Oud Yusuf

Join Ensar as he guides you through the various stages of healing and repair that determine when wood can be best harvested from the aquilaria tree to produce oils like Oud Yusuf.
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Ensar: We’ve come to our favorite organic cultivation effort in Thailand. This is where Oud Yusuf was distilled from trees that were never cut down. All our artisan does is injure the trees so the resin is triggered then he only merely cuts out the resinated portions allowing the tree to thrive and further grow and yield more resin. As you can see here, what we've done here is drill a hole. This triggers the infection and the resin emission inside the trunk and then gently what he does is carve and chisel all the resinated portions. You can see how the resin here has a unique reddish hue. If you can zoom in here you can see. This is clearer here in this one. Take a look. Look at that resin there. It's like a reddish agarwood. I had this Cambodian oud statue that I have on the website recently that had this same color resin like a reddish resin. It's incredible. So when the tree becomes too sick to stand or when the trunk is totally permeated by resin, what he does is simply shave off the infected and sickly portions allowing the rest to further thrive. You see we have a whole new trunk emanating from the base here. Look how high up that goes. And it's a young trunk that promises more agarwood and more resin. Most farmers, all other farmers would have simply cut this trunk off. It would have yielded whatever oil was inside this portion here and this whole trunk here would have gone to waste. Look at this. This whole trunk here would have been wasted. Look how tall that is and how thin. This just moves me, this kind of dedication and love for this species of tree. It's incredible. So what happens is the tree slowly will heal itself by emitting the resin to fight off the infestation. Look here. You see some nails here that have been put into the tree to induce resin just like the drilling of the holes. It's a beautiful thing. Look at that. Wow!
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