Intrigued, I read about the tree and found a fascinating and deadly perfume trail. First, the Agar is not a tree but the name ...

Many of these ancient trees are more dead than alive, showing broad spans of exposed heartwood and dead tops. Such trees may only have one thin ribbon of living bark, usually on the downwind side ...

And what makes it so valuable? Aquilaria malaccensis is a tree native to the rainforests of southeast Asia. Prior to infection, the healthy heartwood inside Aquilaria trees is pale, odorless ...

Agarwood or gaharu is well known as the most valuable resinous heartwood that occurs in trees of Aquilaria species. Depletion of the wild resource from the jungle leads to the high price of agarwood.