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Agarwood (Oud) Absolute

CAS 94350-09-1  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Resinous woody

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 46%Resinous 23%Smoky 15%Gourmand 8%Animalic 8%
incense 36%oud 34%balsamic 23%honey 8%

What does Agarwood (Oud) Absolute smell like?

Solvent-extracted oud keeping the smoky-woody depth of the distilled oil but with a smoother, sweeter balsamic-honeyed body and far less barnyard bite. Easier to dose and far cheaper per drop than the distilled oil, which makes it the practical oud base for indie work.

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What is Agarwood (Oud) Absolute made of?

An estimate, not a certificate of analysis. PerfuMate sums it when it checks a formula; paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Agarospirol 1460-73-7 7%
Benzylacetone (4-phenyl-2-butanone) 2550-26-7 6%
beta-Eudesmol 473-15-4 4%
p-Cresol 106-44-5 0.2%

What else is Agarwood (Oud) Absolute called?

Oud Absolute  ·  Agarwood absolute  ·  Oudh absolute  ·  Aquilaria absolute  ·  Aloeswood absolute  ·  Agarwood resinoid

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What can replace Agarwood (Oud) Absolute?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • carries Oud woody, Balsamic resinous, Incense smoky, Resinous woody. Benzoin resinous; Honey gourmand; the same oil in another grade (same CAS)
    86%
  • carries Oud woody, Balsamic resinous, Incense smoky, Resinous woody. Benzoin resinous; Honey gourmand; Agarwood CO2 extract brings the Oud woody side (80%); Propolis Absolute brings the Balsamic resinous side (20%)
    90%
  • carries Oud woody, Balsamic resinous, Incense smoky, Resinous woody. Benzoin resinous; Honey gourmand; Agarwood CO2 extract brings the Oud woody side (79%); Poplar Bud Absolute brings the Balsamic resinous side (21%)
    88%
  • carries Oud woody, Balsamic resinous, Incense smoky, Resinous woody. Benzoin resinous; Honey gourmand; Agarwood CO2 extract brings the Oud woody side (82%); Benzyl cinnamate brings the Balsamic resinous side (18%)
    87%
  • carries Oud woody, Balsamic resinous, Incense smoky, Resinous woody. Benzoin resinous; Honey gourmand; Agarwood CO2 extract brings the Oud woody side (73%); Arabian Oud (F-TEC) brings the Oud woody side (27%)
    86%

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Which materials are closest to Agarwood (Oud) Absolute?

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Agarwood (Oud) Absolute

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
4 molecules

All 2,211 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
2125
Classified into an olfactive family
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
9,899 across 229 pairs
A top / heart / base band
2,157
Hours on a blotter
898
CAS number
1,642
Supplier synonyms
5,888 names
Constituent breakdowns
739

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 569 materials carrying no CAS number the 244 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.