Aquilaria begins as an ordinary tropical hardwood
Pale, light, unremarkable. Left undisturbed it stays that way for its whole life.
Kuala Kangsar, Perak · Est. 2009
Pale, light, unremarkable. Left undisturbed it stays that way for its whole life.
Broken or infected heartwood floods with a dark oleoresin. The pale wood darkens from the inside out.
Depth is measured in years, not months — which is why wild Aquilaria was cut faster than it could regrow.
Graded, soaked and slowly distilled into oud oil: warm, animalic, impossible to synthesise convincingly.
Weeks of soaking. Days of slow heat. A few millilitres of oil from many kilograms of wood. Nothing about oud rewards impatience.
It only counts if the plantation leaves more behind than it takes.
RAL Plantations grows Aquilaria as a long-cycle agricultural crop: propagated on site, inoculated under controlled method, harvested on rotation and immediately replanted.
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