How we scored it
Botanical essential oil, whole plant material → 1.0.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.
Where it comes from
Distilled from the resin-infused wood of Aquilaria agallocha (agarwood/oud) trees. No synthetic equivalent counts as the same ingredient.
In plain English
Agarwood (oud) oil, distilled from the fragrant resin-infused wood of the agarwood tree. Used as a rich, woody fragrance ingredient.
CosIng definition: Aquilaria Agallocha Wood Oil is the volatile oil obtained from the wood of Aquilaria agallocha, Thymelaeaceae
References
- 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
- 2AQUILARIA AGALLOCHA WOOD OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3AQUILARIA AGALLOCHA WOOD OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=AQUILARIA%20AGALLOCHA%20WOOD%20OIL