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 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "agarwood-oil",
 "type": "Material",
 "version": 4,
 "updated": "2026-10-01",
 "station": 2,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GC-13",
  "CITES-1"
 ],
 "notes": "The resinous wood itself (chips, burned as incense) is not recorded as a material; the grades the page names (kyara) have no filed source.",
 "name": {
  "value": "agarwood oil (oud oil)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-13",
  "where": "reports/l2/fulltext/GC-13.txt:69",
  "quote": "Agarwood’s essential oils are intricate blends of volatile substances, such as monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, and aromatic substances, such as phenyl ethyl chromones.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "agarwood is “also known as oud” (GC-13); the review names “agarwood’s essential oils”"
 },
 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Wikidata item for agarwood oil was found (Q358375 is the resinous wood, not the oil); none is given"
 },
 "odeuropa_eokg_uri": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Wikidata item to look up in the European Olfactory Knowledge Graph"
 },
 "kind": {
  "value": "natural",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "note": "a distillate of the resinous wood",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "botanical": {
  "value": "aquilaria-malaccensis",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-13",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-13-baig-2025-agarwood.md:22",
  "quote": "In Southeast Asia, Aquilaria malaccensis is the primary source of premium agarwood.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "GC-13: A. malaccensis is the primary source of premium agarwood in Southeast Asia; other Aquilaria species also yield agarwood"
 },
 "part": {
  "value": "agarwood: the resin-laden heartwood",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-13",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-13-baig-2025-agarwood.md:13",
  "quote": "Agarwood, also known as oud, aloeswood, or gharuwood, is a fragrant dark resinous wood formed in the heartwood of Aquilaria trees, particularly when they are wounded or infected by a fungus.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "extraction": {
  "value": "hydrodistillation",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "note": "no filed source names the method for agarwood oil; hydrodistillation is the trade’s convention",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "grade": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no grade on record; the page’s “kyara” has no filed source"
 },
 "descriptors": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no descriptor for the oil on record; the odour words on record are for one of its molecules, agarospirol, on that molecule’s own page"
 },
 "constituents": [
  {
   "molecule": "agarospirol",
   "identity": {
    "value": true,
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "GC-13",
    "where": "reports/l2/fulltext/GC-13.txt:66",
    "quote": "Agarospirol is a characteristic sesquiterpene alcohol that provides agarwood with its distinct, nuanced fragrance",
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "a characteristic sesquiterpene alcohol of agarwood (GC-13, CC BY)"
   },
   "share": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no multi-sample measured figure with medium and method is filed"
   },
   "rank": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no filed analysis ranks it"
   }
  }
 ],
 "regulation": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Regulation record yet; CITES Appendix II (all Aquilaria spp.) is on the botanical record (CITES-1)"
 },
 "price_band": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "nothing on the site is for sale and raw-material prices are left out until the sourcing phase (DECISIONS_LOG P2-2; the claims register)"
 },
 "media": [
  "spec-oud",
  "or-2-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/perfumery/materials.html#origin-oud",
  "card": "/perfumery/materials.html#naturals",
  "extraction": "/perfumery/science.html#extraction",
  "molecule": "/perfumery/molecule/agarospirol.html"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Agarwood oil is distilled from agarwood, the resin-laden heartwood that forms in Aquilaria trees after wounding or fungal infection. A review puts natural formation at 25 to 30 years.",
  "body": [
   "Sesquiterpenes are its key constituents, agarospirol among the characteristic ones. Much agarwood is now induced in cultivated trees by fungal inoculation or wounding."
  ]
 },
 "source_licence": {
  "derived_from": "sources[] (scripts/validate-entities.mjs recomputes this)",
  "classes": [
   "CC BY",
   "no licence stated"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
 }
}