Indonesian Agarwood Grading

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People are misleaded by the word " wood " in agarwood. And thinking it's

must be all agarwood is woodchip. This is not 100% correct and not

100% wrong. Agarwood is an effect on fungal infection, the agarwood

tree produce resin to repel the boarders. The severe the infection the

more resin produced.

In Indonesia the end product of agarwood were classified into 3 major

class:

1. Gubal

What is gubal?

Gubal is the full resin of agarwood wich contain the whole resin with

few or 0 wood fiber. This is very high in price, a professor that is

friend told me that his colleague sold it for 150 Million rupiah a

Kilo equal to US$14K++ to a Kuwaiti guy. So if somebody try to

blackmail you with selling wood chips with very few resin( You can see

it people!) and charge you US$3K/kilo just say to him/her: " Forget

it! " or

advertising they made oil out of US$3K wood chip, just leave him/ her.

Gubal shaped in several kinds:

-Stick (this is not real stick people, it's just long shaped resemble

to stick )

-Paper like(resemble to thin layer)

-Ball

The oudor is super strong even you imprison this baby in a sealed

carton box with strapped duct tape you can still smell it.

Another thing people this gubal if it's AAA class if you put it inside

a jar that contains water, it will surely sink.

2.Kemedangan

Known to be incese grade agarwood, it's in form of both wood and resin.

Huh? Wood and resin? How I ever differ the Kemedangan resin and Gubal

resin?

Hold your horses here.

Let's talk about the wood 1st.

Agarwood wood chip will had brownish or black color from infections

(sometimes white but this is a very rare one)wich indicates it had

resin in it. This ranged from several US$ to several hundred US$/Kilo.

Now gidde up!!

Let's talk about the medang resin, only to trained eye and nose can

differ gubal and medang. What? that hard?

No not that hard actually , kemedangan especially the AB class is a

little lighter in color and lesser oudor and another sign that a resin

is from kemedangan class that it breaks. Unlike the gubal that is

united into a one clump. Kemedangan tends to break and fragile. This

can be arround several hundred US$-several thousand.

3. Abu Gaharu (Agarwood Dust)

When you process splitting the infected wood and non infected wood you

got the ash or the dust. These dust usually use as incese people! that

sold in Ebay or many other sites. This is the lowest grade. Since

this is by product. But don't get mistaken if the seller process wood

with gubal class in it, you get gubal class dust and when they

prrocess medang class from the wood you get medang ash. So the price

may vary.

Ok People thanks for your attention.

Especially for the miss momod(moderator) for allowing me to share this

knowledge.

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