May Sweet Thai

… a basket full of “dry fruits” such as dried apricots, exotic spices, leather, fine agarwood, coated in sweet and sour Thai tamarind!

Facts | In brief

Origin

Trat | Thailand

Soaking phase

0 days

Type of distillation

Steam | Copper boiler

Heat source

Gas flame

Year of distillation

2022

Fragrance notes

dried apricot

candied tamarind

soft oud chords

creamy, light leather

A basket full of spices

cardamom

cumin

Star anise

Cinnamon

Fragrance progression

Mai sweet Thai begins very smoothly with a combination of clearly recognizable oud, a whole basket full of dried fruits such as apricot, juicy, slightly sweet-citrusy tamarind with a hint of vanilla, delicate leather with slightly animalic accords and a whole bag full of spices such as cumin, cinnamon, cardamom and star anise.

An outsider could... indeed, he should ask himself the following question:

How do these notes even fit together?!

And the answer is:

The creation allows the seemingly impossible notes to "perform" superbly as a perfectly coordinated olfactory orchestra.

The shallow, citrusy top notes go perfectly with the tamarind accord and later give way to the notes of a basket full of fine dried fruits, with apricot in the foreground.

After half an hour, slightly leathery-animalistic tones emerge, underpinned by a hint of exotic spices.

After a few hours, Mai Sweet Thai becomes even softer and rounder.

The product offered is 100% pure agarwood oil, WITHOUT synthetic additives!

For this unbeatable price, a true masterpiece of its kind!

The "entry price" to the league of pure oud oils usually starts at a price level of several hundred euros, depending on origin, age/maturation process and distillation method.

And I'm certainly not talking about the "overcooked" agarwood, which has been subjected to excessive pressure and far too high a temperature for a second time.

" Squeezing the soul out of the body"

This is then often diluted with a cheaper “extending medium” such as Nargamotha or Boyawood oil, in order to sell it on the market to unsuspecting buyers as pure Oud oil at a price of $15-25 per ml.

Pure oud oil is far more valuable than gold.

We have already personally imported oud chips to Germany and distilled them ourselves.

Each type of wood naturally has its own oil content, but as a rough guideline, you can say that you can obtain a maximum of 4-8 ml of pure oud essence from 1 kg of oud wood.

You can see the price of 1g of mid-range oud chips here on eBay; and you don't need a degree in mathematics to calculate that a price range of €15-30 per ml cannot be pure oud essence!

Or do you really believe that a dealer would sell you a gram of 24-karat fine ounce gold for €15-30, when the current price of gold is around €75?

No! Of course not!!

Nobody on this planet gives anything away for free! At least not online retailers looking for new markets abroad.

Why should it be any different with the oud?

Nowadays, you can unfortunately consider yourself lucky if you get your hands on such an oud blend, because for most "liquids" that say oud on them, not a single drop of real oud has ever passed the bottling plant where the "swill" was bottled.

Sad but true!

But what is almost even sadder than fraudulently gaining a financial advantage through such dubious schemes is:

There are countless fragrance enthusiasts out there who own various oils, regularly scent themselves with so-called "oud oils," but in reality, have NEVER actually smelled real oud. Even worse are those friends who, for example, were in some bazaar in Thailand and supposedly bought "real oud" from a street vendor... €3... for 12ml! ;)

Of course!! Really!!

You wouldn't buy your gold jewelry at motorway service stations on the border of Eastern Europe, from certain family groups (pot-bellied men and women in skirts) who, with a Mercedes parked at the edge of the service station, try to sell a gullible victim about 200g of gold jewelry for an initial €1500, claiming they have car trouble and can't pay for the repairs... then you can go home feeling really proud, and tell your wife...

“ Honey, I just bought 200g of 21 karat gold jewelry! The guy initially wanted €1,500, but I haggled him down to €800.”

The rude awakening comes at the latest in the pawnshop, when the employee behind the glass tells you that you're holding scrap metal worth the equivalent of €5! ;)

… I've completely drifted off again…

...what do I want to tell you?!

NO ONE will sell you genuine, pure oud oil far below the market price!

(There are several examples of supposedly genuine oud at dumping prices, even here on this platform)

BUT, sometimes you can get a really good oil, which would normally be in a higher price range, for a relatively to buy at a low price.

… and that's exactly what's happening here at

MAI sweet Thai

...the case!

The product offered is a pure, natural agarwood oil (oud), distilled from "farm wood" from the Trat region of Thailand.

Agarwood, Gaharu, Agarwood, Oudh, Ginko, Aloewood....

This wonderful raw material has many names. We will not go into detail here about what agarwood is, what it is used for, and how this precious raw material gets into the wood.

One can assume that the fact that you specifically searched for a high-quality oud oil on this platform indicates that you have at least some knowledge of the topic of "agarwood" or are even familiar with it!

Ultimately, you wouldn't start a conversation with a potential customer who walks into the Brabus headquarters in Bottrop by saying that a car is for getting from A to B, has a combustion engine, four tires, a pair of seats, and a steering wheel. ;)

The customer wants details about what specifically distinguishes "Brabus" as a Mercedes-Benz tuner.

And that's precisely what we're trying to show you here. How does this pure, natural oud oil differ from others? Both physically and olfactorily.