I’ve talked a lot about the emerging agarwood industry in places like China and Vietnam. A new breed of cultivated ‘wild’ wood. The kind you can buy in shops on the main street or even at the airport.
Today’s bangles, mini-Buddhas, and incense all get made from this industrialized agarwood product. The uniformity of the resin, the typical look of the long strips sold in big bags. The smell. None of that has anything to do with wood like this.
This old-harvest Yunnan is a beast of a piece and the quintessential collector’s keep. Burn it, display it, feel it, carve it, cherish it.
Vintage Yunnanese agarwood is the Holy Grail for many. Here it is — take a sip.
61.6 gr