Wild or Cultivated Agarwood? 

A lot of people wouldn't share this information out of greed. Very educational.

Thank you Ensar and the brother who helped in filming this. For a newcomer "or more like latecomer" to the Oud world, it's such a shame that we wouldn't know what real "old wild" agarwood smells like. maybe it's still there but the price tag nowadays made it accessible to less number of enthusiasts. Thanks again and all the best.

Very informative. Everything has a price. Some we can’t buy with money but something else we can. But he did wonderful job. We easily fooled by many.

Thanks so much for bringing light to the business Ensar. I cannot imagine even in my dreams what the wild agar wood of two hundred years ago must have been.

Here in Lombardy, Milan, I knew agarwood from the high quality japanese incense in 1990. It was expensive but lovely, and smelled divinely, giving you the Absolute Sense of Trascendence. There were many high end niche perfumeries selling high quality agarwood jinkoh incense sticks with a darkish grey colour, Baiedo, Shoyeido, Daihatsu, Nippon Kodo, and at that time we still could appreciate wild agarwood powder in the recipe. I still have two of those old jinkoh agarwood incense sticks boxes from the '90s and the smell was totally different from nowadays. Now everything has changed, and the proof is the 'agilawood' stick I am burning just now: a pale 'aloeswood' paste that is definitely aquillaria wood, but it is not older than 4 or 5 years, and with no particular infection alchemical process. I'm not saying it is not good: but it is not the real deal. The vietnamese seller told me it was 'old agilawood'. Ironically depressing, especially if I think the East Asia wild forests have been burnt down in order to start the cultivated 'agarwood'. Sustainable? Are we really sure? Those who have smelled the real jinkoh and know it ( I don't know kyara but wild agarwood for sure ) can see there is an abyss from the jinkoh that is proposed now.Rich chinese people don't buy a Ferrari, nor diamonds or gold: they bought years ago wild agarwood in a very closed market of some renowned brokers and they carved Gods' images in it, then they put these oud statues in their caveaux and closed with special keys and combinations: those who posses wild, don't burn it. The Smell of the Gods cannot be mass market: as you said, it is the end of oud, and the total destruction of jinkoh.

ur honesty is truly appreciable....from BD

Still glad that there is a commercial version of the product ! Better than nothing!

Thank you for the honesty and sharing the truth

love those who speaks the truth

If there is one thing you can guarantee from ensar it’s his honesty MashaAllah

Thank you brother very much information and your honesty no many people like you in this world now a days

Thank you Ensar bhai. 💯❤️ JazakAllah Khair.

awesome. Honesty hard to find in human these day.

Thank you for telling the truth about this issue. God bless you.

bro jazakallah for passing on ur knowledge to increase ours!

Thank you, thank you very much, please keep posting more videos!

Tony Bolton Agar aromas, I have been saying it for a long time now, Living here on the ground in Vietnam , even with all the family and extended family contacts , finding genuinely wild Vietnam Agarwood is a hard task, Not impossible but very very difficult, , You can pay up to a hundred dollars a gram for a few small pieces, Mostly the wild wood appears when someone who has stashed it for years gets short of money and reluctantly pulls a bit out to settle debts usually from gambling, It will never dry up but will become nearly priceless,

Bravo Ensar... just curious how the market has changed since you shot this video... what has changed in the last 3 to 5 years ?? Thanks for having the intestinal fortitude to shoot these types of videos 🍻

Thanks for your guidance, Master Ensar. 👋 from Puerto Rico.

Very genuine and true information given by you.

Thankyou br ensar for speaking the truth

Great idea to learn, educate others.

Your Knowledge is appreciated

Awesome video,as an Indian and Oud lover, respect from India.

Thank you sir for sharing about Agarwood.

humans like to be cheated then knowing the truth ...it sad but thank you so much for your effort to clarify Agarwood identity....alot of hard work from you and your team ...bravo and thumbs up for that 👍👍👍👍👍

Assalaamualaykum. Thank you very much for this very informative video. May Allah increase you in all that is good in both worlds .I also recently brought some samples of oud oil from your company and love their smell and quality . I will definitely be ordering some Kinam very soon InshaAllah.

Very good video, it’s not easy to find good product nowadays. Iam tired of searching good stuff in UAE. I appreciate your intention and showing the reality. Thanks.

Al hamdou li ALLAH honest people like Ensar exist Al hamdou li ALLAH

Thank you for your wisdom and guidance. Keep up the great work! Thank you

Sir deeply appreciated for your introduction of agarwood

Even many of the top Japanese incense companies have been discontinuing their higher-end products in recent years because quality agarwood is becoming so expensive and hard to source in the quantity which they need.

Very revealing! Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

thank you very much for uploading this video

Very good job my friend. THANKS for you bringing this up. God bless

Thank u But how to differentiate between both ? Can you pls share another videos of how to know the difference ?

Mal Allah Bless you with Paradise for being truthful in your business

Thank You Sir For exposing !!!

is it expensive because it is rare or is it expensive because it's scent is unmatched and that much better than anything else? Why pay 10x the amount just for rarity, it doesn't make sense unless it smells 10x better. Enlighten me.

Awesome video. Ensar, would you recommend any particular stores at Etsy to an apprentice perfumer buy good oud essential oils?

If a product is presented as farmed when sold, is there anything wrong with it? Isn’t it a better alternative than depleting the wild source?

If cultivated agarwood can make fantastic smelling oil, then great. I wouldn't mind buying a bottle for whatever price that Perfume is worth

Makes me wonder if a similar thing goes on with some essential oils. I bought 10 ml of Mryhh from local shop for £7.00.. wonder what a good Mryhh oil would cost ...

Good to know. Great education knowledge. Thanks for sharing.

Mashallah, May Allah elevate you for your honesty

Thank you for making a valuable video. What is your advise to full fill the demand for such demand and prevent from Extinction.

Ensar how are you أنا مريد شيخ حشام قباني ❤️ I wanted to ask in your oud Yusuf video in Thailand there were holes in those trees too. Were they for cultivated agarwood?

Thank you my friend to telling the true

Thank you ensar

_It is easier to lie to people, then to convince them they have been lied too_ *True* Farm raised brook trout doesn't taste at all the same as native brook trout . That especially goes for beaver meadow native brook trout. I realize that I might be getting specific here , but to get to the beaver meadow native brooks , you literally have to hike back 5 miles uphill to get to those spots. The native brook trout look different too. There's more color in the spots and back to belly than the farm raised. The meaning has changed . The description should now give reference to either _Harvested or Cultivated_ Harvested in the wild. Cultivated in the wild. The later can't be true , for the word cultivate, _prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening_ . derives from the word culture which means , _of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively_ . When you use the word *Harvested* in conjunction with _in the wild_ , as long as the word _wild_ is clearly defined and has no lose associations , then the words used in terminology can give clear reference to which and or is. _Wild_ means without human intervention at inception . I think it's harder to change peoples thoughts on being lied when we look at the product being less than as compared to being more expensive . Why, well if you paid more, it can be a one shot deal type of event. You stole from me , so I will not be back and I will find the proper price for less. The other , because it's so much cheaper to acquire , I will adhere/believe the lie , and or make up one. The _less_ is almost a subconscious transition were the _more_ results in an alarm. It would seem you have your work cut out for you, even when presented with the cost differences and comparisons in this uploaded video. I get a kick out of the way words are used here in the states to describe grown vegetables . Stores seem to love to charge more , and get their price , when they use the word organic. Same lettuce, different prices just because it's billed as organic. You know what's organic about them ? Their grown in dirt. Grown locally differs than organic . What I just said , and what you've uploaded here are on different levels. I just wanted to mention it. Thanks and I hope to see more uploads from you and your team Ensar. Best wishes on your trip .

So what is the great benefits? Of oud of oil ??? And of course how expensive is it? I suppose depending on where you go. Buy it, but like a little 6 oz bottle how much would something like that go for?

Brother just wanted to say that the most beautiful acording to us was seyyidina muhammad (saw.). In a hadith it sais yusuf a.s. got half of Beauty and i (meaning the prophet) got all. Maybe you ment it this way. May Allah bless you and your work.

here in the philippines have a lot of oud. you can buy here if you want a good quality. the only problem is the government official. they dont want to sell those ouds.

As Salaamu Alaikum brother Ensar. I would love to go on a jungle trip with you to search for wild aquilaria trees in the jungles of Bangladesh 🇧🇩

Jazakum Allah khaira

I want to plant that tree. How to propagate that plant?

How do I get in touch with you directly other than social media !? Like any email id etc !!

Please Ensar be my bestman at my wedding you´re a legend

Whats difference in their smell?

So, is there any size limit? On retrieving any of the tree resin

Is there any difference between wild and cultivated? I mean difference in smell.

Thank you.

ماشاء الله، جزاك الله خيرا

Jazakallah khair for knowledge

Sir how many cost of Indian agerwood price of 1 kg please inform

I'm starting to plant seeeds

Thank you 🙏🏽

Thank you

Nice video

Брат, Спасибо тебе за очень ёмкий, поучительный и в тоже время очень грустный рассказ...

What about wild Kalimantan origin ?

thanks

Do they smell differently? If not then for me they are all the same

I heard the Mafia is involved

Are you Turkish?

But real wild Vietnam Agarwood that is high quality will be expensive

There is no way you could find a wild agarwood in the market nowadays..it's all cultivated agarwood..

I don’t think that its wild agrawood you could clearly see the drill hole in it

Very sad the original wild agarwood tree of yesteryears has gone

Ma chaa lah you are luky hhhh

Education at ground level FIRST growers /harvesters . Market export controlled by the government second .THEN make Sellers AND Buyers go to a collective to sell/purchase or have major penalty .This item will not keep us alive its a commodity like chewing gum or toilet paper ,you spit/throw it out when done .

Why so expensive and Still be farmed, it's a bit of a headache industry,we can't even get any in the U.K.,have never seen it or smelt any ....🌎🏁

ASSALAMU ALAIKUM! sir if i can find a wild agarwood i will tell you tell a.s.a.p. a real one no human intervention cutured or from a agarwood farming

First thank you for this video: Are you saying that any tree wood can be manufactured as agarwood? OMG! Than can you please be very kind to show us the real agarwood please. If what you are saying it is true, the agarwood business sounds very profitable.

Salam and good day Sir. U might interested for our Oud or agar wood n our country just DM us anytime

अगर वुड खरीदार चाहिए,,संपर्क करे

Aslmoalkm sir I follow you on Instagram from many days this is very informative video thank you sir