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

But did you know there is a special and rare type of wood that costs a whopping 100 times more than gold? Yes, we are talking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut. The difference here is that it’s a life-and-death struggle between the tree and the ...

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 ...

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.