stackyFACTSThe perfume industry is incredibly obsessed with dying trees. Aquilaria trees only produce the highly sought-after oud resin as a defense mechanism when infected by a specific mold. Undamaged trees are entirely worthless, meaning farmers actively orchestrate botanical disease to harvest luxury fragrances.
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