Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Oud oil (Hindi / Assam)

Say itOOD oil

Barnyard-animalic, leathery, fermented and smoky wood with deep resinous sweetness.

What it is

Natural oil from resin-infected heartwood of Aquilaria malaccensis.

Where it comes from

Assam (India) and Bangladesh

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Luxury base note giving animalic depth, smoke and resonance to oud, rose and leather compositions.

Worth knowing

Healthy agarwood is pale and nearly odourless; the scent forms only when fungal infection triggers the tree's defensive resin.

Rules

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

Also called

Agarwood; oudh; dehn al oud; Aquilaria malaccensis

Named by the house, not on the label, in 29

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