Fragrance Product Families24 product families
A product family is a format, not a product. "Oud wood" is the family of resinous wood sold as chips, dust, blocks and carvings; "oud oil" is the family of distillates and dilutions; an oud accord is a family of manufactured fragrance materials built to imitate the character of oud. Each family page states what the format includes, what it is most often confused with, and which fields about it have no published standard. None of them carries a price, a composition or a grade, because no format establishes those on its own.
How to read a family page
Every family page answers the same seven questions, in the same order: what the family includes, what it is not the same as, the material and format fields that apply to it, the comparisons a buyer makes, the questions a buyer should ask, where to find suppliers, and which guides answer the questions this format raises.
The "not the same as" section is the one that earns the page. A buyer who knows only that an order is for "bakhoor" and an order for "raw oud wood" have asked two different questions, and a supplier who does not distinguish them is selling to an ambiguity.
The pages carry no composition figures. That is a deliberate limit, not an omission: a family page explains a format, and a composition claim belongs to a specific product, a specific formulation and a specific intended use. Where a page names a fragrance standard, it names the scope of that standard, and the standards themselves are explicit that they do not certify a finished product and that conformity never replaces a safety assessment.
Oud Wood
Chips, dust, blocks and carvings of resinous wood, and what the family excludes.
Oud Oil
Distillates, dilutions and carriers, and how a buyer tells them apart.
Perfume Oils
Concentrated fragrance oils, and the difference between an oil and an accord.
Attars
Alcohol-free distilled oils, and what the word does and does not mean.
Finished Perfumes
Sprays and formulated fragrances, where the formulation is the product.
Bakhoor
Infused chips and dust, and the two things that make a bakhoor.
Incense
Loose and stick incense, and what a buyer asks about the smoke.
Oud Powder
Powdered wood, and why it is not a dust made by grinding.
Agarwood Beads
Beads and small turned pieces, and the question their size raises.
Agarwood Carvings
Carved and worked objects, where the making dominates the value.
Electric Burners
Heat sources for incense and bakhoor, and the two ways they differ.
Charcoal Burners
Charcoal heating, and why the material of the coal matters.
Incense Accessories
Dishes, holders and tools, and the question of what they touch.
Home Fragrance
The home-fragrance family and what its products are made to do.
Reed Diffusers
Diffusers and their liquid, and why the two are bought separately.
Candles
Scented candles, and the difference between the wax and the fragrance.
Room Sprays
Room sprays, and why a room spray is not a perfume.
Musk Fragrances
Musk as a fragrance family, and what the name does not settle.
Sandalwood Materials
Sandalwood as a material family, and why it sits beside oud rather than with it.
Rose Materials
Rose and rose-derived materials as a fragrance family.
Private Label Perfumes
Made-to-order fragrance, and what the buyer has to specify.
Sample Sets
Sample sets as a format, and why a set is not a small order.
Gift Sets
Presentation formats, and why the packaging is not the product.
Perfume Packaging
Bottles, caps, boxes and atomisers, and the specification a buyer gives.
These pages establish what each format is and how a buyer should tell the formats apart. They do not establish the composition, the concentration, the price or the quality of any product in a family, and a format name never replaces a supplier specification.
- IFRA โ Understanding the IFRA StandardsEstablishes that the IFRA Standards operate through three kinds of control โ prohibition of a material, restriction of the maximum quantity used, and specification of conditions on a material โ and that quantitative limits are expressed as an upper concentration in the finished consumer product rather than in the fragrance mixture. Establishes that product types are set out in the guidance documents and that the applicable category is determined from the product's intended use. Establishes that IFRA itself does not issue certificates, does not authorise any third party to certify on its behalf, does not certify products, and that a Certificate of Conformity does not replace a safety assessment. It does not establish the safety of any particular product, the concentration of any material in any product, or compliance by any named supplier.
- 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.
- IFRA โ Standards libraryEstablishes that the IFRA Standards are held in a searchable database and that each record can be filtered by control type โ restriction, specification or prohibition โ as well as by amendment, CAS number and status. It is the place a specific limit is looked up. It does not establish which category a product belongs to, and it does not establish that any finished product conforms to any standard.
- IFRA โ Using the IFRA StandardsEstablishes that conformity for a fragrance mixture's intended use is established by the fragrance-mixture formulator or supplier, that a Certificate of Conformity applies exclusively to fragrance mixtures intended for incorporation into finished consumer products, and that IFRA Certificates are generally not issued for raw materials. Establishes that the final decision and responsibility for the finished product lies with the end consumer product manufacturer, and that conformity with the Standards does not exempt a company from applicable national or local regulation. It does not establish that any named supplier holds a certificate, nor what any certificate says about a finished product.