There are dozens of agarwood shops selling agarwood in Beijing’s antique market, and each of them claims to have high-quality agarwood. Do they really all have high-quality agarwood? Zhong Jun is a well-known expert in the agarwood industry. He has been engaged in the agarwood industry for nearly ten years. He said that at present, shoddy and fake agarwood are common in the agarwood market. He told reporters that the first thing to distinguish the authenticity of agarwood is to look at the appearance and appearance. color.
Zhong Jun, executive director of the Hainan Agarwood Collection Association: "Let's see what's real and what's fake. This one is fake, and this one is real. Like this oil line, it's very smooth."
Reporter: “When I saw this fake one, I felt it was brighter and darker than the real oil line.”
Zhong Jun, executive director of Hainan Agarwood Collection Association: “Yes, this fake one is even better-looking. When I first bought the agarwood, this (fake) agarwood had almost no wooden lines. This (real) agarwood had white and black lines. It had almost no wood. This is comprehensive. You cannot use just one or two methods to combine them. There are many ways to evaluate it. "
In addition to appearance and color, another criterion for distinguishing the authenticity of agarwood is the smell. Zhong Jun lit two pieces of genuine and fake agarwood for reporters on the spot.
Zhong Jun, executive director of the Hainan Agarwood Collection Association: "This is what we use as a negative teaching material in the house. It is actually a kind of vine in Vietnam, and it also has oily threads. If you look at it with the naked eye, if you are not very good at it, you will think it is... Light the real agarwood with a lighter. This feels like the smell of ordinary burnt wood. Let's see what the smell of real Qinan burns. It's a pity to burn it like this. It's a pity. It only burns a little. It feels like The special clear and elegant fragrance comes out. The technology of counterfeiting can be judged artificially by smelling it with multiple eyes and distinguishing it with the naked eye. If you cut it with a knife and put it into the oven, you can immediately tell which smell is fake. To play with agarwood, you can’t look or hear it, you have to smell it with your nose.”
Regarding the recent crazy hype of agarwood, Zhong Jun said that the number of people investing in agarwood has doubled in the past two years. There are actually not many genuine agarwoods on the market. Currently, there are dozens of agarwood stores in Shanghai, large and small, only about four or five are regular ones, and less than 20% are good agarwoods. In addition, it is very difficult to distinguish the grade and authenticity of agarwood. For many investors who have been in the industry for about 2 years, 80% of them actually lose money. Therefore, investing in agarwood is extremely risky. It is best for ordinary investors who lack professional knowledge. Don't blindly follow the trend.
In fact, in addition to the above, I have also summarized some experience in identifying agarwood in the past few years, and I will share it:
1. Observe the color---observe carefully:
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Generally speaking, the darker the better agarwood of the same variety, but this does not mean that the black real agarwood is the best. Please note that the darker the agarwood of the same variety, the better. For example, water-sinkable A+ products are green and black. This A+ product does not look as earth-sinkable B+ black in appearance, but the price is much more expensive. For another example, black soil sinks are too common, and now it is popular to collect red or yellow soil sinks. Therefore, it is not that the darker the better, the correct statement is that the darker the color of the same variety, the better. For example, for red agarwood, red and black are the top quality, and for water sinking, green and black are the top quality.
2. The product fades --- the long road to rebirth:
Real agarwood will also fade. If it is a real agarwood bracelet, the time it takes to fade is immeasurable, and the owner Body temperature changes and the humidity of the environment are all related, so each bracelet is different for everyone. Different varieties of bracelets also change color differently. The most stable one is the red earth agarwood, which changes the slowest. The black and brown ant agarwood becomes the fastest, followed by the blue-black water agarwood, which becomes faster than the ordinary black earth agarwood. For water sedimentation, fading color means that patina will form and it will become more fragrant. For red soil sedimentation, it may not fade for hundreds of years, but if the color becomes lighter, it means lifespan. end. The situation of ordinary soil sinking is similar to that of water sinking. If it loses color, it will be coated again, and then it will become more fragrant. However, soil sinks slowly, loses color, and forms patina slowly.
3. Smell the smell - taste it carefully:
Natural agarwood is not very fragrant at first, but it will become more fragrant the more you wear it. These are good products. The second agarwood smell is very strong, but it means that the life span is about to end. Therefore, the method of smelling agarwood from a distance is always used. That is, hold the agarwood bracelet in your hand and do not lean in front of your nose to smell it. In this way, you will not be able to smell the real smell of agarwood, because the smell of agarwood is emitted along a linear shape, first at the back, and then at the back. To smell agarwood, you should hold the agarwood in your hand at a distance of half a hand and smell it. If you can smell it at a distance of half a hand, move a little farther away to see if you can smell it. If you can't smell it at a distance of half a hand, then Then he slowly got closer and smelled it again. Never put agarwood up to your nose from the beginning, otherwise you won't be able to smell the real agarwood. Generally speaking, fake agarwood becomes stronger the closer you get, but real agarwood is stronger at a distance than near. There is a distinction.
4. Shape---the scenery is unique here:
The material of natural dead agarwood is not uniform, so a bracelet will inevitably have some flaws. Especially for good products, the good parts of agarwood are juxtaposed with the inferior parts. If you are looking for good products, you will inevitably bring in the inferior parts. On the contrary, low-grade agarwood can be made very evenly.
Therefore, if you want good agarwood, you must tolerate some minor flaws. The principle that no one is perfect and no gold is pure can also be applied to the identification of agarwood.
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