It is often seen in the process of agarwood that the merchant's advertisement is the old material wild agarwood. Wild agarwood is easy to understand, but for the old material is not understood by many incense friends. Is there a standard for defining the old agarwood? Or what specific way to judge the new and old agarwood materials, today we will communicate on this topic in a simple way.
In our country, when something is added to an old word, it becomes different, it seems to be particularly learned and becomes particularly kind and real. For example, wives, fathers, mothers, and old friends feel different? In the application of objects such as old objects, old craftsmanship, old materials. So the old word will make everyone feel particularly valuable. But not all of you are really old. A lot of the old stories. How many of today's Old Nha Trang are Nha Trang? How many of today's old Hoi An are Hoi An? How many of today's old Brunei are real Brunei? Back to the point, we continue to say new materials, old materials.
Wild Brunei old material agarwood
Basic distinctions:
What is new material? Simply put: new material = wet material. In the simplest way, new and old, the new material is the newly collected material, that is, wet material. Because most of the geographical environment of agarwood collection is a humid and hot zone, whether it is raw and fresh, or upside down, into the soil to take incense is containing a lot of water. We can all collectively call this new material.
What is old material? Simply put: old material = dry material. That is to say, when a piece of agarwood material is collected from the wet material to the material after the water has completely evaporated, we can call it old material. Is that right? As for how long this drying process took and what means were used, it is not particularly important. Is it the slow evaporation of dry warehouse storage for decades, or the rapid evaporation that enters the drying room. Strictly speaking, the material that is naturally placed and stored in the dry warehouse is considered to be the real old material. Rapid drying in the drying room can cause damage to the aromatic organic composition of agarwood. There are also many cases where the drying is not complete.
Wild old Vietnamese agarwood
Some people have also said that an agarwood tree died, and a hundred years after the collapse of the shelf, it was found by Shannon and collected agarwood, is this not called old material? From the age of the tree and the time of incense is old, but with the old material definition of agarwood material I think is different, the same is this piece of incense if it is stored for a long time after 10 years, 20 years or even longer, the water of the material completely evaporates, the color is getting deeper and deeper, and there is no water vapor on the furnace At this time, it is the real old material.
Risks of new materials:
For merchants, the purchase price of new materials is relatively low, and there are also merchants who buy new materials as old materials without understanding, especially in the case of new production areas such as the Philippines occupying the mainstream, but the risk is also very large, because over time, new materials or finished products will evaporate water, and in this process, there is a situation where submerged water becomes non-sinking, and submerged water becomes floating water. It should be known that the difference between floating materials and submerged materials in the circulation channel of agarwood is not a little bit. That's the difference between 800 and 180 grams.
Wild Darakan aged agarwood rosary
For Xiangyou, beware of the finished products made by merchants with new materials, and know that a sinking 16 is five digits larger, and a non-sinking 16 bracelet is a small five-digit string. Therefore, even if you choose a new material, you must not choose a new material for sinking at the critical point of sinking. Otherwise, the chance of becoming floating water is very large. It's not just the weight that you've lost, it's the real money you've worked so hard to earn.
How to avoid buying new materials?
If it's easy to tell, then the merchant won't be pitted, right? The most important thing is actually experience and trust, the new material is not as thick as the old material in color, but the color is often darker than the new material, many people popularize the old material color is darker, the old material is not darker but the texture is older, more textured. So the color is dark, I don't agree with it very much, and the new material is more intense in both the furnace and the smell, but the old material is more restrained and thick. The sound of falling on the table top is crunchy, and the sound of new material is muffled.
In addition, the old material will not change the fragrance, so let's not talk about the concept of chunhua, which I have also had in-depth exchanges in the article "Liang Chen: Talking about the old material and alcoholization of agarwood". I will not repeat it. In short, the aura and irreplaceable texture brought by the old agarwood are irreplaceable by the new material. I wish all agarwood friends to meet good incense and make good friends.