aloeswood

noun

al·​oes·​wood ˈa-(ˌ)lōz-ˌwu̇d 

: agarwood

Although esteemed after ten years of arduous study as the finest swordsman in Japan, he renounces the vanity of wealth and comes at the last to know himself as a being synonymous with a pear blossom, a flight of geese, or the scent of aloeswood.

—Lewis H. Lapham

Word History

First Known Use

1552, in the meaning defined above