- Oud Info - What is Ou
Psychoactive is one way to describe it. Mind-blowing is another.
A perfumer's guilty pleasure,, oud oil, also known as agarwood essential oil, is without a doubt the most refined olfactory merchandise available anywhere.
The distillation of oud oil has become an art form in its own right. Bursting with a rich and enchanting aroma, aficionados study classic oud samples as they would the Mona Lisa.
These days, a new fad has taken root among designer perfume lines – Dior, Tom Ford, Yves Saint Laurent, Estee Lauder, to name a few – who have started to incorporate agarwood scents into their mainstream products.
However, producing high-end oud today is a thing of the past. We no longer have access to the grade of agarwood previously used in its production. That, and you could never supply such a precious material to the mass-market without manipulating the process by introducing chemical additives of all sorts. Consequently, the market for essential oud oil has become tainted by the spread of such synthetic products being sold as 'agarwood/oud oil', while in fact they hardly qualify.
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