The bamboo charcoal came very nicely packed. It appears to be from Korea, and the packaging is very decorative. The actual bamboo are surprisingly metallic, not charcoal-like. It looks great displayed in the top of the cannister it came in, as well in a vase. But, I'm not quite sure if it works, at least to the extent that the writing on the packaging states. It stated that the bamboo absorbs odor, great for your health, etc... releases negative ions and a lot of other scientific mumbo jumbo that are highly questionable. But hey, it looks great as decoration, and if it works as stated, then even better.