Description and usage notes:
From Givaudan: “Odor: Woody, Ambery, Olibanum. Use: Agarwood is a classical material used in perfumery. When this wood is infected by fungi, it develops dark streaks charged with an odouriferous oleoresin. The darkest grade, black or true agar, resembles black stone because of the intense impregnation of oil. This resin is highly valuable due to its rich, complex, powerful, woody-ambery scent. It is however an extremely expensive material that is difficult to find. Black Agar Givco is a new base reflecting the typical odour of the black resin of agarwoood. This complex, powerful formulation with a resinous character brings together olibanum and balsamic/oriental notes.”
See also Oud Synthetic for the Firmenich equivalent, which is longer lasting but less powerful than this one. We also offer two of the new Firmenich Oud bases made using their unique natural oud: Oud Samrat and Oud Maleki.
Ivan (verified owner) –
This is one of the most beautiful materials I’ve tried, besides the Oud Synth from Firmenich. I’m not acquainted with real oudh, (hopefully!) but this one is deep, complex, lush, woody, resinous in a nice way, definitely less smoky than the Firmenich one, slightly fruity and it has some reminiscences to Cashmeran, traces I would say, but it is there… Sheer Beauty.
djprdavies (verified owner) –
Very nice. This could be potentially just diluted down and used as a cologne on it’s own. Is long lasting neat and in my first usage in a blend it was the remaining scent after all the other components had burnt off. I did detect a slight swanky animal aroma neat from the bottle almost faint ammonia, but found this is lessened with the right balance of cedarwood EO. Can highly recommend this aroma chemical blend.