The Philippines is home to one of the world's rarest and most valuable trees. UAPI is building a legal, scalable, and science-backed agarwood industry – and opening it to partners.
How to Become a PartnerAgarwood is among the most valuable natural commodities on earth – prized for millennia across the Middle East, East Asia, and beyond for its fragrance, cultural significance, and therapeutic properties. Demand continues to outpace supply.
Today's major markets span the incense, luxury perfume, and traditional medicine sectors, concentrated in the Middle East, China, Europe, and the United States.
The heartwood of Aquilaria trees has been burned in ritual and ceremony for thousands of years. In traditional Chinese medicine and Islamic practice alike, agarwood smoke is considered purifying, grounding, and medically potent. Grading is primarily based on resin density and aromatic profile. The Middle East remains the world's single largest incense market.
The resin of stressed agarwood trees produces one of nature's most complex and coveted fragrances – warm, woody, and impossible to fully replicate synthetically. Oud oil sits at the top tier of global perfumery, commanding prices that rival gold by weight. Every major luxury fragrance house in the world uses it.
Iba Botanicals, the parent company of UAPI, is the pioneer of the production of premium Philippines botanical extracts to global markets; its products are used by some of the most notable fine fragrance brands globally. These are the same brands that covet premium – and legal – Philippines agarwood oils.
Across traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, agarwood has been prescribed for centuries to support digestion, ease pain, calm the nervous system, and treat a range of chronic conditions. Modern pharmacological research is beginning to validate what traditional practitioners have long known.
Our Reach
To see is to believe. We invite our partners to visit our plantations – to walk the rows, inspect the trees, and speak directly with the people who grow them. A plantation visit is the best due diligence you can do.
During a visit, you will see firsthand the scale of our operations, the quality of our seedling stock, the rigor of our husbandry practices, and what a legally compliant, professionally managed agarwood plantation actually looks like.
Get in Touch
Head Office
Richville Corporate Tower Unit 1502/1503, 1107 Alabang Zapote Road Madrigal Business Park, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila 1781 Philippines
Phone Number
+63 967 265 4867