Agarwood regional atlas: Hui-an & Xingzhou

Build the mental map for "knowing a region by its aroma".

Illustrative map (points are representative regions; the final version is a hand-drawn vector map).

Comparing the two families

Indonesia is a core Xingzhou source with mellow, lasting notes across many islands.

Pursat agarwood is noted for clean sweetness and strong penetration.

Vietnam is the core Hui-an region — Nha Trang is cool and sweet, Hui-an elegant.

Hainan agarwood has high historical status, elegant notes and geographical-indication protection.

Represented by the Malay Archipelago, mellow with creamy and medicinal notes.

Covering Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Hainan, known for sweet and cool notes.

Tiny output but top-tier; cool-sweet with floral and faint milky notes—a Singapore-system pinnacle.

Cambodia (ancient Chenla) agarwood, especially from Pursat, is cool-sweet-flowery and Hoi An-class.

Laos (Champasak) agarwood is cool-sweet and restrained, close to Vietnamese Hoi An style.

Divided into Peninsular (West) and Borneo (East) Malaysia—sweet-cool and elegant within the Singapore system.