distilled six years ago. How does it smell? for pure kyara smells, you can consider 1) Gyokushodo en-no-sho (green oil kyara! Oller moreover posits thatKyarahas a unique chemical profile which is not found in other types of jinko. So I think the time has come for some clarifications to be made, and some questions to be asked. Simply stunning.Phil / USA, Kyara is definitely in the running for the holy grail of oud. WebIt doesn't have that dark and musty wood smell, nor does it contain musk or smoky frankincense accents. Its scent. Hell point to different batches of wood and tell you: This is Yunnan, that ones Maluku; over here youve got sinking Port Moresby But ask him aboutthosenuggets way at the top and he doesnt tell you where its from. Cervical cancer: Symptoms can include a strong, bad-smelling discharge. From this evolution in kinam appreciation came two schools of thought: the Japanese and the Chinese. It lingers in the corners of a room for at least an hour for me, and is rich, damp, loamy, dark. Specifically, I'm struggling with Shunkohdo's Kyara Aioi No Matsu which has gotten good reviews from lots of people. This might have been true two hundred years ago, but certainly doesnt apply today. It is sublime. Kyara Saiko). But I also have purchased multiple from most vendors on this forum, several based on their personal recommendations to me. Memories though can distract from mindfulness, and the Nha Trang is pure presence, resonating like a singing bowl, calling you back to mindfulness, helping you to see memories and let them go and be aware of the beauty youre being given now. 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. But I also learned the overwhelming smell of burnt bread doesnt overtake the narcotic smell of Kyara.Ayub / UK, Utterly fantastic! But this same tree is harvested at only 85 years, before the resin has hardened. Kinam is massively hyped and marketed Ive gotten slack for this myself (I guess people dont read my blog enough) and the result is a cloud of confusion. I understand cheaper = lower quality but can someone shed the light how do these smell and how much of a difference is there between these products when it comes to the quality of smell. If all kinam smells the same to you, fine. And they dont flaunt it. But theres no mystery about its smell. yumz.. even the stick before burning smells.. delicious), contains musk. Chokoh and Ryugen are equally good but different for different purposes. The Kyara is terribly wonderful, among the purest and most intriguing scents I have experienced in my long life. This oil to me is more about its transporting qualities and further, not what it smells like but what it doesnt smell like. The Aloeswood is excellent for what it is and it's really the 'afterscent' that gets this one for me. It is a heavy metal and has a silvery-white appearance. Diehard skeptics who criticize the Chinese school and insist that its a marketing trick miss one crucial point: Its MUCH easier to find Vietnamese kinam than Brunei or Borneo kinam. Smell the crme de la crme of theoud world and discover an olfactory journey like no other: Kyara |Kinam |Qinan. Very balanced and instead of smacking you on the head it instead gently grabs you by the collar and pulls you in. Time will tell. Just gotten hold of Kevins plantation Kinam and decided to do a comparison with my selected White, Green and Black Kyara. Its so repletely kyara there arent even discernable top notes, heart notes, nor much of a base. I had a chance to form a first impression of the cultivated kinam being discussed here. I dont buy the claim that kinam is a modern marketing tool, but I do get why people say this. That was wonderful. This stands in stark contrast to the Baieido official stance on the subject, which I have discussed at length way back in the day with David Oller. They are worth every single penny. Kyara enju, en no sho, and gokujo kyara are much more straight forward and easier to pick out the kyara. I think the notes youre catching are green kyara. I'm missing the frame of reference for black kyara. Its you and I benefitting from generations of refinement. How can anyone in his right mind, upon harvesting akyaratree, proceed to distill oil from it? Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For those who deal in kinam, collect kinam, or routinely indulge in kinam, there is no confusion. How does the grading work? Kyara is normally heated gently over ash and mica plates as incense; due to its rarity and scarcity, it is never used for distilling oud oil. Ive even been treated to kinam by esteemed distillers only to realize what they generously offered me was notkinam by any standard. JavaScript is disabled. This is a high kyara content incense stick with minimal other ingredients smell alike. Instead of philosophizing about what it is, is not, or ought to be Borneo Kinamshows you what it IS. However it remains to this day the most sought-after oud oil that has ever been released. Nha Trang is already many fold over Royal Guallam and right there as the no 1 spot, yet the complexity of Kyara is beguiling; thanks to all the wood studies, that cohesive, united yet discernible individual notes of Hainan, red Cambodi and Vietnam are a joy to study in this oil. Simply amazing. For those who deal in kinam, collect kinam, or routinely indulge in kinam, there is no confusion. I said, why does any other vendor bother to stay in business when you have oils like these?. But one will be a brain surgeon, the next one an opthalmologist, yet another a psychiatrist. The Kyara Kit lets you smell for yourself why the Chinese have a strong case for saying kinam isnt limited to Vietnam alone. This. WebIt smelled nothing like Burmese oud, and had none of the 'barnyard' characteristics of Chinese oud. 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. Bottomless oil that comes across to me and base yanked to the top note. And its the very same scent that is present to various degrees in a numberofrare oud oils. The resin created as a natural immune response makes the most sacred oil on the planet. From that point on, incense would become an important facet of Japanese culture.Incense is used for a variety of purposes, including And they dont flaunt it. Special gift of nature handled very well by man to coax all the beauty and genius out. Harvested at only 85 years, the resin has not hardened to the degree of being identified as incense grade agarwood, let alonekyara. Great balanceto it. You could also reach out and ask? WebHighly resinous Agarwood will have that acrid effect BUT with more experience your nose will learn to bypass those notes altogether. So, things CAN get puzzling. Fu-in Kyara contains higher grade woods plus a little Kyara in the mix. Some believe kinam is purely a marketing gimmick. Salty -- Resemble the smell of ocean water when seaweed is dried on a fire. Wow! Hell point to different batches of wood and tell you: This is Yunnan, that ones Maluku; over here youve got sinking Port Moresby But ask him about those nuggets way at the top and he doesnt tell you where its from. Words failHank / USA. For any oudhead, this is a delicious festival to look forward to, drinking in the meticulousness of oudheads that went before. Not many oils do that. Some believe kinam is purely a marketing gimmick. Her signature scent is a combination of white musk, jasmine, and sandalwood. Anything not harvested in Vietnam, cannot be Kinam. Kyara Tenchi uses black kyara. They dont stand a chance of ever producingKyara. Kyara might have been cheaper, as was all agarwood, back in the day when there was more of it. Regardless of their differences, what is clear is that kinam is a scent apart. So, thingscanget puzzling. The beauty of the oil is staggering I tried a little Kynam No 1 this morning to compare, as there are some similarities in scent profile both are extraordinary, though I do believe I prefer the Kyara Certainly the Kyara is the bigger and deeper scent, with a rich dark woody quality in addition to the ethereal camphoric and green qualities a lot going on, and all of it so enjoyable Kynam No 1 smells lighter, more like a delicate kyara perfume sort of thing, whereas the Kyara is a freight-train blast of kyara vapors rising off the heater The oil is distilled in part from actual kyara, and the scent to me is the finest representation of Vietnamese green kyara I have come across.Josh/ USA, All this recent love and talk for Kyara is warranted. He taught a few Cambodian students, he explains, who told him that theres a unique snake that lives exclusively in agarwood trees and attacks anybody who tries to get near one. Argon gas holds it back. LCG, It's not likely that smelling Kyara will be an epiphany. Thank you for taking the time to write this. Some claim that the chemical make up ofkyarais different to other types of agarwood. If it was all up in the air with fluffy fairytales, there wouldnt be millions of $ changing hands like you see in these circles. Definitely worth a try for any Ouddict. Its the aroma that permeates everything I do. The smell packs so much punch, the different batches so sizzlingly synthesized into a new scent, you cant even pinpoint a single note. So .5 ml can go a looooong way.Rasoul / USA, None to this date has been as clear, as loud, as evident and as glorious as Kyara when it comes to capturing the scent of kinam and kinamic wood on higher heat. Lol, For me even without smelling Kyara i know i would prefer say high quality woods mainly due to the cost! Not to mention agarwood like this: Same goes for Borneo and Brunei. 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. Anyways, special oil and as far as I see it a must for any and all oud lovers. Ryugen was the first kyara stick I bought, it was the short box of mini sticks. [:p], This dude has got not just a Rolls-Royce, hes got a whole fleet of them. I think this companies take on kyara is much more on the sweet side of thing, like cake batter or something. With time the Cambodi-like notes strengthen and kyara enju incense notes take over. The Kyara also hints at cosmic mysteries, but peering through the canopy of a Papuan jungle. Powerful but poised. Just take a whiff of each and youll know! Were in 2022 folks. I do know that at first I associated aloeswood with sour caramel and thus failed to notice the dry, spicy kinds of aloeswood in blends for a long time. Loving this oil. Thats why getting oud is so dangerous. Klee smells burnt (because she plays with bombs) Jean smells like flowers. 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. Even old-timer fragrance lovers dont know what oud really is, and within the world of oud kyara is out of reach for most. Chat or message us now. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. Update next day: Slept like a baby. Between my Chinese mentors, our mad Taiwanese kyara guru, and all these years chasing the kyara dragons piercing breath, I believe weve got the dragon in a corner. Its pieces like these that Irecognise as kyaratheir smellwhen burned, their taste when chewed, themouth numbingsharpness of their GREEN. KINAM & MARKETING. !Nazif/ USA. And right behind them, another fleet of Maseratis, and, and. I get it, though. Its part of their culture and reflects their reverence for this precious aromatic. I love the kinam note. They are the ones I learned from, smelled from, and got my kinam from. Seriously, how far will this get you? Something else to consider is that like some other preservatives, it can break down to create aldehydes when combined with other chemicals, and one of those aldehydes can be formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen. Soulstirring. As is mentioned in reviews below, Kyara is the name of the oud wood most highly prized in Japan and China. I then gave them a swipe of oud and asked them to go back and forth between the taste on their tongueand the smell on their wrist. 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. We could use yet another image to help clarify the issue: ALL students of the medical profression have the potential to become a doctor. Mind-numbing yet mind-opening. But if someone with more experience and a deeper appreciation for nuance identifies differences, that doesnt mean he makes things up. But kyara always had a special place in agarwood culture. NEW YORK I never knew I could like a smell called cheesy vomit until I visited the Museum of Food and Drink.. Seriously, how far will this get you? Ranjatai can be seen there every 10 or 15 years. The Japanese incense houses and Chinese agarwood collectors monopolize kinam because they sought out and bought out all of it over the years, long before others caught on thats why soil kyara is a big thing now, because with no living kyara trees standing, the only place youre likely to find kyara today is underground. And I feel entitled to it just as anyone else might feel entitled to theirs. The generation who first discovered kyara only knew it as one thing. You might think, but the Japenese and Chinese differ themselves, so why should I care about what you and your sifus think? True. So if at all possible, try some Kyara. Were no longer talking sinking-grade here, or about an untapped jungle. That is just my view. Generally speaking, these chemical compounds provide a soapy-waxy-lemony-floral touch to a perfume formula. The Japanese hold that kinam only originates in Vietnam, Hainan and parts of Cambodia while the Chinese have identified kinam invarious other agarwood-growing regions. This is a scent years in the making. Houzan reminds me a bit of the Confucious Kyara stick from Baiedo. If it's an established eBay seller with shipping policies stated, that's def too long without them reaching out. The scent of these chips sent me off into a frenzy. The mind becomes clear and instantly stays in present moment. But if you insist on Vietnamese kinam being the only kinam out there, youll still be left in awe at how these Brunei, Borneo, and Chinese palettes smell SO out of this world compared to regular varieties from the same regions. WebRectovaginal fistula: A rare condition where the opening between your rectum and vagina allows feces to leak into your vagina. It gets more tricky when you hear that kinam doesnt even need to be agarwood! WebTartaglia probably smells almost like an old person. This is surrounded by delicate natural notes of Japanese Rose, sandalwood, patchouli and hinoki (Japanese cedar) . I heated some lovely purple kinam last night, and also spent some time smelling the raw wood after freshly shaving my heater qty off it - very beautiful smell indeed - I agree LC that it is soul stirring.. Welli would say the green note is just one facet of the Kyara total scent profile and in totality, the smell from those oils are hardly an exact representation of a heated kyara sliver. Students for quite a long time nose will learn to bypass those notes altogether no Matsu which has gotten reviews. Brunei kinam smell like is, and some questions to be made, and got my kinam from,. 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