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Plantation agarwood for the Dubai luxury fragrance market
Dubai and Abu Dhabi anchor the GCC luxury fragrance trade — floral-leaning oud blends, branded attar collections and duty-free OEM at scale. UAE buyers are the most format-flexible in the region: they take pure oud oil for niche perfumery, bakhoor chips for hotel majlis programs, and finished branded attar for duty-free retail. What stays consistent is the demand for batch-to-batch consistency tighter than anywhere else we ship to.
United Arab Emirates — Dubai luxury oud and duty-free OEM
Annual Volume
~80 metric tons / year
Typical SKU
Pure oud oil 12mL · Branded attar 6mL
Price Band
$120–650 / kg chips · $50–250 / g pure oud oil
Industry estimate. Includes duty-free re-export volume. Higher price band reflects luxury blend tier.
What do UAE buyers source from AgarwoodTown?
UAE is one of the 8 export markets that AgarwoodTown, a plantation agarwood wholesaler in Dianbai, Guangdong, China, serves directly. According to industry estimates the market takes about 80 metric tons / year of agarwood, the typical order is Pure oud oil 12mL · Branded attar 6mL, and the wholesale price band is $120–650 / kg chips · $50–250 / g pure oud oil. Industry estimate. Includes duty-free re-export volume. Higher price band reflects luxury blend tier.
Our top picks for UAE buyers are: 1) Agarwood Essential Oil, from $1.50 / g; 2) Agarwood Bakhoor for Electric Bakhoor Burners, from $6 / g; 3) Oud Wood Chips, from $0.24 / g. For example, we recommend a paid sample first so the grade can be matched to local taste before a bulk shipment. Wholesale shipments of Aquilaria products leave China with the CITES Appendix II export papers they need.
Reviewed by Wang Jianyu · Updated
Sourcing Reality
What buyers in this market actually need
Dubai oud aesthetics differ from Saudi
UAE attar houses lean floral and bright versus the heavier Saudi base. Hindi and Cambodian oud profiles are blended with rose, saffron and amber to land in the duty-free price tier. Plantation Aquilaria sinensis chips from our Dian Bai operation give them a clean, repeatable base they can layer on top of.
Hotel and majlis hospitality programs
Five-star hotel chains (Jumeirah, Atlantis, Emirates Palace tier) place quarterly orders of 20–80 kg sealed bakhoor for guest-room burning programs. They require lab-tested non-allergenic profiles, Halal certification and English-Arabic dual labels. We have served this tier since 2018.
OEM and private-label scale
UAE distributors place OEM orders for branded attar collections that ship through Dubai duty-free into the wider Gulf, South Asia and Africa. MOQ 5 L pure oud oil for blending, plus matching bakhoor chip volume. We handle GC-MS reports, IFRA-aligned batches and custom packaging.
Most-Requested Products
Top picks for UAE buyers
Agarwood Essential Oil
Agarwood oil wholesale from the grower: CO₂ oud oil from $1.50/g, hydro-distilled from $7/g, MOQ 10 g. GC-MS report and CITES permit with every order.
Agarwood Bakhoor for Electric Bakhoor Burners
Wholesale agarwood bakhoor for any electric bakhoor burner or charcoal mabkhara. Plantation Aquilaria sinensis chips, 7 grades from $6/g. CITES certified, B2B.
Oud Wood Chips
Wholesale oud wood chips (agarwood chips) from $0.24/g: plantation Aquilaria sinensis, grades D to AAA, kynam chips from $0.59/g. CITES certified.
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