"If I can turn this oil into a human, I would describe him/her as a faithful person whose heart remains unchanged no matter what happened in his/her life. He/she is simple but bold" - Trent. 

So what is in it for me?

If you like decomposed, fecal, rotten notes, this oud oil is NOT for you. If you loathe it, please read on.

If you heard of oud before and had a wrong impression, or experienced the below

• Oud is fecal, dirty, unpleasant burning plastic.
• Pungent,thick, manure, barnyard
• poop, "diarrhea."
• Dead rat

Naturally, you would be scared, and you would be sceptical and lost your faith in the Wood Of God. You even asked yourself why on earth does oud have that name? Why God used it? Not a single note that you enjoy. You thought about the reasons you do not appreciate oud,  "could it be because I am a human and this oil is for God so I don't know how to appreciate it?"

To you, it is disgusting, "yuck"! Not a chance you will try it again.

This is not your fault, because the market is riddled with inferior stuff. It is not an easy task to get it right the first time. You probably have heard of: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. You are on the fence all the time until now.

Believe me when I say that, I was once in your shoes. I bought stuff on the street, in the local market, online. Some are good, and some are not even Oud or oud blended with unknown substances. So, just let you know you are not the only one who got burnt. We all have been burnt. 

You can solve this issue in 2 ways: 

1) You keep trying or researching until you found the right vendors who got what you want. However, each vendor has their products. It takes so much time and financially, it is not viable.

2) Or since you are on this page, you can get this particular oud because if you love dried herbs, sweet vanillic oudy woody, you would "marry" this oil and make his/her become part of your life.

Unpleasant scents (such as fecal notes) send pain signals to our brain to warn us of the possible danger. You would feel uneasy, and unsettled if you inhale any fecal, manure, dirty smells. My question to you is "why would you like to smell it?" Life is too short, smell something right, and you will feel good.  Do yourself a favour: take this oil and change your perception about Oud. You will love it just like God does.

"What so special about this oil?" - A farm inside a farm.

A customer, named Sean, asked me this question, so I thought I would address here since many people may have the same thought in mind.

-The material used: agarwood. I paused

-Thank you for telling me something I already know, Trent. Smiled Sean

-I have not finished Sean yet. The special is how it was created — a farm inside a farm.

Sean looked puzzled. I explained

- You look around here; there are many Aquilaria trees inside this plantation. So this is an agarwood farm. Agree?

Sean nodded. I asked a farmer to chop a piece of wood in half vertically. Inside there are many ants.

- In this tree, there are many ants inside as you can see. They are farming fungi which provide food for them. These fungi "stimulate" the defence system to Aquilaria trees because they signal as an attack. This tree then creates "agarwood" to defence and heal themselves. So...

Agarwood created by ants

Sean's eyes were wide open. I continue

- We farm the trees. Ants farm the fungi inside the tree. Isn't it "a farm inside a farm"? I smiled

Sean smiled and asked.

- So you don't use any pesticides to protect the trees? 

I replied

- If we do have pesticides, there will be no ants, hence no agarwood. We are grateful to them, the true agarwood farmer. I don't know if we could call this is organic oud, but the whole thing was a natural process.

See these tiny holes? The ants created these. To heal itself, the Aquilaria trees formed "agarwood" around the wound. Isn't it fascinating?

Which options should I choose?

There are two variants of this oil:

• Double Happiness: you would be joyful to smell this oil
• Triple Happiness: you would be joyful AND at the same time, delighted, enlighted, and feel blessed when you smell this oil

Warning: This is NOT essential oil but Supercritical Fluid Carbon dioxide (CO₂) Extraction oil

Essential Oil: oil distilled using water or steam distillation

Supercritical Fluid Carbon dioxide (CO₂): Liquid CO₂ is colourless and odourless, acts as a harmless solvent to "extract" the resin from the pulverised agarwood. 

In this extraction method, the volatile compounds are not as many as "water/steam distillation"; however, the oleoresin content is much higher. You will find oils using this method, especially oud oil, to be monotone (in the right way). The scent remains unchanged for an extended period in terms of pleasant floral, sweet woody, herbaceous, and medicinal profile.

Co2 extract pulls out the long carbon chain which is denser than the water making this oud oil sunk. It means that you got more oil per ml for this method compared to the traditional water/steam distillation. To sum it up, for water/steam distillation 1ml of oud oil is around 0.9g on average. With Co2 extract, 1ml of oud oil will have around 1.02g of oud oil.

This is a CO2 Supercritical Extract Oud Oil; the temperature is around 31 Celcius degree during extraction. It contains less highly volatile molecule and more non-volatile one compared to the hydrodistillation method; initially, it seems very dull at first. Still, if you take a dab and leave it exposed to the air, let the oxygen does the work and you will notice the scent development and enjoy the experience.