Aloes, Lign Aloes (Agarwood, Oud)

Scientific Name:  Aquilaria crassna

Country of Origin: India

Distillation Method: Steam Distilled

Plant Part: Infected Wood

Perfume Note: Base

Aloeswood/agarwood oil is obtained from the Aquilaria tree, an evergreen tree native to northern India, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

The aquilaria tree produces a resin when it responds to a natural parasite fungal or mold attack. The tree can also be deliberately wounded to make it more susceptible to a fungal attack, however this produces a inferior resin. The fungus and decomposition process generates a very rich and dark resin forming within the heartwood. This is a very slow process that can take several hundred years. That is why this oil is so rare and so expensive.

Our steam distilled version is soluble in carrier oils and alcohol and easier to work with that the CO2 extraction we have carried in the past.

Blending Suggestions:  myrrh, cinnamon, cassia, rose, sandalwood, tuberose, jasmine, neroli, frankincense.

Suggested Uses & Properties for External Applications:

Anointing Oil, Perfume, Mediation

Relaxation, Antidepressant, Calming, Comforting

Safety:  

Hazards: None known. Contraindications: None known.

Tisserand, Robert; Young, Rodney. Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals (p. 866). Elsevier Health Sciences. Kindle Edition. 

Storage:  Store in a dark colored bottle out of direct sunlight.

Aloes - Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. 'ahalim), a fragrant wood (Numbers 24:6; Psalms 45:8; Proverbs 7:17; Cant 4:14), the Aquilaria agallochum of botanists, or, as some suppose, the costly gum or perfume extracted from the wood. It is found in China, Siam, and Northern India, and grows to the height sometimes of 120 feet. This species is of great rarity even in India. There is another and more common species, called by Indians aghil, whence Europeans have given it the name of Lignum aquile, or eagle-wood. Aloewood was used by the Egyptians for embalming dead bodies. Nicodemus brought it (pounded aloe-wood) to embalm the body of Christ (John 19:39); but whether this was the same as that mentioned elsewhere is uncertain.

The bitter aloes of the apothecary is the dried juice of the leaves Aloe vulgaris.

These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.

Aloes - The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon

Strong's Number: 0174

Original Word: ~ylha

Word Origin: of foreign origin

Translated Word: 'ahaliym

Definition: aloes, aloe tree, aloe tree, aloe (perfume)

Aloe - The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon

Strong's Number: 250

Original Word: ajlovh

Word Origin: of foreign origin

Translated Word: 'ahaliym

Definition: aloe, aloes

The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Genius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Scripture References

Numbers 24:6, Psalms 45:8, Proverbs 7:17, Song of Solomon 4:14, John 19:39.

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