Aloeswood The Agarwood oil from this tree is strong, resinous , very tenacious and has a base note of a smokey, leather, earthy, woodsy and somewhat masculine in nature. Works best with spices such as Cinnamon and Myrrh as in Psalms 45:8. The Persians in that day delighted in combinations of rose and aloeswood combinations, which in our day they call OUD. The significance of aloes wood for us is that of Christs kingly burial. Aloes wood was costly and only royalty could be embalmed in such extravagance as 100 pounds of myrrh and Aloeswood. The Aquilaria tree produces a fragrant resin only when it damaged or responds to a natural parasitic fungal or mold attack. In contemporary cultivation the trees are deliberately wounded to make them more susceptible to the fungal attack which produces the resin, however this produces a inferior resin. The fungus and decomposition process naturally over time generates a very rich and dark resin forming within the heartwood. This is a very slow process that can take several hundred years. That is why this oil is so rare and so costly and is fit for a King. How does this relate to Christ and the church or todays Esthers? Sin could be called a fungus or parasitic infestation which infected man kind. This has proven to be leathal and must be cleansed or removed. The only problem is you can not remove the infection without killing the tree. So God had to devise a way to protect the tree from complete death and ultimate extinction. So He fiiled the heart of man (tree) with His spirit (resin) so as to protect "the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord". Christ came in the guise of sinful flesh, He who knew no sin became sin for us. He took our death so that He could fill us with His protective Spirit. Nu 24:6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. Ps 45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. Pr 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. So 4:14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: Joh 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. P> Strongs: H174 אהלות אהלים 'ăhâlîym 'ăhâlôth a-haw-leem', a-haw-loth'   (The second form, which is feminine, is used only in the plural); of foreign origin; aloe wood (that is, sticks): - (tree of lign-) aloes.