About OudLink™
From the misty plantations of Maoming to the incense halls of Dubai — OudLink is the trusted bridge between China’s finest agarwood and the world’s most discerning connoisseurs.
Founded in 2008 in Maoming, Guangdong, OudLink is a vertically integrated agarwood (oud) house — cultivating Aquilaria sinensis on red-earth hills, hydro-distilling oud oil on-site, and exporting CITES-certified chips, oil, and grafted Kynam directly to wholesale buyers in the Middle East and high-end collectors across China. By owning every link from sapling to shipment, we eliminate the trader layers that typically sit between origin and customer.
The Founders’ Story
OudLink was born in 2008 when a small group of Guangdong-based agarwood cultivators shared a simple conviction: authentic oud deserved a direct path from grower to collector. Turning away from opaque middlemen, our founders planted their first 2,000 Aquilaria sinensis saplings on the red-earth hills outside Maoming.
Nearly two decades later, those saplings have matured into a vertically integrated company serving perfumers in Paris, incense masters in Kyoto, and royal families across the Gulf.
Our Journey
- 2008 — First plantation established in Maoming, Guangdong
- 2012 — Launch of direct-to-buyer oud chip exports to the GCC
- 2018 — CITES certification and sustainable harvest program
- 2022 — Kynam grafting partnership with South China Agricultural University
- 2026 — OudLink™ brand relaunch serving 40+ countries
Authenticity
Every gram traced from sapling to shipment. No blended, no diluted, no compromise.
Craftsmanship
Three generations of cultivators, distillers, and graders devoted to oud.
Sustainability
100% plantation-grown Aquilaria — zero wild harvest, CITES compliant.
Partnership
Long-term buyer relationships built on transparency and fair pricing.
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From a thousand saplings to vertical integration
OudLink began with roughly a thousand Aquilaria sinensis saplings planted on the red-earth hills outside Maoming. Two decades on, the original cohort has matured, the founding team has scaled cultivation and distillation, and the company has shifted from selling raw wood to delivering finished, paperwork-complete shipments — chips graded by sinking density, oil distilled and aged on-site, Kynam stock developed through a research partnership.
Why direct source matters
Most agarwood reaches buyers through three to four intermediaries — village collector, regional wholesaler, regional exporter, importer. Each layer adds margin and erodes provenance: by the time the lot reaches a perfumer in Paris or a fragrance house in Dubai, the paper trail no longer matches the wood. OudLink ships from origin under our own CITES permit, so what arrives is exactly what was harvested, with paperwork that customs officers can verify in one step.
The Maoming–Hainan–university triangle
Three sites underpin our supply: Maoming (HQ + primary cultivation + distillation), Hainan (auxiliary plantings, complementary terroir), and a research collaboration with South China Agricultural University focused on grafted Kynam. The university partnership lets us develop semi-controlled cultivation of varieties that traditionally only appeared through wild harvest — limited release, but reliable.