دليل العود

Sorting: The Sixth Step in the Journey of Oud

When the pieces become clean and dried and stable, the evaluation stage begins with the first of its steps: sorting. For before the pieces are graded into grades, they must...

Drying: The Fifth Step in the Journey of Oud

After the resin-bearing veins were uncovered by removing the white wood, comes the fifth step that safeguards what was uncovered: drying. For the fresh piece carries a moisture that may...

Removing the White Wood: The Fourth Step in the...

After the initial cleaning that removed the external impurities comes the finer fourth step in the journey of oud: removing the white wood. For the raw piece carries dark veins...

Initial Cleaning: The Third Step in the Journey...

When a piece of oud comes out of the tree, it is laden with dust, remnants of bark, and impurities clinging to it from the forest. And from here comes...

Extracting the Wood: The Second Step in the Jou...

After finding the bearing tree comes the second step in the journey of oud: extracting the resin-bearing wood. For oud does not fill the whole tree, but concentrates in dark...

Finding the Tree: The First Step in the Journey...

The whole long journey of oud — with its twenty steps — begins from a single moment: finding the resin-bearing tree. For before extraction, cleaning, sorting, and shipping, one must...