Besides different forms of agarwood, be it solid thin
pieces, have you collected some Agarwood tree bark for your
daily fumigation needs?
Look at the photo below, this is
one natural resin formation of the tree bark of Malaccensis
Agarwood tree, you can easily find wild and cultivated agarwood
tree barks, but for safety reasons, always go for the natural
ones :)
For one large agarwood tree, there are alot of tree bark
coming out, most of the time, everyone focus on the higher
resinated agarwood like agarwood heartwood, which is inside the
tree, some agarwood shells/ears near the visible region and etc.
The agarwood tree bark actually has very good scent if
it is of higher quality, certain sinking grade tree barks are
worth for collection, most of the ordinary ones are for
distillation, some thin pieces may be good for grinding into
powder, the powder can then be use for incense making and also
use on electric burner.
I have grinded quite a number of high quality sinking tree
bark into fine powder form for my own fumigation needs, some are
given to good friends for private usage. Not sure about other
vendor's tree bark powder, but mine has a very light and sweet
notes, a bit similar to Highland Papua mild notes on certain
temperature.
Most of the agarwood tree barks you find on the market are
non sinking, wild natural sinking grade are better for
collection. Cultivated skin are of course easily available, some
are sinking grade too.
Doing some google search, it will
give you tons of dark color cultivated agarwood skin or agarwood
tree bark, many of them are painted black and added extra oil to
produce that glossy bright feel like waxy coating apples :)
There are many ways of producing thin slices of agarwood
skin/tree bark in cultivated agarwood farms but whether it is
safe for usage, it is up to the readers to judge. If you happen
to light up some cultivated wood and discovered huge amount of
black smoke bursting out, maybe it is not suitable for brewing
tea :)
My suggestion is to buy wild agarwood tree bark
skin, especially those which are not painted to look darker in
color, agarwood tree bark in natural brown colors are safer
choice if you are not familiar in spotting those modified pieces
which are available widely in markets. Natural ones with "little
3d spots" are also good for collection too :)