Blog / Farmed Oud
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3 things that set Wild Oud apart Mar 29, 2013
To us, the novice scent lover in the Oud OlFactory journey must be educated in the difference between the two types of Oud before committing to a purchase. Of couse there is no holding back if there is a preference for farmed Oud. Though we think, if the experience of traditional fumigation using raw wild Oud is presented to them, they will trash their cultivated farmed Oud collection and will not look back.
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Cultivated Agarwood Inducing Method Mar 26, 2013
The method that farmers employ, to induce the farmed tree are varying. From drilling chemical liquid inducer injections to bamboo sticks, they are intended to penetrate deeply into the heart of the tree in order to cause hurt and stress to it. Ironically today, some Oud sellers are ardently boasting of their chemical and synthetic free organic Ouds but their source of agarwood are these very same farms who use chemicals to produce the resinous heartwood.
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