Siam Pasha is sourced from various parts of Southeast Asia — Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia — and contains essences and notes from all three regions, blended together in a single composition. When this kind of multi-regional blending is done properly, the result is an oil far greater than the sum of its parts. The various regional characters do not cancel each other out; they complement and extend each other.
Siam Pasha carries a lovely incense note with a faint underlying sweetness, and for its price it serves as a very pleasant introductory oil to oud from Thailand and the surrounding regions. We sometimes recommend it to wearers who are still working out which regional vocabulary they prefer — Pailin? Trat? Lao? — because Siam Pasha gives them all three at once, in a balanced reading that makes the comparisons easier to draw.
A pure oud oil composed of properly multi-regional material, offered at a highly accessible price. One of the more useful entry-level oils in our entire range.
Various, Siam, 2022
Available in a 2.5g bottle
At Kinana, artisanal fragrance means perfumery made by hand, in small batches, by makers who answer to their materials rather than to a production schedule. Where an industrial scent is engineered for consistency and scale — built to smell identical across millions of bottles, to a tightly controlled cost, favouring synthetic bases and standardised accords — an artisanal one is composed with care around genuine naturals and well-chosen isolates, accepting the small variations that come with real ingredients rather than smoothing them away. It favours quality and provenance over yield: real oud rather than an oud-like accord, materials chosen for their character, and compositions given time to rest and mature. Our purpose at Kinana is to bring that craft within reach — fragrance with depth and individuality, revealing itself gradually on the skin and carrying the character of what it was made from, rather than a uniform impression produced at scale.
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