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AJ+ Segment & Al Jazeera Documentary about Oud

AJ+ Arabic has produced a brief segment about oud:
“The price per kilogram for one of the finest kinds of oud incense is $9 million! als does it smell?”

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“80 Ferrari cars equal the price of this piece of wood, a very rare piece that weights 16 kilograms.
20 million dollars = 80 Ferrari cars!
If you owned it, you’d burn it. Don’t be amazed! This piece is one of the highest quality ouds called kinam.
There are many kinds of oud. It prices have risen rapidly due to the high demand on it in the past ten years.
The regions of the world that consume the most oud are: the Arab Gulf countries, China, and perfume-producing European countries.
The trees that produce out grow in southeast Asia.”

Al Jazeera has also produced a documentary titled “The Smoke of Gold” which examines oud as a social icon in the Arabian Gulf states, a symbol of hospitality and warmth, the smell of which is purported to chase away the blues. The documentary is filled with details and valuable information about this beguiling material and its methods of extraction and production. It charts its journey from India and Southeast Asia (Thailand and Malaysia), the only areas where the trees it’s extracted from grow, to France and Britain. The full documentary is available to watch online (in Arabic, without subtitles) on Al Jazeera Arabic YouTube channel: http://ajar.io/am5j

(Translated by Ashraf Osman)

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Garden of Wonders

 

11_gardenofwondersGarden of Wonders creates a feast for the nose and eyes in Milan’s Botanical Gardens

If the wisteria waterfalls of Brera’s Botanical Garden (or the charming spread of gleaming, golden Laviani animal statues dotted around) don’t get to you first, Be Open‘s Garden of Wonders will.

The international foundation of design and creativity has taken the world of fragrance to heady new heights with its latest project, a threefold approach to the world of fragrance. ‘It is our way of proposing an alternative way – through design – to preserve traditions by adapting them to contemporary challenges and eventually explore new possibilities for small brands,’ explains Be Open founder Yelena Baturina.

Read more at http://www.wallpaper.com/design/garden-of-wonders-creates-a-feast-for-the-nose-and-eyes-in-milans-botanical-gardens#lc0aa4qALre1DK6e.99

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ONE DROP OF FREEDOM: The Scent of Grass, A Symbol of Freedom.

One drop can be too much or one drop can help a life… Support refugees, buy one drop of the scent of grass.

The internationally renowned scent artist Peter de Cupere has developed a special fragrance based on grass: ONE DROP OF FREEDOM, a unique perfume or Eau de l’Herbe “that symbolizes freedom and a safe place.”

Your donation – with the cooperation of Peter the Cupere and many other volunteers from the PXL-MAD (Media, Arts & Design) School of Arts – will provide Refugee Aid Flanders and Limburg Platform for Refugees with extra support. “Flemish Refugee” is an organization that defends the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and provides assistance to them. And for more than 20 years, it has put a large group of volunteers in the various refugee committees of the Limburg Platform for Refugees.

So join and spread freedom: share & like the Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/onedropoffreedom
And please donate on www.one-drop-of-freedom.com to help the refugees and get the scent of fresh grass! Thanks for your time and your heartfelt generosity!

Make your donation today!

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Francis Kurkdjian and Fabien Ducher, Changing History in a Bottle – The New York Times

Together, a fragrance legend and a horticultural pioneer have cultivated what could be the first new perfume rose in more than a century.

The new rose above was created by the nose Francis Kurkdjian and the breeder Fabien Ducher. They spent six years ferreting out the ancestral chains of Damask and May roses to develop their hybrid, which they call Nevarte.