Natural agarwood or plantation agarwood
Nowadays, many people are looking for natural agarwood, sinking agarwood, oud wood. For what???
Only for burning. But unfortunately, the wild resource is very rare, and if any, the price is so exorbitant. The price for natural agarwood in Vietnam is about US $15,000/kg. So how could you buy natural agarwood with only US $4000 or $5000 per kg? US $300 or 500 per kg does not even happen for natural agarwood.So dont expect to buy natural wood with the price <US $10000.
However, the price is not the important thing to differentiate natural agarwood and plantation agarwood. Some people told me that they tested the smell and look at the color to find out what is natural. Hooray, thanks to the technology and lots of development in chemical industry, some vendors can easily turn out the white wood to very black wood with very nice smell. Literally, I will explain the specification of natural agarwood and plantation agarwood in the next post but now could you tell us whether the pictures below are natural or not ?
