Assam Agarwood. From the living tree to the world of Oud.
A single-origin house transforming Assam's rare aromatic resource into premium chips, Oud oil, attars, perfumes, Bakhoor and global exports. The facts, figures and documentation behind that claim — for press, trade buyers and partners.
Reference desk · figures as published by MJI Group
The numbers most often asked for
112 kg, flagged off from Guwahati
The MJI presentation describes this as Assam's first legally approved agarwood export.
- Consignment
- 112 kg of agarwood chips
- Destinations
- 100 kg to Saudi Arabia · 12 kg to the UAE
- Dispatched from
- Cargo terminal, Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati
- Consignment value
- ₹2.35 crore
- Flagged off
- 13 May 2026, by Dr. Jehirul Islam
- Cleared under
- CITES permit and a restricted export licence from the DGFT
- Enabled by
- The Assam Agarwood Promotion Policy, 2020
What MJI did before anyone else
Each of these is a claim a buyer or journalist will want to check — the detail sits in the chapter pages below.
First cosmetic licence
Presented as Assam's first cosmetic-licence holder associated with indigenous agarwood and Oud-based perfume manufacturing.
First official chips export
112 kg of agarwood chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE in May 2026.
First trademarked inoculum
SASHI VEKUR™ — a trademarked agarwood inoculum developed through MJI research, intended to improve and standardise resin formation rather than relying only on chance natural infection.
First patent
Patented agarwood-oil steam-distillation technology, positioned around repeatable quality — improving extraction efficiency while preserving the premium Assam aromatic profile.
Local resource to global Oud market
Seven links, all inside Assam
- Local resource
- Scientific R&D
- Value addition
- Manufacturing
- Branding
- Export
- Global Oud market
Licences and registrations
The registrations MJI holds. Export consignments clear against documentation issued under each of these, not against a single certificate.
Held by MJI Group
- Cosmetic manufacturing licence
- Patent protection
- Trademark protection
- GST
- FSSAI
- APEDA registration
- Halal certification
- ChemexCil registration
- DGFT export permissions
- CITES compliance
The full chapters
Everything summarised above is set out at length, with its sourcing, on these pages.
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