In India, sandalwood is similiar, but unlike agarwood, the wood inherently has a fragrance. It's wood is used as incense and soap fragrance. I had a sandalwood tree in my garden. The fragrance of the wood can be smelled even metres away from the tree! One night, when we were out, somebody chopped it and stole it. That's how prized they are. I miss that tree it smelled so nice :(
Indian incense sticks are called Agarbatti which literally mean buds of agar. Not just sandalwood, agar has also been used for incense sinces ages and hence the name agarbatti.
@@sohanprasad8989 Yes true loved for many years now, hopefully it will not die out, you know knock on woods 🌴🤛. Agarwood is highly revered in the seminal texts of Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. As early as 1400 B.C.E., agarwood was described as a fragrant product in Sanskrit texts, and in 65 B.C.E., Dioscorides detailed several medical applications for agarwood. Knowledge of human-induced agarwood formation was recorded in China as early as 300 C.E..It is also said that in Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes they smoked some beautiful Agarwood in pipes known as Moses tobacco. Those were great and wonderful times 😊❤🌟.
Vietnamese here, agarwood incense is mostly used in Buhhidst pagodas and family shrines, so I formally call them "the religious weed to communicate with your ancestor".
@@an1ketsharma Every dharma in the subcontinent comes from the vedas only .Humans gave it some different names but basic philosophy is still the same .It's vedas which are the oldest and told our ancestors about concept of karma, dharma, reincarnation or mediation etc.....out of their pride ,some may say that they are different while still using vedic concepts but ignoring that will not change the fact ....
A lot of foreigners came to the Philippines to buy agarwood. They bought it for $6,000/kg at the highest. People in the mountain side went crazy and chopped these woods. We have no idea it was that expensive. We didn't even know that tree exists. People thought they're lucky not knowing it was actually around $100,000/kg. And those were really high quality agarwood, not like the wood in this video. The trees were huge and completely blackened. Really old trees found in the deep forest. Now the government banned people from cutting them.
Agarwood resin color is different in many country. it can be gray, yellow, brown, black! abd youre right that agarwood in Philippine and Indo are black! But, the best agarwood come for central of Vietnam
Also have to wonder why they don't just plant the damn trees. If you can already produce the agar by inoculating it, then you should be able to just make a plantation of the trees and then inoculate them, no?
Yo Lost Child whale vomit found on beaches can go for $10k a kilo. It’s a sweet smelling ingredient in many perfumes and such. Also an oil coming from the anal da of a cat in Tibet is used in perfume and really expensive. Because of this people killed whales not understanding the whale vomit had to ferment on the ocean for weeks. The cat was hunted too
Yes. Humans are generally the only ones who do ANYTHING that isnt instinct. Literally. Humans may be dumb but we are the most intelligent animal on the earth. Smarter than every single living organism on this planet. More intelligent than any organism we know exists.
One of the main reasons Agarwood has become so expensive is it's recent "discovery" by the Western perfume companies, and the hipster douchebag crowd with more money than they know what to do with.
Hipster douchebag are guilty in majority of humankinds crimes. One of the reasons why I so much in love with capitalism -- it apparently gives power to not very wise people.
@@petermurdoch7540 kinda sounds like it has--besides pleasant aroma--properties that bind the fragrance to skin when applied; like ambergris... Ambergris [like 'oud' or agarwood] is also a rare and expensive commodity produced by strange natural processes. [EDIT: after reading your next comment and learning that oud's aroma profile includes notes of feces, I should clarify my own comment..."ambergris and oud have a strong (not necessarily pleasant) fragrance that appeals to many people (not necessarilly myself) and as such is HIGHLY sought after.]
I would not worry about that .western perfume company's only use the word oud meaning (wood) they don't actually use real oud they can't each batch of oil smells different.
Think of it this way, someone made a cheap knockoff of lamborgini and the quality is right around the same. The original lamborgini, though expensive, would still have a higher demand due to it's prestige and being the original. And besides just because you can make the resin of agarwood doesn't mean you made the actual tree, and concequently it's only going to slow it down. Just because a lot if phones are better and cheaper, doesn't mean the demand for Iphones would be lower, heck if anything the demand is higher than ever.
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia. #Indonesia
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
@@azeljoyportugues2580 it commonly grow in borneo island forest and usually harvested by local that sell it to the gatherer, honestly you need to count on your luck if you searching agarwood in the wild and if you really lucky and got the super grade one you can stay in home for few month.
My father works for Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, he once said that a log of Agarwood often require Army supervision to transport.. Edit: Today I had a bit chat with my dad about Agarwood. He said many Indonesian still consider the smell of burning Agarwood as a sign of demonic presence.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Yup he is rich. But the price for artificial agarwood is lower than the "natural" one. What he is calling for is for government agencies and investors to pour more funding into small local farmers. This will drive the price down but hopefully this will contribute to the conservation effort and deter poaching (the trees are critically endangered).
@@sushivision It won't necessarily drive the price down, because current global demand seems to be much higher than supply available so far, although it might happen further in the future. It would also provide economic opportunities to many communities and help develop the industry in Southeast Asia.
And fake injected very young trees. Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
I am today years old when I learnt that the name "Agarbatti" which are scented sticks widely used in India come from this tree. I am sure we are using chemicals all this time.
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia. #Indonesia
Oil doesn't sink in water. Yet, all part of real old Oud is fragrant, no need to be separated as most of cultivated inoculated Oud farmers been doing is separating the resins with the rest of the trunk. When you have to clean it, separate the resin from the other parts of the trunk then it's very young tree and or both young and inoculated. Most Oud sellers don't have enough product knowledge, as none of you own very old wild Oud trees like me. All Agarwood Oud end sellers I met the past 3 years are just knowledge-less people, Jakarta don't even have real Agarwood / Oud, they know nothing about the real sources, they are all just 3rd parties treating us main sources like a fool while they're the real fool. #Jakarta #Indonesia but that's cities, capital cities worldwide are just poor nature concrete jungle concentration camps of the real poor. Since the past 3 years I am not into any city and tv anymore. I had wasted too much of my money in the past for nothing, lessons learned. #Aquilaria #AquilariaMalaccensis 私の家の後ろにある約300歳の沈香 #アガーウッド #沈香 #沈香の木 #キャラ #ヤクザ #極道 #任侠団体 #仁侠団体 우리의 아주 오래된 야생 Oud Agarwood 나무는 우리의 개인 상속 땅에서 300 년 된 나이입니다. #우드 #침향 #슈퍼_레어 #울트라_럭셔리 #슈퍼_럭셔리 عندنا اشيخ من ٢٠٠ سنة ، تقريبًا ٣٠٠ سنة هنا وراء بيتي في سومطرا اندونيسيا #عود #العود #شجر_عود #شجرة_عود #شجرة_العود #شجر_العود #محبي_العود #محبي_عود #ultraluxury #ultrarare #superluxury #billionaire #billionairesclub #christies #sothebys #masterpiece #archaeology #RarestOud #RarestAgarwood #Oud #Oudh #Agarwood #Kynam #Kyara #OudOil #BlueOud #BlueOudh #BlueAgarwood #Perfumes #nicheperfume #Gaharu #fancybrands #luxurybrands #producermichael #Jacobandco #fragrancedubois #kurkdijan #henryjacques #agarwoodconsulting #Aloeswood #Eaglewood #scentfromheaven #BoisDAgar #BoisDOud
something i learned from this channel is either a item is labor intensive, hard to fined or takes a long time and it is a mix of all 3 when it comes to the "expensive" videos
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
I really respect that you mentioned the people who told the Hadith to each other it's called (Sanad of the Hadith) which is used to tell if the Hadith is authentic or not ... thanks for respecting that aspect in your video much love❤
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I bought a tiny vile of agarwood, around .5ml a couple of years ago in Malaysia. The vile was so tiny but the smell was sooooo strong and incredibly that it lasted about a year. I've bought other types online but nothing of the same quality. When you come across true quality oud oil you know you got something special in your hands.
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia. #Indonesia
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia. #Indonesia
@@RIZFERD it is ironic that you say that a people are not good in their brains or at life, when you should not attempt to write in English as your post made absolutely no sense, your attempt at English was sad, and not understandable. Refrain from elaborating in English to prevent yourself from further embarrassment.
@@RIZFERD Yet your experiences appear to have rendered you racist, arrogant and far from humble. You are wrong about me being Western, and that's ok. Do not assume you are smart nor wise because of your experiences and travels, your insults and claim of superiority on the internet do not reflect a person of good character - rather the opposite. Padi makin berisi makin merunduk.
@@RIZFERD What are you talking about huh ?, You must be jocking, You doesn't need to stupidly talk about indonesia Everybody knows Merquator maps is not same as the reality, Also don't be stupidly saying "Hey Indonesia is the best f@@king countries i ever witnesses LOL HAHA LOL" Rasis lu Malu-maluin bangsa, ngomongnya gak jelas Hadeh.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
As a Vietnamese myself, my father told me a story about a group of men in desperate time went into the forest in search of this wood, they found one heck of a load. But one guy killed all the other and take that chunk of wood. Eventually he was killed several day later when trying to sell that. So you could die in the forest, but not because of wild animal, it because of your own greed
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
That's what most designer fragrances are already . Most of them aren't all that great , and don't really smell like oud. There's plantations cropping up , and most do what you see in the beginning of this video.0:02 . They infect the tree with certain chemicals to speed up the process . It can have a blue cheese vibe to it , or smell like banana oil that was used in paint, or veneer . Doesn't smell that great. Not all new plantations are like this though. The older trees are still there, but not as many. Now real oud has a variety of wonderful smells that is attributed to it's origin. China is a huge importer of oud , which has caused many of the problems the oud hunters face today. There are ethical perfumers , attar makers who seek to sustain the lives of the trees instead of decimating the population and surroundings in which these trees live.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Kinda surprised this didn't cover the Japanese agarwood driftwood log called Ranjatai that's been preserved for centuries in a treasury. Just ran across that fact while researching Japanese incense ceremony.
@Zyzz short answer: religion. Long answer the perfumed oil and wood use for religious ceremony like sprinkled perfume, incense and even carved into statue worth hundreds of thousands. Even the holy city of Mecca have yearly budget worth millions to buy this stuff. Almost every religion use them as perfumed incense or in any other form...Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Confucianism. That's a market of 90% of the human population. Also there are medicinal value...even the leaves are made into tea. It is like a living gold mine. People who grows them like us keep them in secret. Even selling them is difficult sometimes as many tried to become middle men to take a cut of the sale commission.
Don't know why people say this?...There are many rare earth items more expensive than gold...always has been. In ancient times...the silkworm was priceless
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
not even the nicest smell, we just did it cause we can. its kind of sad honestly that its not even the best we just killed it and make it expensive because of its rarity
Oud smells so freaking good. If you walk into a middle eastern mosque during ramadan they are typically burning oud incense chips and the smell is unmatched
The expensive fragrances mentioned, and almost all western perfumes that claim to contain oud, only have synthetics and no real oud. It's a massive rip off.
Oud smells sooooooo good, it’s an essential in the middle east in every house. And usually we use oud in celebrations, such as weddings. Or in other special occasion.
@@alfistibrasiliani well the wood that we burn is cheaper than the extract. Also depending on how concentrated it is and how much does the smell lasts after burning ( for the wood ). The price varies, but for the ones we buy ( 1 cup would cost 30-50 dollar) and we don’t use them everyday. So they last for a very long time in thier container. And we also break the piece of wood and don’t use large pieces or the smell would be too potent.
@@punkfunk212 Cuz theyre written the same way lol. عود - Is the guitars predecessor and عود - Is the nice smelling thing we enjoy. Write something like "Oud incense", and you'll prolly find it
I got dozens of them in our orchard. Used to have an old wild agar tree there and a forester friend adviced my father to let the seedlings spread. Now there's dozens of them as old as 8-10 years old growth of original wild agar trees. We drilled, cracked them, electrocute and some have ants living in the cracks. We're leaving them as investment for our grandchildren... it's like a living gold mine.
Expensive means a lot of people want a portion of that money. So that causes more trees to be grown. In fact, there are farms now in my country Srilanka. Anything illegal including possession is severly punishable. Let's hope they may not become extinct any more.
@@leehongjin6884 yea, but when you have something so valuable (supposing its 100.000 dollar bucks per kilogram) you can probably sell It tho someone who willa sell It to a bigger company
@@milfordsound2540 from the video above at 3:10 ‘extremely rare,..less than 2% wild trees infect on their own.’ It’s pretty clear in the video they make a microbial liquid with the mold spores and infect it by hand, as in the video here.
The meaning of Hong Kong is relative to those wood since Hong means the smell of agar wood and Kong means harbor. It was major trading and re export center for agar wood before.
Sandalwood business -- It's very common when you have sandalwood trees.. while growing sandalwood farms one had to insured then and had to maintain security measures like cams, fences, guards and dogs..
Am from the middle east, and I can tell you that indeed, nothing comes close to the smell of oud. It’s not like what you smell in oud perfumes. In occasions (or whenever you’re feeling fancy), we put the oud oil on the backs of our hands, on our wrists, and on the neck behind the ear. You only need a few drops but the smell is strong and could stay for a couple of days even. Women also sometimes put it in their hair. For everyday use we use something called “bukhoor” which is essentially a cheaper version of oud. Burning oud is usually saved for special occasions or for clothes only. We also don’t really burn it directly, we put it on top of heated coal so it burns gradually. I tried to come up with all the random facts I can think of, but if you have any more questions ask away!
My friend have planted about 200 of these agarwood trees on his property. As for now the diameter of the tree is about 20cm. Guess he will become a billionaire in few years.
Not necessarily. He could artificially induce the agarwood but that results in a dramatically lower value product. He could leave them to mature naturally but that means a 50+ year wait and no guarantee that more than a couple will yield significant high quality agarwood. That’s why old wild trees remain prized
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !! And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia. #Indonesia
@@Dorankuu yeah, what? www.linkedin.com/posts/rizki-ferdian-rizferd-75537056_ultraluxury-our-300-years-old-wild-oud-agarwood-activity-6737992417255018496-Guzn Southeast Asia, We? Which we? Singapore? Zero natural resources slave country of poor nature western world, middle east and china. Even materials to build Changi Airport came from us Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc? The same poor nature western slaves. Sorry not us Sumatra Indonesia, Bali is famous because it's small and very poor nature and needs tourism, the same with Java. Never Sumatra. #Sumatra #Borneo #Sumatera #Kalimantan #Equator #SoutheastAsia #Indonesia #Java #Bali #Singapore #Malaysia #Thailand #Vietnam If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud #businessinsider The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia. Don't wonder most of them are alcoholic, drinking every single day. Don't be surprised present world order the past centuries is dumb just their very poor nature reflection. ____ Alert: not all of them a real Oud expert, I had contacted Alan Mahaffey from agarwoodconsulting.com and he said in this documentary he knows Southeast Asia but in reality he never been to Indonesia and know nothing about Indonesia, also the Arab man the Oud seller know nothing about real pure Oud, how to differentiate between real wild and inoculated (fake). They are fakers. ua-cam.com/video/jv69pYSm2oo/v-deo.html
I don’t think it’s artificial, the demand is just higher than the supply. Oud is insanely popular in perfumery. I wouldn’t call it scarce, there are many Oud farms. It’s expensive for the same reason house prices are crazy in the northeast. More buyers than sellers.
I’ve had the privilege to get a tiny vial of raw oud oil..... it smells amazing. I still have some and I am literally saving it for my wedding day or something.... it smells amazing layered with a jasmine single note perfume.
in almost every Indian household and temple 'Agarbatti' is an essential component for insence. From time immemorial, it is prescribed along with Sandalwood for spiritual ceremonies.
When they said south east Asia I was like oh cool and then when the man started speaking Vietnamese(my language )I was like damn I didn’t know we had such expensive wood
To be fair, it's due to untranslatable Vietnamese pronoun "dân mình", roughly translated as "our people" (including himself), idk if there is a equivalent English word/ pronoun for such notion but i gotta say the man is making it less on himself but more on the "people" exploiting the agarwood.
Lmfaoroflcopteromgwtfbqq Runescapes a simulation if life my dude. Including the fact that every single person is trying to scam you. Scammers just hacked politician and celebrity twitter accounts like Obama and tweeted "Doubling bitcoin! 3hrs only!" With a bitcoin link. And people actualy did it hust like RS
I have been working in this job for more than three years and the high quality wood oil remains smelling on the body for more than 24 hours and on clothes for more than a month
@Jason Tempel personally I don't think it's a class thing, more personality and motivation types. Not everyone is willing or able to make the sacrifices and take risks that will lead to success
@@feroze2887 Bro, you do realize what you're saying right? XD You're admitting to being pretentious. "Spending a lot of money just to smell the smoke of a rare wood" They are LITERALLY burning money because they have a lot of it, and want to show off.
@@feroze2887 Oh, this is DEFINITELY pretentious. You know you can buy other fragrances of equal quality for about a quarter the price? Sure, one of the reasons people buy it is for the incense but the other is definitely because it’s worth a lot.
I got some expensive oud from my stay in the UAE as a gift from an old friend. Had it for 9 years now, about to be 10. The smell is too nice and only few Americans understand it. So I just put it on for rare occasions. This bottle traveled with me all around the world and never knew how much it really costs. It was packaged in a very fancy box that I had to give up to a family friend in Yemen to avoid thieves on my travels and not attract ill behavior. I guess I will save it. Price might get even higher after it's extinct
I have never seen someone so excited when talking about injuries and infections
THEN. THE ANTS BORE INTO IT
What doesn't kill you, makes you more valuable...
Well he can sell more of it mans through this video to white people
He is just so passionate bro
You probably haven't talk to any infectious disease immunologist yet. You're welcome to talk to me. That's what I'm studying. :P
In India, sandalwood is similiar, but unlike agarwood, the wood inherently has a fragrance. It's wood is used as incense and soap fragrance. I had a sandalwood tree in my garden. The fragrance of the wood can be smelled even metres away from the tree! One night, when we were out, somebody chopped it and stole it. That's how prized they are. I miss that tree it smelled so nice :(
Go to assam oud is there and indian agarwood is costliest than all other coz its natural
Yes,sandalwood is really expensive.
Best agarwood also have known from india and myanmar....
Indian incense sticks are called Agarbatti which literally mean buds of agar. Not just sandalwood, agar has also been used for incense sinces ages and hence the name agarbatti.
That’s sad
2000 years ago
“I’m so cold imma light a fire”
“Yo this tree got some good shit”
@Dante Trice pretty universal
Yeah let's try eat these mushrooms 🍄 too they look yummy 😋😜🤪🤯😵
"These stinging things with wings hurt like hell but dis yellow thing is tasty."
Vedas written around 3500yrs ago mentioned agar wood.
So technically u r wrong.
But anything goes in with sarcasm.
@@sohanprasad8989 Yes true loved for many years now, hopefully it will not die out, you know knock on woods 🌴🤛. Agarwood is highly revered in the seminal texts of Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam. As early as 1400 B.C.E., agarwood was described as a fragrant product in Sanskrit texts, and in 65 B.C.E., Dioscorides detailed several medical applications for agarwood. Knowledge of human-induced agarwood formation was recorded in China as early as 300 C.E..It is also said that in Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes they smoked some beautiful Agarwood in pipes known as Moses tobacco. Those were great and wonderful times 😊❤🌟.
"Prior to infection, the healthy heartwood inside the Aquilaria tree is pale, odorless and worthless."
Well dang 😂
So harsh to that tree. I felt bad for it.
I feel attacked...
@Tac0sales Man bit dickish, aren't you?
Lol
Just like me. Except I have odor, I'm not pale, I am worthless though.
Vietnamese here, agarwood incense is mostly used in Buhhidst pagodas and family shrines, so I formally call them "the religious weed to communicate with your ancestor".
Holy kush
The Holy Weed.
DU MA
Known as "AgarBatti" ? Similar to hinduism. Mostly because Buddhism came out of Hinduism, we share a lot of traditions and this is just one of them.
@@an1ketsharma Every dharma in the subcontinent comes from the vedas only .Humans gave it some different names but basic philosophy is still the same .It's vedas which are the oldest and told our ancestors about concept of karma, dharma, reincarnation or mediation etc.....out of their pride ,some may say that they are different while still using vedic concepts but ignoring that will not change the fact ....
A lot of foreigners came to the Philippines to buy agarwood. They bought it for $6,000/kg at the highest. People in the mountain side went crazy and chopped these woods. We have no idea it was that expensive. We didn't even know that tree exists. People thought they're lucky not knowing it was actually around $100,000/kg. And those were really high quality agarwood, not like the wood in this video. The trees were huge and completely blackened. Really old trees found in the deep forest. Now the government banned people from cutting them.
Yea it's become a huge perfume industry, when you can sell an ounce of oud perfume for 300$ you can get away with paying out the ass for it
Agarwood resin color is different in many country. it can be gray, yellow, brown, black! abd youre right that agarwood in Philippine and Indo are black! But, the best agarwood come for central of Vietnam
@@minhphan2326 Debatable on where the best agarwood is from. For me, Malaysian and Cambodian agarwood is best
@@DanTraa have you ever try the real agarwood come from Khánh Hòa procvince? It smell like flowers, sweet and a bit like fat note!
@@DanTraa i would disagree on that claim
Nothing like driving a tree to near extinction becuase it smells nice when you burn it.
whew, humanity in a nutshell
It's sad how my first reaction was to comment something about humanity but some people said it first. We all know it's true
Also have to wonder why they don't just plant the damn trees. If you can already produce the agar by inoculating it, then you should be able to just make a plantation of the trees and then inoculate them, no?
Did you see the video? The tree itself is not even close to extinction, naturally infected trees are the rare ones.
@@JorgeLuisDavis at 2:58 he says that "all varieties of [the tree species] are critically endangered..."
Did *you* even watch the video?
Only humans would make a tree filled with mold that expensive.
Yo Lost Child whale vomit found on beaches can go for $10k a kilo. It’s a sweet smelling ingredient in many perfumes and such. Also an oil coming from the anal da of a cat in Tibet is used in perfume and really expensive. Because of this people killed whales not understanding the whale vomit had to ferment on the ocean for weeks. The cat was hunted too
Ambergris smells like hell. It isn't sweet at all. If it was then they wouldn't need other ingredients now would they
Yes. Humans are generally the only ones who do ANYTHING that isnt instinct.
Literally.
Humans may be dumb but we are the most intelligent animal on the earth. Smarter than every single living organism on this planet.
More intelligent than any organism we know exists.
Not filled with mold, but filled with the anti mold measure. Thats why it NEEDS the mold. Its costy because its not common
Right! I'm like......Really?! Thats it? Aroma. GTFOH LOL!
One of the main reasons Agarwood has become so expensive is it's recent "discovery" by the Western perfume companies, and the hipster douchebag crowd with more money than they know what to do with.
I dont blame rich hipsters, its hard to make and easy to sell for a marked up price
Hipster douchebag are guilty in majority of humankinds crimes. One of the reasons why I so much in love with capitalism -- it apparently gives power to not very wise people.
@@petermurdoch7540 kinda sounds like it has--besides pleasant aroma--properties that bind the fragrance to skin when applied; like ambergris...
Ambergris [like 'oud' or agarwood] is also a rare and expensive commodity produced by strange natural processes.
[EDIT: after reading your next comment and learning that oud's aroma profile includes notes of feces, I should clarify my own comment..."ambergris and oud have a strong (not necessarily pleasant) fragrance that appeals to many people (not necessarilly myself) and as such is HIGHLY sought after.]
Send me a Sample 😏
I would not worry about that .western perfume company's only use the word oud meaning (wood) they don't actually use real oud they can't each batch of oil smells different.
Year 2070 - " Why pure water is so expensive "
Nishan Bhowal "Why one (1) kilogram of natural plant carbohydrate is so expensive"
Start recycle and purified urine and sweat.
This tree is expensive only because it's banned in most countries.
lol..no it was not expesive in 2070..its been 7yrs.🤔🤔..we r in 2077 in nepal😆😆😆😆
in some parts of pakistan, gangs sell water instead of drugs because the profits are higher
Tree: *secretes saps to cover wounds with aroma possibly to deter pests or other danger"
Humans: haha chainsaw go vroom vroom
Be quiet
Bearded Dragon Man 1997 no
💰 time
@@BeardedDragonMan1997 Humor is not your thing i guess.
This is third comment for me
I want to see someone develop bacteria that produce the resin and flood the market so it's impossible for them to make it extinct.
Think of it this way, someone made a cheap knockoff of lamborgini and the quality is right around the same. The original lamborgini, though expensive, would still have a higher demand due to it's prestige and being the original. And besides just because you can make the resin of agarwood doesn't mean you made the actual tree, and concequently it's only going to slow it down. Just because a lot if phones are better and cheaper, doesn't mean the demand for Iphones would be lower, heck if anything the demand is higher than ever.
@@robbieaulia6462 If it's chemically identical, there's no difference.
But that might make the trees extinct so people would have to farm or plant trees after they chop em down.
@@robbieaulia6462 usually not how it works. A cheaper identical looking equal good lambo is still a cheaper identical looking good lambo
@@theofficialczex1708 tell that to the diamond industry
Me: tries to sleep
UA-cam: why is agarwood so expensive
Me: good question
Same.
Here 😂
Same.
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud
The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia.
#Indonesia
My next recommendation that popped up after this vid is "Why whale poop is so expensive" and I'm like damn, why is it??
They smell really good
How are you everywhere? Wtf?
@@atharvabhokse He is everywhere -_-
Ur everyware
I see u all the time
@ray mak stfu
There's a certain poetry to wood made from infected injuries being called heavenly, especially when it's exploited this hard.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
I hope they're planting those trees they're harvesting and are not just destroying the wild trees.
That's exactly what they are doing. That's why the number of natural trees dropped by 80%.
Here in Malaysia, the foreigners are the one that destroying our rainforest searching for agarwood.
@@ilhamsyamsul1067 so this tree is also prominent in Malaysia?
@@azeljoyportugues2580 it commonly grow in borneo island forest and usually harvested by local that sell it to the gatherer, honestly you need to count on your luck if you searching agarwood in the wild and if you really lucky and got the super grade one you can stay in home for few month.
@@ilhamsyamsul1067 your country doesn't do anything about it
My father works for Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, he once said that a log of Agarwood often require Army supervision to transport..
Edit: Today I had a bit chat with my dad about Agarwood. He said many Indonesian still consider the smell of burning Agarwood as a sign of demonic presence.
Aah, the corrupt Indonesian Ministry of Forestry...
Aku baru denger agar Wood?.. kalau di Indonesia namanya apa ya?
@@sriradityowahyudhono1675 gaharu klo di Indonesia
VanDonMyWay If you know they are corrupt go arrest them
@@fh511 i wamt to eradicate all the terrorist, too. But, what power do I have. Corrupt government is shit.
I love the enthusiasm that Truong(?) has when he tells us about to harvesting of the Agarwood, he seems like such a sweet man!
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
This man is richer then you ever think. He have Hektar of agarwood artificial forest by his name alone.
Yup he is rich. But the price for artificial agarwood is lower than the "natural" one. What he is calling for is for government agencies and investors to pour more funding into small local farmers. This will drive the price down but hopefully this will contribute to the conservation effort and deter poaching (the trees are critically endangered).
Artificial agarwood is still expensive bro. I know.
@@sushivision It won't necessarily drive the price down, because current global demand seems to be much higher than supply available so far, although it might happen further in the future. It would also provide economic opportunities to many communities and help develop the industry in Southeast Asia.
And fake injected very young trees.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
When I was a kid in the Middle East they used to have oud in mosques and it smelt heavenly
I grew up with it too, and I hated it. Too musky. Smells like a grandma who bathes herself in perfume to cover up her B.O.
@@YourMajesty143 quality matters. There is a lot of variety of oudhs available in the market.
@@asifpkmohammed9451 yup even artificial ones are also very expensive
In Makkah they spend millions of dollars a year on it just to perfume the mosque
We call عud in somalia .
I am today years old when I learnt that the name "Agarbatti" which are scented sticks widely used in India come from this tree. I am sure we are using chemicals all this time.
This guy definitely smells like a million bucks
ua-cam.com/video/wtbcaWnybzs/v-deo.html
yeah bro he has his nail on the pinky grown for snorting coke
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud
The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia.
#Indonesia
@@ph0nix899 so his nose will soon stop smelling anything due to the use of coke.
Oil doesn't sink in water. Yet, all part of real old Oud is fragrant, no need to be separated as most of cultivated inoculated Oud farmers been doing is separating the resins with the rest of the trunk.
When you have to clean it, separate the resin from the other parts of the trunk then it's very young tree and or both young and inoculated. Most Oud sellers don't have enough product knowledge, as none of you own very old wild Oud trees like me.
All Agarwood Oud end sellers I met the past 3 years are just knowledge-less people, Jakarta don't even have real Agarwood / Oud, they know nothing about the real sources, they are all just 3rd parties treating us main sources like a fool while they're the real fool. #Jakarta #Indonesia but that's cities, capital cities worldwide are just poor nature concrete jungle concentration camps of the real poor.
Since the past 3 years I am not into any city and tv anymore.
I had wasted too much of my money in the past for nothing, lessons learned.
#Aquilaria #AquilariaMalaccensis 私の家の後ろにある約300歳の沈香 #アガーウッド #沈香 #沈香の木 #キャラ #ヤクザ #極道 #任侠団体 #仁侠団体 우리의 아주 오래된 야생 Oud Agarwood 나무는 우리의 개인 상속 땅에서 300 년 된 나이입니다. #우드 #침향 #슈퍼_레어 #울트라_럭셔리 #슈퍼_럭셔리 عندنا اشيخ من ٢٠٠ سنة ، تقريبًا ٣٠٠ سنة هنا وراء بيتي في سومطرا اندونيسيا #عود #العود #شجر_عود #شجرة_عود #شجرة_العود #شجر_العود #محبي_العود #محبي_عود #ultraluxury #ultrarare #superluxury #billionaire #billionairesclub #christies #sothebys #masterpiece #archaeology #RarestOud #RarestAgarwood #Oud #Oudh #Agarwood #Kynam #Kyara #OudOil #BlueOud #BlueOudh #BlueAgarwood #Perfumes #nicheperfume #Gaharu #fancybrands #luxurybrands #producermichael #Jacobandco #fragrancedubois #kurkdijan #henryjacques #agarwoodconsulting #Aloeswood #Eaglewood #scentfromheaven #BoisDAgar #BoisDOud
Mom: be smart or you'll be cutting wood in the future
The people cutting wood:
Or sweeping floor
A skilled timberfaller on the west cost can make something like 85 to 100k a year working 6 hours a day. Doesn't seem that terrible to me.
Good chance of a tree falling on you
No ones mom ever say that 😂😂😂
@@raghavrai123 probably not your mom. but back then some 'peasant' at least in south east asia earn their living selling fire wood.
something i learned from this channel is either a item is labor intensive, hard to fined or takes a long time and it is a mix of all 3 when it comes to the "expensive" videos
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Please keep making this series! It’s awesome!
Yes it’s so fun to watch
I was just thinking of that, when I saw your comment:)
He's right
When a tree is more expensive than you
Thats not nearly enough to buy a human life
@@sirsytham1588 How much is a human anyway?
TheShowMan waaaaay more than 100000. I think it’s like 2M?
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I guess i better stock up on my agarwood
Could i also stock my wood whit you ? Mami
@@manuelserrano7711 ew
@@manuelserrano7711 ay mami
Aged agarwood can be very lucrative
@@manuelserrano7711 disgusting lol
This series does a great job at answering questions I've never once asked in my life
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I bought a tiny vile of agarwood, around .5ml a couple of years ago in Malaysia. The vile was so tiny but the smell was sooooo strong and incredibly that it lasted about a year. I've bought other types online but nothing of the same quality. When you come across true quality oud oil you know you got something special in your hands.
Have you come across ANYTHING on the internet that was true oud oil so far?
no doubt. Malaysian oud is the best.
Worth correcting that the highest grades of agarwood now trade for the equivalent of $1,000,000 per Kg!
That's wonderful!
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud
The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia.
#Indonesia
You don't know Ensar right?
Holy
How can find a buyer
He literally says "We're making fake but it's pretty much okay as natural is out of stock" Lmaoooo
Amazon charges a decade salary at some point 😆
Our technique for oud chips is physical instead of chemical as shown in this vedio. Our fragrance is really natural and authentic.
If you understand Vietnamese, you will feel the unique and funny personality of the man in the video
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud
The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia.
#Indonesia
@@RIZFERD it is ironic that you say that a people are not good in their brains or at life, when you should not attempt to write in English as your post made absolutely no sense, your attempt at English was sad, and not understandable. Refrain from elaborating in English to prevent yourself from further embarrassment.
@@RIZFERD Yet your experiences appear to have rendered you racist, arrogant and far from humble. You are wrong about me being Western, and that's ok. Do not assume you are smart nor wise because of your experiences and travels, your insults and claim of superiority on the internet do not reflect a person of good character - rather the opposite.
Padi makin berisi makin merunduk.
@@yjkader I don't even understand what's his point. Just ignore it and put a light face palm cause he put a really powerful hastag there
@@RIZFERD What are you talking about huh ?, You must be jocking, You doesn't need to stupidly talk about indonesia
Everybody knows Merquator maps is not same as the reality, Also don't be stupidly saying "Hey Indonesia is the best f@@king countries i ever witnesses LOL HAHA LOL"
Rasis lu Malu-maluin bangsa, ngomongnya gak jelas Hadeh.
Someone should invent a way to transmit smell through a device so we can smell it
So far there is something called a scentee. You can search that on youtube. It's invented years ago to send scents
On it.
There is, it's called online shopping 🤣, but the delivery takes a while
Lmao
Just go find oud perfume
I hope youtube recommends this video again sometime in the future when i can smell the video.
Butt crack videos will be the rage at that time
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
As a Vietnamese myself, my father told me a story about a group of men in desperate time went into the forest in search of this wood, they found one heck of a load. But one guy killed all the other and take that chunk of wood. Eventually he was killed several day later when trying to sell that.
So you could die in the forest, but not because of wild animal, it because of your own greed
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
I spot a beautiful business opportunity for a synthetic chemist and a microbiologist.
That's what most designer fragrances are already .
Most of them aren't all that great , and don't really smell like oud.
There's plantations cropping up , and most do what you see in the beginning of this video.0:02 .
They infect the tree with certain chemicals to speed up the process .
It can have a blue cheese vibe to it , or smell like banana oil that was used in paint, or veneer .
Doesn't smell that great.
Not all new plantations are like this though.
The older trees are still there, but not as many.
Now real oud has a variety of wonderful smells that is attributed to it's origin.
China is a huge importer of oud , which has caused many of the problems the oud hunters face today.
There are ethical perfumers , attar makers who seek to sustain the lives of the trees instead of
decimating the population and surroundings in which these trees live.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Kinda surprised this didn't cover the Japanese agarwood driftwood log called Ranjatai that's been preserved for centuries in a treasury. Just ran across that fact while researching Japanese incense ceremony.
Hmmm something else to research 🧐 thanks for the lead haha
Agarwood is said to be more expensive than gold and to a greater extent, it is true. The demand for the product is high.
@Zyzz short answer: religion.
Long answer the perfumed oil and wood use for religious ceremony like sprinkled perfume, incense and even carved into statue worth hundreds of thousands. Even the holy city of Mecca have yearly budget worth millions to buy this stuff.
Almost every religion use them as perfumed incense or in any other form...Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Confucianism. That's a market of 90% of the human population.
Also there are medicinal value...even the leaves are made into tea. It is like a living gold mine. People who grows them like us keep them in secret. Even selling them is difficult sometimes as many tried to become middle men to take a cut of the sale commission.
There’s a lot of things more expensive than gold. Gold isn’t worth nearly as much as it was when the phrase was coined
Don't know why people say this?...There are many rare earth items more expensive than gold...always has been. In ancient times...the silkworm was priceless
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
2:14 The “Oh shit, this is gonna make me a bunch of money” face.
Correct
Exactly!
You're right 👍
2:14 = The Speculation face 👈
LOL, his face is way more hilarious when read your comment
All I saw was a devil 😈 face
meme dat shit ngl sus loololloo susususususus lol ngl
Jesus is Lord
This channel helps me get the answers to questions I never asked lol
I have never seen someone so excited, sincere and so happy for an infected tree.Also love the innocence this man has when he talks about the tree.
Too bad the fews innocent trees left cannot earn your admiration.
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Tree : YES I HAVE THE NICEST SMELL THAN ANY OTHER TREES!!!
Human : YOU HAVE WHATTT???
**chop** **chopp**
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not even the nicest smell, we just did it cause we can. its kind of sad honestly that its not even the best we just killed it and make it expensive because of its rarity
@@helloiamtiredallthetime.631 get em sisssss
Oud smells so freaking good. If you walk into a middle eastern mosque during ramadan they are typically burning oud incense chips and the smell is unmatched
yessir
The expensive fragrances mentioned, and almost all western perfumes that claim to contain oud, only have synthetics and no real oud. It's a massive rip off.
Hello
Even the high end ones like the Hermessence from Hermès ?
@@kingk2405 Yes. Hermes is known for their minimalist 100% synthetic fragrances. Some are quite good, but no oud.
@@vornoum1019 Hi! :)
How you know ?
The narrator's voice is so soothing... I was having a stressful day but when I watched this video I felt much better
So happy to get an explanation in Vietnamese by the owner 😍
Oud smells sooooooo good, it’s an essential in the middle east in every house. And usually we use oud in celebrations, such as weddings. Or in other special occasion.
Some times my mom goes around the house every day in Ramadan while burning oud
How can you afford? How much does it cost?
@@alfistibrasiliani well the wood that we burn is cheaper than the extract. Also depending on how concentrated it is and how much does the smell lasts after burning ( for the wood ).
The price varies, but for the ones we buy ( 1 cup would cost 30-50 dollar) and we don’t use them everyday. So they last for a very long time in thier container. And we also break the piece of wood and don’t use large pieces or the smell would be too potent.
is that how you spell it? i searched oud but only found a musical instrument
@@punkfunk212 Cuz theyre written the same way lol.
عود - Is the guitars predecessor
and
عود - Is the nice smelling thing we enjoy.
Write something like "Oud incense", and you'll prolly find it
I got dozens of them in our orchard. Used to have an old wild agar tree there and a forester friend adviced my father to let the seedlings spread. Now there's dozens of them as old as 8-10 years old growth of original wild agar trees. We drilled, cracked them, electrocute and some have ants living in the cracks. We're leaving them as investment for our grandchildren... it's like a living gold mine.
Expensive means a lot of people want a portion of that money. So that causes more trees to be grown. In fact, there are farms now in my country Srilanka. Anything illegal including possession is severly punishable. Let's hope they may not become extinct any more.
0:10 Who else thought here, Imma plant this in backyard 😂
Prepare to wait years to grow the tree to a valuable size, innoculate the tree with fungus from the native area, then harvest it by hand.
@Eff yore Feelings =_=
@@leehongjin6884 i mean, if you actually get a kilogram or two It would bebworth it
@@ksomak7158 Yea but who are you going to sell it to? Not like you can walk into a premium perfume company and sell straight to them.
@@leehongjin6884 yea, but when you have something so valuable (supposing its 100.000 dollar bucks per kilogram) you can probably sell It tho someone who willa sell It to a bigger company
Moral of this tree : "sometimes even a normal person could change the world , but his inspiration is the one trying to destroy him ".
I love how happy this man looks talking about these trees
Once you get to smell the fume, you will be happy as well. It is definitely something special.
People always find on how to destroy everything.
You living becase you eat life.
@Sebastian Thor umm. Maybe for you, not everyone. 😊
@@phuongluu578 yes it is true but, until it becomes excessive and abusive. 😊
and some people will always find on how to remake and save something 😁
@@shawnmiguelrivera2266 yeah. Not until they realize or until its too late.
Apparently I plant this tree randomly in my backyard when I got it for free from the Go Green program at my school..
You should infect it
Xray Doge There's little to no information online on how to do it.. and the worst part is, it's illegal to sell the resin without a license.
@@ikli7710 it will infects on its own after the tree will become big.
@@milfordsound2540 from the video above at 3:10 ‘extremely rare,..less than 2% wild trees infect on their own.’ It’s pretty clear in the video they make a microbial liquid with the mold spores and infect it by hand, as in the video here.
The best of the best, Aquilaria Malaccensis. 👍👍👍
"in my experience, the agarwood industry won't go away" - right, lets just hope the forest is still standing in 10years
ua-cam.com/video/sMG1nlQi5bg/v-deo.html .
The forests were gone as soon the the Europeans set their foot in this region. What you see now are plantations. So, it is going to stay.
I thought it was gonna be a strong hard wood for high production value in woodcrafting instead it’s just for burning
Its like a consumable item in a video game, a health potion that you drink.
Middle eastern people use it for fragrance because they dont take a bath often.that keeps them and the house smell good when visitors come.
@Kaleb Kurian being rich wont make them take a bath..some are conscious about hygiene but some households really dont.
@Kaleb Kurian that's a minority of a minority
@@janiceperez9538 That is a straight-up lie literally the west learned how to clean themselves from the middle east
Them : So expensive agarwood
Filipinos: we have them backyard
huh?? where do u find it here?
There's alot of those trees especially in the Bicol Region, The Visayan region, And central Luzon.
In northeast India too
Oud "عود" in Arabic, is so beautiful.. we can't stop using it. It is so aromatic and nice.
Me too i burn it when i'm not feeling well it can cure some illness too.
What they put liquid inside the tree?
I had ready to sold
Anyone else feeling so at ease hearing Vietnamese in a video like this? (I’m Vietnamese)
Me too
Yes, me too!
Any Agalloch fans here? I got this in my recommended and remembered the band is named after this wood. My favorite band ever
Same
The meaning of Hong Kong is relative to those wood since Hong means the smell of agar wood and Kong means harbor. It was major trading and re export center for agar wood before.
Xiang Gang, very interesting.
Are you doing alright still?
Agarwood is found in parts of India too. The incense we use in our hindu temples and shrines is called Agar-bati.
Sandalwood business -- It's very common when you have sandalwood trees.. while growing sandalwood farms one had to insured then and had to maintain security measures like cams, fences, guards and dogs..
Am from the middle east, and I can tell you that indeed, nothing comes close to the smell of oud. It’s not like what you smell in oud perfumes.
In occasions (or whenever you’re feeling fancy), we put the oud oil on the backs of our hands, on our wrists, and on the neck behind the ear. You only need a few drops but the smell is strong and could stay for a couple of days even. Women also sometimes put it in their hair.
For everyday use we use something called “bukhoor” which is essentially a cheaper version of oud. Burning oud is usually saved for special occasions or for clothes only.
We also don’t really burn it directly, we put it on top of heated coal so it burns gradually.
I tried to come up with all the random facts I can think of, but if you have any more questions ask away!
so interesting that it is cross culture
What is the price of the oil and wood?
The guy being interviewed sounds so excited about Agarwood... lol
Cause hes a greedy glutton.
Elena Mituchi how exactly?
Oud is really prized by many people and becomes apart of there life so I can imagine.
Its called passion
I was thinking the same thing
Here in Bangladesh we've that tree too which grows hill tract of Sylhet and chittagong.
My friend have planted about 200 of these agarwood trees on his property. As for now the diameter of the tree is about 20cm. Guess he will become a billionaire in few years.
Be quiet
You really should not talk about that
@@hjalmarnilsson1756 a lot of people here farm that tree. So, it’s not some secret or big deal.
Not necessarily. He could artificially induce the agarwood but that results in a dramatically lower value product. He could leave them to mature naturally but that means a 50+ year wait and no guarantee that more than a couple will yield significant high quality agarwood. That’s why old wild trees remain prized
Gonna be few decades. These trees grow really slow and form mold even slower.
1:15
Me in the beginning: C a l m
Me when the guy starts talking: WAIT, WHAT?! VIETNAMESE! VIETNAMESE! MY KIN! VIETNAM-
same, and youre being overjoyed lol
When the trees start talking
@@h3llblaz3r12 lol thats actually hilarious
I forgot to add this. The wood Sandalwood can be so dense that it's called "sinking wood" from all of resin
Even Their Most Expensive Wood OUD/AGARWOOD looks so perfect because they're all FAKE !!
And they're mocking our family very old hundreds of years Agarwood trees on our family land for generations on Sumatra Indonesia the real pure wild.
Im guessing that man interviewed is filthy rich.
He is highly communist official
@Pizza • 12 years ago u haven’t been arOund anyone with money then
Bet he smells good too
@The one I guess your grand parent look like . . .
Okey! A decent Vietnamese like me can't do that!
@Pizza • 12 years ago yeah. Base on your word. I think you're not living in Viet Nam for a long long time.
the answer to every BI "why so expensive" video: artificial/inflated scarcity
What do you mean by inflated scarcity?
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud
The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia.
#Indonesia
@@RIZFERD what?
@@Dorankuu yeah, what?
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Southeast Asia, We? Which we? Singapore? Zero natural resources slave country of poor nature western world, middle east and china.
Even materials to build Changi Airport came from us Sumatra, Borneo and Java.
Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc? The same poor nature western slaves.
Sorry not us Sumatra Indonesia, Bali is famous because it's small and very poor nature and needs tourism, the same with Java. Never Sumatra.
#Sumatra #Borneo #Sumatera #Kalimantan #Equator #SoutheastAsia #Indonesia #Java #Bali #Singapore #Malaysia #Thailand #Vietnam
If you have to clean it and not using the rest of the wood then it's too young or inoculated and both = Fake Oud
#businessinsider
The Arabs/Middle East and European/West know nothing about #Oud #Agarwood know nothing of real wild old Oud like mine then they claim themselves as expert. LOL they're not good in their brains for ages already. Not only about this matter but every aspect of life, since drawing this richest natural resources, world's largest archipelago and exactly on Equator line too small on present world map since 1569 while should be as big as Russia.
Don't wonder most of them are alcoholic, drinking every single day.
Don't be surprised present world order the past centuries is dumb just their very poor nature reflection.
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Alert: not all of them a real Oud expert, I had contacted Alan Mahaffey from agarwoodconsulting.com and he said in this documentary he knows Southeast Asia but in reality he never been to Indonesia and know nothing about Indonesia, also the Arab man the Oud seller know nothing about real pure Oud, how to differentiate between real wild and inoculated (fake).
They are fakers.
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I don’t think it’s artificial, the demand is just higher than the supply. Oud is insanely popular in perfumery. I wouldn’t call it scarce, there are many Oud farms. It’s expensive for the same reason house prices are crazy in the northeast. More buyers than sellers.
In Tamil it is called Akhil tree. It is medicinally used in siddha. In several temples in Tamil Nadu it is sthala viruksham, meaning daity tree.
"People" exploited it all. That's coming from an agarwood merchant. 🙄
Who said it? the pot, or the kettle?
He's growing his own trees on his own land, what's the problem with that?
Obviously there is demand if he supplys
@@ShironaNep no he does not
@@sersys1 It's an agarwood plantation
I’ve had the privilege to get a tiny vial of raw oud oil..... it smells amazing. I still have some and I am literally saving it for my wedding day or something.... it smells amazing layered with a jasmine single note perfume.
Do you know where I can buy some legit oud oil online? I've searched and searched and I don't know who to trust
Whenever someone say "Why is this so expensive.."
I'll be like : Because people got money
Oud is actually really great and the smell of it is amazing.
In the midst of pandemic indian national we're caught in the Philippines collecting Agar wood. Now it's like gold.
in almost every Indian household and temple 'Agarbatti' is an essential component for insence. From time immemorial, it is prescribed along with Sandalwood for spiritual ceremonies.
3:40 - 3:45, The subtitle suppose to say: “Rain, wind, mountains, snakes, and other animals.”
Imagine a tree more expensive than Mr. Beast's island
i have so much respect for these people who are passionate about their skill..
Healthy wood: worthless
Wood with mold: $$$$$
My story, says Blue Cheese.
@@bircruz555 oh shit
I have quite a few of these trees in my backyard in Laos, didn't know it was expensive!!
soooo... do you still have those trees?
@@lagerhausjonny yes i haven't touched them, my grampa planted them back in 2010
it's only worth something if it's naturally infected by the fungus.. a "healthy" tree is worthless, just like the video mentioned
Here's an idea! try letting the plants go to seed
When they said south east Asia I was like oh cool and then when the man started speaking Vietnamese(my language )I was like damn I didn’t know we had such expensive wood
Yes, "people" exploited it. Not me and my own stake in the industry ...
He plants and harvests in his own plantations now, he likely used to go for the wild stuff, but at least he doesn't anymore...
To be fair, it's due to untranslatable Vietnamese pronoun "dân mình", roughly translated as "our people" (including himself), idk if there is a equivalent English word/ pronoun for such notion but i gotta say the man is making it less on himself but more on the "people" exploiting the agarwood.
nhoxkhiem88 true
Raw, wild agar went extinct a few centuries ago, i dont think he was alive back then 😂
UA-cam channel is best channel in world
Respect to the Vietnamese people and their hard work to make us these amazing smelling agar wood!
some of these so expensive videos seem like runescape money making methods
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Runescapes a simulation if life my dude. Including the fact that every single person is trying to scam you.
Scammers just hacked politician and celebrity twitter accounts like Obama and tweeted "Doubling bitcoin! 3hrs only!" With a bitcoin link. And people actualy did it hust like RS
I love learning about expensive things I'll never buy :)
If people start accepting themself, many businesses would die.
This is a easily a top 100 quote of all-time.
Thank you friend...
So glad that I am Vietnamese so I can watch this without subtitles! 😂🤣
I have been working in this job for more than three years and the high quality wood oil remains smelling on the body for more than 24 hours and on clothes for more than a month
you don't realize the amount of money involved until you see the banger ring worn by that man
It's just like any other industry, those at the top make bank and the common worker gets scraps
@Jason Tempel personally I don't think it's a class thing, more personality and motivation types. Not everyone is willing or able to make the sacrifices and take risks that will lead to success
@Jason Tempel soy bou
@Jason Tempel you're getting ahead of yourself, I was talking in general terms and not about this business specifically
I've seen that style of ring before I wonder why so many people wear that type especially if rich.
The reason it’s expensive: people being pretentious
Just like cigar and tequila.
@@bootysweatenergydrinkfromt6653 Exactly
*laughs in no*
@@feroze2887 Bro, you do realize what you're saying right? XD You're admitting to being pretentious.
"Spending a lot of money just to smell the smoke of a rare wood"
They are LITERALLY burning money because they have a lot of it, and want to show off.
@@feroze2887 Oh, this is DEFINITELY pretentious. You know you can buy other fragrances of equal quality for about a quarter the price? Sure, one of the reasons people buy it is for the incense but the other is definitely because it’s worth a lot.
I got some expensive oud from my stay in the UAE as a gift from an old friend. Had it for 9 years now, about to be 10. The smell is too nice and only few Americans understand it. So I just put it on for rare occasions. This bottle traveled with me all around the world and never knew how much it really costs. It was packaged in a very fancy box that I had to give up to a family friend in Yemen to avoid thieves on my travels and not attract ill behavior. I guess I will save it. Price might get even higher after it's extinct
I once received oud as a gift, I still have a piece! I'm so pleased to see how it is made