How to distinguish the authenticity of agarwood?

How to distinguish the authenticity of agarwood requires a pair of discerning eyes, and it also needs to have professional knowledge to guide. When I have time, I often chat with the ** customer service of Xiang Supreme, and I know a lot of agarwood knowledge, and it should not be a big problem to identify agarwood.

With the rapid development of agarwood, fakes continue to emerge, and the current agarwood market can be described as mixed. In order to obtain huge profits, some unscrupulous businesses try all kinds of means to deceive consumers. Many merchants use agarwood to pass off as agarwood, deceiving many consumers.

There are also agarwood from Vietnam, Indonesia and other real estate to pass off as high-grade agarwood produced in Hainan, China, and make huge profits from it. Some even use chicken bone incense or instant incense to make vegetarian beads, and coat their surface with Qi Nan's paste to confuse consumers. Below my wood network teaches you how to distinguish the authenticity of agarwood.

Agarwood can generally be divided into six categories according to its natural conditions: earth sinking, water sinking, inverted frame, ant sinking, living sinking and white wood. Generally speaking, the darker the color and the denser the texture, the better the quality.

Four ways to identify the authenticity of agarwood A "look": "raw is as colorful as ink, ripe is heavy as gold", black brown and shiny agarwood is better. Since agarwood is a condensation of a mixture of oil and wood components on the surface of the tree, it is often possible to see the translucent oil.

And the higher the oil content, the better the condition, and the more valuable it is to invest. 2. "Smell": Generally, agarwood has the fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine.

The reason why agarwood is favored by the market is that the unique and elegant aroma is very important. At present, the key to counterfeiting is also to imitate its aroma, but artificial incense is more pungent, and there is no natural aroma of agarwood, which is mellow and sweet, and the fragrance is bursting. Three "touch":

Agarwood looks like it has a layer of oil, but it is not dirty to the touch, and it does not feel greasy. If it is a fake, most of them will touch dark oil stains. Four "Try":

Look at whether it sinks or not, because the real agarwood has a heavier texture, it generally sinks when it enters the water. However, there are fakes made of sesame oil with mixed wood soaking potions on the market, and they can sink when they enter the water, so they cannot be judged by weight alone. Therefore, it can also be smoked by an open flame or an electric incense burner to distinguish it from the smell and bursting situation. Satisfied.

There are 4 simple ways to distinguish the authenticity of agarwood: look at the color, look at the texture, look at the gloss, and smell the aroma.

1. Look at the color: there are many colors of agarwood, which can be divided into black, green and yellow, and the best Qi Nan color in agarwood is mostly white, yellow, black, purple, red, green, etc., the origin and quality of agarwood are different according to different colors, and the soil in which it grows and the oil that bears the incense has a lot to do with it, so please pay attention when buying.

2. Look at the texture: Shen Xiang ornamentation generally refers to the grease line, which is an important basis for proving whether the agarwood is not, the boundary between the grease and the wood is very clear, the general wood structure is disordered, it is necessary to pay attention to the uneven distribution of agarwood between the wood and the oil, the grease line is not necessarily black, mainly dark brown or brown, the more grease lines, the thicker the agarwood texture, the better, the more, the worse the no grease line.

3. Look at the gloss: the fragrance of agarwood is oil, agarwood has high luster and dark color, indicating that the oil is rich, if you see the agarwood oil line on the market is very deep, the overall look is dark and dull, it looks flat and dry, then it is not the real agarwood.

4. Smell the aroma: agarwood, mainly its special fragrance, there are many kinds of agarwood fragrance, each agarwood may contain a variety of fragrances, for example, the sweet fragrance may have a cool feeling after returning to the line, the fragrance of agarwood is elegant, there are also rich, according to the different origins, the fragrance of agarwood is also different, but it is definitely not a strong fragrance, it will not be pungent and not very strong, if there is that kind of agarwood, you must pay attention.

The correct way to care for agarwood

1. Suitable temperature: the oil content of agarwood is high, and if the temperature is too high, it will lead to a large amount of volatilization of agarwood oil, causing damage to agarwood and reducing the life of agarwood. Generally speaking, the most suitable temperature for storing agarwood is 18-21°C.

2. It should not be wet: try not to let the agarwood get wet, especially the agarwood with a high oil content, and it should not be soaked in water, otherwise it will be easy to crack.

3. Avoid collision: The texture of agarwood is soft, and in the usual maintenance, it is necessary to pay attention to avoid collision with some hard objects, and to prevent the agarwood bracelet from falling directly to the ground. When playing with agarwood products, you must be careful not to be scratched by sharp objects.

4. Don't smear oil: often oil and wax for the bracelet, can not better protect the agarwood, in fact, it is completely unnecessary to do so, on the contrary, it also covers the original aroma of agarwood, so that it causes unnecessary damage.

5. It is not suitable to play: Playing and repeatedly rubbing the agarwood bracelet is easy to quickly form a layer of slurry on the surface of the agarwood beads, which hinders the normal divergence of the aroma of agarwood.

6. Avoid taste: Agarwood is easy to be contaminated with the taste of the world, when there is a smell on your hands (cooking, chopping vegetables, ginger, garlic, smoke, etc.), do not touch it directly, it will affect the aroma of agarwood; If you go to a place where you smoke or drink, or eat hot pot or barbecue, you should put it away before wearing it.