As far as I'm concerned, oud (pronounced ood), a by-product of fungal infestation of the south-east Asian Aquilaria tree, qualifies. Oud is Arabic for wood, and describes Agarwood, a resinous extract ...

Hong Kong customs has made its largest seizure of protected agarwood in more than two decades, discovering one tonne (2,205lbs) of the tree bark worth HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) in a sea ...

they can look at an Aquilaria tree and predict whether it has agarwood inside or not. Ants bore into the tree trunk, causing a wound and bringing in the microorganisms, bacteria, fungus spores ...

Customs officers on Thursday said they had arrested a 35-year-old woman who is suspected of smuggling a tonne of agarwood into Hong Kong from Nansha. It was the largest seizure of agarwood in ...

So what exactly makes Louis Vuitton’s use of oud so special? Oud itself is derived from agarwood, a type of fungus-ridden wood in an otherwise healthy tree that, when left to sit for numerous, ...