Rasoul Salehi
True Ouddict
>>Do you realise how unfair it is to critique an oil you've never tried?
>i acknowledged that
Yet you persist?
Whether the view is micro or macro, to critique an oil that someone hasn't even tried, and in such a fashion, is actually unacceptable!
I wonder how you would take to someone negatively reviewing one of your wines, without even trying it (!), simply by superimposing the general negative macro views he has regarding Canadian wine.
> i stand by my analogy, b/c a big mac is "made" to taste good, yet we all know is not a real burger.
> my point is a philosophical one
No, it is not philosophical, because you keep correlating back to the specific oil.
I find the analogy offensive, and I am just an average oud user. I can barely imagine what anyone who puts time, effort and money into furthering cultivated oud (so that it may one day provide a sustainable future) might feel when reading that analogy...
I almost feel obliged to aplogise to any oud cultivator out there that has read this...
>Most region votes for FHI were Vietnam. HK vietnam the genus is the same (sinesis)
Vietnam oud oils are primarily crassna. So, no, not closer.
>>no doubt. but when experienced wearers i hold their views and takes at high levels see a broneo as maroke, we have a problem.
The same reviewer that guessed Maroke for Fajr, guessed Papua for Borneo Diesel.
So yes, absolutely double standards.
Further, Panel A only had about a 20% success rate in pinpointing the region/profile.
Based on that, ouddicts are generally not adept at pinpointing region/profile simply by blind sniffing a sample.
If you recall, the field was optional and was meant to be a bit of fun as well.
Despite the objective numbers of the success rate, I still think the reviewers did quite well. Some better than others, some better with some regions, others better with other regions.
I am still impressed that @rojas picked up sinensis in Xue Jie!
Also, regarding typicity, as I recall, Al Shareef Oudh already provided a lengthy answer to you in the oud of the day thread:
http://www.ouddict.com/threads/oud-of-the-day-night.8/page-423#post-36203
I'm sure Al Shareef Oudh are more gracious than me, but if anybody compared my oud oil to McDonald's I'd not exactly be in a sharing mood...
Take your time,
I look forward to your input.
I am not getting anywhere further on this with you. I say two things:
1) I truly wish that fajr was an ensar or taha oil for all of you to see my comments would remain the same. Exactly. My point has zero to do with the distiller and only with the fact that it is a) cultivated wood being perceived as a great wild oil 2) coming across as something other than Borneo by most if not all who I read. Yet it is something that has been obviously received very well. I strongly doubt it was the woods inherent quality and rather the skill of the distiller. Hats off to the distiller. I for one go for a village sushi cook over a three Michelin star molecular super star. I want authenticity. I want nature translated and I want full typicity and regional and varietal correctness. Then and only then I welcome X factor wow factor and that unique distiller signature, so long as the origin is not unrecognizable. I said many times this is my sole opinion. My aesthetic choice. No one needs to agree with it.
2) the Vietnam that smells of kinam and has that piercing green medicinal note is in fact Sinensis NOT Crassna. You can verify this information by those on the ground who I choose to trust and take their word for as well as the great book by dr rozi moahmed
Peace.
Ps my oil of the night was none other than ASO Malik al malayzi. A terrific oil that has that old Malay tiger wood quality in spades while fully and clearly displaying the distillers signature. Nutmeg, clove, salty ambergris quality intermixed with light tan leather and dried roses. An oil that recalls kannan koh, ahmad, twr yet uniquely ASO. This is what I see as a great oil.