Papua Oud

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Papua oud is agarwood oil distilled from wild trees in Papua New Guinea. It has no settled profile. Three distillers describe three different oils.

Scent Profile

Papua Oud has no single profile: three distillers describe three different oils. All agree on a dry, woody agarwood base with a resinous depth on top. One reading is earthy, closer to damp black soil and petrichor than any other agarwood. Another opens with mango peel and unripe banana, tropical and fruity, sliding into ripe black grapes. A third brings fennel, marjoram and liquorice alongside nutmeg, cassia and cinnamon, aromatic and warmly spiced, with wafts of incense-like smoke and a rain-like brightness. The drydown turns toward burnt sugar and vanilla sweetness.

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Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~20h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Amber · Musk · Leather

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can make Papua Oud from this natural extract.

Natural extract Agarwood oil, New Guinea (Gyrinops ledermannii, Aquilaria filaria)

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.

Origin

Wild agarwood from Papua New Guinea, distilled in small batches. Al Shareef Oudh says the region's wood is 'recovered incorrectly from the bottom of lakes' and that most batches it has seen carry 'the swampy smell they hold due to incorrect handling'. The batches that are handled well are described as 'solid and resinous'. Ensar Oud sells decades-old stock of the same origin as 'virgin Papua New Guinean gaharu'.

Usage in Perfumery

Attested on 24 Parfumo perfumes across 5 brands. Not on Fragrantica as a separate note. Sold mainly as pure oil by oud specialists rather than as a house material, and no fragrance house publishes a reference standard for it.