Pure Hoi An Agarwood Essential Oil Extract

Description

Pure Hoi An agarwood essential oil opens with a note that is difficult to place and impossible to forget: ancient wood smoke, warm resin, something dark composting for decades inside a living tree. One drop, and the room is different.

Hoi An, in central Vietnam, sits at the edge of one of the world’s last remaining Aquilaria crassna forests, a species now classified as endangered after centuries of demand from the Arabian peninsula, Japanese ceremonial tradition, and Chinese medicine. The resin that gives oud its character forms only when the tree mounts an immune response to fungal infection, a process requiring decades. Artisans in Quang Nam province extract this oil by traditional steam distillation, a technique preserved in family workshops where the water source, pressure, and distillation time are still calibrated by hand and memory.

This extract is presented in a 3 ml amber glass vial with a precision dropper applicator. Amber glass blocks ultraviolet degradation, preserving the oil’s volatile top notes for at least three years from the distillation date. The scent opens warm and woody, develops a middle note of dried plum and cardamom, and settles into an earthy, mineral base that lasts several hours on skin or fabric. The oil is 100 percent pure and undiluted, requiring no more than one or two drops per application. The vial arrives in a cloth pouch with regional origin documentation.

Pure Aquilaria crassna agarwood essential oil from Hoi An, Vietnam. 3 ml amber glass vial, precision dropper. 100% undiluted, steam distilled. Scent profile: woody, resinous, animalic, mineral dry-down. No carriers or synthetic additives. Origin: Quang Nam province, central Vietnam.

One of the rarest extracts in Vietnamese craft. A single vial lasts a full season. The purity is uncompromised.