What does agarwood smell like?

The price of Agarwood is very expensive because it has many values and is used for many different needs: health and healing; Spirituality; Used in cosmetics, beauty… Especially Agarwood essential oil is used in the perfumery industry. Agarwood is used in many countries from the East to the West for a variety of purposes. Because there is so much worth, agarwood smell is really special. What does agarwood smell like? We invite you to learn the following content:

What does agarwood smell like?

What is Agarwood?

Agarwood is not a plant but a part, the injured area of a tree of the Aquilaria family. Wounds can be created naturally: tree trunks fall; insect or ant borer. Wounds can also be caused by human impact on the tree: drilling, chiseling, active drilling or pumping chemicals and microorganisms to destroy the trunk,

At the wound, a pus substance will be secreted along with the influencing factors: climate, soil … for a long time forming a layer of Agarwood oil surrounding. The amount of oil around the wood created over time has special values and is very fragrant called Agarwood. Agarwood, when smelling raw outside, has a non-aromatic type, and a slightly aromatic type. When burning, the incense gives off a fragrant aroma due to the burning of the essential oil contained inside. Agarwood fragrance is gentle, faint but deep, luxurious, and difficult to describe in words. This fragrance is rare with any other natural flavoring or fragrance.

The quality of Agarwood produced depends on factors: Do tree variety, soil, climate, technique and time of creating Agarwood…
Agarwood is not a tree but a part of the trunk of the tree family Do tree. It is formed from a wound at a certain location on the tree and the oil is collected.

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How to distinguish different types of Agarwood.

What does agarwood smell like?

Thus, Agarwood is a type of wood and the fragrance of Agarwood comes from the essential oil contained inside. When smelling outside, Agarwood is less fragrant or not fragrant. To enjoy the smell of Agarwood in the form of raw materials or products from Agarwood powder, you need to use fire to burn it to release the essential oil inside. Agarwood extracted essential oil, smell it directly.
To distinguish the quality of Agarwood through many factors: origin, shape… However, the highest factor to evaluate the rank of Agarwood is based on sensory factors, which is the aroma. The scent of Agarwood is diverse depending on the origin and the time of planting, so long-time Agarwood traders can distinguish different types of Agarwood.

To describe agarwood smell, people often use the words: passionate, warm, sweet, natural… Agarwood comes from wood, so it has the smell of wood first. The kind of incense of nature and very durable and has a long time to stay. It is thanks to this feature that Agarwood is used as a flavoring agent – a substance capable of keeping the scent of aromatherapy, making the fragrance longer and more durable.

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Classification of Agarwood and Agarwood smell:

Agarwood has many types and the most important factor to distinguish them is the aroma.

• Natural Agarwood: Agarwood that grows naturally in the mountains has a sweet fragrance. Many people consider this scent to be bold and seductive. Some sources of Agarwood have a sweet, milky smell. When you smell it, it remains in the throat and keeps the scent here for a long time.
• Planted Agarwood: Due to the short growing and transplanting time of the tree, the essential oil produced is not much bold. So usually this agarwood smell has a strong smell, less sweetness and is not as long-lasting as the natural one. Planted agarwood, if it takes a long time to cultivate, to exploit, it also gives a sweet and deep scent close to the natural one.

In fact, there is also a type of oil-cooking agarwood: Agarwood is pressed to add agarwood oil inside the wood. Agarwood incense of this type is bold, strong, intense, and fragrant when smelled directly outside. This type of scent will decrease over time depending on the technology and quality of the oil being cooked. If cooked deep inside the scent can reach decades.

Above are descriptions of the general scent of Agarwood. In fact, different agarwood smell depends on different types of Agarwood. This fragrance depends on the type of agarwood, the level of agarwood and especially the origin of the agarwood. The scent of Vietnamese Agarwood is ranked first, followed by Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia….

Agarwood Scent of Agarwood products:

Agarwood Chips Scent:

Agarwood chips are raw Agarwood that is extracted directly from the Do tree after separating the outer white wood without oil. When smelled outside, this type is not aromatic or very fragrant. There are various forms of Agarwood that can be smelled outside but only in certain places. The essential oil in Agarwood chips emanates and flies with the burning smoke. This fragrance is as sweet or passionate as we described.

Agarwood Scents of Agarwood Incense sticks and Agarwood incense cones:

Agarwood Incense is made from Agarwood powder mixed with Litsea glue. This product is used for spiritual needs or the need to enjoy scents. The glue has a burning taste, not fragrant, so when mixed with Agarwood powder, it will reduce the scent of pure Agarwood powder. However, this mixing ratio is very small, so it does not affect much.

The scent of Agarwood incense is as fragrant as the scent of agarwood chips but a little weaker. so what is this fragrance’s quality depending on the Agarwood powder type?

Agarwood Incense when burned has a woody smell, a warm aroma and a little burning smell from the cellulose of wood. This burning taste is more or less due to the high or low quality of the agarwood powder. Using high-grade powder to mix the product, the scent is also very sweet and somewhat limits this burning smell.

Agarwood smell of Agarwood Essential Oil:

Smelling Agarwood essential oil is smelling the direct scent of Agarwood. Raw materials Agarwood, after being separated, the white wood that has no oil or has little oil outside of Agarwood is soaked for a while to rot. This process creates a fungus to decompose and turns these agarwood chips into rotten wood. The scent of the wood mixture now sounded rotten like rotten firewood. Many people also liken it to the “smell of feces” and “the smell of decomposing garbage”.

After a while, this mixture is put into steam distillers to extract the essential oil. Depending on the quality of Agarwood raw materials and extraction technology, the scent of Agarwood essential oil is determined.

Low-quality or medium-quality Agarwood essential oil has a slightly rotten smell at first. Many people who smell this scent are not used to feeling uncomfortable. After a few minutes, this rotten scent is gone, leaving a very pleasant sweet fragrance and the scent lasts for many hours.

A high-quality agarwood essential oil has a fragrant perfume from the start that is not mingled with a rotting stench. This perfume has a floral scent, yet it is also deep and delicious. There are few perfumes that can compete with this scent. This pure “perfume” is often used by Muslims in the Middle East as a spiritual scent. And it is a noble fragrance that is offered to the gods. Pure Agarwood essential oil has a very long incense retention time that can be up to several days and does not change its smell over time.

Aroma of Agarwood Agarwood Bracelets:

• Agarwood bracelets are trendy today. Its smell is not only aromatic, but also elegant and stylish, making it appropriate for people of all ages. It is appropriate for both men and women and may be worn in a variety of settings.
• Agarwood bracelets are made from many different sources of Agarwood materials. Since then, the scent of this type of bracelet also depends on the source of the raw materials that create it. Natural Agarwood bracelet has a gentle, natural, pleasant fragrance. This fragrance smells close to see and the smell lasts over time. This scent also has many different types depending on the origin of the agarwood embryo. Professional, long-term manufacturers rely on this fragrance to distinguish the type of agarwood bracelet.
• Technology Agarwood Bracelets: made from Agarwood chunks assembled with glue or pressed with Agarwood oil.
• The Agarwood Chip bracelet also has a sweet, natural fragrance if good glue is selected and high-tech pressing. If you use a glue with a strong odor or a poor technique, the agarwood bracelet will have a burning glue odor.
• Agarwood oil pressed bracelet has a strong, strong smell that is suitable for many people’s tastes. Agarwood has many pores inside, so when oil is pressed in, it will tighten these holes and make the material heavier and the wood grain smoother. This fragrance will decrease over time but also quite a long time depending on the type of oil and the oil pressing technique.