THE COMMON OUD OIL OR AGARWOOD OIL ADULTERANT THAT I FOUND IN OUD OIL OR AGARWOOD OIL ARE RANGED FROM NATURAL DERIVED ADULTERANT AND AROMACHEMICAL ADULTERANT, THERE ARE ALSO SOLVENT ADULTERANT AND SOME OF THICKENING AGENT. “
THE COMMON OUD OIL OR AGARWOOD OIL ADULTERANT THAT I FOUND IN OUD OIL OR AGARWOOD OIL ARE RANGED FROM NATURAL DERIVED ADULTERANT AND AROMACHEMICAL ADULTERANT, THERE ARE ALSO SOLVENT ADULTERANT AND SOME OF THICKENING AGENT. “
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Now we would like to discuss adulteration in agarwood oil or oud oil. Since 2013 I’ve done GC MS testing to my own oil also to friend’s and client’s oil.
Altough I am not a chemist, with the help of a chemist friend I am able to read the MS result of the GC.
This article is a sum of my experience as a distiller working with the most priced essential oil in the world ” Oud Oil” or “agarwood oil”, the experience that I collect maybe has different with other distiller as well. And may not be a real scientific standard do that I am not a trained chemist.
The common adulterant that I found in oud are ranged from natural derived adulterant and aromachemical adulterant, there are also solvent adulterant us stand some of thickening agent.
Let us started with the most trickiest adulterant the natural oud oil or agarwood oil adulterant.
Altough I am not a chemist, with the help of a chemist friend I am able to read the MS result of the GC.
This article is a sum of my experience as a distiller working with the most priced essential oil in the world ” Oud Oil” or “agarwood oil”, the experience that I collect maybe has different with other distiller as well. And may not be a real scientific standard do that I am not a trained chemist.
The common adulterant that I found in oud are ranged from natural derived adulterant and aromachemical adulterant, there are also solvent adulterant us stand some of thickening agent.
Let us started with the most trickiest adulterant the natural oud oil or agarwood oil adulterant.
How is it tricky ? Because some of these natural oud oil or agarwood oil adulterant are having the same component like oud. Take example “gaharu buaya” Aetoxylon Sympetalum, aetoxylon Sympetalum oil has resemblance in chemical wise to real oud oil or agarwood oil up to 80%!
Yet the pricing for these 2 oils are like heaven to earth. That is why it is common to mix the real oud oil with this oil, mostly to deal with guys who is “cheaper brother!” type and or simply as mean a pure way to do dirty deals.
Another natural adulterant is Balsam Gurjum or ” Minyak Keruing” due the aroma of this Gurjum Balsam will add the woodyness of the targeted hinkcoil in which being craze and misleadingly attach to oud. Woody to oud is an aspect but not too dominant.
Vetiver is also a common adulterant in agarwood business, being woody and vanillic this oil is perfect weigthening agent. Usually to mask burnt smoky oil that gone too far. Patchouli is also next victim. Next is Adau which native to Kalimantan, I heard that the oil is actually odorless. Last but not least for natural adulterant is cooking oil, such as Crude Palm Oil and Coconut Oil.
Now after discussing the first natural adulterant, we are now stepping ourselves into the synthetic adulterant. Aroma chemical such as Galaxolide, Ambrox, Ambrette are what I found in the “cambodi oil” article. What about solvent adulterant ? Well this is the most favourite of bunch, such as DOP ( di octyl phtalate), Di propyl gylcol, Solvanol, Isopropyl Myristate and on the oil I also found residue of what use to a petroleum vaseline! mixed into oud oil possible charge is as thickening agent.
So if you buy oud thick are thin is not a sign of quality. To be honest any cheater can make oud as thick as possible with physical process or chemical agent. Plus a super strong oud may not be an oud at all…!
Thank you attention and have a pleasant day!
Yet the pricing for these 2 oils are like heaven to earth. That is why it is common to mix the real oud oil with this oil, mostly to deal with guys who is “cheaper brother!” type and or simply as mean a pure way to do dirty deals.
Another natural adulterant is Balsam Gurjum or ” Minyak Keruing” due the aroma of this Gurjum Balsam will add the woodyness of the targeted hinkcoil in which being craze and misleadingly attach to oud. Woody to oud is an aspect but not too dominant.
Vetiver is also a common adulterant in agarwood business, being woody and vanillic this oil is perfect weigthening agent. Usually to mask burnt smoky oil that gone too far. Patchouli is also next victim. Next is Adau which native to Kalimantan, I heard that the oil is actually odorless. Last but not least for natural adulterant is cooking oil, such as Crude Palm Oil and Coconut Oil.
Now after discussing the first natural adulterant, we are now stepping ourselves into the synthetic adulterant. Aroma chemical such as Galaxolide, Ambrox, Ambrette are what I found in the “cambodi oil” article. What about solvent adulterant ? Well this is the most favourite of bunch, such as DOP ( di octyl phtalate), Di propyl gylcol, Solvanol, Isopropyl Myristate and on the oil I also found residue of what use to a petroleum vaseline! mixed into oud oil possible charge is as thickening agent.
So if you buy oud thick are thin is not a sign of quality. To be honest any cheater can make oud as thick as possible with physical process or chemical agent. Plus a super strong oud may not be an oud at all…!
Thank you attention and have a pleasant day!
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