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 produces a special type of resin with a unique, pleasant fragrance, which is used to make incense, perfumes, and Oud Oil. The resin is produced when the tree suffers from a fungal ...

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.

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 ...

"In one night, over 20 trees had been cut down by poachers," Zhang, a researcher at Kadoorie Farm and ... sustainable agarwood producers, the illegal ones create deep cuts on the tree in a bid ...