Agarwood, known as "diamond in wood", it combines the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and the accumulation of years, so that the value of the finest agarwood can reach several times that of gold. It can be said that it is "heavy" and shocking, and "fragrant" is shocking, and it has been loved by the world for thousands of years. The "Shen" of "Shen Tanlong Musk" refers to agarwood. Agarwood incense is elegant and very rare, and has been listed as the first of all incense since ancient times!
If you compare different agarwood grades, the quality of agarwood in each production area is high or low. The agarwood of each origin has a quality as high as Qinan and a quality like white wood.
At present, the agarwood products circulating in the market, the better first-line production areas mainly include: Dalagagan, Ma Ni Water, Brunei, West Malaysia (Malaysia), Cambodia and so on. The second-tier production areas mainly include: Kalimantan, Papua, Maralok and so on. The grain of agarwood oil is different in each production area.
Among the agarwood species, Dara dry agarwood is the same grade as Brunei agarwood. The same submerged grade agarwood, only Brunei and horse mud waterlogging can be compared with it in value, tied for the same grade. The rest of the first-tier production areas such as West Malaysia and Kalimantan are slightly inferior. So what's the difference between the two? Let's find out.
First of all, let's take a look at the characteristics of Dara dry agarwood and Brunei agarwood?
INCENSE SUPREME AGARWOOD DALAGAN 10.9MM DARAGAN 108 ROSARY 45.23g
Dalagakan, also known as "Dalagan", geographically speaking, it is just a small island on the north-eastern coast of Kalimantan, Indonesia, which has long been free of agarwood (in ancient times, whether it was produced or not could not be verified), and now people call Dalagan incense, is the Daragan port next to Daragan Island and the surrounding mountains produced in the agarwood, this area is also quite small. In fact, Dala dry agarwood still belongs to a kind of Indonesian Kalimantan agarwood, but because its quality and characteristics are quite different from agarwood in other parts of Kalimantan, and it has a very good reputation in the agarwood market, resulting in Dala dry agarwood becoming its own series. In the domestic agarwood market, Dala dry agarwood is definitely a high-quality agarwood.
The milk aroma of Dara dry oud is very special, the first smell is strange, a coolness permeates the nasal passages, followed by a thick frankincense smell, and the tail rhyme is a cool and mellow fragrance. Specifically, the first fragrance of Dalagan is as thick as ginseng, then it turns into a variety of styles like beauty rouge, and finally smells the freshness of vanilla. Compared with the same flavor of incense, the smell of aroma belongs to the high-quality grade. Moreover, in the Sin Chew agarwood, the fragrance of Dala dry agarwood is stable and long-lasting after contact with the temperature of the human body, with strong penetrating power, and bursts of frankincense are scattered leisurely with every move, which is very pleasant.
In appearance, the oil of Dala dry agarwood is fuller than that of northwestern Kalimantan and Brunei, many of the oils appear in flakes, and the surface is completely mellow. At the same time, its texture is hard, the grease distribution is uniform, the oil line is clear and fine, and the appearance is mostly black-brown. Among them, the most abundant oil, can even form a peculiar "oil flower"-like pattern, at a glance like auspicious clouds floating, very good-looking, which is also incomparable in many production areas.
Incense Supreme Agarwood Brunei "Hand Bracelet" 16.88g
Brunei, also known as the Islamic Monarchy of Brunei, is located on the north coast of Borneo and the southern coast of the South China Sea, and the entire country is divided and surrounded by Malaysia. Brunei is close to the equator and has a typical tropical maritime climate. December and January are the wettest months, and the warm and humid climate provides unique geographical conditions for the formation of agarwood. Among its several important agarwood producing areas in Southeast Asia, Brunei Agarwood has always occupied a pivotal position. Brunei's soil is rich in potassium, and the agarwood produced in the region has a rich and mellow and cool fragrance, which has always been famous and respected by the people of Xiangdao.
In terms of taste, Brunei agarwood has different rhymes at the head and tail. That is to say, its fragrance changes are the most layered, which is different from many other Xinzhou agarwood. When you first smell it, there will be a very clear and clean frankincense; Smell again, coolness on the head, the bottom of the tongue, is the cool taste; The mellow and elegant floral fragrance of the tail rhyme, the joyful feeling of the fragrance is difficult to express in words.
In terms of appearance, Brunei agarwood is mostly black oil and green oil, with a unique fragrance, and a sweet smell but a hint of frankincense. The pattern is similar to the "soft silk" of Qinan and is closer to the Huian system. Brunei is a first-tier production area in the Sin Chew system, and the price will be more expensive than other production areas.
To sum up, we can see that in the Sin Chew system, the level change of Brunei agarwood can be called king, but the taste is not as rich as Dara Gan. The aroma of Dala dry agarwood is very prominent and unique in the current agarwood market. Both have their own characteristics, Dala dry agarwood and Brunei agarwood belong to the high-quality agarwood representatives of the Sin Chew agarwood, both have their own characteristics, and there is no absolute difference between good and bad.
When we select agarwood, we not only look at its production area, but also look at the fragrance, appearance, oil content and cost performance. Now the agarwood market is mixed, and the merchants with large profits sell shoddy and fake goods, and the merchants who really operate the real agarwood are often suppressed at low prices, so the goods are not the right people. If you want to get acquagar with good quality agarwood, incense friends have to look for the real thing with a lantern, at this time you must find the right person, as long as you find the right person, you are not afraid to pay "tuition fees". Although the agarwood industry is deep, you can always find people who are serious about business and do things carefully. The supreme agarwood that many old incense friends trust is such a conscientious merchant focusing on the natural wild agarwood market with the corporate purpose of "spreading incense culture and tracing the roots to make agarwood".