Agarwood - The wonder of Nature
03/04/2017
Agarwood is part of wood with resin from Aquilaria tree (also called "Do Bau" in Vietnamese, or the scientific name is Aquilaria Crassna). It is an wood-trunk tree growing in natural forests with possible height of 30 to 40 meters, mainly in tropical countries with humid monsoon climate such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India. Therefore Vietnamese Agarwood is highly valued and valued above others due to its morally pure and attractive fragrnce, suitable to the tastes of the international and domestic customers.
Agarwood is formed when the tree trunk is wounded under the influence of the nature such as inject, wind storm, thunder bolts,...or fragments of bombs and shells in the wartime. When wounded, the resin is secreted around the wound, for ages in combination with natural conditions such as sun, rain, wind, humidity… universe energy is formed in the Agarwood. The more advanced in years and the longer time Agarwood forms, the higher the quality of the Agarwood is obtained.
Taking advantage of this characteristic, nowadays Agarwood is made from planted Aquilariae Aqallocha trees by making wounds in the trunks of the trees and using wildeus available in the wounds at the natural Auilariae trees to stimulate the trees to form Liquum Aquilariae. The quality of Aquilariae depends on the age og the Aquilariae tree and the time to harvest after forming Auilariae (The more advanced in years the Aquilariae Trees grow, the longer time Agarwood being formed, the thicker chips of Agarwood get the purer fragrance they have)
The highest-grade of agarwood is called "Ky Nam", forms only in the middle region of Vietnam, and is formed under some special influences of the nature on the Agarwood tree trunks after a hundred years time, even when Agarwood trees died and buried underground, wood part almost annihilated, resin portion left only stored up as a lump forming Ky Nam.
Agarwood has very high value in Vietnamese and international market because of spirituality value and special use in existance and health of men. High grade agarwood in raw material chips cost thousands USD per kilogram, Agarwood oil cost dozens thousands to hundred thousands USD per kilogram. Ky Nam costs up to millions USD per kilogram.
Thien Loc Viet Agarwood Farm