RIP Vietnam Agarwood

Ensar takes a look at the emerging 'oud' industry that will cause, is causing, a lot of confusion among oud lovers.
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Ensar: We're at the airport duty free and right next to the wallets and the Advil you have agarwood bracelets and buddhas carved. Unbelievable!
Here we are at Ho Chi Minh international airport and you've got agarwood and agarwood chips and agarwood powder and agarwood bracelets and every single trinket shop that you find right next to the fake alligator skin wallets and advil and all these things. It's unbelievable. Let's take a look at this other shop. Can we just check out this shop now? There's another shop right next to it.
And here we go. You got incense. You got more incense, agarwood skins and agarwood beads, fake agarwood statues, agarwood coils, fancier agarwood coils. You can understand the extent of the industry of agarwood in Vietnam. I mean it's huge. It's huge. Incredible. Look at this statue[of agarwood]. So you can see why it wouldn't be difficult for someone to come to Vietnam and fly off with a whole bunch of agarwood. It's everywhere. It's an industry. It's not what agarwood used to be. It's a whole other thing. It's a whole other thing.
[At the agarwood dealer's shop]
Ensar: [holding a small piece of agarwood] This is a remarkable piece. Anybody you give this to will be happy burning it. However, if I gave you a piece that looks like this that was harvested thirty years ago, the smell will be, not only notches and notches, it would be stratospherically superior to this smell even though this is already a good smell. Now if I take this and I chop it off and I dust it up and I grind it up, I can make oil that smells fantastic. You all know that. I've done that already with cultivated wood from Thailand. I can cook this artisanally. I can use the very best methods for cooking the most elegant oils and give you something stupendous. I'm never going to tell you that I made this and just because they told me it's wild I'm telling you the same thing. My conscience is clear. This is somebody's produce. This is something he planted with an intention of harvesting at a given date and that's what he got. Okay.
Otherwise, if we had all these wild trees that are producing tons and tons of agarwood coming out of Vietnam, where are all the super pieces? How come there's no black sinking stock that we can buy for love or money? Where is the carving bead quality agarwood? How come nobody can find it? How come it's all coming from Sri Lanka and Kalimantan still? But even there it's diminishing rapidly. This is the status, folks. This is the reality on the ground. I'm not here to kid you. I'm not here to fool you. I've got nothing to sell. It's a product.
Nature does not produce products. Something natural is not a product. It's a phenomenon, something that you harvest and it's like something wonderful because it's not something you can slap a price tag on because it's a wonder of nature. Plantations and farmers, they make products. That's what they do. And this has a by-product, this has a by-product. Which is what? The shavings. The carving dust. And that can be used to make what….oil, incense and many other things. People use it as medicine. People use it as tea. They use it for many, many purposes. There's agarwood soap which is a whole other sector. There are agarwood lotions they're making today. Facial creams and everything. Where do you think it comes from? Do you think it comes from wild centennial trees like they had in 1965? This is not a marketing campaign. Whoever thinks this is a marketing campaign is deluding himself. This is an educational series. This is a documentary. I am documenting the reality on the ground. You can take it or leave it. This is the truth. Thank you very much.
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[@vijayvijaynsnbdbdbhxb]

Wait how is this bad ??? It's better to relax the nature and preserve it by farming it , so natural ones gets preserved and especially deforestation can be avoided , more and more people should be encouraged to grow this , so prices are controlled and deforestation can be reversed

[@Daniel08353]

Precisely

[@pooolish334]

You completely missed the point of the video. This comment should have the pin of shame, honestly. In theory, what you are saying should be the point of harvesting agarwood (wich is what Ensar is doing to this day.) But what Ensar is showing us here is that these agarwood chips, oils, bracelets, etc. Are being sold to the public as 100% authentic *wild* agarwood. Oils being sold as 100% *pure* and *wild*, but are actually very poorly distilled and diluted so that they can get insane amounts of profit. It's an act of deception, the Aquilara trees are being coated with harful fertilizers and crap to make them grow at an abnormal way and are being distilled prematurely while also doing the distillation process in a horrible wrong way. Ensar here is exposing the sacam and is actually trying to help us understand this.

[@HumbleMicheal以仁慈]

Thank you for sharing the reality. I am sad because my father has a plantation of agarwood. In the end of the day , he thinks of money for his retirement income. The essence of agarwood is not about money. But it has become an industry today. It is a harsh reality that have blinded newcomers like us of 10 years. As a son i have got to utilize whats best to make things better. How ? I am not sure. But surely it can happen. Thanks again Mr Ensar for enlightment. Faris, Malaysia

[@greveeen]

Sounds like you feel bad for this or have guilt. You don't have to at all, plantation oud is still a wonderful scent. So what of it's a product? it is what it is. Everyone making and buying wild oud oil and wood in the past years created the market you see today.

[@msmoorad123]

do you have a Whatsapp number?

[@user-lp4ti4on6q]

Hi, my dad also has an agarwood plantation. I would like to know how I can get in touch with you. I am from China and I am very interested in agarwood from your country.

[@kokabfarukh]

The way you explain we can smell it. Love you ensar sir...!!!

[@TheDervish79]

Such real information is hard to get these days. Thank you brother for giving us this review. Wassalam

[@minhnguyenquang7220]

For cheap agarwood to be so readily available yet some companies still have the audacity to sell the synthetic stuff for the cost of an arm and a leg

[@Daniel08353]

Exactly! People will do anything to get away with making more money.

[@abdullahalfarook]

Ma-sha-Allah, the demand of agarwood and it's byproducts are in high demand. This is why people grow them for a few years and sell them for cheaper prices than the old agarwood trees which they harvest for decades which has even greater price which only very few people are able to afford. So these cheaper type of agarwood is for commoners.

[@ultrawidegaming7894]

Nobody else covers this kind of content , thankyou br ensar for your wisdom 🙏

[@bingo000]

There is a poetic quality to your words. Thank you for the info.

[@chezardbinabid2444]

Somebody shared your video with me brother and this what i could say to him and no more..............."Pathetic! Cheap! Low! Petty! Greedy Planet! Thats what we've become! Truly disheartening and sad! I am fumbling for words! I dont know what to say brother, just sad! Love the man though, thoroughly genuine! I wish him well. Did so on his video too." ..........I wish you well and hope you can make a difference.

[@BloodAndIronFan5k0]

The idea of plant-harvest of agarwood is to protect the endangered species of the rainforest trees.. You cannot expect that in nowadays era, you still want to harvest the trees that hv been live for ages.. Considering the extinction of the rainforest day by day.. What we must do is for the seller to not over-claim their product is premium when we know that it is the lower grades..

[@JohmathanBSwift]

Thank you so much for the info.

[@Byzantion]

i create ecosystems unlike plantations there's big diversity of plants and animals that produce high quality sustainable food, herbs and flowers... you can plant also trees for agarwood they will be getting much better nutrition and it will affect the scent just like the fruits have better taste and smell

[@BlueSky-os8yp]

Mr. Ensar u r so honest ....love from Bangladesh

[@ishtiaqahmed-iw4ww]

The heisenberg of oud!

[@alicesmith4639]

A perfect description!

[@adamedoo3765]

Instead of bags of meth he will be holding bags of oud chips, whilst saying the famous line...”what’s my name!”

[@nietzschesmuse]

I love the jazz song on the background. Oud can be like a love hate relationship for the oudh can be delicious or stinky.

[@user-hs9fu7jy9i]

Thank you bro

[@Safar.369]

Appreciate your way of looking into wonder of nature this way Thank you and I will subscribe

[@RajSharma-zo8rq]

Blessings and respect from my side.

[@RajSharma-zo8rq]

You are a Encyclopedia of oud Mr. Ensar.

[@arashghasemi]

Man I can compare you to Sohrevardi or known as شیخ اشراق. Same philosophy school and same elegance on using right words ... I enjoy watching your videos

[@evadidio829]

Ensar, a question: you mean in Sri Lanka you are able to still find wild oud? According to CITES, Malaysia and Indonesia can still export some amounts of wild agarwood, but under strict regulation.

[@joselitolobo5257]

dis her pilipins agarwood..how meny 1klo.per maney..

[@westfalcon6279]

Baraak Allahu feekum, thanks for the benefit.

[@interqward1]

Thank you.

[@muazseker7741]

Great Info; thanks.

[@ShoaibUsmani]

Great piece of info

[@greveeen]

Of course its an industry, and everyone consuming and selling agarwood is a part of it. Is this a bad thing?

[@o2xb]

yes it can be if its not properly regulated especially when you require great age to produce a great oil.If some filthy rich chinese oligarchs buy up all the best agarwood for top dollar either as investment or pleasure, its not like you can just grow it the next year when poachers come to steal your most prized trees without a care in the world for the future of agar wood etc

[@aromafromheaven]

Great video mashallah

[@Badarkhalil999]

thanks for information

[@MuhammadAslam-iu4dq]

Very nice mart

[@abdullahtran4795]

Could you like to see better one?

[@MiguelAGalan-gi5or]

What do you sell ? Products.

[@EnsarOud]

EnsarOud.com

[@wendyshoo3476]

Awesome

[@maxmurphy7306]

Wich country has the best agarwood Brother? Please, thank you

[@paopao9759]

Where is this. I like to visit please tell me what city and the name of shop.

[@davidchin3985]

suneerat metavirat Vietnam airport

[@paopao9759]

Thank you

[@curtbradley549]

This is a piss poor video ??im so confused ..what the F are you telling meeee .Did i miss ??something ! I love the smell of this product in my expensive (im poor by my countrys standards) smell .

[@Zeeshanking7860]

Some false youtubers promoting ouds wgich they bought from new comers in cheap prices as they are selling shit in the name of oud and thats defaming the royality of oud . Oud and mushk are not for everyone , so it must be natural and obtained from natural process . I agree that 90% of people cant buy original oud and mushk .

[@rg85mrismanalbakhiet36]

apakah anda pencinta gaharu atau salah satu penikmat gaharu?

[@Erhan4L]

Luking my chanel agarwood from Indonesia.

[@misokkia2996]

hello

[@kausharalam5880]

👍

[@taesikyun8011]

this vietnam agarwood business make me sick. they are abusing people's need toward rare commodity. I'm not surprised at all. it happens to every rare materials like diamond, gold, gem and so on.

[@linhagarwood9363]

It is the majority of large stores, present throughout Vietnam. But there are also small shops, with high quality products. They do not want to show off

[@RamseytheRam]

Commercialized Agarwood... like the McDonald-ization of Agarwood 🥺

[@syedali2494]

Some peoples still sells Kinam 😂😂 i dont know if it even exist in this world.

[@tonysoyza3296]

Qinan trees is grown in Malaysia now. I understand that Qinan tree is small.

[@tonysoyza3296]

It's being in Malaysia.

[@michaelmuller2017]

Hy! Thank you for the video!!! 👍👌. Wich oud smells mostly like hay or dried grass/countryside. I've heard there is one. Is it Hindi maybe??

[@hietao6387]

I think they believe earth is "flat"

[@EnsarOud]

As is one's olfactory sense of smell if they think organic and wild smell the same...

[@SalmanAhmed-jy5pe]

I interested agor oud

[@ashfakurrahman1912]

Hi

[@edsonbagas750]

It appears like blaming our rainforest for not producing enough agarwood in the wild for your want. You very well know that the supply from wild is scarce to none and illegal to gather. And there is a market for it. Change your tone....

[@leverage2010]

Nothing is wrong with that if they have planted and harvested it. The problem is if they are cutting trees from the forest and maybe people have. I'm the Philippines, people are planting hectares of it in the hopes of making good income someday. If they planted it, great! Nothing is wrong with that?