How to distinguish agarwood? How to identify agarwood

There are three ways to identify agarwood.

Agarwood must be stored in a dry place and away from direct sunlight. If it accidentally gets wet, be sure to dry it with a dry cloth as soon as possible and let it dry naturally, not with heat.

The synthesis cycle of agarwood resin is very long, and it takes 10-20 years to synthesize artificially, and only low resin content agarwood can be produced. Fine agarwood is not easy to obtain and is becoming more and more expensive, so you need to be careful when buying.

One look: generally agarwood is black and brown, raw is as color as ink, ripe as heavy as gold, Qi Nan is as strong as gold, moist as jade, fragrant as honey. Otherwise, it's a fake.

Second smell: This is the most important means of identification, the general smell of agarwood at first smells like some kind of familiar medicinal smell, but after a careful smell, I can't remember what the smell is. The main means of smelling agarwood are:"Drill", that is, the taste of real agarwood is drilled into the nose along a thread-like path, to confirm this, as long as you light the live agarwood and carefully look at the path of its smoke, you will know that the smoke is emitted.

Three touches: The real agarwood is darker and brighter the more you wear it. The second-grade water agarwood looks like it has a layer of oil, but it doesn't get dirty to the touch, and it won't be oily.

If it is a fake, there will be a mark on the hand. Now there are also fake agarwood made of sesame oil with mixed wood soaking potion on the market, and the sinking water does not necessarily mean that it is genuine.

Good agarwood generally has oil spots, and the oil spots will be on the surface, but the hand "touches", but it is not greasy or dirty, if there are oil marks on the hand after touching, it is mostly a fake. This must have bought the incense supreme agarwood customers have a deep experience, their agarwood is like I said, it looks like the oil does not touch the hand oil, it is very magical.

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Ordinary identification: the most confusing "cottage agarwood" on the market is imitated by crocodile wood, which is similar to the agarwood texture and color. To this end, Mr. Zhou has summarized a four-step simple identification method for true and fake agarwood based on his years of experience

At a glance, that is, the material is in the hand, it is necessary to see whether its texture (that is, the oil line) is clear, and whether the color is the same, because natural things cannot be without flaws, and often the color of artificial things will be similar, and the perception is more perfect.

Second, rub the surface of the agarwood with your hands, if the surface of the real agarwood will have an oily stickiness and a cold feeling, the fake agarwood does not have. Then feel its weight with your hands, the oil content is proportional to the actual weight, the higher the oil content, the heavier the weight, the less oil content, the lighter the weight.

Three smells, natural agarwood is the most true and pure incense given by nature, and the origin of different fragrances will be different, the taste of pure natural agarwood modern high-tech can not be copied, the vast majority of fake agarwood is processed with agarwood juice or chemical essence by pressing, squeezing, filling, steaming and other methods, so smelling its taste is always not the only fragrance. Natural agarwood smells it with your nose, and the more you smell it, the more you want to smell it, and fake agarwood is the opposite.

Four burning, after the above three steps can not distinguish the true from the false, then we use the method of direct burning with an open flame to smell its taste, or use an electric incense burner to take a small piece of it to smoke directly, then the true or false will suddenly realize, the true agarwood is mellow and single, and the fake agarwood often has a chemical flavor or a relatively turbid non-agarwood fragrance.