Trat Oud

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Trat oud is the sweet, fruity end of the oud range: dry wood carrying overripe fruit, with the barnyard funk of Indian oud reduced to a soft leather undertone. It is the oud the trade sells as approachable.

Scent Profile

Dry_woody is the base every source builds on and the only claim all four make: 'a natural, soft, woody oil', 'deep woody notes', 'light leathery, woody notes'. It is set just below the published thailand-oud at 0.70 because two sources stress how gentle and unassertive the wood is. Fruity is what makes this a row rather than a repetition. Sabily's list is the most specific evidence in the dossier: fig, plum marmalade, pomegranate syrup, red berry, overripe apricot. Premiere Peau independently gives 'overripe tropical fruit and dried apricot qualities'. Sweet_vanillic is the sweetness three of the four sources name outright, 'warm, slightly sweet', 'subtle sweetness', 'exquisite and intense sweet notes'. Leather is the subdued barnyard: 'the barnyard character typical of oud is present but restrained, arriving as a soft leather-animalic undertone rather than the aggressive funk of wild Hindi oud'. Honeyed is the deep sweet quality Sabily describes and the syrup in its fruit list. Below: floral from Sabily's 'fruity and floral tones' and 'sweet, floral and fruity notes' on the dry-down. Cooling_mentholic is Premiere Peau's 'clean medicinal lift' and 'medicinal-camphoraceous thread', from one source only. Smoky is Agaroots' 'hints of smokiness', which Oud & Musk flatly denies for its own bottle, so it is set low with a 0.24 spread rather than averaged away. Animalic, nutty for the hazelnut in Sabily's note list, creamy_woody for 'creamy', amber_resinous for the resin all aged agarwood carries. Earthy and sour are held nonzero deliberately. No Trat source names them, but the parent thailand-oud carries both and overripe fruit implies a slight sourness, so zeroing them would manufacture a difference nobody claimed.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~16h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Fruity

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

Origin

Oud oil distilled from Aquilaria crassna grown in Trat province, on Thailand's eastern border with Cambodia. Thailand banned the export of wild A. crassna in 1992 after overharvesting nearly took the species out, so almost all Thai oud now comes from plantation trees inoculated with fungus on purpose. The three retailers who sell it do not agree on what a Trat bottle contains. Oud & Musk describes a soft, elegant wood 'without animalic or smoky overtones'. Agaroots sells a 'Trat Classic' with 'hints of smokiness'. Sabily sells a 'Trat Sweet' loaded with fig, plum marmalade and pomegranate syrup. That spread is grading and batch variation inside one regional label, which is normal for oud.

Usage in Perfumery

A base note used where oud is wanted without the funk. Two sources point at the same job: it bridges Middle Eastern oud, where a strong animalic profile is prized, and Western taste for smoother fruity woods, so it is the oud a house reaches for when Hindi would frighten the customer. It carries fruit and floral materials rather than fighting them.