No other piece of oud paraphernalia holds a higher rank in the eyes of a committed oud-adept than the hallowed mubkhara, or Oud burner.  Their designs range from rustically simple to the most embellished, and as we shall see, have not changed much over thousands of years. Let us look more in detail at several [...]

The Oudimentary Society for Aloeswood Enthusiasts (OSAE) is an international fellowship of men and women united by their love for the use of aloeswood on physical, psychological, and spiritual levels.
The society was founded in 2004 to provide a community for like-minded aloeswood aficianados where they could learn, teach, assist, and serve this rapidly-growing alliance of [...]

For many, the thought of an oud-burning session with friends would be incomplete without the beverage that goes back as long as aloeswood use itself—coffee. Let us look now at the use of coffee in the tradition of mystics, and it’s connection with aloeswood use.
Coffee use can be traced at least to as early as [...]

One of the modern-day appeals of aloeswood use is it’s ability to allow the user connect with a tradition of deep spirituality in a contemporary setting. For millennia, aloeswood has been used to aid higher states of realization in many spiritual traditions, from Islam to Christianity to Taoism.
The modern aloeswood-adept means to preserve this age-old practice in [...]

Oudimentary was founded for a single purpose-to make available the highest quality Aloeswood (Oud), Aloeswood oils, attars, mukhallat, and paraphernalia to the general public.
Founded in Oakland, CA. by fellow aloeswood enthusiasts Usama Canon and Micah Anderson in 2004, Oudimentary has helped shape the American marketplace for this rare wood, and the oil which is extracted [...]