Oud essential oil is extracted from aquilaria trees, a species of evergreens native to Southeast Asia and North India. The ...

You then strip and distill the infected wood after it has fallen and that becomes the oud oil. “I like to compare it to when a very small [particle] gets inside an oyster, which has a very ...

Oud, otherwise referred to as agarwood or “wood of Gods,” is a precious essential oil that is extracted from the rainforest-native Aquilaria tree. Only when the Aquilaria tree has been ...

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The resin is then extracted through distillation to create oud oil, a substance so valuable it’s often called ‘liquid gold’. These scents can vary tremendously, from woody and sweet ...

Not only is it the most expensive perfume ingredient in the world (and at $3000 for a single ml of pure oud oil, it’s no surprise that some oud perfumes can cost more than your rent), but it's ...

Cut out of the tree and processed through soaking, distillation and evaporation, it becomes the sought-after oud oil. The discovery of oud is steeped in folklore, with stories of ancient traders ...