Cantik Candan - pronounced 'chun-tik chun-dun' is one very special oud oil. Co-distilled from 70% Candan agarwood and 30% Malaccensis agarwood, this oud is so complete in every way that you'll have a tough time finding anything lacking in it.
Trees of the Candan species of agarwood grow in clusters at the feet of mountains and hill tops. They are significantly taller than other types of agarwood trees, but they are much narrower and the amount of resinated heartwood that is found in them is far less as well. This of course makes the overall cost per kilogram of the harvested wood more expensive.
The harvest may be smaller (quantity-wise), but the sheer quality of Candan's aroma beats all other types of agarwood. A drop of Cantik Candan is three times more potent than other ouds, and its amazing richness and depth are simply unparalleled.
If you have never smelled real Cambodian oud of the yesteryears - not the 'Cambodi' ouds you can easily acquire today which are actually of Thai origin - then you'll be pleased to know that Cantik Candan's aroma is astonishingly similar.
Opening with a powerful sweet resinous woody note accompanied by mouthwatering guava, leading to a warm honey note with subtle accents of henna and saffron. The top and heart notes would make you think you've stumbled across a long lost bottle of vintage Cambodian oud.
Beautiful notes of warmed cocoa and candied tobacco emerge as the oil develops on your skin some more. The raw material was distilled in copper apparatus, so needless to say there are some very pretty floral and fruity hints as well - ripe plum flesh, dark cherries, and a hint of sweet wild flowers being the most prominent.
Did we mention how powerful it is? Apply some Cantik Candan, and within moments a person 20 feet away will catch a whiff of your aura.
100% wild ancient agarwood, 100% high grade. 100% guaranteed to satisfy.
Raw materials procured in Johor, close to the Pahang border. Distilled in very rare and prized Cambodian copper-alloy pots crafted nearly a century ago.
Cantik candan is also another favorite. Trying it
slowly to enjoy
it throughout the day. Wonderful for me. I love the strong
woody smell.
S.K. (Australia)
holy smokes! It's hands down the cleanest, clearest,
best oud oil I've
ever smelled.
C.S. (USA)
I
wore Cantik Candan today for the entire day and really
like its strong
but not offensive complex woody, and sometimes powdery
and slightly
floral, masculine scent.
M.C. (Hong Kong)
Have tried the Kemegahan and Cantik Candan so far and
loved both, but I
must say Cantik Candan is from a different world!
:) Absolutely terrific
oud!
S.S. (USA)
I was thinking of placing another order of Cantik
Candan.. This one is
just too addictive! I can confidently say that this is
Oud has probably
the best top and base note that I have ever smelled!!
Absolutely
amazing!
S.S. (USA)
Step through the portal that is Cantik Candan and enter
another world...
Your sandaled feet tread a wide dirt road between fields
such verdant
green they can only be rice paddies. The air embraces
you, warm and
still, but now here comes a tiny breeze, trailing scents
of something
spicy... vanilla. The silence is broken by the
unmistakeable clanking
of wooden bells that grace the necks of great, gentle
water buffalo;
tinkling laughter and chatter of brown-limbed children;
cicadas humming
in the branches of the occasional spreading tree. Your
feet kick up
soft dust; it tickles your nostrils like the sweetest
baby powder. You
catch whiffs of smoke, wafting from a nearby field
house... someone is
roasting peppers. The sky is so blue, but looming on the
horizon are
burgeoning clouds of purple gray, pregnant with storm.
Rain is coming;
you can smell it in the air.
Welcome to the adventure...
Cantik Candan is the most combination of oud I’ve yet
had the
pleasure of experiencing. Spicy, woody, sweet, smokey,
dusty, a tiny
bit of fruity flower. And I promise, there are moments
when I thought
something was burning nearby; nope, the bubbling scent
of heated oud
chips on my wrist!
This oil last for hours (overnight even!), and there’s
not a
split second that isn’t pure pleasure.
Cantik is perfection.
I wore it on my wrist again (for the fifth time in as
many days) last
night, and my nose just wouldn’t leave my arm. I love,
love, love
this oil.
C.M. (USA)
It's a lighthearted, aristocratic individual.
A.J. (Saudi Arabia)
This oil is everything I had hoped it would be and more.
It's very
potent and resinous with great projection and longevity.
I love the
sweet tobacco and leathery notes. As well as the classic
Cambodian
scents. This oil is like a mixture of two of your
greatest oils; Oud
Kampuchea and Sempurna. The best of both worlds!
M.J. (USA)
The Cantik is a really mighty oil. I like it, from my
first two trials.
It has a highly interesting note that I can only
describe thus: "as if
licorice was vanilla". It is the strongest and "darkest"
vanilla note I
have ever experienced.
T.S. (Germany)
Very smooth and calming to my senses.
K.W. (USA)
One crazy thing about this oil is that I can smell it as
soon as I
apply a drop even when my nose isn’t anywhere near my
wrist. I
think it’s one of the richest oils I’ve come across-
both
on my skin and nose-to-the-bottle-opening :-) In the
bottle the oil
smells so saturated, so condensed, that I can’t wait to
put some
on so it can let loose and breathe! The most prevalent
note is thick
and balsamic with accompanying accents of leather and
licorice, and
there’s a surprising burst of twiggy freshness that’s
most
noticeable when I first swipe it. I think it’s kind of
cool that
even though the oil is sweet there isn’t any swishy
femininity
about it- it’s very robust and powerful. It manages to
feel
substantial, heavy and deep without being grave, it’s
sweet
without being coy and it’s very rich without being
ostentatiously
glamorous. It makes me think of a stand of balsams
piercing the snow,
raging campfires, cratered earth, bitter chocolate,
fizzy Coke and a
worn, pummeled baseball glove. Despite it’s youth
there's so much
substance and complexity to this oil, and it already
goes through so
many transformations on the skin, I can only imagine
that it’s
going to become better and better as it mellows and
matures with age.
M.W. (USA)
No "getting used to" necessary here, this is heaven in a
bottle. What
an amazing and beautiful scent! And very rich, so much
going on in it.
I especially note rich chocolate and coffee. It's easy
to see why it is
so highly prized.
M.S. (USA)
I liked the oil quite a bit. It's a very unusual oil -
the opening has
that tart "guava" note you'd expect from what Ensar
refers to as
classic Cambodi (not the sweet fruity caramel most
people associate
with "Cambodi" having tried the recent Thai oils
marketed as Cambodi).
It also has a very light and etherial Borneosque top
note component,
and even though the two personas of this oil (Cambodi
and Borneo) don't
blend into one, they play very harmoniously with each
other, creating
an impression of a very unusual (obviously) union but
still a perfectly
matched one. The Cambodi element recedes somewhat as the
oil dries down
so the Borneo aspect becomes dominant, but there's still
a nice Cambodi
afterglow in the heart and base part of the spectrum.
The drydown is
not dissimilar to Sempurna, although I'd say it's more
rounded and
polished because of the Hirta presense. The oil is
apparently still
very fresh but I was surprised not to find much (if any)
of the
customary fresh notes. I think it will be awesome for
when the weather
finally warms up here, I am sure a bit of heat and
humidity will make
it absolutely explode.
I.T. (Canada)
As soon as I smelt it the first thing thing that came to
mind was silky
milk chocolate, I could feel the dopamine levels
increasing in my brain
and it kept pulling at my heart strings. Having this
will complete the
Malaysian collection. This will be the true definition
of the 3
musketeers (Sempurna, Kemegahan and Cantik).
M.D (UK)
It is a lovely one. Bravo, you hit this one out of the
Park.
H.S. (USA)