The varieties of agarwood, there are several varieties of agarwood, which is the best

Imported agarwood: also known as full agarwood, is a wood containing black resin for plant agarwood. It is mainly produced in India, Malaysia and other countries.

Domestic agarwood: also known as Hainan agarwood, Hainan agarwood, white wood incense, guan incense, daughter incense, soil agarwood. It is a wood containing black resin for the fragrance of the plant white wood. It is mainly produced on Hainan Island.

Ganan incense: also known as Qi Nan Xiang, Qi Nan, Qi Nan, and Ganan Shen. It is a wood with a high resinous content near the roots of the plant, white wood or agarwood.

Green oil canaan: It is a greenish-brown canaan incense with a greenish-brown appearance.

Purple oil canaan: It is a purple-brown canaan incense with a purple-brown appearance.

Helmet agarwood: also known as helmet sinking. Most of the imported agarwood medicinal materials are in the shape of helmets, so the name is helmet sinking.

The varieties of agarwood can be divided according to the place of origin, according to the color, according to the oil, according to the specific gravity of the balsam, according to the state of the incense, according to the evolution process and causes of the incense, according to the grade, according to the region, according to the form, etc.

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There are six types of agarwood, and water is the best.

There are six types of agarwood: inverted frame, water sinking, soil sinking, ant sinking, living sinking, and white wood. Among them, water sinking is the best.

1. The inverted agarwood is inverted in the soil or water, after a certain degree of fermentation and decay, most of the unoiled xylem is decomposed, leaving a small amount of oil-bearing agarwood, which is called inverted agarwood. To put it simply, the trees that can form agarwood due to age and related natural factors, after lodging, after dozens of hundreds of years of wind and rain, the remaining part of the agarwood that does not decay is inverted.

2. Water sinking is the best agarwood in addition to Qi Nan and inverted shelves, and it is also the agarwood with the highest frequency in the market. There are two theories about the definition of water sinking, one is that according to Taiwanese practitioners, the incense is buried in the swamp after lodging, and then biodecomposed, and then fished up from the swamp area, which is to sink for the water. Another saying is that agarwood contains enough oil, the specific gravity is greater than water, and it can sink into water, so it is called water sinking.

3. The incense formation process of soil sinking is similar to that of water sinking, the difference is that it is buried in the soil. The boundary between soil and water is not very obvious, and if you insist on dividing it, it is only the difference in efficacy and taste. For example, soil sedimentation evolves from dry soil, which is yang, hot and dry, and has the effect of warming and lowering qi, while water sedimentation is soaked in moisture all year round, which is yin, mild, and has the miraculous effect of warming the kidneys.

The taste of earth sinking will be more mellow than that of water sinking.

4. Ant sinking is that the agarwood tree is artificially cut down when it is alive, and after falling to the ground by termites, the remaining part is ant sinking. There is also a theory that most of the ant sins are not caused by termites, but the agarwood trees that have been cut down artificially after being bitten by insects still have the vitality to secrete resin to heal wounds, and these resins combine with insect secretions to produce agarwood formed by fungal infection.

5. When the agarwood tree is still alive, it is obtained by artificially making incense mining, and the tree does not die naturally, but is still alive and alive, so the agarwood is called living Shen. To put it simply, the agarwood directly obtained from the cutting of living trees is the living sinking. Due to the lack of mellowing time, the oil content is less, and some of them will have a trace of log smell when burning.

6. The white wood is less than ten years old and has a slight aroma. There is also a saying that the agarwood trees that have not yet produced incense are collectively called white wood. The value of white wood is relatively low, so I won't repeat it here.

Water sinking, water sinking with high grease content is generally darker in color, and the texture is moist, and it is easy to ignite, and you can also see the boiling sinking oil when burning. "Water sinking" refers to putting a piece of agarwood into a container with enough water to sink to the bottom. This level of agarwood has an extremely high oil content, and it takes tens or hundreds of years, or even thousands of years of incense, to achieve, and it is also quite high.

The best varieties of agarwood are agar, Vietnamese agarwood, Indian agarwood, Chinese agarwood, Indonesian Kalimantan agarwood, etc.

1. Agar

Agar refers to the agarwood in Hainan region, the agarwood color in Hainan is dark, the aroma is natural, in addition to Hainan in China, most of Southeast Asia has the growth of agarwood, the wood color is diverse, the aroma is strong, and the wood has the material that can be used to make wood carving bracelets.

2. Vietnamese agarwood

Vietnam agarwood is referred to as the more Shen, from the discovery to the present, the history is relatively short, about 100 years, more than 100 years, more than shipped to China for use, the more Shen aroma and the sea sink is somewhat similar, fresh and natural, the wood texture is softer, the oil is thin, is an excellent raw material for spices.

3. Indian agarwood

Indian agarwood is solid, the agarwood carvings on the market, bracelets, etc., are mostly made of Indian agarwood, the aroma of Indian agarwood is strong, and it can float around, so that people can smell it and know that it is agarwood, and the wood color is black, and the oil is heavier than the general, which is also one of the reasons why it makes handicrafts.

4. Qi Nan agarwood

Qi Nan agarwood is a very high variety, high oil volume, relatively soft texture, Qi Nan includes white chess, green chess, purple chess or honey chess, yellow chess and other four categories, white chess ** highest, others decreasing one by one, a string of Qi Nan bracelets can be sold to hundreds of thousands to millions.

5. Indonesian Kalimantan agarwood

Indonesian Kalimantan agarwood is very little, so it is more expensive, its fragrance is rich, and the change is relatively large, at the beginning it is sweet, and then the fragrance of Tushen rises, the aftertaste is violent and long-lasting, with the smell of vanilla, very intriguing aftertaste.

Shell agarwood, shell agarwood is a thin shell-like incense piece that is irregularly injured by the tree; Water agarwood, water agarwood is a variety formed in the moist mud swamp after the fragrance body is separated from the incense wood, and the color is black; Insect leakage agarwood, insect leakage agarwood is the fragrance formed by insects gnawing from the agarwood tree duct horizontally or obliquely, with more oil distributed and a strong fragrance.

Shell agarwood is a thin shell-like incense piece due to the irregular damage of the tree, which is generally shell-shaped, and due to the concave and convex section and the thin fragrance, it forms a special shell-shaped. There are also grades according to the number of years of growth and the level of oil content.

Water agarwood, also known as water pattern agarwood, is a kind of farmhouse agarwood, which refers to a kind of agarwood formed in the damp mud and swamp after the fragrance body is separated from the incense wood. The color of water agarwood is black, due to the protection of moisture, the weathering phenomenon is not too serious, the texture is still clearly visible, and the texture is hard and thick.

Worm leakage agarwood is the agarwood tree after being bitten by insects, the general production of an insect eye as a wound, the insect is transverse or oblique from the agarwood duct out of a worm channel, forming a spiral fragrance. The deodorant secretes more oil and has a stronger fragrance.

Soil agarwood is a kind of ripe agarwood, when the fragrance falls off or the agarwood tree dies naturally, the fragrance falls into the soil with less water content, and with the passage of time, the fragrance will gradually weather, mature, forming a loose and porous texture. The surface color of soil agarwood will also change according to the soil quality and the color of the impurities contained in it, so it is also called laterite and black soil.

The fragrance of the inverted agarwood exists in the interior of the incense tree, which is the incense tree lying in the soil or Zhao Zezhong after the natural death, and the wood composition of the incense tree gradually decays and weathers under the action of various microorganisms and the environment. The fragrance is preserved due to its high oil content, and the shape left behind by observation is like an upside-down shelf, so it is called inverted agarwood.