KyaraZen - Laos Vietnam Soil Agarwood 2 Hour coils - I purchased these in early April of 2024, they weren't around for all that long, but man what a deal they were, I picked up 2 boxes, each for I think 59 USD which for 50 grams of this region and type of agarwood isn't too shabby! Apparently these were buried pieces of Laos and Vietnam woods, which were buried on purpose and then taken out, dried and milled into these coils.
They have an iconic chocolate milk sort of aroma to them even unlit. While burning you get the most pungent blast oudyness, the smoke sticking to your clothes with an matched tenacity. In fact that's what shocked me today, I broke off a 10 minute piece perhaps, and at the end, it was as if I had fumigated my room with woods and charcoal! It was actually too strong even for me. They don't really fall into the soil agarwood profile I've come to expect, but utility wise a brilliant product. I don't know whether to put this into the Laos camp or Vietnam in terms of scent, nor do I know the composition percentages, but I was really happy with these being a new innovation in "creating" soil agarwood, to whatever degree it might have been successful, part of me is very happy with tinkerings which might promise sustainability. While I'd need to burn more before I can compare them, they seem similar to one of my favorite sticks of all time, Aroma Sublime's Gold Seal Premium Aged Agarwood.
