Mystical Lotus: Jiaozhi

Mystical Lotus isn’t a perfume. It’s not an extrait de… anything. At ~60% concentration, I’m surprised the atomizer can even handle the spray!

Built on top of Blue Kalbar, which was already a luxury perfume – 20+ natural ingredients bolster the creamy blue lily’s narcotic effect.

And the base is just where the fun starts…

Imagine this blue brew bubbling with an ensemble of extremely rare wild ouds, the most expensive roses in the world, and decked out even further with a super-limited aged, artisanal Vietnamese oud… plus even more blue lotus.

Jiaozhi Senkoh is an exquisitely fruity Vietnamese oud, with a sharp-shooting senkoh quality – a uniform kodo-humm – with a dryness that makes it smell as if the unique blue-creamy profile of water lilies and these sinensii drank from the same soil.

A shot of Vietnamese oud so senkoh and so dear to me it’s exclusively reserved to enhance perfumes like this. Due to how limited the oud is, I’m only making a limited number of bottles of this edition available.

But let’s backtrack a bit: Since Blue Kalbar forms the base of Mystical Lotus, you get all the orange blossom, amber, civet, and aged Papuan oud that’s in the OG, yet this bespoke contains an additional 6 grams of my signature blue lotus extract. The blue lotus in here alone qualifies as an extrait concentration perfume!

But we’re not even halfway…

On top of the hefty dose of blue lotus, your bottle also contains an added 2.5 grams of my in-house rose of choice, Taifi Sultani, likely dating to the early eighties, with a full gram of another eighties beauty: Maroke SQ.

And then the whole brew swims in a vintage batch of ambergris.

These aren’t just random additions. Maroke SQ and Mélange Priveé SQ are the perfect duo on their own, with their pristine herbaceous sultry cool that beautifully melts into 3 grams of Jiaozhi Senkoh.

If you want to capture the juicy facets of the melange against the deep incense profile of such high caliber artisanal Vietnamese oud oozing out of every crevice, all against the backdrop of blue bliss, then there is no other perfume that comes even close.

The hefty dose of Jiaozhi Senkoh, which doubles up on the Maroke SQ with high mountain super king Maroke agarwood further incense-ifies the succulent lotus core.

The additional rose-Maroke fusion with Jiaozhi in the picture is pure bliss – to then add the mystical lily to the brew gives you a peerless olfactory composition.

And Taifi rose added to the rose already in BK makes all those ouds so diffusive – it’s why the finest old-school mukhallats are just that: rose and oud. All the while, the blue feels like the sandy breeze, that oceanic, stony-pebble scent of excellent ambergris.

The compound alone is almost double the concentration of my own ‘Private Blend’. And Mystical Lotus alone is so good it’s become my new private blend, the perfume I’ve personally recommended to my closest comrades. Ask any OudFest attendee and they’ll tell you about my personal bottle of Mystical Lotus that’s always present.

The most exquisite flowers – blue lotus, rose, frangipani, and orange blossom drinking gallons of vintage sinking-grade ouds and the freshest 80s rose harvests, Mystical Lotus is a heady, insanely dense, rich and extravagant to the point where cost was never a factor. Pretty much the only thing that prevents you from doing more is that you’d end up with an attar too thick to spray!

Imagine heavy oud resin dripping from blue lotus petals. And the Ta’ifi roses and oud bubbling up from the bottom, that vintage mélange, and the zany Jiaozhi at its core.

Mystical Lotus isn’t a casual spray. This scent dresses you in a totally different kind of style. It’s the kind of perfume that

Reviews of the Previous Edition…

Ethreal – Cloudy Sillage – Creamy – Sensual – Green – Vanillic – Sweet

Beautiful wear.

—Travis H

/ USA

Mystical Lotus is extra ordinary, a swirling narcotic, a hypnotic if it didn’t keep pulling you in all dimensions. I got it the NYC Oudfest and could not believe how it transferred the Blue Kalbar into an enveloping world into which nothing can penetrate or bother you.

—Edmond C

/ USA

Monday blues was cheered up by the lovely blue Mystical Lotus…the combination of dense blue lotus, rose, floral, Pinoy… What a delightful mood-lifter scent.

—Ruby W

/ Canada

Testing Mystical Lotus for the second time, and it continues to wow me again. There’s a hint of zesty orange peel, a very heavy dose of blue lotus and ouds in the opening, a hint of delicate roses, and a few other florals, it’s absolutely gorgeous! The scent as a whole is very rich, intense, dense, heavy, and full, but elegant at the same time, with a navy blue hue.

Complexity is off the chart on this Mystical Lotus, with a lot of depth, definitely in the same elite status as the Garden of Eden. This is a super premium EO release, if the cost wasn’t a factor I would have owned 100ml of this along with 100ml of Garden of Eden already, both of them are some of the most beautiful scent profiles I have ever smelled, absolutely stunning with an addictive quality to it, just like the GoE.

In my humble opinion, both Garden of Eden and Mystical Lotus are the best EO have to offer. I’m happy for those who’re fortunate enough to own a full bottle of this gem, truly an amazing piece.

—Ben W

/ USA

I received this today and I just sprayed it once on my wrist. Wow!

I can’t describe what I am smelling, but I do recall silently mouthing the word “wow”. I have not had the chance to smell many of the exclusive ouds and florals that went into this semi-bespoke or Blue Kalbar which forms the base so I had no idea what to expect. This is honestly on a completely different level as far as what I have experienced before from a spray “perfume”. As it was a blind buy, I went with the 15ml bottle. I may have to get another bottle of this narcotic scent as I have a feeling that 15ml will not be enough for me. My sincere gratitude to Ensar Oud and whoever collaborated with EO to make this exquisite perfume.

—Greg B

/ USA

Imagine heavy oud resin dripping from blue lotus petals, and…