ZOUSZ Black Oud Eau De Parfum - Luxury Oud Perfume for Men with Black Oud Wood Oil - Oud Fragrance with Sandalwood, Cedarwood & Patchouli Scent 100mL

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It is important to buy high-quality oud products. Some merchants have been found to cheat by adding lead to oud to increase its weight. Inhalation of lead fumes can damage the body. Tim Brown Excellent Value One of the best. Lasts all day. An easy rival to some of the much more expensive ones.Exce The vitamin-enriched makeup of oud oil includes zinc, iron and calcium, as well as essential fatty acids. This is why we have included this vital ingredient in our luxurious men's hydrating facial moisturiser. Oud sourcing has become fraught to keep up with demand. "Due to the very low yield of oud through the traditional extraction process, some have begun to provoke infection on the trees to then cut and extract, and this has all led to these trees becoming scarce," Voelkl explains. He also mentions that it takes at least 25 years for an aquilaria tree to produce harvestable oud. Firmenich works with a family business that manages over 600,000 Aquilaria trees to extract Aquilaria malaccensis using age-old traditional methods. Hundreds of these trees are over 80 years old, while others range from 5 to 50 years old. What about synthetic oud?

Another name is Lignum aloes or Aloeswood, unrelated to the familiar genus, Aloe. Also from aghil, via Hebrew and Greek. [13] For thousands of years, agarwood and its oud have been used for medicinal and therapeutic purposes and it continues to be used in many traditional medicines.The prophet Muhammad himself outlined seven basic medicinal benefits of oud.The composition of agarwood oil is exceedingly complex with more than 150 chemical compounds identified. [7] At least 70 of these are terpenoids which come in the form of sesquiterpenes and chromones; no monoterpenes have been detected at all. Other common classes of compounds include agarofurans, cadinanes, eudesmanes, valencanes and eremophilanes, guaianes, prezizanes, vetispiranes, simple volatile aromatic compounds as well as a range of miscellaneous compounds. [7] The exact balance of these materials will vary depending on the age and species of tree as well as the exact details of the oil extraction process. Morita, Kiyoko (1999). The Book of Incense: Enjoying the Traditional Art of Japanese Scents. Kodansha USA. ISBN 978-4770023896.

Oud oil is usually well-tolerated when burned as incense or in an essential oil, or when applied externally. a b c d Ng, L.T.; Chang Y.S.; Kadir, A.A. (1997). "A review on agar (gaharu) producing Aquilaria species". Journal of Tropical Forest Products. 2 (2): 272–285.There is no oil more suited to the beard wearer than oud. After all, oud has been worn by sultans, pharaohs and kings for millennia. The Roman physician, Dioscorides described the medicinal uses of agarwood in his book Materia Medica (65 CE), a pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants and medicines used to treat human complaints. Other mythologies have suggested that agarwood was the only cutting that Adam was allowed to take from the garden of Eden.

Oud acts as a serum to hydrate dry, frizzy hair. The antiseptic action of oud cleanses pollutants and irritants in the hair and on the scalp. For a slightly more local jaunt, the next time you pass by a Sephora or a department store's fragrance section, be sure to take a whiff of those aforementioned oud fragrances and smell for yourself. Pusey, Edward Bouverie (1885) Daniel the Prophet: Nine Lectures, Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Oxford Funk & Wagnalls, New York, p. 515, OCLC 5577227 Oud has a history as rich and unique as its scent. Reference to oud is made in the Sanskrit, Torah, Gospel and Islamic scriptures. The prophet Muhammed is said to have used oud to incense his clothes and made reference to agarwood’s special place in Paradise. Snelder, Denyse J.; Lasco, Rodel D. (29 September 2008). Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services: Lessons from Asia. シュプリンガー・ジャパン株式会社. p.248 ff. ISBN 978-1-4020-8260-3 . Retrieved 8 October 2010.Aquilaria hirta". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 22 July 2013. So, is there already a synthetic oud fragrance? Yes, and not exactly. "Synthetic oud doesn't really exist per se," Voelkl explains. "But what we do to replicate the smell of natural oud in our fragrances, is create substitutes that are compositions using a combination of other natural [ingredients] and some [synthetic] molecules. I like to use some of these alternatives in my formulas as they are generally 'softer' and less animalic-smelling compared to that of natural oud extract." International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, ISSN 2305-0330, Volume 2, Issue 1: January 2013) It is known as Chénxiāng ( 沉香) in Chinese, Chimhyang ( 침향) in Korean, Jinkō ( 沈香) in Japanese, and trầm hương in Vietnamese; all meaning "deep scent" and alluding to its intense scent. In Japan, there are several grades of Jinkō, the highest of which is known as Kyara (伽羅). [17] [18] In Vietnam, ancient texts also refer to the use of agarwood in relation to travelling Buddhist monks. [19] Panda, H. (1 January 2009). Aromatic Plants Cultivation, Processing And Uses. National Institute of Industrial Re. p.182. ISBN 978-81-7833-057-0 . Retrieved 8 October 2010.

No matter the shape, length or style of beard, beard oil is an essential addition to any man’s daily routine. Oud beard oil combines the skincare benefits of the resin with the enriching scent which will linger all day. The resinous wood is soaked in water then either separated and used in chips for burning or it is distilled to produce oud oil. The oil is then dried in sunlight to evaporate excess moisture. The production of high-quality oud is a revered skill carried out by dedicated artisans following methods passed down through the generations. The aromatic qualities of agarwood are influenced by the species, geographic location, its branch, trunk and root origin, length of time since infection, and methods of harvesting and processing. [3]

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Overharvesting and habitat loss threatens some populations of agarwood-producing species. Concern over the impact of the global demand for agarwood has thus led to the inclusion of the main taxa on CITES Appendix II, which requires that international trade in agarwood be monitored. Monitoring is conducted by Cambridge-based TRAFFIC (a joint WWF and IUCN programme). [40] CITES also provides that international trade in agarwood be subject to controls designed to ensure that harvest and exports are not to the detriment of the survival of the species in the wild. [41] Jung, Dr. Dinah (1 January 2013). The cultural biography of agarwood (PDF). University of Heidelberg: HeiDOK: Journal article: JRAS. pp.103–125 . Retrieved 30 October 2016. External links [ edit ] It's since been fine-tuned to cater to all kinds of perfume tastes that are widening as the world we live in becomes increasingly globally connected and our curiosities, as well as the possibility to indulge them, become more and more within reach. While it's not entirely realistic to travel the whole world smelling all the smells (though is it a personal dream of mine to do so), but perfume has always been a way to travel through time and space, with the free airline in your olfactory receptors. The word ultimately comes from one of the Dravidian languages, [10] [11] probably from Tamil அகில் (agil). [12] Vernacular names [ edit ] Aquilaria tree showing darker agarwood. Poachers had scraped off the bark to allow the tree to become infected by the ascomycetous mould.