Indonesia 2019 – Oud Situation
Learn more about the current state of affairs, pertaining to oud (agarwood) in the numerous islands of Indonesia.
Extinction, CITES, current market norms, we cover it all!
Learn more about the current state of affairs, pertaining to oud (agarwood) in the numerous islands of Indonesia.
Extinction, CITES, current market norms, we cover it all!
Agar Aura’s Byakudan No. 1 is our first ever hands-on non-oud distillation.
Although it was meant to be part of the private ‘Syed Series‘ collection of oils which I distill for myself and only share with a very small number of people due to the insane costs and limited availablity of certain batches of raw materials, in the case of Byakudan No. 1 the cost-per-gram turned out to be close enough to being ‘sane’ so I decided to share it with a larger circle of lovers of high grade artisanal oils.
Many thanks (and congratulations) to everyone who got a bottle of our now sold-out Borneo Noir. We have never sold out of 5 tolas of oud as quickly as Borneo Noir!
Borneo Noir having been a successful experiment at creating an oil using shavings collected from carving sinking-grade (highest grade) agarwood, I told the distiller right away that I wanted him to craft another oil like it, but with a few modifications.