Each year, the agarwood tree, a sought-after source of medicines and perfumes that grows in the rainforests of southwest China, needs to solve a problem. The tree’s fruits mature during the hottest ...

The capital city of Agartala was once full of Agarwood trees and hence named after it by the Tripura Royal family. Myanmar, Sumatra, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and the Philippines.

First-grade agarwood can cost as much as $100,000 per kilogram, making it one of the most expensive raw materials in the world. But for this tree to produce any agarwood, it must first become ...

Agarwood oil, extracted from the Aquilaria tree, is one of the most precious essential oils prized for its unique aroma and ...

"The name of Hong Kong is because of agarwood so I want to keep this culture," he said. - 'Gone completely' - Unlike sustainable agarwood producers, the illegal ones create deep cuts on the tree ...

Scientist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree stump. It is one of over a dozen trees illegally cut for the valuable ...

Not far from the city’s urban centres are forests home to trees that produce fragrant – and valuable – agarwood. Agarwood is used in several expensive products, from incense and perfume to ...

Agarwood, also known as gaharu in Malaysia, is a fragrant dark resinous wood formed in the heart of the tree trunk that is used in the production of incense, perfume and other consumer products.

A stone’s throw from the city’s urban centre are forests that are home to trees that produce fragrant agarwood, used in high-end products from incense and perfume to traditional Chinese medicine.

So what exactly makes Louis Vuitton’s use of oud so special? Oud itself is derived from agarwood, a type of fungus-ridden wood in an otherwise healthy tree that, when left to sit for numerous, ...

A stone's throw from the city's urban centre are forests home to trees that produce fragrant – and valuable – agarwood, used in a number of high-end products from incense and perfume to ...