Oud, musk, and oriental perfumes are generally the most expensive and complex in preparation, even though they appear simply packed by hand in small glass display bottles.
The musk industry begins by extracting it from a specific type of deer. The musk makers begin hunting the deer through anesthesia, then the musk knot is removed from it from the navel area. The scent of the perfume accumulates in the knot for 4 to 5 months.
The deer musk is then taken and placed with natural roses from 6 months to a year, depending on its interaction with the roses during this period, and then it is mixed with one of the natural flavors to give it a distinctive scent according to the final scent that we want to obtain.
As for oud oil, which is the most expensive type of oriental perfume, its production goes through several stages, but they are longer than the stages of making musk, as the oud wood is broken into small pieces, then placed in water and exposed to heat, then cooled, and the oud liquid is extracted from the water in a simple, traditional, manual way.
The agarwood plant lives in tropical regions for between 5 and 25 to 30 years. It is broken and used as incense that is placed on embers, releasing a pleasant scent that is considered a symbol of generosity in Eastern culture.
Oud is not used until it has gone through the cleaning and purification stage, and the wood is prepared to be pure of impurities and does not emit the smells of burning ordinary wood, but only the distinctive smell of oud.
After removing the parts stuck to the oud and purifying it, these parts are used to make another type of scent, which is maamoul, in which these impurities are collected and then kneaded with a type of oud, and prepared in the form of small balls, used exactly like incense, but they are mostly for homes and places, as opposed to oud. Which is considered primarily personal incense.