Oud Smoke

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Oud Smoke is agarwood burning, not agarwood oil. Heat drives off compounds the cold oil never releases, so the note is smokier, sweeter and more resinous than oud itself. It is a base accord built from oud materials plus smoky phenolics. No commercial oud-smoke raw material exists.

Scent Profile

Smoky is the point of the note and every source says it. Premiere Peau: 'dense, smoky-resinous, incense-like depth', 'the smoke adds a carbon-charcoal dimension absent from cold oud oil', 'smokier than cold oud oil'. Dry_woody is the agarwood underneath, held below Oud's own 0.80 because burning converts some of the wood to carbon. Amber_resinous has two independent sources: Premiere Peau's 'resinous-animalic' and Wikipedia's 'sweet-balsamic' with amber, written about the incense smoke specifically and separately from cold agarwood oil. Animalic is the second half of 'resinous-animalic' and matches the animalic character Oud already carries. Sweet_vanillic is Wikipedia's 'shades of vanilla' plus Premiere Peau's 'sweet-smoky' and 'sweeter and more resinous than plain wood smoke'. Warm_spice comes from Maxmatto's product copy: 'spicy, sweet, exotic streams on intense woody, amber and smoky notes'. That is a single trade source describing a perfume rather than the raw effect, so 0.25 is the ceiling I will put on it. Below the reporting line: leather and earthy carry over from the oud base, and clean_musk is Wikipedia's 'shades of... musk'.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~40h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Amber · Musk · Leather

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Burning agarwood chips on charcoal is the older use of the wood and predates oud oil in perfumery. Wikipedia records the practice in mosques 'where the incense chips are burned', and describes that incense smoke as carrying a 'sweet-balsamic' note with 'shades of vanilla and musk' and amber. Premiere Peau's glossary states plainly that 'direct smoke distillate from burning oud is not a standard commercial product'. A perfumer therefore builds the effect from oud oil or synthetic oud molecules plus smoky-phenolic materials. The same glossary names guaiacol and syringol as the phenolics that heat releases.

Usage in Perfumery

Attested in 12 Fragrantica perfumes and none on Parfumo. It is a base note. Use it where cold oud is not smoky enough and plain wood smoke is not sweet or resinous enough. It bridges the oud notes to Incense and Bakhoor without being either.