EMW 2022 : West Malaysian Mount Panti Co-Distilled with Sabah Keningau - East Meets West - Pure Dehn al Oudh Oil - Pure New Gen Oud Oil

EMW 2022 : West Malaysian Mount Panti Co-Distilled with Sabah Keningau - East Meets West - Pure Dehn al Oudh Oil - Pure New Gen Oud Oil


Jungles : (Gunung) Panti Mountain, Johor - West Malaysia + Keningau, Sabah - East Malaysia
Class - Wild, Vintage Batch of Panti Mountain + Keningau
Species : Panti Mountain : Microcarpa and Beccariana/Keningau : Microcarpa
Distillation : Copper, New Gen - August, 2022


**This oil, btw, has taken me nearly 3 years to produce. Both batches of wood were acquired before the pandemic started. But between shipping issues, a stroke nearly incapacitating one of the batches being delivered for over 2 years, floods, damage to equipment from those floods, moving the distillation operation on more than one occasion due to floods (lots of floods!) ... we only just got to this in August of 2022 despite the project starting in October of 2019. It's been a long time in comin'!

EMW : East Meets West

Microcarpa : Floral
Beccariana : Purple - like Concord Grapes and Kuzdu Flower Jelly

This oil is a real head-spinner.

I wanted to make something really unique, and I think we've done just that.

I was offered a batch of vintage wood from the 80's from Gunung Panti - which is Panti Mountain, in Johor Malaysia. This area was picked clean of wild woods awhile ago, and so this is a "lost flavor", so to speak. It was a mixed back of Microcarpa and Beccariana, which will translate in oil form as : Purple Flowers

To it, I added a small batch of exceptional Keningau Microcarpa - adding more of a Floral punch, along with the beautiful Mintiness of Sabah, lending to even more ethereal top notes.

As I'm co-distilling some West Malaysian Mount Panti with some East Malaysian Sabah Keningau - I figured a fitting name to be EMW : East Meets West, and it's a beautiful marriage, indeed.

I'm sure I'll get questions, so I'll address it now - neither batch was big enough to produce enough oil (I'd have probably gotten around 2 Tolas of each oil ... I prefer to aim for 3-5 Tolas on small premium batches like this) - so instead I decided to co-distill them together to get a single oil, of which I got 57g out of a mere 5.8kg of wood - 4kg of Panti, and 1.8kg of Keningau. So almost a full Tola of oil out of each kg!

So how's it smell?


SCENT


Many of you were fortunate enough grab a bottle of my Purple Myara LTD - which was an exception 2012 batch of pure Malaysian Beccariana oil. It was exceptionally Purple.

I mention Purple Myara - because if you like it - you're gonna LOVE EMW.

It's also worth mentioning that I juiced EMW in the same equipment that my Filippino Leyte oil, Adobo - and also my Brunei oil, Playboy Sultan - were both juiced in. I mention this because this pot seems to have a signature Maraschino Cherry note that develops in the oils I'm producing in it. Maybe it's due to the very high grade woods I'm using in this small pot ... but West Malaysia, East Malaysia, Brunei - and the Philippines - every oil I've juiced in this pot seems to develop this note. So now I'm wondering if it's the woods ... or the pot? Something to ponder ...

Beccariana woods tend to develop oils with a Purple Note reminiscent of Concord Grapes and Kudzu Flower Jelly.

Kudzu Flower Jelly is likely something you've not tried - but it's a delicacy in both Japan, as well as here in the South Eastern US, where Kudzu was originally imported from Japan to control erosion ... but has runaway as a bit of a tree monster, devouring swaths of trees here in the South. Over the last century, the flowers have been cooked into a bit of a delicacy and made into a very unique and delicious jelly that is delightfully "Purple Tasting" - reminiscing of Concord Grapes and delicate flowers. You'll find EMW to be full to the brim of these notes.

Microcarpas, on the other hand, yield delightfully floral oils. In Japan, woods selected from Peninsular Malaysia and both Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo tend to be sub-species like Beccariana and Microcarpa - as these delicate floral notes in the woods are beloved in their Market. Expect this delightfully floral quality to abound in EMW.

So - if you loved Adobo Leyte or Playboy Sultan - this oil was produced in the same pot and you'll find some sibling DNA from the pot in this oil.

If you loved Purple Myara - you'll love that juicy Purpleness from the Beccariana DNA.

If you love Japanese Indo woods - that floral Microcarpa note - you'll find that DNA here, as well.

If you love rare woods, like those from Panti Mountain in Johor - that rare DNA you will likely smell for the first time, here.

Plus that glorious Keningau Sabah DNA - rich in Minty Top Notes and Flowery bouquets ...

All juiced together in our unique New Gen style that yields a cornucopia of Floral Spiciness wrapped up in a Concord and Kudzu Purple Blanket of Goodness.

If that sounds enticing ... DO NOT pass on EMW.

Materials: Panti Mountain Beccariana and Microcarpa,Keningau Microcarpa,Johor West Malaysia,Keningau Sabah East Malaysia