Actually when buying Oud, if you buy the ones from trees grown in southern India or Sri Lanka, they have more oils in them and are tolerable and in fact smell really good.

They (for the lack of a better word){ you"ll understand what I mean once you've seen how the process is done} fumigate my clothes with them and I wear them later after all the dust has settled down and they do smell very good, not the smokey kind. Long after my return when I smell my clothes it reminds me of mother