Intrigued, I read about the tree and found a fascinating and deadly perfume trail. First, the Agar is not a tree but the name ...

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 is created when incense trees are cut, which causes the plant to produce a dark resin to prevent infection. The product then takes the form of fragrant resinous wood. - 'Black gold' - ...

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.