Musc Gardénia: White Kyara

While the compound is the same as the original release, this bespoke edition features a full 3 grams of one of my crown jewels. I sparingly use Kyara de Kalbar. Hailing from Brunei, it’s easily the finest oud from those legendary jungles.

Distilled from Brunei Kynam shavings, it’s as pristine a portrait you could capture of the deep-earth-oil sipping roots that make Bruneian agarwood an incomparable olfactory luxury.

Not only is the concentration approaching 45%, you’re also getting a full gram of actual White Vietnam Kinam inside your bottle, giving you a double shot of the most precious kinam scents on the planet.

This original WK batch was composed specifically to complement the perfume’s white floral facets with kinamic oud profiles.

Kyara de Kalbar give Musc Gardénia a kinamic plateau to rest the buttery white floral’s delicate petals upon.

The heart of the OG composition was white flowers galore, and the interplay of White Kinam’s signature powderiness with the vanillic white flower freshness made it a stunning perfume to be reckoned with…

…This edition, especially with so much actual white kinam tincturing in the bottle turns the composition into an unprecedented olfactory feast.

In a perfume centered around a delicate arrangement of flowers, the oud you choose can thoroughly imbue the aroma with a unique character. That’s why you can wear two editions of Musc Gardénia side by side and react like this:

“To my nose, MGB went through a revolutionary update, you’ll smell something familiar BUT completely new at the same time.”

“First off, this is unlike any of the past MG’s that I own.”

So, when you have the chance to go back to the OG batch and choose which unique character to imbue it with, you don’t just choose anything. Rather, you go back to the white flowers and see where they can take you, the way they let White Kinam’s powderiness ride their wafts…

“The creamy jasmine, the sultry frangipani and that sexy blue lotus all blended with the musc and oud” gives Musc Gardénia a chart-topping loveability factor. The scent is addictive, inviting, and simply beautiful the way the most exquisite white flowers that compose it just are.

And that’s it – the allure of the gardénia flowers, the charm of the perfume itself that stands out, the ‘it’ that gives MG its mojo is just that – its delectable creaminess.

Bespoke Edition