If there is one oud oil that represents what I am trying to achieve through NUHOUD, it is this one.
Ceyloni 2026.
The agarwood comes from the region around Adam’s Peak and Kitulgala in Sri Lanka, and the quality of wood I select for this distillation is something I rarely see being put inside a distillation pot.
This is not wood I buy simply because it can produce oil.
I look for the kind of high-grade Ceyloni agarwood that I would normally want to burn and enjoy on charcoal.
That makes every batch difficult.
Finding enough material at this level is never guaranteed. Sometimes I have to wait. Sometimes the wood simply isn’t available. And when I do find the right material and distill another batch, keeping the finished oil in stock has become just as difficult.
It is one of my fastest-moving oud oils, and very often, it is simply unavailable.
But I don’t want to lower the grade of the wood just to make more of it.
Because the entire reason Ceyloni exists is the wood.
When you first apply the oil, there is a beautiful brightness and powderiness to the opening, together with an almost aquatic character that gives the oil an unexpected sense of clarity.
Then the oud begins to show itself.
And this is where Ceyloni becomes very personal to me.