Product Description
This price is inclusive of registered shipping delivery between 9 to 15 working days but subjected to your local custom clearance. This is a 1cc of Aged pure Aloeswood oil from the wild of Kalimantan. This oil was kept over time from 1981 and the oild is very dark and medium thick with smooth scents that lasted. This oil is so strong that you can dilute it with base oil like sandalwood of your own. This is the best from Kalimantan.
Aloeswood oil is known for bringing relaxation of the mind, warm the heart & calm the mind, it is a truly uplifting experience and open an avenue of peace and contentment. Aloeswood is very rare and pure quality like ours are even difficult to obtain.
Agarwood is the resinous heartwood from Aquilaria trees, large evergreens native to southeast Asia. The trees occasionally become infected with a parasite mould and begin to produce an aromatic resin in response to this attack. As the fungus grows, the tree produces a very rich, dark resin within the heartwood. It is this precious resinous wood that is treasured around the world. The resin is commonly called Jinko, Aloeswood, Agarwood or Oud and is valued in many cultures for its distinctive fragrance, thus it is used for incense and perfumes.
One of the reasons for the relatively rarity and high cost of agarwood is the depletion of the wild resource.[1] The odour of agarwood is complex and pleasing, with few or no similar natural analogues. As a result, agarwood and its essential oil gained great cultural and religious significance in ancient civilizations around the world.
Agarwood is known under many names in different cultures:
- It is known as Chén-x?ang (??) in Chinese and Jin-koh (??) in Japanese, both meaning "Sinking Incense" and alluding to its high density.
- Both agarwood and its resin distillate/extracts are known as Oud in Arabic (literally wood) and used to describe agarwood in nations and areas of Islamic faith. Western perfumers may also use agarwood essential oil under the name "oud" or "oude".
- In Europe it was referred to as Lignum aquila (eagle-wood) or Agilawood, presumably because of its appearance.
- Another name is Lignum aloes or Aloeswood. This is potentially confusing, since a genus Aloe exists (unrelated), which has medicinal uses, . However, the Aloes of the Old Testament (Num. 24:6; Ps. 45:8; Prov. 7:17; and Cant. 4:14) and of the Hebrew Bible (ahalim in Hebrew) are believed to be agarwood from Aquilaria malaccensis.
- The Indonesian name is "gaharu".
- In Vietnamese, it is known as tr?m h??ng.[4]
- In Hindi,(India) it is known as "agar".
- In Laos it is known as "Mai Ketsana".
Formation of agarwood occurs in the trunk and roots of trees that have been infected by a parasitc ascomycetous mould, Phialophora parasitica, a dematiaceous (dark-walled) fungus. As a response, the tree produces a resin high in volatile organic compounds that aids in suppressing or retarding fungal growth. While the unaffected wood of the tree is relatively light in colour, the resin dramatically increases the mass and density of the affected wood, changing its colour from a pale beige to dark brown or black. In natural forest only 7 % of the trees are infected by the fungus. A common method in artificial forestry is to innoculate all the trees with the fungus.
High quality resin comes from a tree's natural immune response to a fungal attack. It is commonly known as agarwood #1 (first quality). An inferior resin is created using a forced method where aquilaria trees are deliberately wounded, leaving them more susceptible to a fungal attack. This is commonly called agarwood #2.
(Sources: wikipedia)
The price is inclusive of a 9 to 12 days delivery of standard air mail to anywhere in the world.
On Feb-05-08 at 18:26:33 PST, seller added the following information:
Aloeswood is known for bringing relaxation to the mind, warm the heart & calm the mind, it is a truly uplifting experience and open an avenue of peace and contentment. In early years, many noble women & men use Aloeswood oil and burn aloeswood chips to fragrance their clothes, rooms, house prior to attending important meeting, party, weedings, etc to stay attractive and having beautiful scents. And also acts as an APHRODISIAC.