House of Honoor

What is Agarwood

Agarwood, also known as oud, is a rare and precious aromatic resin derived from the heartwood of Aquilaria trees. These trees produce the resin as a response to fungal or microbial infection. Agarwood is highly valued in perfumery, traditional medicine, and spiritual practices, particularly in the Middle East, Asia.

Oud oil is extracted from agarwood using steam distillation. It is often referred to as “liquid gold” due to its rarity, labour-intensive production, and exquisite fragrance profile.

Why do our oils have different distillation years and soaking days

Our oils are aged to develop deeper, complex scent profiles. Our aging periods range from 1 to 10 years + depending on the desired scent that we are satisfied with.

Our oils have very specific specifications to ensure they are smooth, deep, complex with a balance of fully matured base notes. They are all very dark due to oxidation and aging. Most of our oils are for collectors hence the premium price and worn as a luxury fragrance.

Our Oud oils involves soaking the agarwood in water for a specific number of days before distillation. The duration of the soaking process significantly influences the aroma profile of the resulting oud oil. 

The length of the soaking process is often chosen based on the type of agarwood, the desired oil profile, and regional preferences. Our oils have different soaking days depending on what we are after.

We have carefully selected 7 Honoor Oud Oils from the regions of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Burma.

Why use Oils from House of Honoor?

All our oils are 100% pure with no additives, dilutions or any synthetic ingredients. Something we can guarantee.

Each oil is distilled using natural wild aged agarwood from that region using water from the same area.

When local water is used, it can subtly influence the final scent by enhancing or preserving region-specific notes.

We also ensure the local water is used to ensure the oil remains as close to its natural state as possible and keep its unique character.

Each of our oils is extracted using handmade meticulous hydro distillation methods to ensure purity and aged for many years to allow the scent profile to mature and become more richer and complex.

Our oud oils are made in very small batches hence why they are very rare aged oils. We ensure the vapour from the oils are removed to increase the oils density, clarity, richness and longevity.

We have been told by our connoisseurs that are our oud oils are as thick as honey due our unique and rare creation process.

How to look for low quality of fake Oud oils

Fake Oud oils are often diluted, synthetic or misrepresented in terms of quality or origin. Beware of cheap priced Oud oils as most likely they are synthetic or diluted. As they say if the price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Fake oud oils are flat,overly sweet and have no evolution. The high quality oils overwhelming, dominant, strong with a woody musky aroma.

Fake oils are watery, oily due to its synthetics whereas high quality oils are thick and resinous.

Fake oils are bright, unnatural colours whereas high quality Oud oils are dark and rich but can vary by region.

Based on experience any oil that is over £500 per tola (12ml) is most likely high quality, aged oils.

House of Honoor: A brand that you can trust

We can provide full information on each of our specific batches from distillation year, wood source, method and region.

Shop the House of Honoor fragrances

House of Honoor - Tranquility of Khao Kho 2020 (3ml)
House of Honoor - Tranquility of Khao Kho 2020 (3ml)
£134.99
House of Honoor - Timeless Oud of Prachin 2015 (3ml)
House of Honoor - Timeless Oud of Prachin 2015 (3ml)
£134.99
House of Honoor - Jewel of Angkor 2018 (3ml)
House of Honoor - Jewel of Angkor 2018 (3ml)
£134.99
House of Honoor - King of Trat 2018 (3ml)
House of Honoor - King of Trat 2018 (3ml)
£134.99
House of Honoor - Satun Serenity 2015 (3ml)
House of Honoor - Satun Serenity 2015 (3ml)
£134.99
House of Honoor - Burmese Whisper 2014 (3ml)
House of Honoor - Burmese Whisper 2014 (3ml)
£134.99
House of Honoor - Mekong Noir 2016 (3ml)
House of Honoor - Mekong Noir 2016 (3ml)
£134.99

Our oils are aged to develop deeper, complex scent profiles. Our aging periods range from 1 to 10 years + depending on the desired scent that we are satisfied with.

Our oils have very specific specifications to ensure they are smooth, deep, complex with a balance of fully matured base notes. They are all very dark due to oxidation and aging. Most of our oils are for collectors hence the premium price and worn as a luxury fragrance.

Our Oud oils involves soaking the agarwood in water for a specific number of days before distillation. The duration of the soaking process significantly influences the aroma profile of the resulting oud oil. 

The length of the soaking process is often chosen based on the type of agarwood, the desired oil profile, and regional preferences. Our oils have different soaking days depending on what we are after.

We have carefully selected 7 Honoor Oud Oils from the regions of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Burma.