Question:
I just finished a bottle of Indonesian oud. From my experience, Indian tends to be more leathery, whereas the Malaysian and Indonesian (that I have tried) tend to be sharp and wild smelling. (Althought I did possess a bottle of Malaysian that was very buttery.) They have more of a "green wood" smell, whereas Indian has a deeper, browner, almost "fecal" or "barnyard" tone. This is definitely an acquired taste. However, once I "got it", I learned to really appreciate it. It folds and folds and folds, under the skin and into something else...
Personally, I happen to like the Indian better. It is quite expensive (for me), but for the right occasions (meditation, dhikr, etc.) there is no substitute.

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Originally Posted by Nicolas V I just finished a bottle of Indonesian oud. From my experience, Indian tends to be more leathery, whereas the Malaysian and Indonesian (that I have tried) tend to be sharp and wild smelling. (Althought I did possess a bottle of Malaysian that was very buttery.) They have more of a "green wood" smell, whereas Indian has a deeper, browner, almost "fecal" or "barnyard" tone. This is definitely an acquired taste. However, once I "got it", I learned to really appreciate it. It folds and folds and folds, under the skin and into something else...
Personally, I happen to like the Indian better. It is quite expensive (for me), but for the right occasions (meditation, dhikr, etc.) there is no substitute. I can confirm the fecal / barnyard reference for the top note of mine. But as it warms up on the skin it mellows and turns into something beautiful - halfway wood the other part floral. That lasts for 24h easily and you couldn't tell what kind of wood our flower might be involved. Having received it from an Indian perfumer, does not necessarily mean it was refined there. As Noggs indicates, oud comes in various kinds of classes and there are enormous price differences between them. If interested, also read about Turin sampling ouds in Bombay (Burr, The Emperor of Scent, Part II/VI. India, Arrow edition, page 433ff).