Hi back again with agarwoodindonesia.
This web had survive from a cracker attack few weeks back, he changed my password and my username email also the template of this web. But Alhamdulillah with help of a friend I get it back and make some security patch here and there.
Ok… after so many months that I never write again, now I will write again. This time about cheaters. In business it this common that we found an anti social behaviour that willing to do anything for his or hers profit and margin. This is also happened in agarwood business.
Now we shall talk about wood first because wood for many people is the key of interest. How do they cheat wood ?
1. Talking big and boasting about the wood grade that is actually they don’t know about it ( this happened to unprofesional sellers)
2. Spraying with water or salt water to gain more weight,( I suggest you to buy wood in dry condition since if it’s dry you will know it’s real character)
3. Putting on dirt, glue, wires, iron rod inside the wood that is hollow so the wood gain more weight and density
4. Spray the wood with sewing machine oil so the woods will look shiny like plastic ( woods can be shiny if the resin content inside it is high but not all necessary like that only the high grade will have such) from it looks you will know how. They tend to be pale and had greasy smell.
5. Selling you BMW or gaharu buaya and saying it was real.
And as for the oil :
Oil is quite difficult to the untrained nose since it do need specific experience with lots and lots of oil. But these cheating techniques is common to be use elsewhere.
1. Selling gaharu buaya oil and claimed it was real
2. Mixing the oil with other essential oil such as vetiver oil to gain more weight
3. Mixing the oil with fragrance oil
But wait cheaters not always attack buyers, we distillers are also being object of scam too. So sometimes we can hit by them hard….
like my friend whom distilled ginger. He ordered 1 tonnes of ginger and only 700 Kg of it are gingers others is trash and trash. This also happened to agarwood. Sometimes the one who sell the wood doesn’t understand the grade for the oil distillation since grading between wood that sell as incense is quite different with grading for oil distillation, incense grade are not suitable for distillation…since the wood will contain more resin and lesser oil rather than distillation grade wood. And it will be a waste of money. So don’t worry of getting cheated as long as you are becareful you will find the best quality goods that suits you. Have a nice day and thanks for reading.
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Hellooo Helloo back again with agarwoodindonesia. It’s almost a year that I never writte anything here, don’t think I didn’t wanted to write anything here but I am busy learning my self about distillation, it’s being a bad times for me and Iam learning the hard way. Yet I want to share something with you people.
Do you ever come accross with some dreadfuly rubbery smell? or harsh nauseatic smell from oud?
That my fellow readers called as “still smell”. What cause it anyway? why this monstrous note ever end up on my Oud oil? that would be your next question.
The answer is “still smell” or “pot smell” is caused by water than runs out in the charge ( material) still. So the oud get that burnt smell . This is in the case on water distillation or hydro distillation and water and steam distillation. Still smell also happened in steam distillation this is because the operator may charge the material inside the pot with super heated steam constantly. What is super heated steam? In the world of distiller there are 2 kinds of steam. The first is known as “wet steam” this is the steam that we know everyday from our daily activity such us boiling water in a pot. This type of steam is never beyond 100 C it has low pressure and this kind of steam use in water and steam distillation. The second type of steam is super heated steam also known as “dry steam”, this steam is generated from a boiler oil which boil water above it’s boiling point so it has very strong pressure and heat since usually this type of steam is over 100 Degree Celcius. If this type of steam constantly applied to plants material eventually it will dried up the plant and make it burn if no strict control were apllied. GÜnther in his book Essential oil volume I page 149 mention us about it. On the contray water and steam distillation and water or hydro distillation use wet steam with low pressure yet there is a risk when the water runs out it will eventually burn the plant material inside. So this is why you get that monstrous nauseatic smell.
There is common problem among us distiller quality VS Quantity for those who doesn’t aware of distilling essential oil they must be demanding quality over quantity. Since they pay much. But most distiller see quantity over quality is better because they think this is a rare product no one will ever complain.
I jumped distilling not a long ago, I learned the hard way 6 month of agony and pain also insult. Truly distilling is like cooking at first it was hard and difficult once you know the best recipe and the way to optimize your device and you will win the a good prize.
I heard and read a claim about oud can be vary in color. This person claimed that Oud oil can be greenish or purple because of distillation process.
If you ask me can oud oil be varied in color?
The answer is yes. But green or purple is not it’s natural color. Since the color of oil depend on composition of chemical compound inside the oil Since oil is liquid state of oud resin. So it’s impossible that the oil will have different color with the resin when you distill them. It can be greenish or reddish but not dominant color. Pitch black is the natural color of oud oil or golden or brownish not purple or green (please read about this in agarwood grading article). Since this coloring process is also depend on micro climate inside the wood when infection taken part also what fungi and bacteria that taken part of this infection.
But making your Oud green isn’t as hard as you may think.
You just need a copper brass canister and oud oil.
Very simple and easy task, put the oil inside the copper brass, let it contact with the air for few months or even years (you may close it with a shred of fabric). And the reaction between the oil and the copper brass canister give you green oud oil. As simple as that.
But purple?
I’ve asked a professor that researching agarwood or oud since 1989. And when I asked him about this matter. He said it’s not possible that oud oil can be purple. Too bad he doesn’t want to be known by public. Only to specific persons that had serious interest in agarwood. I must seek his permission first if I want to publish his name on the web. Since I don’t have it now maybe I will share his name and contact with you dear readers in the future.
There are many myth regarding oud including this one.
The simplest way to make oud colored is put some coloring agent in it.
The easiest way to detect this to give it a test lab using GC-MS test. With counter test between you and the trader. That’s all I can say.
If any of you beloved readers had any objection in this article I would be glad to take any critics.
Thank you for reading.
Oud or gaharu in Indonesia had 17 kinds of species. But people especially traders in Indonesia divide these 17 kinds into 2 major class. The Gaharu so called “real ” oud and Gaharu Buaya so called “2nd grade” oud.
What’s the different between these two anyway?
Well First, let me introduce you to Gaharu or so called as “real” oud.
“Real ” oud are mostly come from Aquilaria Family. These includes The most highly priced now Aquilaria Crassna also known as Cambodi Oud. Aquilaria Malacensis, Aquilaria Beccariana, Aquilaria Fillaria (the Papuan Oud) and so on. These Aquilaria families were highly priced because of there high quality. Defining what is high and and not in oud business is difficult. Since many people strictly depend on their noses and experience. And nose those that aren’t trained enough can be easily to be fooled.
The reason aquilaria class is considered high grade is the highly eudesmol content inside the oil. They say the higher the eudesmol the higher the quality of an oud oil. But to me me this is still vague. What is behind the mystery of these Aquilaria are higly priced?
Some said the middle eastern people seek for oil that will dooze them up with full relaxation after they inhale the vapor. Simply they become very sleepy and wake up with a very relaxing state. And this is from Aquilaria Family.
From chemical aspect oud is very unique substance since it consist 17 kinds of compound. That each had different in these compound even in a single species that live in a different area.
Let’s discus about Gaharu Buaya
For you oud lovers outside my country (Indonesia) mostly didn’t have any clue about these type of Oud. The term “buaya” in gaharu meaning “crocodile“.
The naming of Buaya had their own story.
One version said that the naming came from where these so called gaharu buaya lives. Which is in the bogs or the swamp, that is the habitat of crocodile. Since they are gaharu so people called them as gaharu buaya to differ their jungle counter part.
Other version of this naming Buaya is actually a marking for it’s quality. Buaya in Indonesian culture related to a person that is a womanizer and a big liar. So marking it with this buaya name give it a difference with “real” oud. Well some gaharu buaya is quite disgusting resemble to what we called as minyak nyongnyong (very strong oil that super powerful in it’s oudor that make you wanted to vommit). But some where had agreeable odor close to Aquilaria Class. Like the one I had here Aetoxylon Sympetalum.
The Gaharu Buaya had a lot more species then the Gaharu from Aquilaria Family. That’s another difference. In oud perfumery industry, these gaharu buaya are largely use for mixture with Aquilaria Family to meet the demand of growing market. Since Aquilaria class is very expensive that would not be economic to use these Aquilaria in Industry.
Many of these Gaharu Buaya oil goes to India trough Singapore, there they will be mixed with other oud from Aquillaria Family and sell to middle east. And later on to the Europe and USA.
The point is people don’t let your nose and you experience trick you…..
Since my fellow friend sell several hundred dollars worth of oud for several thousand dollars because of the buyers mistake. My friend tried to explain with his best ways. Even show the guy a lab certificate . But the guy don’t get it. He simply give up in explaining it. Then he put several bottles and let him pick. The guy’s pick is on the wrong one…it only worth several hundreds a liter but he paid it for several thousand…. And when my friend warn him that is not a good one, the guy insist. So they had a deal and my friend is both happy and confuse.
Why this guy pick the wrong one? It was only a Gaharu Buaya….
That’s all folks….
Thank you for reading
Indonesia
The land of thousand islands, had one of the most bio diversity on earth. From the tropical rain forest in Kalimantan to Papua into the pastures of Nusa Tenggara. All unite into a unique and rich enviroment.
Known from it’s diversity Indonesia also known as one of the largest source of oudh or agarwood or gaharu. From 17 kinds of tree that can produce agarwood resin, 8 of them are exist in Indonesia.
Oud, agarwood or gaharu is known to mankind since the dawn of history. The term oudh came from Arabic word( العود) wich literally means “wood”, the gaharu came from sanskrit word “aguru” wich mean “the heavy wood” since high quality agarwood is sinking when it puts on water, also known as jinko or kyara also aloeswood, eagleswood in Papua New Guinea.
Oudh or agarwood or gaharu is very rare. Because of excessive hunting for their woods and resin it is now on CITES appendix II, wich means this wood is only allowed to be trade in a very small quota. Indonesia as one of the largest exporter of agarwood restrict it’s exporting quota into 300 Tons/year but only 10-20% are already met.
In the wild agarwood can produce resin after years of process. The resin is actually a defense mechanism, this resin use as means to defend themselves from fungus infection. But now days technology can made agarwood produce agarwood resin just within 1-5 years after it grows in full size.
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