Agarwood EO

This Agarwood is amazing....diluted to 5% in FCO and still very aromatic and blends well with all my base notes. I will be purchasing more of this wonderful Agarwood. PS...Eden Botanicals I would like to see more Agarwood from other countries like Cambodian...Thailand..India...etc that would be very nice

Review by Kabir 6/21/2018

I have to disagree with the previous reviewer Alex. This is a nice oud and an excellent price. I have sampled ouds that are $500+ per gram and while they are all amazing and interesting in their own way, this holds its own. If you are new to ouds, you may think "wow, this has a strong and funky character" and discount it out of hand. However, I urge you to take your time and really try it before judging. Many ouds are very strong initially and can have a barnyard or animalic scent to them. I would recommend trying this diluted to 5-10%. Put a little on your arm and then wait 10 minutes or so for the initial pungent impression to fade. As the scent develops you will get amazing nuances and see the character shift and change on your skin. Really amazing stuff, but you need to keep an open mind and give it a chance to develop. Happy scenting!

Review by Brian 6/15/2018

This oil is a real joke. I ordered from Eden Botanicals more then hundred different oils and most of them are very decent quality. I also ordered a sample Agarwood CO2 which has 5 star delicious smell. Last time my friend made an order from Eden she wanted to order Agarwood CO2. But as they did not have one, we ordered this oil. Wow, we were really shocked, as this oil does not have anything in common with CO2 which we sniffed before. The smell of this oil is weak and disgusting. I can't imagine people put in the perfumes and give it more then one star. I would not pay a single dollar for this oil. It's not only me, my friend had exactly the same opinion. Would really love to hear some comments from Eden Botanicals, especially when you pay $50 for 1 ml. PS. The biggest surprise for me is that Agarwood CO2 has the label To Be Discontinued now. Response from the oil room: Hi Alex, It’s not surprising that you noticed the difference in aroma of the two Agarwood oils - they are from two different species of Aquilaria, and from two different countries. These differences reflect at the least different growing conditions, soils, and climates; there’s also the difference in extraction methods - all these are expressed as differences in their chemical constituents, their proportions, and thus the aroma. The true aroma of Agarwood (and any oil for that matter) cannot be accurately ascertained if it is only smelled from the container - the oil needs to be exposed to air on a fragrance tester strip (scent strip) or a piece of coffee filter so that it can evaporate, allowing for evaluation of all the nuances and changes in character that occurs as the oils dries. Tenacity and longevity are also determined in this way. Agarwood is used in minute amounts in perfumery as it does have a strong aroma; as such, it and similar kinds of aromatic materials needs to be diluted to 10 percent (sometimes to as low as 1-5 percent) to allow the oil to open up and reveal its full potential. We believe if one or both of these methods are used to evaluate Agarwood’s aroma that you will have a different opinion. We also strongly encourage those who are not familiar with an oil to get a sample first before purchase of a larger amount, especially regarding the more expensive oils. We are one of a very few essential oil companies that offer samples for this very reason.

Review by Alex V 1/23/2018

Je m'attendais à un Oud plus lourd, sombre, âgé etc... d'après les descriptifs, mais non sa ressemble à du thaïlandais mais pas de haut de gamme , je ne le rachèterai pas personnellement, car ce Oud n'a pas de côté mystérieux, aphrodisiaque etc...

Review by Nadir 6/15/2017

Let me start off with a little backstory on me: I'm not huge into perfumery, but rather I got into it trying to create something specific and personal for myself. I did obsessive research and trials but was never really satisfied with the results. Now I can't even remember how I first found it, but the day I stumbled upon Agarwood oil everything changed. There was everything else, and then there was this magical stuff. And then phase 2 of obsessive research started just on Agarwood. I learned there were many different kinds of varying quality, and that the real stuff was very rare and very expensive, made in small limited batches that you kinda had to luck into. I hunted down the most legit oils from the middle east and my mind was finally blown like I had been searching for all that time. The main thing I learned about legit Agarwood oils is that they are all very different, similar in certain characteristics, and level with each other in "magicality", but smelled next to each other could literally be considered completely different scents, some which I loved and would wear, others which I would not wear on myself personally. They're each their own "brand", usually named after the region the trees were harvested from. Now we come to EB's Agarwood oil. Let me go ahead and start off by saying this stuff is legit, the real deal, only-gets-as-good-but-never-better than this. I don't know if every batch from EB is gonna smell exactly like what I got from them because like I said my only other experience with this stuff was from small limited batches, but what I can say is that this specific type smells great and I plan on wearing it. I've smelled a couple agar oils that I liked better than EB's, and then there were a whole lot of other ones, some much more expensive, which I would put far below EB's in my own personal preference. Like I've smelled maybe 10 different "brands", I would wear maybe 5 of them, and I would rank EB's oil in the top 2 or 3 I've experienced. I've never written a review on here before, but this stuff called for it. I haven't even mentioned that it's being renewably grown and harvested, which basically elevates it to legendary status for me. I hope other regions will also start doing what these suppliers from Vientnam are doing, so we can have different "brands" and smells of Agarwood on here. But this is so amazing for now. EB, I hope yall never change, keep doing what you're doing!

Review by Joey 4/9/2017