An accord is a geometry. Oud & incense is rose, jasmine, sandalwood, oud, vetiver, musk or amber stacked on purpose.
Naturals and molecules share the same pyramid; IFRA draws some of the lines.
Accords
- Barnyard Hindi — Animalic Assam-type oil.
- Clean woody oud — Oud Wood polish.
- Rose-oud — Taif + agar; Gulf-Paris hybrid.
- Bakhoor smoke — Sugar, rose, chips on coal.
- Church incense — Frankincense-myrrh without agar.
Materials
- Agarwood oil — Infected Aquilaria / Gyrinops heartwood.
- Oud chips — Burned, not always distilled.
- Frankincense — Boswellia; church and Gulf.
- Myrrh — Commiphora; bitter resin.
- Labdanum — Cistus; amber-incense bridge.
- Saffron / rose — The usual Western oud dressing.
Smell the materials before you trust a note list on a box of Oud & incense.
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