Hi, I'm Huang Ou. My family has been cultivating agarwood in Dongguan for generations. Growing up, I spent my days in the mountains, surrounded by the scent of agarwood trees. But after college, I craved the outside world. I tried selling machinery, bicycles, and worked in an office—anything to escape the quiet of the forest.

"It's like the scent took me back to my childhood," he said. "I felt calm, like walking in a sunlit forest. It cleared my mind completely."

That moment changed everything. I realized our family's agarwood wasn't just a crop—it was a way to heal. I decided to revive our family craft: using my grandmother's traditional methods to make Dongguan agarwood incense sticks, hoping to help others find peace through nature's power.

Thirty-five years later, that decision has become my life's work. Our small family plantation has grown into a 3,400-acre ecological conservation park, and I've become the fourth-generation national intangible cultural heritage inheritor of this craft. Every stick of incense is still handmade, just as my grandmother did—no chemicals, only the pure scent of Dongguan's agarwood.

I invite you to explore our plantation through the videos and photos below. Come visit us in Dongguan, walk among the agarwood trees, and try your hand at crafting incense the traditional way. Here, in the quiet of the forest, you might just find the peace you've been seeking.