# Ensar Oud — EO Green

> EO Green is a discontinued artisanal spray from Ensar Oud, the US-based oud house built on genuine high-grade agarwood rather than synthetic oud accords. Its stated target is the cool, minty, numbing 

## Essence
EO Green is a discontinued artisanal spray from Ensar Oud, the US-based oud house built on genuine high-grade agarwood rather than synthetic oud accords. Its stated target is the cool, minty, numbing green facet of kyara, the most prized grade of agarwood. Yuzu opens it bittersweet and fresh; tuberose, blue lotus and jasmine float over a base of Cambodian/kyara oud, Mysore sandalwood, castoreum and incense. It is rare, polarizing, and has no real clone.
## Scent Profile
The opening is dominated by a remarkably bitter yuzu — fleshy, strong, and shrill — a crisp green citrus quite unlike sweet citrus toppers. Around it sits a watery, aqua-mist quality from blue lotus and an ethereal cool note that reads as mint- or camphor-like with a citrus edge, the kyara-green effect Ensar was chasing. Green tea, herbs, and a damp oakmoss-style greenness fill in immediately, so the first phase is fresh, wet, and green rather than dark.
Through the heart the white florals emerge in that damp green: tuberose that is green and waxy rather than heady, blue lotus, and a fine half-hidden jasmine. This is where opinion splits hardest. To admirers it is an ethereal, creamy, healing green-floral-oud; to detractors the sharp yuzu over waxy tuberose and lotus tips into a "toilet cleaner" reading. The real oud sits underneath throughout, described consistently as never harsh — a clean high-grade agarwood presence rather than a barnyard funk.
The drydown is the most beloved phase. Mysore sandalwood gradually becomes the main player, turning the composition incredibly creamy while it never loses its green soul. Castoreum and incense add a soft smoky, faintly medicinal, leathery-animalic depth. The signature accord is this moist mentholated green over creamy sandalwood and quiet smoke. The perfumer describes a "linear tenacity": it sets its green-oud-creamy chord and holds it, evolving mainly as the sandalwood rises.
## Performance
Projection and longevity run above-average for a natural composition. One detailed account cites roughly 9+ hours with a discernible trace persisting to about 10–11 hours. As a high-oil-concentration artisanal spray, it behaves richly and projects nicely in the heart phase before settling closer to the skin. It is recommended for summer evenings and "almost any day except the peak of summer," implying the green-creamy profile can feel heavy in extreme heat. Like many Ensar sprays, fresh bottles benefit substantially from weeks-to-months of maceration to reach full richness, and a little goes far given the concentration.
## Wearing Context
It is best for summer evenings and transitional, cool-weather days. The green, fresh-creamy character makes it more daytime-friendly and broadly wearable than most heavy ouds, and it is even called unusually mass-market-compatible for an Ensar release, with notable appeal to women. It shines as a meditative, "zen" scent that Ensar pitches as therapeutic, and as an oud for people who do not want a dark animalic oud bomb. It is risky, however, for animalic-oud purists and for anyone expecting a sweet or rose-oud; this is a connoisseur's green oud, not an office crowd-pleaser.
## Comparisons & DNA
For artisanal natural oud like this, true clones do not exist — the genuine Cambodian/kyara oud, 2006 Mysore sandalwood, and real castoreum cannot be replicated by designer dupes. The most useful references are within Ensar's own catalog. Irian Green is the direct descendant, an Eau de Parfum Ensar created expressly as a revamped continuation of EO Green and the closest thing to a replacement now that the original is discontinued. Ensar's 1984 is the nearest greener-woody-creamy stablemate, while Jamaican Ambergris is the sweeter alternative within the house. As a loose mainstream pointer only, Chanel Coromandel and older Creed sandalwood profiles share a woody-earthy direction, but only a few percent of the actual effect.
## Reception
Mainstream critic coverage is genuinely thin, so reception sits deep in one niche corner. Among those who have worn it, sentiment is sharply polarized. Admirers call it green-mentholated-creamy perfection — ethereal, green, dark, and soft — praise the flawless high-grade materials and the rare green-kyara effect, and several lament missing out and asked Ensar to re-release it. Detractors are blunt: one calls it absolutely revolting, arguing the notes simply do not work together and that the yuzu-plus-waxy-florals reads like public toilets, while conceding the materials are obviously incredible quality. The consensus axis is clear: superb ingredients, divisive composition. Because it is discontinued, expensive, and genuinely polarizing, a blind buy is not advisable; a decant first is the safer path.
## Versions & Reformulation
EO Green is discontinued. Its lineage continues in Irian Green, an Eau de Parfum that Ensar describes as a revamped continuation built around the same green-kyara concept — yuzu, tuberose, blue lotus, jasmine, 2006 Mysore, Irian Jaya cooling, and castoreum — effectively the successor formula rather than a reissue of the identical juice. The original was an Eau de Parfum. There is no documented reformulation of EO Green during its production run, though Ensar's small-batch, vintage-material approach means batches likely varied with the specific oud and sandalwood lots used.
## Acquisition Notes
This sits in the ultra-luxury, artisanal-niche tier; natural Ensar EO sprays are documented around the several-hundred-dollar range, roughly $500, placing it just under the classic attars in spray form. EO Green is no longer sold directly and is found only on the secondary market and through decant or split channels. Sizes in this line are typically small, spanning formats such as about 50 ml. With artisanal oud, the authenticity concern is misrepresented decants rather than mass-market fakes, so verify provenance and buy only from trusted sellers; the successor Irian Green remains available from the house.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- Ensar's stated goal was to capture "the minty titillating cool — the green dimension — of kyara," a facet he says had haunted his oud distillations for years.
- The florals were chosen not for their own sake but to complement the oud and evoke kyara's "numbing bite," with the result pitched as a "zen attar."
- It uses genuinely rarefied materials: Mysore sandalwood distilled in 2006, vintage Irian Jaya oud, and real castoreum.
- Ensar Oud is regarded as a pioneer of bringing artisanal natural oud into Western-style perfumery and spray formats.
- Its discontinuation and subsequent demand directly motivated the creation of Irian Green, a rare case of a perfumer openly resurrecting a deleted scent by popular request.
- Its love-it-or-loathe-it reputation — "spiritual/healing" versus "public toilets" — is itself part of its lore.