Agarwood Indonesia

Back again with agarwoodindonesia. It’s being a while I don’t write again. Well let’s discuss about Indonesian Agarwood Scent.

We start from the most west of Indonesia Which is Sumatra. Why there? since Indonesia is a large archipelago country that each and one of it’s Islands are having special features of micro climate and surely it will effect agarwood produced in several area. As for Sumatra their smell is floral, sweet, sometimes fecal, and in some part had urine smell on the wood. But on Bangka Island the urine stuff disappear only sweet and nice smell you will found there. Next Kalimantan, this island is the one of the largest Island on earth it has several geographical features which is dense rain forest, large rivers also mountains. What make it related to Oudh smell? Well the oud from A. Malaccensis grown in East Kalimantan and South and other parts of Kalimantan are having different smell, Since the east and western are mostly rian forest their oud mostly smell sweet floral with lesser or no spicy note , on the contray the central and the saouth that is predominantly filled with swamps and bogs also mangrove had that spicy note when you burn the wood or distilling the oil. Now jump the Wallacean line we landed in Sulawesi, why Sulawesi is distinctive ? according to Wallace Indonesian Bio Diversity can be divided into 3 regions, The west region that include Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan also Bali. This is important since Sulawesi had in between life form between the Asian and Australian region. Here the agarwood predominantly are malaccensis mix with grynops, which having a mix smell between western and eastern part of Indonesia, Sweet yet with herbal and spice note. Now let’s discuss the Papuan or the eastern part of Indonesia, they have very distinctive scent, which are herbal and spicy sometimes with dirt smell, since on this region the agarwood species that produce agarwood came from A. Fillaria and Grynops. And about the dirt smell this because it is taken from a buried dead tree under the swamp area, so by time it will leave that dirt note on the wood when you burn it.

I think that’s all I can share you for now. 

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