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Selling the Cultivated as Wild: How Do You Guar...

We take up a third form of deception in the description: selling the cultivated as wild. First of all we clarify: cultivated oud is not fraud; it is a legitimate...

Origin Mislabeling: How Do You Detect Oud Attri...

After grade-mixing, we take up another form of deception in the description: origin mislabeling. That an oud from one region is sold to you under the name of a more...

Grade-Mixing of Oud: How Do You Detect the Misl...

We now move from physical intervention to deception in the description. Its first form is grade-mixing: selling a blend of pieces of varying quality under the name and price of...

Adding Weight to Oud with External Materials: H...

Because oud is often sold by weight, raising the weight becomes a tempting goal for adulteration. We saw oil-soaking, and here we take up the more general form: adding weight...

Oil-Soaked Oud: A Fraud That Combines Weight an...

Oil-soaked oud is a cunning fraud that combines two deceptions at once: soaking a poor wood in an external oil that raises its weight (feigning a high density) and gives...

Artificially Scented Oud: How Do You Detect the...

If dyeing deceives the eye, artificial scenting deceives the nose: a perfume or synthetic compounds are added to a faded wood to give it a false scent. But the added...