HAILAKANDI HIGH TEA - A sweet and refined Southern Assam oud oil

This is a high grade South Assamese oil: sweet, refined, offering a very wide array of notes and transformations, complex yet smooth to wear. An instant classic.

The opening is a bouquet of tea (Lapsang Souchong to Pu-erh), animal fur, light barn, dark chocolate, rum cake with raisins, orange peel & incense, 

Overtime new notes appear and transform over hours : leather, oakmoss, tobacco, vetiver, patchouli, abricot, ambergris, peat, caramel, candied ginger, suede. 

One hours in, it is almost like a spicy incensy pastry / fruit jam. The sweetness is not overbearing at all, it remains an hindi oud, but round,  sweet & refined in its expression. 

The dry down is sweet suede  with floral overtones... like one could imagine the "perfumed gloves of old", with hints of vintage rose and orris, all enwrapped delicately in suede, with the occasional fresher mote (bergamot)

The animalic facet is sweet, with leather, ambergris, animal fur,  and light barn as the main notes.

This oil is as smooth, delicate and 'perfume' as it gets for a an authentic Assamese profile, so  it is possibly the best alternative in our assortment for an introduction to Assamese ouds (in which case we recommend buying a sample first to see how you enjoy) 

On the contrary, if you prefer to explore our more traditional, and more animalic, oils from the same region, you can try to explore Time Tripura & Barak Jam

 The wood used is from one mature single tree around 50 y.o, semiwild (in natural terroir mixed ecosystem, grown without intervention : naturally grown and infected) 

'Incense grade' wood only. Traditional soaking for 3 weeks and quality artisan slow low pressure distillation in march 2020. 100% pure and natural.