Ho Pui-han followed a marker left by poachers into the forest behind the Tsz Shan Monastery in Hong Kong. The sign was easy to miss. Just a white circle and arrow painted on a palm-sized stone.

Agarwood has numerous uses in traditional medicine and the perfume and incense industries. It has also been used for religious rituals, hence its nickname “the wood of gods”. In traditional ...

Hong Kong was once known as the fragrant harbour – the result of an ancient trade in agarwood. The fragrance of thousands of incense sticks wafted through the narrow shopfront of the Wing Lee ...

Discover Wah Yuen’s rare incense-making tradition in Hong Kong, where the ancient practice of hand-rolling agarwood creates a luxurious scent, passed down through generations. Zelenskyy explains ...

The outer part of the stem, which is of low quality is used to make incense sticks and in paper manufacturing industries. An agarwood sapling is easy to grow as its maintenance is inexpensive and ...