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Ingredient profile · Woody

Oud / Agarwood

Resinous wood, animalic, leathery and variably smoky.

Illustrative scent-inspiration study of oud / agarwood

Introduces an intense resinous-wood direction that can connect leather, florals and amber. Natural oud is a category of variable materials, not one standard smell.

Botanical reference
Aquilaria species; A. crassna in the cited material
Plant part
Resinous wood
Olfactory family
Woody
Materials & processing
Distillation for oils; CO₂ extraction for some grades

Understanding the material

Biolandes documents both distilled and CO₂ agarwood products from Aquilaria crassna. The fragrant wood forms as the tree produces resin in response to damage or infection. Species, source and processing influence the supplied material. A perfume marketed as oud may instead use a constructed accord, so its name cannot establish natural agarwood content or traceability.

A smelling observation

Compare an oud-described fragrance with a dry woody perfume. Separate resin, leather and smoke associations: the material need not foreground all three.

Explore the relationships

Continue with Labdanum, Sandalwood, Guaiacwood. These connections are comparisons for studying finished fragrances, rather than mixing instructions.

Technical references

Supplier references describe their specific materials. The botanical image is illustrative and does not certify species, provenance, grade or ingredients in a finished perfume.