30 May 2012 Kuala Lumpur ‘If you want oud oil, all I have to do is make a phone call. I can get you two kilos in two minutes. But you know what kind of oud it’ll be…’ explained the man who first set up distillation in Kuala Lumpur, as he showed us around his […]
12 April 2012 Mission Borneo: Progress Report I. Eating Agarwood Dust Singapore. It’s here where we first heard the news that the agarwood world as we know it is at its end. Six months later, en route to Borneo, we stopped over in Singapore to find out what has come to pass since our last […]
4 November 2011 ‘Not one single wild tree stands in the jungles of Laos,’ Christopher said to me today. A long term colleague and associate, Mr. Hoeth is a Swiss expat who relocated to Laos to pursue his passion of crafting agarwood oil. Apart from what I witnessed firsthand in the Far East just a […]
16 October 2011 Everyone in the oud producing world is on the edge of their seat. We’ve all just been hit by a major earthquake. All the chiefs of the big Saudi oud houses are scratching their heads after recent events. They still don’t understand what is happening. Ensar is currently in the Far East […]