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Bija II 2021 - Hainan Island - Pure Chinese Oud Oil
Bija II 2021 - Hainan Island - Pure Chinese Oud Oil
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Bija II 2021 - Hainan Island - Pure Chinese Oud Oil
Jungle : Hainan Island, China
Class : Wild - Sinensis/Hainanensis
Distilled : July 2021
*This is our new 2021 Bija II batch version of the original 1999 Bija batch that I had found.
Read the original story, below :
China is an interesting place.
I spent some time working in Shanghai in 3 different hospitals back in 2011. Chinese Medicine is interesting in that the Medicine influenced China's Socio - Philosophical/Spiritual practices, and vice versa.
In the olden days, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism were not religious practices as you and I know religion. They were more philosophical world views - less concerned with religious concepts of "God" and more about Spiritual and Natural Truths (very similar to what you and I would call Science).
It is for this reason that, when I chanced across the original unusual turn-of-the-century Hainanese oil - that I wanted to pay homage to China's Buddhist roots in the naming of the oil.
In both Hindu and Buddhist cultures, the Sanskrit word, Bija, means "Seed" - and it is used as a metaphor for the Origin of All things (what Daoism would refer to as the Tao or Dao).
This is an important medical/philosophical term within Chinese Medicine, as well, for it is from the Bija/Dao that come Yin and Yang, further differentiating into the Five Elements, and from the Five Elements that "The 10,000 things manifest" - i.e. - all of Creation.
In Chinese Medicine - this same imagery is also used in describing Conception - and the differentiation of a single point of origin (the single cell we all start as) into a living being.
We see the same concept in Western understanding in what we call the Big Bang. All things originated from a Single Point of Origin (the Seed, so to speak) - from which stars and all matter and all of Creation coalesced.
So Bija is an important concept, and one I wanted to share with you. Especially since China has been harvesting and exporting Agarwood centuries before other regions you and I know to be centers of modern day trade. Chinese Agarwood is, in a very literal sense - the Bija of the Agarwood Trade.
BACKSTORY
Hainan "ran dry" of it's wild woods nearly a decade ago, and so finding old-stock wild woods and oils come exclusively from old traders and connoisseur collectors, and the occasional Hainanese resident who's been holding onto some wood for a rainy day.
We occasionally offer some Hainan Senkoh (Japanese-style incense sticks), buying wood from an old, small incense maker to make high grade wild sticks for us. The kind of stuff no one is making any longer. Small batch, premium stuff. I may have a new batch of this rare wild Hainan incense coming soon ...
As the original 1999 Bija came from this Chinese incense maker I work with - I reached out to see if he had any other batches of wood that would be suitable to make a new batch of oil of the same caliber as the original. We were in luck ...
**I've attached a photo of the quality of wood this oil was made from...as you can see - it's a wowzer!
THE SCENT
This oil is thick. I mean - THICK. In cooler weather, you'll find it become like honey or molasses on a cold day - it's not very mobile. Even when it's a bit more warm ... you'll still find this quite thick. Makes it a beast to transfer to the vials, but I digress ...
For those who don't like those funky barn scents from more traditionally distilled oils - you're in luck. This oil is super clean, with a lovely minty top note.
**Zero Barnyard or Funk Notes. :)
As you open the bottle, your nose will be deceptively greeted by what smells like minty camphor and floral, warm beeswax and the scent of opening a jar of honey. But once applied to the skin...the fireworks begin.
From the warmth of your skin, the oil will emit a complex aroma of Jungle Wildflower Honey, Bee Fur, Animalic Pheromones, and Black Hainanese Kyara layered over Ambergris and Musk. If ever you've smelled really high grade wood that is aromatic at room temperature...you'll understand just how much this smells like Kynam at resting room temp.
Simply put - Bija II is astounding.
**Supply is limited
**Due to the viscosity of this oil, I will only be offering a fixed number of 0.5g, 1g, 2g, and Quarter Tola/3g increments.
Materials: 2021 Hainan Oud
Jungle : Hainan Island, China
Class : Wild - Sinensis/Hainanensis
Distilled : July 2021
*This is our new 2021 Bija II batch version of the original 1999 Bija batch that I had found.
Read the original story, below :
China is an interesting place.
I spent some time working in Shanghai in 3 different hospitals back in 2011. Chinese Medicine is interesting in that the Medicine influenced China's Socio - Philosophical/Spiritual practices, and vice versa.
In the olden days, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism were not religious practices as you and I know religion. They were more philosophical world views - less concerned with religious concepts of "God" and more about Spiritual and Natural Truths (very similar to what you and I would call Science).
It is for this reason that, when I chanced across the original unusual turn-of-the-century Hainanese oil - that I wanted to pay homage to China's Buddhist roots in the naming of the oil.
In both Hindu and Buddhist cultures, the Sanskrit word, Bija, means "Seed" - and it is used as a metaphor for the Origin of All things (what Daoism would refer to as the Tao or Dao).
This is an important medical/philosophical term within Chinese Medicine, as well, for it is from the Bija/Dao that come Yin and Yang, further differentiating into the Five Elements, and from the Five Elements that "The 10,000 things manifest" - i.e. - all of Creation.
In Chinese Medicine - this same imagery is also used in describing Conception - and the differentiation of a single point of origin (the single cell we all start as) into a living being.
We see the same concept in Western understanding in what we call the Big Bang. All things originated from a Single Point of Origin (the Seed, so to speak) - from which stars and all matter and all of Creation coalesced.
So Bija is an important concept, and one I wanted to share with you. Especially since China has been harvesting and exporting Agarwood centuries before other regions you and I know to be centers of modern day trade. Chinese Agarwood is, in a very literal sense - the Bija of the Agarwood Trade.
BACKSTORY
Hainan "ran dry" of it's wild woods nearly a decade ago, and so finding old-stock wild woods and oils come exclusively from old traders and connoisseur collectors, and the occasional Hainanese resident who's been holding onto some wood for a rainy day.
We occasionally offer some Hainan Senkoh (Japanese-style incense sticks), buying wood from an old, small incense maker to make high grade wild sticks for us. The kind of stuff no one is making any longer. Small batch, premium stuff. I may have a new batch of this rare wild Hainan incense coming soon ...
As the original 1999 Bija came from this Chinese incense maker I work with - I reached out to see if he had any other batches of wood that would be suitable to make a new batch of oil of the same caliber as the original. We were in luck ...
**I've attached a photo of the quality of wood this oil was made from...as you can see - it's a wowzer!
THE SCENT
This oil is thick. I mean - THICK. In cooler weather, you'll find it become like honey or molasses on a cold day - it's not very mobile. Even when it's a bit more warm ... you'll still find this quite thick. Makes it a beast to transfer to the vials, but I digress ...
For those who don't like those funky barn scents from more traditionally distilled oils - you're in luck. This oil is super clean, with a lovely minty top note.
**Zero Barnyard or Funk Notes. :)
As you open the bottle, your nose will be deceptively greeted by what smells like minty camphor and floral, warm beeswax and the scent of opening a jar of honey. But once applied to the skin...the fireworks begin.
From the warmth of your skin, the oil will emit a complex aroma of Jungle Wildflower Honey, Bee Fur, Animalic Pheromones, and Black Hainanese Kyara layered over Ambergris and Musk. If ever you've smelled really high grade wood that is aromatic at room temperature...you'll understand just how much this smells like Kynam at resting room temp.
Simply put - Bija II is astounding.
**Supply is limited
**Due to the viscosity of this oil, I will only be offering a fixed number of 0.5g, 1g, 2g, and Quarter Tola/3g increments.
Materials: 2021 Hainan Oud
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