The market for Oud & incense runs from body mist to otto extrait.
Chanel, Guerlain and niche counters share a family and disagree on dose.
Houses
- Yves Saint Laurent — M7.
- Tom Ford — Oud Wood and later ouds.
- Amouage — Omani incense house.
- Montale — Aoud industrializer.
- Frédéric Malle — The Night.
- Gulf family houses — Oil and bakhoor, often unnamed in the West.
Price bands
- Candy-oud flanker — The word only.
- Boutique polished oud — Ford-weight EDP.
- Paris-Gulf extrait — Montale/Amouage territory.
- Kyara / wild oil — Collector pricing; fraud risk.
Trends
- Plantation agar — Inoculated Aquilaria.
- Rose-oud luxury code — Still a brief default.
- Kōdō crossover — Japanese grades in niche copy.
- Anti-oud fatigue — Mineral woods as refusal.
Stats
- Infection required — Healthy Aquilaria is near-odorless as luxury wood.
- Sillage — Highest family in this atlas when real or well-accorded.
- Approachability — Lowest — by animal, smoke and cultural load.
- Fraud — The most impersonated material among the 24.
Price is not quality; it is harvest, IFRA and a story about Oud & incense.
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