Why Agarwood Is So Expensive | So Expensive 

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

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

@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 😊❤🌟.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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 ....

Be quiet

Bearded Dragon Man 1997 no

💰 time

@@BeardedDragonMan1997 Humor is not your thing i guess.

This is third comment for me

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.

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??

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wtbcaWnybzs.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

yessir

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 😂😂😂

@@amritanshurai4428 probably not your mom. but back then some 'peasant' at least in south east asia earn their living selling fire wood.

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?

u r girlfriend

I just saw you comment on the latest what if video🤔

Butt crack videos will be the rage at that time

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.

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.

And they are all from Asia 🤣get a clue 😂

Yes it’s so fun to watch

I was just thinking of that, when I saw your comment:)

He's right

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

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

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 .

smells good tho

Companies will make it expensive if they can make it hard to.find

Don't care smells good

How are you everywhere? Wtf?

@@atharvabhokse He is everywhere -_-

Ur everyware

I see u all the time

@ray mak stfu

Could i also stock my wood whit you ? Mami

@@manuelserrano7711 ew

@@manuelserrano7711 ay mami

Aged agarwood can be very lucrative

@@manuelserrano7711 disgusting lol

Have you come across ANYTHING on the internet that was true oud oil so far?

no doubt. Malaysian oud is the best.

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.

Too bad the fews innocent trees left cannot earn your admiration.

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

Once you get to smell the fume, you will be happy as well. It is definitely something special.

@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

Hmmm something else to research 🧐 thanks for the lead haha

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

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.

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

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 ?

Fabian Alfonso ew ur pfp

Elhaw21 What’s wrong about it? Give me 5 VALID reasons why it’s wrong. I’m a lesbian. There’s nothing wrong with it.

Elhaw21 Also you still play Roblox. That says something about your age. Get out of here if you’re gonna be homophobic.

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

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

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

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

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

But agarwood tree doesn't smell unless you burn it. You have something else in the mountains.

This is a easily a top 100 quote of all-time. Thank you friend...

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.

Xiang Gang, very interesting.

uwu new information for me

Are you doing alright still?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sMG1nlQi5bg.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.

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.

same, and youre being overjoyed lol

When the trees start talking

@@h3llblaz3r12 lol thats actually hilarious

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

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? 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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jv69pYSm2oo.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.

Me too

Yes, me too!

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