Our Stakeholders & Partners
The people and institutions that make OudLink possible.
OudLink's stakeholders span four groups: wholesale buyers (perfumers, fragrance houses, royal procurement, collectors), the local Maoming and Hainan workforce that maintains our plantations and distillation operations, our research partner at South China Agricultural University, and the regulatory bodies (CITES authority, customs, plant-quarantine) that govern legal agarwood trade. Long-term value comes from balancing all four.
Three Pillars of Our Network
Research Partners
South China Agricultural University and Chinese Academy of Sciences support our cultivation and grafting research.
Testing Labs
Independent labs including SGS and Intertek verify our material and oil quality.
Logistics Partners
DHL, FedEx, and COSCO Shipping move our products to 30+ countries.
How We Partner
Research Collaboration
Joint studies on Aquilaria cultivation and grafting.
Quality Verification
Third-party testing of every premium batch.
Logistics Integration
Direct contracts for reliable global shipping.
Long-term Buyers
Multi-year contracts with key distributors.
Buyers
Our buyers span Gulf royal procurement teams, Paris and Dubai perfumers, Kyoto incense specialists, Chinese collectors, and fragrance houses sourcing oud accords for export. We treat repeat buyers as long-term relationships — priority allocation on limited lines, direct line to the production lead, no-surprise pricing.
Workforce
Our cultivation, harvest, sorting, distillation, and shipping operations employ teams in Maoming and Hainan. Year-round operation replaces the seasonal collector economics that historically governed agarwood. Long-tenure staff hold institutional knowledge that no manual can replace — knowing which trees in which plots are approaching peak resin yield.
Research partnership
Our partnership with South China Agricultural University focuses on Aquilaria genetics, induced-resin biology, and grafted Kynam propagation. Joint outputs include refined cultivation protocols, identified parent stock, and the multi-year Kynam grafting program that produces our limited-release Kynam line.
Regulators
Aquilaria spp. is listed in CITES Appendix II. We work transparently with the Chinese CITES Management Authority, customs at Guangzhou and Hong Kong export points, plant-quarantine authorities at destination, and country-specific import authorities across the Gulf. Compliance is treated as foundation, not constraint.