...and keep in mind (with your permission, Ensar, I put these words in your mouth), with high quality wood, once the dust has settled — the oil has aged and gone through self-fixing — even a crude distillation will result in an oil that smells like the raw material.
Whereas, with low grade wood, a distiller has to perform all sorts of clever acrobatics to avoid the smell of white wood auxiliary notes which, although they may smell pretty and nice, will NOT remind you of "gently heated wood". And if distilled in the same crude way as its high-grade counterpart, would in fact
never smell like "gently heated wood".
Jumping back into my shoes now-
Ensar, you are too jaded and too spoiled haha.
Sitting on large stocks of high incense grade and sinking grade and kinam distillations, you are in a position where its easy to say that. Whereas, the fact of the matter is...
today when you yourself put in 10x the effort to try to match the wood quality used in your aged oils,
you know that the effort required to avoid the white wood smell is far more today, when trying to make affordable-grade oils.