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 [...]

Sweet — Resembles the smell of honey or concentrated sugar
 
Sour — Resembles the smell of plums or other acidic foods.
 
Hot — Resembles the smell of red peppers when put in a fire.
 
Salty — Resembles the smell of a towel after wiping perspiration from the brow or the lingering smell of ocean water when seaweed is [...]

After several years of searching, Oudimentary is happy to announce that we have finally found an aloeswood oil to rival our famous KFF Cambodi oil.
If you are familiar with our KFF oil, you will be quite pleased with our presentation of KSSS. Think KFF, only stored and aged for years to make all subtleties stand [...]

Isparta is a city in western Turkey and the provincial capital of the Isparta Province. The city’s population is 250,000 and elevation from sea level is 1035 m. Another name of the city is “City of Roses”. In old Turkish, names did not start with SP, therefore an “I” is added in front of “Sparta” when pronouncing, and it [...]

 
 
 
 
Medicinal Uses of Aloeswood
 
Medicinal uses of the heartwood, bark, resinous stem, resinous wood and aloeresin, prepared from Aquilaria spp., have been recorded in traditional medical systems including Chinese (TCM), Tibetan, Ayurvedic (Indian) and Unani (Greek derived Islamic). External and Internal preparations have been used citing a variety of Aquilaria species.
 
These traditional medical systems have [...]

One of our goals at Oudimentary is to  research and preserve this millennium-old culture of the use of Aloeswood. From biblical times to the modern age, the use of Aloeswood has existed on four separate levels.
1. On the most rudimentary level, it provides a perfume for the wearer and others to savor and enjoy. A [...]

Greetings all–
Just a heads up–The tireless gaharu hunters at Oudimentary will be partaking on another buying trip this coming  week, Insyallah.
Where to next you ask? None other than the City of Angels… The Big Mango… and the holder of the longest place name by the Guinness Book of World Records–Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara [...]