Chinese agarwood, sold by the grove that grew it.
Kynam, Southeast Asian oud, and Aquilaria sinensis - the Chinese species almost no overseas buyer has properly met. Cultivated, distilled and rolled at our own base in Dianbai, the historic heartland of Chinese agarwood.
Six zones, not six price points
These are different materials with different buyers, not a ladder of one product. Start where your market is.
Kyara Kynam
The house top line. Kynam (奇楠 / Kyara in the Japanese kodo canon) is the resin-saturated heartwood that forms only under rare fungal infection - soft enough to be cut with a knife, sweet eno…
Premium Oud
Southeast Asian Aquilaria, distilled for the Middle Eastern palate. Denser, darker and more animalic than Chinese Sinensis - this is the oil that reads as 'oud' to a Gulf buyer. Offered in S…
Chinese Sinensis
Aquilaria sinensis - the Chinese species, and the one almost no overseas buyer properly meets. Where Southeast Asian oud shouts, Sinensis whispers: cool, floral, faintly medicinal, with a sw…
Huian Collection
Huian is the old merchants' name for the central Vietnamese coast - the reference point every serious collector measures red soil against. Fusen red soil is the benchmark: wood buried in lat…
Trial Sets & Gift Boxes
Nobody commits to a full tola of kynam oil on a photograph. These sets exist to get real material into a buyer's hands: small-format samplers, regional flights, and pairing boxes that put an…
Accessories
The hardware that makes the material behave: porcelain holders for sticks, brass mica burners for bakhoor, and a low-temperature electric warmer for oils that should never meet a flame.
Where most buyers start
If you are not sure yet, these three answer the question fastest.
Discovery Oil Quartet
Hainan Wormhole Sinensis Incense
Red Soil Kynam Incense
The zone nobody else is showing you
Aquilaria sinensis is the Chinese species. Southeast Asian oud is dense and animalic; Sinensis is cool, floral and faintly medicinal. Serious collectors who have only met Vietnamese material are usually surprised by it - which is exactly why it is worth a separate zone on your shelf.
We grow it before we sell it
KYARA HOUSE is built on a simple difference: most agarwood traders buy wood, we grow it. Our groves sit in Dianbai District, Maoming - the county that has produced Chinese agarwood for centuries and today hosts the country's largest concentration of Aquilaria cultivation. That means we can tell you which grove a batch came from, when it was inoculated, and how long it rested before distillation. It also means the supply does not depend on someone else's harvest.
We do not claim to be the cheapest source in China, and we will not sell you material we cannot document. What we offer is traceable grade, consistent batches, and the paperwork that actually clears customs - which, for agarwood, is the part most suppliers get wrong.
Where the word kyara comes from
Kyara is the Japanese reading of 伽羅, a Chinese transliteration of Sanskrit. Two roots are proposed: kālāguru — kāla (black) + aguru (agarwood), the black agarwood — and tagara, a precious fragrant wood. Either way the word travelled the same road: Sanskrit → Middle Chinese → Japanese, then came back into Chinese as 奇楠 (qí nán), the name you already know.
One honest note for buyers who know the trade: in the Japanese system kyara classically means Vietnamese and Southeast Asian material. What we grow in Dianbai is Aquilaria sinensis — the Chinese species, cultivated, not wild-harvested. We write cultivated kyara because that is exactly what it is: the same grade of resin, a different tree, a documented grove. With wild stock exhausted and CITES closing in, that is not a compromise. It is the only supply that will still be legal in ten years.
The paperwork is the business
Every Aquilaria species is listed in CITES Appendix II. Without a valid permit, agarwood does not leave China - not as wood, not as chips, not as oil. We handle the full chain: cultivation and harvest records, provincial endangered-species office approval, CITES export permit, phytosanitary certificate, and customs declaration. Plan on 90 days from order to permit in hand, and start the process on day one rather than the day you get an order.
Cultivation & inoculation records
Plantation registration, tree age, inoculation date and method. This is the document everything else is built on - without it, no permit will be issued.
Harvest & batch record
Harvest date, grove block, raw weight, grade assessment. Each batch gets a number that follows it through distillation, bottling and export.
Provincial endangered-species office
Application to the provincial office under the National Forestry and Grassland Administration. This is the step that takes calendar time and cannot be rushed.
CITES export permit
Issued per shipment, tied to species, quantity and destination. The importer in your country needs their own import permit - confirm this before you order.
Markets we serve
Middle East (Gulf)
Buys density and room-fill. Bakhoor is burned daily, not saved. Wants dark, sweet, animalic oils and will pay for kynam without negotiating hard. Ramadan and Eid are the calendar - order 90 days ahead.
Japan
Buys restraint and provenance. Kyara (伽羅) is a word with six centuries behind it, so accuracy of grade is not a marketing detail - it is the product. Small quantities, high expectations, long relationships.
Europe & North America
Buys clean and traceable. Heavy animalic oud can be a hard first impression here; Sinensis and lighter oud grades sell more easily. Documentation, IFRA alignment and sustainability story matter more than price.
Southeast Asia & China-region
Buys grade literacy. These buyers already know wormhole from lengyan and bantou from red soil - descriptions must be precise or you lose credibility in one sentence.