The essential oil is a highly demanded ingredient in deluxe perfumery for its warm, unique balsamic notes with sandalwood-ambergris tonalities. The precious, expensive, fragrant agarwood has been used for centuries as incense in Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Islamic ceremonies and it also plays an important role in Chinese Traditional Medicine for obvious medicinal effects as a sedative and carminative, and to relieve gastric problems, coughs, rheumatism and high-fever.
The incenses and perfumes that are produced from agarwood have been valued for centuries and used by many cultures for spiritual, opulent, and aphrodisiac purposes.