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Agarwood Essential Oil – Oud Oil export to uae,kuwaith ,soudhi arabia,japan,china,honkong,qator,sudan,oman

Oud Oil is one of the best-known and best-loved fragrance ingredients among consumers across the globe. Its rich scent and exotic associations have made it synonymous with oriental fragrances for centuries. But how many of us can say we are familiar with the process involved in obtaining oud, or how best to use it in fragrance creation?

Oud is one of the most expensive raw materials used in modern perfumery, top grade Oud Oil  can cost over $50,000 per kilo. The current global market for agarwood is estimated to be worth over $12 billion and is growing rapidly.

The main reason why it is so expensive is its scarcity. Not only has the International Union for Conservation of Nature and CITES classified the Aquilaria tree species as critically endangered (its population has declined by more than 80% over the past 150 years), estimates also suggest that agarwood production occurs naturally to only 7% of the trees.

When the trees are healthy, agarwood has a light or pale color but when it is infected by disease, the process of infection creates a response to the attack resulting in a very dark and incredibly aromatic resin known as oleoresin. It is this rich dark resin which is so highly prized and from which agarwood essential oil is extracted.

In the wild, the production of this resin can take many years and like a good wine, the older the resin-the more prized it becomes. Because of its huge cost and extreme rarity in the wild, the trees are now cultivated and the resin is actually created by artificial infection and its essential oil extracted by water distillation.

There are many grades of Agarwood oil. The quality of grade is dependent on the grade of wood used and the length of distillation. Typically, the longer the distillation time the higher the grade.

It costs hundreds for 5ml and oud oil is typically sold by weight. Because of its rarity and mythic status in almost all of the worlds religions–it is extremely expensive. The scent is particularly sought after. It is believed to be the most powerful natural aphrodisiac.

Most Agarwood oud oil is purchased and consumed primarily by France, Saudi Arabia and Japan. There are no truly similar species or known sythetics that come close to the real scent. The fungal infection that helps create the resin makes its extract very unique.

Adulteration can and does happen on many levels. On the raw materials level–trees either uninfected or a lower grade of wood. Often it can even be a different but similar species of tree. Even among infected trees the method of infection (natural or stimulated) can have an effect on the compounds in the wood.

On the distillation level–the distiller can include the hydrosol with the essential oil or lie about the length of distillation.

On the distribution level–the oil is cut with other oils or synthetic chemicals are added to attempt to replicate the scent.

Agarwood Extinction

Resin-producing agarwood trees are endangered throughout their known habitat all across Southeast Asia. The main driving force, which initiated this project, was the recognition of unsustainable Aquilaria harvesting in natural forests that resulted in the near extinction of this tree genus in Thailand, Vietnam and elsewhere. Aquilaria crassna is now a protected species in Vietnam. Trade and harvesting restrictions will be virtually impossible to implement and enforce if no alternative is developed to forest-based harvesting. In addition, both in the short and long-term, a natural resource base needs to be maintained to supply present and future Aquilaria plantations with genetic source material in order to prevent plant decease, maintain diversity, and possibly improve resin production.

Agarwood Substitutes

Development of synthetic agarwood substitutes usually arises when sustainable supplies of the natural product are not available. One of the first questions pursued when contemplating the pilot project was, “Is it possible to synthesize agarwood and agarwood oil?” The answer is a qualified no. Agarwood cannot be synthesized. Chemical substitutes are already available for perfume; these are cheap and constitute the least profitable end of the market. In addition, these products do not come close in emulating the natural product and thus do not pose a threat to producing non-synthetic agarwood products. The major chemical components responsible for the characteristic scent of agarwood products, 15-carbon chain compounds called sesquiterterpenes, can in principle be synthesized. However, these are very complicated structures that are extremely expensive to synthesize, which makes it commercially unattractive.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT AGARWOOD

• Religious texts were written on bark from agar trees and Srimanta Sankardev referred to agarwood as one of the divine trees with the ability to fulfill human desire.
• Burning Agarwood was called the ‘scent of Nirvana’ by The Lord Buddha.
• It is extensively mentioned in the Sanskrit Vedas as a favorite of Lord Krishna.
• Agarwood has played an important role in many religious traditions all over the world. It has been revered for millennia for its fragrance in religious ceremony and its incense burned at the burial of Jesus Christ.
• King Louis XIV had his clothing washed in water scented with agarwood.
• Agarwood smoke was used to scent the armor of Samurai warriors before heading into battle.
• In Genesis, agarwood is mentioned as the only tree from which Adam and Eve could take cuttings.
• Although it is not that well known in the West, agarwood has a rich history of medicinal use in many cultures. It has been used for centuries by physicians in Tibet, India, China and the Arab world to treat a range of physical and mental conditions.
• The Prophet Mohammed used Agarwood to perform fumigation rituals, a practice which is continued today by Orthodox. 沉香精油(Agarwood Oil)是一種從一種Aquillaria Agollocha(沉香樹)樹中提取的珍貴精油。 它已在傳統醫學中使用了幾個世紀，並用作香水，香氣和其他香水的組成部分。 沉香精油具有許多治療特性，包括抗炎，預耐，抗染料，防腐和鎮靜作用。 它可用於治療多種呼吸系統疾病，例如咳嗽，哮喘和支氣管炎。 沉香油可安神，具有抗抑鬱、抗真菌性質。 此外，它用於芳香療法來降低壓力和焦慮水平。 沉香精油具有多種用途，包括芳香療法，香水和藥用應用。 在芳香療法中，可用於減輕壓力，焦慮和抑鬱症以及促進內在的和平與平衡。 在香水中，沉香精油具有獨特的氣味，受到許多用家的追捧。 就藥用應用而言，可用於治療痤瘡，皮膚刺激和其他皮膚問題，以及呼吸系統疾病，肝臟和腎臟問題以及神經系統疾病。並可用於各種產品，例如天然香，按摩油，香水，浴室和身體產品以及水療護理。

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