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Fragrance Du Bois newly launched flagship boutique at the Starhill Gallery in Kuala Lumpur.

Picking a scent that shows one’s desires and state of minds is a sensory treat. French luxury fragrance home Fragrance Du Bois is now set to provide that experience to customers in Malaysia, at its recently introduced flagship store at the Starhill Gallery in Kuala Lumpur.

The Experience
Fragrance Du Bois will certainly take the person on a trip of discovery — the utmost objective being to source, produce, and make manifest the best scent, based upon tastes, feelings and the customer’s self-perception.

“When it pertains to a fragrance, tastes vary from one person to another,” states Nicola Parker, Brand Director of Fragrance Du Bois. “We wish to develop an unique experience for our customers, by including them in the consulting procedure in the development of a scent that they enjoy, which shows their characters. It’s a luxury experience, and one with which our customers now associate us.”.

The Boutique.
Rich, advanced and sophisticated, Fragrance Du Bois’ shop is resplendent in black with gold accoutrements. Developed to show the environment of a special Parisian perfumery, it is the ideal place in which to experience the world of luxury scent.

The Collection.
Fragrance Du Bois provides its trademark Shades Du Bois collection of 8 fragrances, each created to show minutes and experiences through the spectrum of state of minds and colours. For the utmost in exclusivity, a completely custom scent can be developed for a customer by one of Du Bois’ coterie of Master Perfumers.

The Oud.
All Du Bois’ scents are developed utilizing 100 % pure, natural Oud oil of the really greatest quality — provided solely by Asia Plantation Capital and sourced just from their sustainable plantations. Frequently described as ‘liquid gold,’ Oud is removed from the Aquilaria tree, which is belonging to Southeast Asia, and is likewise understood in this part of the world as Agarwood or Gaharu. Du Bois’ trademark Oud is a magical and wonderful compound that reacts, virtually actually, to the individual touch. Its natural purity implies that it will certainly connect somewhat in a different way with each person, developing, in essence, a special scent for every single customer.

Sustainability.
“The chances for Gaharu are ever enhancing, and as a leading business in sustainable plantation management, we guarantee that our harvesting is performed in a sustainable and ethical method,” states Steve Watts, Chief Executive Officer of Fragrance Du Bois Malaysia. He continues, “All the Oud oil is lawfully sourced, and licensed under the CITES contract. This indicates that the strictest ecological and ethical requirements are ensured when it pertains to the planting, gathering and growing of Agarwood and Oud oil.”.

“We extremely applaud Fragrance Du Bois’ strategy of leveraging the wonderful qualities of Oud oil without jeopardizing its values and its social and business obligation,” states Guest of Honour, Tan Sri Dr. Francis Yeoh, Managing Director of YTL Power. “We comprehend that it is still more difficult to keep sustainability and ethical values when fulfilling the needs of the luxury market. Fragrance Du Bois is setting the requirements that numerous others need to follow.”.

Supporting a Good Cause.
Fragrance Du Bois’ mantra is ‘luxury with a conscience’, and the business, together with all its partners, is dedicated to social and business duty. As an outcome of Fragrance Du Bois’ dedication to utilizing just sustainably sourced components, their scents have actually been backed by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

For Oud Amber Intense– a scent produced particularly for Sonia Irvine, creator of the Amber Lounge – 5 % of the earnings from sales goes to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and another 5 % goes to the Brain and Spine Foundation. The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation is one devoted to the security of the environment and was established by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II in 2006.
With the sale of each scent, Fragrance Du Bois and Asia Plantation Capital will certainly grow one Aquilaria tree and one Teak tree, in combination with the Thai Royal Family’s Plant Genetics Programme.

About Fragrance Du Bois.
Fragrance Du Bois is a specific niche luxury fragrance home working carefully with sustainable plantations in Asia, bringing interesting brand-new 100 % natural Oud oil based scents to unique markets worldwide. Sustainably sourcing the finest basic materials around the world, dealing with French perfumers to produce a complete variety of items, as well as supplying custom scent services, Fragrance Du Bois is individual luxury with a conscience. With special scent lounges around the world, in Dubai, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, Fragrance Du Bois produces just the finest experience in custom perfumery. Fragrance Du Bois is referred to as Parfums Du Bois in France and in non-French speaking markets, as Fragrance Du Bois.

About Asia Plantation Capital.
Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of business plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area, and internationally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Their focus is on varied and multicultural plantation jobs tailored to the domestic and industrial needs of the nations where they run.

Working carefully with and supporting regional neighborhoods is a hidden core concept of the APC company, offering cultural and social assistance, in addition to financial investment, to move these neighborhoods far from logging and unlawful logging activities, formerly viewed as a primary income source in some areas of Asia.

Developed formally in 2008, although running independently because 2002, the group now has plantation and farming jobs on 4 continents with functional tasks at numerous phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe. Promoting using licensed wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, securing biodiversity and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector, which pursues quality and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is likewise a method of making sure that no wood from unlawful logging is utilized.

About Amber Lounge.
Amber Lounge was established by Sonia Irvine, sibling of previous Ferrari F1 star Eddie Irvine, and was introduced at the Monaco Grand Prix in May 2003. The facility was easy: the production of a really VIP celebration that showed the beauty and exclusivity of one of the most prominent sporting occasions in the world.

About the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation works for the defense of the environment and the promo of sustainable advancement. The Foundation supports efforts carried out by personal and public organisations within the fields of research study, technological development and activities, to raise awareness of the social concerns at stake.

These 3 sectors are focused in one single environment: the tropical jungles. The ecological effects at stake, for that reason, are substantial, when we understand that the tropical jungles harbour over 75 % of the earth’s biodiversity which their damage is accountable for more than 20 % of greenhouse gas emissions..
As part of its actions to combat versus logging, the Foundation introduced the Wood Forever Pact, to promote making use of wood gathered from sustainably handled forests within the yacht market. Promoting making use of qualified wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, safeguarding biodiversity and combating poverty in the tropical jungle areas.

Asia Plantation Capital presented with ‘Best Forestry Asset Management Team’ Award for 2014

The judges identified Asia Plantation Capital’s contribution to the environment, and acknowledged the business’s devoted and reliable concentrate on sustainability, while at the same time providing outstanding outcomes as a company.

In revealing the award, Capital Finance International stated, “Our winner, Asia Plantation Capital, has tasks throughout 4 possessions and continents possessed or under management that are anticipated to surpass US$ 1 billion in the not too long run. Asia Plantation Capital works sensitively with regional neighborhoods to supply much required financial investment, in addition to cultural and social assistance, in order to dissuade logging and unlawful logging activities. We enjoy to keep in mind that residents used by Asia Plantation Capital are extremely well dealt with and offered with significant chances to enhance their financial potential customers in manner ins which secure and nurture the environments where they live.”.

Developed formally in 2008 (although running independently because 2002) the group now has plantation and farming jobs on 4 continents, with functional jobs at numerous phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, North America and Europe.

Part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group, Asia Plantation Capital (APC) likewise works as plantation and farming supervisors and consultants to a number of Private Equity Funds that concentrate on the forestry, farming, and renewable resource financial investment sectors. To this day, in excess of US$ 600 million worth of plantations and biological possessions are presently had and/or under management on behalf of personal customers, and this is anticipated to increase over the next years, with a near horizon forecast of US$ 1 billion.

At the heart of Asia Plantation Capital’s objective declaration is the objective to end up being the world’s leading operator of sustainably handled forestry and farming plantations. These operations vary from task examination and plantation management, through to forestry item distribution. APC highly relates to business duty as not merely having to do with protecting earnings for financiers and investors, however likewise about contributing favorably to society and the environment.

“We are exceptionally happy that Asia Plantation Capital has actually gotten this award,” stated Mr Barry Rawlinson, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Plantation Capital Asia Pacific. “Sustainability was one of principles at the leading edge of our minds when we began the business, and although there have actually been obstacles along the method, we have actually stuck, steadfastly, to our objective and the values of sustainable practices and developing up the neighborhoods that we are part of.

From the start to the end of the procedure, APC takes certain procedures when getting plantations, and thoroughly creates each succeeding phase to guarantee sustainability. At each stage– from preliminary plantation stock and land option, to the inoculation methods and end processing– systems have actually undergone strenuous clinical analysis and evaluation.

The business is dedicated to research study and advancement, and is continuously establishing and boosting innovations and strategies to broaden the development of the Aquilaria tree, bamboo, teak and other agroforestry jobs in an eco-friendly way. To attain this, Asia Plantation Capital has actually developed a global Board of Scientific Research Advisors, consisted of professionals in the field, and gathered from leading universities.

“We are continuously taking a look at methods to enhance and upgrade our practices with research study from our global Board of Scientific Research Advisors, while constantly welcoming brand-new market advancements and requirements,” stated Mr Rawlinson. “Forestry and agriculture management has a instant and extremely direct influence on the world where we live, and we are constantly cognisant of the important function we play in guaranteeing the sustainability of the environment, and society as a whole.”.

The outcomes of this research study have actually made Asia Plantation Capital the biggest business grower of Aquilaria trees in Southeast Asia, from which APC produces 100 % pure, natural, and sustainable Oud oils for the worldwide scent market, along with the medical and incense markets.
All Aquilaria trees are gathered through a procedure that guarantees sustainability, and offered to the worldwide market with CITES accreditation, to show that the crop is grown, collected and carried in a sustainable and ethical way. The business perseveres in promoting making use of licensed wood and licensed wood items as the very best method which to avoid logging, secure biodiversity and battle poverty in the jungle areas.

In Hong Kong, the previously plentiful Aquilaria tree (which in part provided the island its name, ‘Fragrant Harbour’), has actually virtually been eliminated as a types, with the exception of a little farm on the island. Asia Plantation Capital is presently working carefully with the stated farmer, to reestablish the tree to the island in higher numbers, and to make sure that it is grown and gathered in a sustainable way. It is hoped that in due course, the tree will certainly when again end up being a substantial part of the area’s vegetation.

Another of Asia Plantation Capital’s underlying core company concepts is the commitment to working carefully with neighborhoods, taking them far from logging and the prohibited logging activities that were formerly viewed as a primary income in some areas of Asia. Sustainability is more than simply keeping things green; it’s likewise about buying the neighborhood.
Regional labour is used in all APC’s plantations, and paid significantly above the yearly typical wage in all the nations where they run. Workers work 8-hour days, and take pleasure in adequate pause, and in Sri Lanka (for instance), personnel and their households are offered with complimentary land on which to grow their own crops. Asia Plantation Capital likewise funds staff members in the purchase of their own houses, or in the updating of their existing cottage.

A regulated system of intercropping on plantations is used, guaranteeing that trees are offered with cover and security throughout the early years, by the crops that are grown in between them. All surplus food crops are offered in the regional markets, supplying additional earnings for plantation employees.

Asia Plantation Capital likewise actively takes part in developing the neighborhoods where it runs, by supporting regional education with the arrangement of academic products, and by buying cultural facilities and other vital tasks developed to improve the lifestyle in those neighborhoods.

Asia Plantation Capital (APC) is the owner and operator of a varied variety of business plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area and around the world, and is part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Developed formally in 2008 (although running independently considering that 2002) the group now has plantation and farming tasks on 4 continents, with functional jobs at different phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, North America and Europe.

Promoting making use of qualified and sustainable wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, securing biodiversity, and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector (a significant user of teak) which pursues quality and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is likewise a method of guaranteeing that no wood from prohibited logging is utilized.

APC pleased to reveal the opening of its brand-new, purpose-built Agarwood factoy in Malaysia

Asia Plantation Capital is pleased to reveal the opening of its brand-new, purpose-built Agarwood (gaharu) factory and research study centre, situated in Johor, Malaysia.

A simple 20 minutes drive from the Causeway connect to Singapore, the town of Seri Alam is now host to the cutting-edge center that integrates an Oud oil distillery, a wood chip processing centre, and a scent stick factory. Likewise positioned within the complex is a visitor centre, together with a wholesale factory store equipped with the ever-growing variety of Agarwood items produced by Asia Plantation Capital (APC).

Access to the business’s plantations in Thailand, India and Myanmar were vital aspects, as well as the business’s continuous factory growth in Shenzhen, China. Prepared Oud factories opening in the Middle East situated in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are being established by the business over the next 18 months.

The center is likewise tactically and easily situated in close distance to Singapore– a nation presently ranked as one of Asia’s greatest Agarwood import and export centres– with more than US$ 1.2 billion in approximated trade per year (according to main reports). This provides APC with a leading one-upmanship in regards to its access to a substantial market on its really ‘doorstep.’ This is a future vital element of the planning and place of all the groups factories with China, Northern Asia and the Middle East in between them making up a considerable bulk of existing world sell Agarwood items.

The factory has actually been geared up with the current heat exchange steam purification systems utilizing cleansed water, and a clean energy solar energy system is being set up to make sure optimal financial performance. Sustainable, eco-friendly energy systems are used throughout.

As part of a forward supply contract with China’s biggest merchant of scent sticks, a 300 tonne per year assembly line is likewise being set up, and this will certainly broaden in due course to 600 tonnes per year, to integrate the business’s other places. The center likewise houses a lab for fragrances and important oils, APC inoculation systems production, and MSDS analysis systems.

“We are really delighted to lastly have the ability to take the covers off our cutting-edge Agarwood factory,” stated Steve Watts, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital Berhad, in Kuala Lumpur. “We have actually invested a number of years evaluating the very best all round strategic area, and are delighted to reveal this growth in Malaysia. It’s an outcome of the nation’s steady company environment and forward believing forestry and plantation departments at governmental level, that have actually led us to pick Malaysia and Johor for this strategic factory growth.”.

This is part of an Asia-wide strategic factory and production growth, with a purification factory joint endeavor in China with Hua Lin Group– China’s biggest producer of Agarwood items – as well as strategic development in Thailand into wood chip production and incense production and prepared factories in the Middle East. These systems are not just being made use of by the group to broaden our market share, however is likewise being provided to smaller sized growers and farmers throughout Asia, to aid them in the growing and end processing of Agarwood into an important earnings. As providing systems and understanding, we are providing taken care of ‘purchase backs’ on items made solely from our systems.

Watts went on to state, “The Agarwood plantation market, as we understand, is big and is continuing to grow quickly. The customer market is growing and progressing at a fast rate, and customers are looking for items of regularly high quality with all the appropriate seals of purity, credibility and sustainability.

Watts concluded, “Our items now come specifically with their own individual accreditations– consisting of those from CITES– in addition to EU Product Approvals, Product Safety Data Sheets, IFRA, Certificate of Origin, FDA approval, MSDS analyses, and Shariah Compliant status. Our items, in certain our oils and wood chips, are likewise separately graded by specialists in the field at Thailand’s Prince of Songkla University. By tactically running and possessing cutting-edge, eco-friendly mega factories, sustained by our own plantations and other smaller sized growers, we are now able to provide completion items that the marketplace in fact requires, in regards to quality, rate and consistency.”.

The factory is open and functional for company, with brand-new assembly line being commissioned in the coming months. The visitor centre will certainly be opening in April 2015, together with a wholesale factory store and Agarwood item display screen library.

Asia Plantation Capital Patchouli Oil has been certified as superior grade

Asia Plantation Capital has actually been developing sustainable, natural, Patchouli oil production on its plantations for the in 2013. Patchouli oil is extracted from the leaves of the perennial patchouli bush (which grows back) enabling the leaves to be collected, sustainably, every 3 to 4 months.

The current harvest and production of Patchouli oil, by Asia Plantation Capital, on its plantations in Sri Lanka has actually been certified as superior grade by independent experts at the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI), Colombo.When analysed by means of mass spectrometry by the ITI, samples of our oil checked favorable for the major substances of Patchouli oil.

Of these compounds, Patchouli alcohol is the major constituent which determines the quality of the oil. Consequently, the price of the Patchouli oil highly depends upon the ratio of Patchouli alcohol present in the oil. Spectrometry results plainly show the high content of patchouli oil (0.53 %) and patchouli alcohol (54.56 %) in the oil sample which was taken after the purification procedure. A patchouli alcohol content of over 30 % is considered outstanding quality.

These outcomes reveal that the growing of patchouli for office oil extraction in Sri Lanka is a viable recommendation.This is a significant advancement for Asia Plantation Capital in Sri Lanka. We currently cultivate Patchouli in Thailand and are now preparing to follow our success in the production of high quality Oud oil with huge scale production of Patchouli; for Sri Lanka, this can be especially helpful as it can create a new, high quality crop to increase exports and the rural economy.

Lalith Ganlath, Attorney for Asia Plantation Capital in Colombo, says, “It’s a pleasure to see the tough work of the Sri Lankan, Asia Plantation Capital team paying off in Sri Lanka, on the back of plantation jobs which the Company operates in other parts of South East Asia, and assisting to contribute research and development to the country’s farming export markets. I am extremely eager to assist promote this job and encourage out-growers to cultivate the Patchouli, which can enter into their existing agroforestry earnings. It will also help maximise land usage and returns for rural farmers, with Asia Plantation Capital concurring to redeem the dry leaves which can be collected every 3 months.”.

Asia Plantation Capital already has its own distribution offices, retail shops and storage facilities in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the USA, supplying the market. It is well set to end up being a major provider of sustainable Patchouli oil, traceable to the source of production– Patchouli oil is one of the most widely made use of oils in the global Fragrance market and has a forecast market value of over $46 billion in 2018 (Source: Industry Analyst’s Inc.). Surprisingly, Patchouli oil is one of the couple of natural essential oils which can not be recreated in any high quality, artificially, for use in perfumes; making the need for this outstanding oil fairly assured.

Over the next year, the Company intends to establish over 5,000 acres of Patchouli fields using a combination of their own lands in South East Asia and out grower plans in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia. All production for the plantations will be provided with Certificate of Origin, Certificate of Analysis (CofA), Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for exports and Flow of Processing and Product Specification. In addition, the oil will be packaged under the Group’s perfume brand, “Fragrance Du Bois” and branded, “Patchouli Du Bois” as an additional stamp of guaranteed quality — which has actually been a key to the success in globally marketing the Company’s other necessary oils such as Oud (agarwood) as well as infected wood chips.

Notes to Editors:.
About Asia Plantation Capital.

Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied range of industrial plantation and farming businesses throughout the Asia-Pacific region; internationally, it is part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Established officially in 2008 (although operating independently because 2002) the group now has plantation and agricultural jobs on 4 continents, with functional jobs at various phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.

Promoting the use of qualified wood is the best way of avoiding deforestation, safeguarding biodiversity and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector, which makes every effort for excellence and which is currently associated with environmental efforts, this is likewise a way of guaranteeing that no wood from prohibited logging is utilized.

Medicinal Benefits Of Agarwood Could Be Helping Worldwide Pharmaceutical Business?

Standard Chinese Medication (TCM) currently has a vital function for agarwood where it is made use of to alleviate spasms and discomfort, deal with the digestion system, control the important organs (heart, lungs, liver), and to lower and reroute energy levels to support the kidneys. It is likewise made use of to deal with tightness in the chest, stomach discomfort, throwing up, diarrhoea and asthma.

In a brand-new financial investment programme Asia Plantation Capital is engaging numerous academics in Southeast Asia to check out the science behind these medical applications. They intend to determine essential locations for important analysis and ultimate preclinical trials, an essential procedure to acquiring approval and approval by medical authorities in Europe and America.

According to information supplied by the Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy there are 47 legitimate production licences for ready TCM items consisting of agarwood powder as an active ingredient. Amongst these over 80 % of the products include less than 6 % of agarwood in each dose. With the natural procedures made use of on our agarwood plantations Asia Plantation Capital is well positioned to assist worldwide pharmaceutical business, particularly as they continue their search for brand-new medications to fight acknowledged conditions and enhance research study on the global element of brand-new contagions.”.

In Thailand Asia Plantation Capital has actually been dealing with Prince Songkhla University where Prof. Pakamas Chetpattananondh is leading their attack on driving modification from TCM to acknowledged international clinical approval, with certain concentrate on anti-oxidant buildings of agarwood.

Asia Plantation Capital is currently producing agarwood tea utilizing leaves from chosen natural agarwood plantations in Thailand and Sri Lanka. In 2013 saw them introduce agarwood rice including dietary supplements established from processed plantation agarwood trees. For some moderate skin problem they are likewise offering an ingenious agarwood soap.

At the 1st International Scientific Symposium on Agarwood (ISSA) in September 2013 the laxative building of agarwood leaves was verified and Japanese scientists revealed the impending launch of an associated item. Agarwood leaf extracts are understood to have antipyretic, laxative and antimicrobial activities.

Barry Rawlinson continues, “It is not just China where agarwood has actually been made use of in medications for more than one thousand years, conventional usages extend throughout Asia and into India within Ayurveda, even the Middle East where agarwood chips and Oud oil have a long recognized high value market. At Asia Plantation Capital we are working to bring this cultural heritage forward medically based upon sound ecological practices.”.

About Asia Plantation Capital.
Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of office plantation and farming companies throughout the Asia-Pacific area, and internationally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Developed formally in 2008, although running independently because 2002, the group now has plantation and farming jobs on 4 continents with functional tasks at different phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.
Promoting making use of licensed wood is the very best method of avoiding logging, securing biodiversity and fighting poverty in the tropical jungle areas. For the yacht sector, which pursues quality and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is likewise a method of guaranteeing that no wood from unlawful logging is made use of.