Entering The World of Oud
Purchasing your first oud oil can be a difficult decision with so many oils from so many places to choose from. If you're not familiar with oud already we recommend the 3 minute guide to oud here.
Whether you're a new collector of oud oil or an established collector of fine fragrance, watches, art amongst other precious collectibles, we've designed this page as a introduction to this precious fragrance known and revered as oud.
Why is Oud So Special?
Oud as a fragrance has been revered for millennia by many cultures, it is known for its rarity and its unique, complex and beautiful aroma. Oud is extracted from agarwood trees and produces scent profiles with notes such as fruits, spices, honey, tea, flowers and much more.
A tradition of both the Arabs and Chinese, oud has since become a staple ingredient of Western perfumes, owing to its wonderful aroma and characteristics.
It is used traditionally as perfume oil applied to the skin, in sprays such as Western perfumes or as incense sticks and the like.
Sadly most oud used in mainstream perfumes and oils around us, is in fact diluted or synthetic.
We focus on pure natural oud oil, meticulously curating and distilling the greatest scents and focusing on quality, story and scent profile above all else. Our fragrances are simply a unique experience altogether.
Understanding Our Oud
If you're new to oud or an experience collector, we'd like to introduce our brand and story.
Our story originates from a time when artisanal oud was rare and secretive, a time when we were surrounded low quality and diluted oud oil. We set out on a journey to source the best oud possible, so that we could collect and share the pinnacle of true oud with the world.
Our oils are hand selected and curated for their rarity, scent and story. These are scents that are meticulously crafted and many of which come from the vault of legends of this tradition.
These are not oils which anyone can simply acquire, when you buy one of our oils, you're receiving a piece of oud history, a work of art revered and envied by countless collectors across the world.
Selecting an Oud Oil
This can be a daunting and complex decision, but fear not, we're here to make that decision easy.
The first thing is to consider what you seek in your fragrances. Are you looking for something raw, woody and powerful?
Or do you prefer something more subtle, sweeter and on the more floral side?
We list a series of notes for each oil describing the profile according to our noses, it's important to try oils to get a better understanding of the nuances in each scent profile.
Every oud is unique in its scent profile, and while we try our best to describe each oil's profile, every oil evokes something different to every user.
Understanding Price Point
Oud is costly, there's no doubt about that and although our oils can seem very expensive it's important to consider the value we deliver.
Our oud oil is pure and hand selected for its quality, we select from only a handful of master distillers and veteran collectors, ensuring you receive some of the greatest oud oil known.
Many niche fragrances and perfume oils on the market cost several hundred dollars a bottle, for fragrance that is often diluted and contains very little in the way of oud oil and natural essential oils.
Our oud oils are pure and can be enjoyed with just a drop, allowing you to make a small bottle last for a very long time!
Purchasing
Its important to consider one's budget and intention when purchasing oud.
For everyday use we typically recommend our standard oud fragrances, these are pure oils that are curated for their high quality as well as affordability, allowing you to use a nice helping each day.
For special occasions and for the connoisseurs and aficionados we recommend the zenith collection oils.
These are the greatest oils we have collected, curated purely for their scent, rarity and unique origin. These are a class of their own and distinguished in their own right, for they are indeed the pinnacle of artisanal oud.
Zenith Collection - Our Greatest Oils
Fragrant Harbour Vintage Oud Oil
from $100.00
Tigerwood Terengganu - Oud Oil
from $80.00
Silani Sultan
from $65.00
The Amiri Collection - Oudh Oil
$285.00
Nha Trang Oud Oil
from $100.00
White Kinam (Kyara)
from $180.00