Ensar Oud / Oriscent
Wild-harvested oud at collector grade.
Ensar Oud, marketed also as Oriscent, operates at the extreme high end of natural oud perfumery. Founded in the early 2000s by perfumer Ensar Abd Allah, the house sources aged and wild-harvested agarwood from Assam, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, and the Arabian Peninsula, processing it through steam distillation and CO₂ extraction into oils with singular aromatic profiles. The catalog is deliberately small, the provenance exhaustively documented, and the prices — sometimes running into four figures for a few milliliters — reflect genuine material costs rather than marketing positioning. Ensar has published extensively on oud authentication, aging, and the regional variation between Hindi, Cambodian, and Malay wood profiles; the house functions as much as an educational resource as a commercial operation. The buyer is typically a collector already fluent in oud: someone who distinguishes vintages and regions by smell and treats a particular distillation as a primary object of study. Synthetic accords and alcohol-based dilutions have no place in the catalog.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
