Description
Agarwood | Oud
Incense Sticks
Aquilaria crassna
forest cultivation in Vietnam
When an Agarwood tree, also called Oud, Oodh, Agar, or Aloeswood, becomes infected with a certain fungus, it produces a dark aromatic heartwood in response to the attack.
The rare, fragrant, resin-embedded wood is valued in many cultures for its complex, warm and up-lifting scent, that is composed by over 150 aromatic compounds, mostly sesquiterpenoids, chromones, and volatile aromatic compounds.
Agarwood has a long tradition in religious ceremonies, and in the creation of incense and perfumes.
Agarwood is one of the most expensive natural raw materials in the world, due to it’s rarity in the wild, and commercial depletion.
Our Top Grade Agarwood Incense is made from cultivated, fungus inoculated Aquilaria trees forest grown in their native habitat in Vietnam, which are harvested after 15 years, and replanted in succession, to ensure sustainability of this treasured, rare fragrance ingredient.
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Incense Sticks Burning Instructions:
Light resin coated incense stick tip with a lighter until it glows. Blow out flame once lit, which can take several seconds as our sticks do not contain any fillers.
Place burning stick into a fireproof incense holder, such as a tall metal, glass or ceramic vessel filled with sand.
Be sure that ashes fall on a fireproof surface and keep burning sticks away from flammable articles, such as papers, drapes, ect.
Do not allow burning sticks to touch any varnished, painted or plastic surfaces.
Burning sticks can be extinguished by dipping tip into a dish of sand, and relit at a later point.
