Oud and Fragrance Terminology33 terms
This is the terminology section. Each entry states what a term refers to, in which language and market it is used, and โ the part that matters commercially โ what the term does not establish about a material. A trade term describes a material the way a seller describes it; it is not a specification, and the more precisely a term sounds, the more a buyer needs to ask what sits behind it.
How these entries are written
Every entry gives the general trade referent of the term, and says plainly which parts of its use are local rather than general. Where a term is used more loosely in one market than another, the entry says so rather than choosing one market and presenting its usage as universal.
A term that is only a spelling of another term gets its own entry rather than being folded into it. The manifest records these as candidate variants whose relationship to one another is not established, and the honest treatment of an unconfirmed variant is a page that says so, names the other spelling, and says what would settle the question. Merging them would publish a synonymy claim that no source supports.
No entry assigns a physical shape, a country of origin, or a universal grade to a term. Where those questions are open, the entry says which question to put to the counterparty instead.
Mori
A wood-type name in Gulf and South Asian trade vocabulary; the referent is general, the attribution is local.
Mini Muri
A size-qualified form of the wood-type name Mori, and the question the qualifier leaves open.
Ball Muri
A form-qualified form of the wood-type name Mori, and why no shape is assigned to it here.
Salla
A wood-type name in Gulf trade usage, and the neighbouring spellings recorded with it.
Baby Salla
A size-qualified form of the wood-type name Salla, and the scale it leaves unspecified.
Salda
A near-spelling recorded in the same usage as Salla, with the relationship left open.
Zawaya
A wood-type name in Gulf and South Asian trade vocabulary, used with varying attribution.
Girmi
A wood-type name recorded in Gulf usage, with a near-spelling in the same records.
Girmit
The near-spelling recorded alongside Girmi, and what would settle the relationship between them.
Zura
A wood-type name with a recorded near-spelling in the same Gulf usage.
Zora
The near-spelling recorded alongside Zura, and the documents that would settle the relationship.
Kudi
A term in the wood-type vocabulary, used with varying attribution between sellers.
Bisa
A material-type name in Gulf trade vocabulary, with a size-qualified form recorded alongside it.
Mini Bisa
A size-qualified form recorded in the same usage as Bisa, and the question the qualifier leaves open.
Seufi
A name in Gulf and South Asian trade vocabulary, with a near-spelling recorded in the same usage.
Seyufi
The near-spelling recorded alongside Seufi, and the documents that would settle the relationship.
Digga
A trade name in Gulf and South Asian agarwood usage, with a near-spelling recorded beside it.
Dugga
The near-spelling recorded alongside Digga, and the documents that would settle the relationship.
Char
A short trade descriptor of English origin, and the limits of what such a word can be asked to mean.
Malino
A name recorded in Gulf and South Asian agarwood usage, where the letters suggest a place but the trade does not say so.
Silani
A name recorded in Gulf and South Asian agarwood usage, with two neighbouring spellings in the same lists.
Seylani
A neighbouring spelling in Gulf and South Asian agarwood usage, and the records that would settle the relationship.
Kynam
A spelling recorded in South Asian and Gulf agarwood usage, with a near-spelling in the same lists.
Kinam
A near-spelling recorded alongside Kynam, and the documents that would settle the relationship.
Kyara
A name in the trade vocabulary whose letters read differently in different languages.
Chenxiang
The Chinese name for agarwood resin, which is also a trade word for a category of agarwood.
Hindi Muri
A trade term for a category of agarwood wood; what it denotes and what it does not establish.
Tola
The weight unit in the oud trade, and why the unit itself is worth confirming.
Dehn Al Oud
The oil itself, as distinct from the wood it comes from and the accords made to imitate it.
Bakhoor
Chips infused with oil, and why its composition varies so widely.
Gaharu
The Malay and Indonesian word for agarwood, and what the Indonesian trade uses it for.
Oud Accord
A manufactured fragrance material, and why it must not be described as oud.
Jinko
The Japanese and Chinese trade word for agarwood, and the grade systems built around it.
These entries establish the general trade referent of the terms. They do not establish the grading, composition, origin or quality of any material described with them, and they are not a standard, a certification, or a substitute for asking the counterparty.
- Biodiversity and application prospects of fungal endophytes in the agarwood-producing genera Aquilaria and Gyrinops (Thymelaeaceae): a reviewStates that all members of the agarwood-producing genera Aquilaria and Gyrinops are placed in CITES Appendix II. Records 92 compounds identified in agarwood, of which terpenoids are 40.22%, and names eighteen fungal genera reported to promote agarwood formation. It does not establish the quality, yield or age of any material, and it is a review rather than a regulatory instrument.
- Agarwood: A reviewStates that CITES Appendix II covers all species of Aquilaria and Gyrinops, and reports fifteen Aquilaria species distributed across the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, from Pakistan and India through southern China into Southeast Asia. It does not establish the legal status of any individual shipment in any particular jurisdiction.