Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Oud oil (Cambodi)

Say itOOD oil

Sweet, fruity-honeyed, leathery oud with soft smoke and less barnyard funk.

What it is

Natural oil from resinous heartwood of Aquilaria crassna.

Where it comes from

Cambodia and neighbouring Indochina

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Refined, sweeter oud for rose-oud and amber accords in luxury and attar perfumery.

Worth knowing

Oud oil is largely a by-product: the best resinous chips are sold for burning, and lower grades are distilled.

Rules

Limited. Aquilaria in CITES Appendix II; exports require permits.

Also called

Cambodian oud; Aquilaria crassna