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ELIXIR ATTAR
Kinam kodo
Smoky
€49,00 – €1.445,00
DESCRIPTION
Dear customer, due to the high cost of Elixir Attar perfumes, we are unable to offer you free samples of 0.3 ML of this brand, but 1ML samples of each of the perfumes are available for purchase.
Kinam Kodo is the olfactory nirvana of oud. Your chance to finally smell kinam/kyara smoke in a perfume. No other notes, no ordinary oud, no sinking oud, but pure kinam scent. Not just kinam, but kinam smoke.
is the second release in the smoke series, after Dark Matter; it is NOT a spray of cultured kyara oil, it is NOT a blend of “kinamic” oud oils and it is NOT a marketing gimmick;
This is the story:
Since we entered the market for perfumes, we came across a lot of the so called “kinam” and “kyara” and “kinamic” oils, none of which came even close to the kinam smoke subitism experience we made it our mission to study kinam and kyara at the molecular level so as to understand what it is exactly that people crave about Kyara or kinam. Our study was done extensively since 2019, up to the point where we reached this day and we could finally announce the results.
So, What constitutes Kynam, Kyara or Kinam? Be it green soil kynam from Vietnam, a wood thats almost a 1000$/ gram, Nha Trang kinam or Kyara from Shoyeido that is 2500$/ gram, or the almost extinct Samandari or Mandalee (For Indian Kinam Grade woods), the question is, why?, why is it so expensive?, the answer is simple, the smell of the smoke of these woods and their psychological and psychosomatic effects are the reasons. It is also obvious from our research that each region can produce kinam grade woods, unlike some claims that it can only be Chinese, or Vietnamese, etc.
The commonalities between different natural kinams lie in the abundance of a family of chemicals called chromones and the differences come from the type of chromones as well as the other molecules specific to each region.
Simply put, plantation kinam share some chromones with natural kinam while it lacks a lot of the other molecules that constitute the heart and the top of natural kinam grade woods when burnt, meaning that the reference to plantation kinam as being kinam is only due to the sharing of one type of molecule with natural kinam, while missing the majority of the other molecules which constitute the full and wholesome natural kinam experience. This means that calling these plantation kinam kinam, is not the most accurate thing to do. And the reason we say it is not accurate is because normal oud woods too share some molecules with kinam woods, so why not call those semi kinam woods as well? It is also obvious there is a specific chemical fingerprint for any kinam-grade wood’s smoke.
Okay, now we get to the story of what we did and how we did it. So, it is a fact that no one ever distilled 100% kinam woods to produce agarwood oil. Shiseido and some other Japanese brands did some alcohol extracts from Kyara woods to use in their perfumes in negligible quantities. All the oils that are very high grade or were labelled as kinam just give a kinamic or a kyara vibe, but not because they were made from kinam woods exclusively, but because they share some molecules with kinam naturally and in a greater number than the inferior agarwood varieties.
Mathematically at a yield of 0.1-0.2% of a wood that is at least 700$/ grams means that 0.01 grams of the cheapest grade of pure kinam oil would be 700$. Which is simply put an impossible price. Using science however, things are different, because when we analyzed the smoke of various kinam and kyara wood samples, we created a table with all the constituents like a puzzle, and reconstituted it from scratch.
What we did, is we basically isolated chromones from various kinam and sinking grade woods in addition to capturing the smoke of green soil kinam wood to serve for the top note of the perfume- these choices were not random, but they were to basically build the list of the chemicals in the smoke from the scratch up to the point where we matched the smell of our final result to the list of chemicals in the smoke of a natural kinam wood.
Regarding the olfactory description, there is no need to write one, this is the smell of pure high grade kinam smoke, concentrated at 25%, which makes this a magnum opus for kinam and kyara aficionados.
I cannot say that this is a pure perfumery project. We had a huge help from our scientific team and the isolation and matching process could not have been done without them. Our role was matching the same ratios as those in the smoke as well as assessing the final result, and it is nothing short of incredible, it will really blow your mind away. We chose not to add any other notes to the kinam smoke note, as it would be an insult.
SHIPIMENTS
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With every order, we offer you the opportunity to choose the samples you wish to try.
Samples are 0.3 ml and are made at the time we prepare your order. You can indicate your choice in the “Samples” section of the checkout page.
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