Abuyog Super

You’re reading this because 1) You love oud wood, or 2) You soon will… and then you’ll re-read this to find out what makes these pieces extra-special.

If you already bliss out to oud smoke, then read on to find out more about this rare island oud. If this is your maiden voyage into the world of agarwood, save yourself tons of headaches trying to find the best gateway to quality oud wood, and simply order any of these. You can re-read this again after you’ve secured a piece from one of the most exquisite harvests ever, as you’re winding down and have a sliver heating up, while you can rest assured the fragrance wafting around you is the same caliber all veteran oud lovers are after.

Abuyog Super is what agarwood is all about – it’s just so beautiful. If you only ever indulge in oud wood once, this’ll frame the experience in high-def.

But, if you’ve already graduated and heat oud chips because it’s a way of life for you, then I recommend you super-up. Don’t buy another kind of oud until you have Abuyog Super to light it up next to.

Oud wood can be tricky. With a line-up of different chips from different regions, it’s often hard to tell them apart by looks or by smell. “Is this Cambodi or Vietnamese? Or no, wait, there’s a Borneo sweetness to it…”

Every oudhead has faced this challenge.

Every oudhead also eventually becomes trained in the art of telling different grades apart, visually and olfactoriaely—the ability to tell malaccenssis from crassna, spot soil agarwood on a tray with live harvests; Cambodi vs. Papuan or Maroke’s gyrinops next to walla.

With these chips, all you need is one piece. The fragrance tells you everything.

It’s not kinamic in its bitterness but overlaps in its cooling properties, and in how distinct the scent is. Just sniffing the chips raw tells you it’s Abuyog.

Every high-grade batch from the jungles of Abuyog share this cooling blue fragrance like Thai oud oils share notes of fruit. Instantly recognizable and so so satisfying. The higher the grade, the cooler the blue.

If I had to compare it, the closest scent to Abuyog’s beautiful blue is Brunei agarwood. But even before a chip touches the heater, you can tell it’s bluer than any Brunei you’ll smell.

Filipino agarwood doesn’t smell alike at all. Many investors have lost big money on massive, ink-black bicep chunks only to heat a piece and…… nothing. It became a huge issue for buyers and sellers…

Until they struck diamonds, and Abuyog became the Pusong of the Philippines; its Nha Trang and Koh Kong.

While hunting for Filipino oud was a serious hit-and-miss mission, everyone quickly realized that not only does Abuyog’s fragrance overflow with flavor, but its flavor is amazingly distinct. Tawi or other Mindanao batches might as well be from another country altogether compared to this unusual sting of pepper admixed with petrichor whirling in a cloud of sweet blue island incense.