Let's take a look at what is fake first. The so-called fake bracelet is that at present, criminals soak scented agarwood wood in a pond to turn black, add spices for cooking, and add artificial essence similar to agarwood to make fake agarwood. This kind of fake agarwood is not only ineffective, but also harmful to physical and mental health. Only 300 ~ 600 yuan/kg is sold in the market. ?
Definition: The following true agarwood refers to the agarwood that conforms to its own definition. For example, dead agarwood is regarded as dead agarwood and live agarwood is regarded as live agarwood. If there is a live agarwood as a dead agarwood, it is a fake. This article mainly teaches the identification of dead agarwood bracelets, so those live agarwood fake dead agarwood are classified as fakes. Although it is actually agarwood, it still has certain medicinal value, but shoddy is also the basic feature of counterfeit goods. ?
What are the basic characteristics of these fake agarwood?
The color of (1) is black. Generally speaking, a good agarwood is the darker the color, the better. When criminals make fake agarwood bracelets, they usually make them very dark, just like counterfeit money is mostly made into 100 yuan denomination. This is also based on the impetuous psychology of many agarwood buyers. Most agarwood buyers like the best but the cheapest. I don't know that only very high-grade agarwood will be very black, and most of those cheap but black bracelets are dyed. Therefore, I hereby advise the vast number of agarwood buyers to get rid of the floating psychology and not blindly seek black. Often the darker the color of the bracelet, the easier it is to fake it. But I'm not saying that black agarwood is a fake. I just advocate that you should not blindly seek black when you start learning to identify agarwood. Buy some goods B or C first, and improve your recognition level. ?
Tip: It doesn't mean that the real black agarwood is the best. Please note that the darker the color of the same variety of agarwood, the better. For example, A+ goods submerged in water are cyan and black. This kind of A+ goods is not as black as the sunken B+ goods, but the price is much more expensive. For example, black soil sinking is too common, and now it is popular to collect red or yellow mud sinking. Therefore, the darker the better. The correct statement is that the darker the same variety, the better. For example, red agarwood takes red and black as the top grade, and water takes blue and black as the most important. ?
(2) Strong flavor. Fake agarwood was not as strong as real agarwood before. I don't know who said this sentence: "The thicker the agarwood, the better." Now the counterfeiters have changed the process, making the fake agarwood thicker than the real agarwood. Although the fake agarwood is getting thicker and thicker, one thing can't be imitated, that is, the fake agarwood is not as mellow as the real agarwood, so everyone should smell the agarwood. If it tastes dry and pungent, you can't buy it any more. If the taste is mellow and the taste is not very strong, it can at least explain that it is a pile of real agarwood. Please remember that no matter how thick the fake agarwood is, it can't compare with the faint real agarwood. In addition, the view that "the stronger the agarwood, the better" is also wrong. Natural agarwood, some agarwood is not very fragrant at first, but it will become more and more fragrant later. These are good goods. And some agarwood smells very strong, but it means that life is coming to an end. Therefore, the grade of agarwood should be distinguished according to its alcohol content. Often those that taste mellow but not very fragrant are also potential stocks, which will become more and more fragrant in the future. If a bracelet doesn't smell of alcohol, even if it smells good, it is a low-grade product. Those thick and strong agarwoods are not credible, because the higher grade agarwoods are all improved by alcohol. ?
If you can't tell whether the taste is mellow or not, you can also try this method: generally, fake agarwood tastes blunt, so long as it is at the same distance, you can smell exactly the same taste from any angle, while real agarwood will have strong and weak changes from different angles. For example, putting agarwood on the top of your head smells better than putting it on your abdomen, because the smell of agarwood has gone down. It takes a little time to buy a good agarwood, and it will taste good when it accepts you. ?
Tips for identification: Except for agarwood hanging upside down, other agarwood will smell from a distance, that is, hold the agarwood bracelet with your hand, and don't smell it by your nose, so you can't smell the real smell of agarwood, because the smell of agarwood is distributed along the line, so you should point to the back first and smell the agarwood with your hand at a distance of half a hand. If you can smell it at half a hand's distance, you should look farther to see if you can smell it. If you can't smell it at half a hand's distance, don't put the agarwood on your nose from the beginning, so you won't smell the real agarwood. Generally speaking, the closer the fake agarwood is, the thicker it is, but the real agarwood is thicker from a distance. This is different. ?
(3) Fading. It can be said that many bracelets will change color after wearing for a period of time. For example, the more expensive rosewood is, the darker it is, and the darker it is. So is agarwood. It can be said that the real agarwood will fade, but the fading of agarwood is temporary. For the preparation of patina, the oil is only temporarily absorbed by thymelaeaceae. It changed back after a while. Because fake agarwood is dyed, it won't come back if it falls. If you find that your agarwood fades, please look at your hand bowl to see if there is a circle of black or brown dye. If there is, it is fake. The reason is that the oil on the surface of fake agarwood is infected, while the oil of real agarwood will not leave any traces. ?
Tip: Really agarwood will fade. If it is a real agarwood bracelet, its fading time is immeasurable, which is related to the temperature change of the owner and the humidity of the environment, so everyone's bracelet is different. Different varieties of bracelets have different color changes, and the most stable is the red earthy fragrance, which becomes the slowest. The heavy fragrance of dark brown ants becomes the fastest, followed by the heavy fragrance of blue-black water, which becomes faster than that of ordinary black soil. For the sink, fading means that patina will be formed and it will become more fragrant. For clay tanks, it may not fade for hundreds of years, but if it fades, it means the end of life. Ordinary soil settlement is similar to water settlement. If the color fades, it will be repackaged, and then it will become more fragrant, but the soil will settle slowly and become slurry slowly. ?
(4) Modeling
Many buyers will ask the beads to be round and flawless when buying agarwood. ?
I can only smile at this, because most natural agarwood is hand-processed, so it is good to be about the same size, and it needs to be round. The fake agarwood processed by this machine will do. Most of the real agarwood is oblate, and only a few pieces can reach the standard of perfect circle. ?
Because the material of natural dead agarwood is not uniform, a string of bracelets is inevitably a bit flawed. Especially for good goods, the good part of agarwood is juxtaposed with the second part. Asking for good goods will inevitably bring in some parts. On the contrary, low-grade agarwood can be made very evenly. Therefore, if you ask for good agarwood, you must be tolerant and a little embarrassed. No one is perfect, and the truth that gold is not enough is also applicable to the identification of agarwood. ?
(5) Price [This statement is not used as a basis for judging the authenticity of agarwood, but only as a reference]?
I didn't want to write this, and it would be suspected of hype. It will also offend people, but think about writing something. ?
Everyone likes cheap and good goods, but things like agarwood, the real agarwood, are on the verge of extinction, but some businesses will still advertise at low prices. According to common sense, the rarer things should be more expensive, just like pandas. If they can reproduce like mice, it is not a national treasure, but a national disaster. ?
Cheap is the general psychology of customers, so generally fake agarwood will be sold very cheaply. Generally, real agarwood is very rare, and the boss who gets it will cherish it, and there will never be the idea of crying and selling it. Because the smell of real agarwood can make people feel dependent, while the smell of fake agarwood can make people upset. If a person smells these fake agarwood, he will be eager to sell it. Usually, the characteristics of these businesses selling fake agarwood are that the price is very low. Even if the bid is very high, you will be reduced by several hundred yuan immediately after several rounds. You said that you would wholesale his things back, and you would also say that there is a large supply. At this time, you should be rational. The real agarwood comes from Vietnam only a few hundred kilograms every year, and there are fewer good goods. Is there really a wholesale? Only those fake ones that have been soaked in medicine can be wholesale to you. ?
Other words are impetuous, and sellers who don't know much about agarwood should also pay attention. Generally speaking, the smell of agarwood can make people quiet (except those who wear wrong attributes). This quietness is like the meditation effect in Qigong. Generally, if the seller of agarwood has a large inventory, even if it is put in a wooden cabinet, the taste can be revealed, and people who smoke agarwood for a long time will be very calm and will never have a very impetuous language. Many people who buy high-grade agarwood are as precious as treasure, and I once asked Qi Nan. ?
Therefore, I advise you not to buy fake goods on the cheap. At present, the prices of raw materials in Vietnam market are as follows for reference only:
Qin' an first class? 600,000-1,000,000/kg (note that all Qin 'an refers to first-class products, and Qin 'an without second-class products).
Pour second-class goods? 200,000 to 250,000/kg
Submerged second class? 30,000 to 50,000/kg?
Second-class soil sinking? 1.5,000-40,000/kg?
10000-20000/ kg submerged tertiary product?
The third-class product of the earth sinking? 06000- 10000/ kg?
Live agarwood 300 yuan -800 yuan?
Of course, I don't mean that the high price must be the real thing. Price is not the only criterion to measure the quality of a thing. If the fake goods are marked much higher than the real ones, can they also be turned into real goods? Therefore, the most important thing is to look at the buyer's eyesight. The phenomenon of collecting together, counterfeiting and shoddy has always been the biggest problem. It is suggested that friends who play collecting should watch more and buy less when they start collecting, and talk to experts in this field more. Of course, it is best to see the real thing, so as to improve your appraisal level. Of course, they can also collect some specimen-type small pieces in various aspects for comparison. In addition, I suggest you play with the collection.
Finally, summarize an argument: for agarwood, the high price is not necessarily true, and the low price is definitely false. ?
Myth 1: The agarwood that can be smelled from 1 meter away is a good agarwood. ?
Customers often ask me, "How far can your agarwood smell? Can you guarantee that you can smell it one meter away? " . It is estimated that many sellers promote their agarwood in this way. But this is a fallacy full of loopholes. I have a string of the best 15MM submerged A+ in my hand. My nephew can smell it when standing about 4 meters, while my son can only smell it within half a meter. Obviously, the smell of agarwood is related to the sense of smell of the listener. Therefore, different people have different olfactory sensitivity, and the olfactory commitment of 1 meter distance is just empty talk. ?
The taste distance of agarwood is actually immeasurable. The concentration of agarwood-string is different in different periods. For example, the newly made agarwood (referring to the agarwood bracelet that has just been processed into beads) has a strong taste and will produce patina if worn for a long time. from=forum 12 "？ Target = _ blank & gt The patina is slightly light in taste, and it will be thicker after patina. Therefore, judging the grade of agarwood should be the alcohol degree of agarwood. For example, the earthy red agarwood of A goods is lighter than that of B goods, but the earthy red agarwood of A goods is definitely more mellow than that of B goods. If you put these two different grades of soil deposits together, you can find that soil deposit B is thicker, but the taste is turbid, which is not as deceptive as A goods at all, so the grade of agarwood cannot be said as thick as possible, just like good wine is not necessarily high in degree. ?
The smell of agarwood is also related to the environment, mainly humidity. For example, there is a batch of B-grade agarwood in my room. Even if there are many, the smell is not very strong at ordinary times, but when it rains, the whole room is full of strong smell. My room is 45 square meters, which means these B goods can be spread 5 meters away. ?
Therefore, judging the quality of a string of agarwood can only rely on the mellow taste of agarwood. Generally mellow agarwood is definitely a good agarwood. ?
Myth 2: agarwood sinks?
This is actually confusing the concepts of "submerged" and "submerged". Sinking "and" sinking "are actually different concepts. "Submerged water" refers to the characteristics of agarwood. As long as it is dead, it is submerged, but it is not necessarily "submerged". According to the classification method of industry in Taiwan Province Province, only the agarwood buried in the swamp after lodging and biodecomposed can be called "agarwood". And some "soil sinking" and "ant sinking" are also submerged, which cannot be called "water sinking" The real "water sink" comes from the swamp of virgin forest. Because it is in a wet swamp all the year round, the color is blue-black, the wood is rotten and immortal, the appearance is not beautiful, and there are some rotten wood colors. Good agarwood is like jujube, and its surface is generally rotten black grease, not to mention beautiful, or even a little ugly. I think ordinary soil sinking is better. However, the wearing of agarwood should advocate a simple and unobtrusive way of self-cultivation. The water is heavy, the smell is mild and slightly sweet, and the taste is layered. ?
If the buyer meets the seller and says that agarwood is submerged, it can't sink. Then you should be careful. This seller generally won't get the goods that sink into the water, because the sellers who actually sink into the water generally don't deliberately publicize the characteristics of most agarwood to reduce the status of sinking into the water. Therefore, most of these sellers pretend to be mixed imports with local goods or low-grade goods, and exchange low-value goods for high profits. Usually this agarwood is easy to recognize by pretending to be submerged. As long as you grasp the characteristics of sinking, it is not easy to cheat you. Generally, it is as smooth as rosewood, and it must be earth. What stimulates the taste is generally made of live agarwood. Therefore, to buy agarwood, you should buy it from a seller with a complete variety, which is convenient for comparison. Generally, a seller who takes an earthen sink as a sink will not dare to call it an earthen sink again, and his goods will only be one kind. But soil sinking is actually a very common commodity. I have been to Beijing and found that all those nominal "water sinking" are what we call "soil sinking" here. Some buyers have collected the so-called "water sinking" all their lives, but all of them are "soil sinking" without exception. ?
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Myth 3, "The oil content of my agarwood reaches 70%". ?
70% is a very scary stunt. Many buyers hear this value, and it seems that the agarwood imagined in their minds can flow out without squeezing it themselves. But what I actually got was mostly dry wood. ?
Aquilaria sinensis is not directly taken from a kind of wood such as sandalwood or a kind of resin such as borneol, but a dense solid condensate made of gum, resin, volatile oil and wood. Some sellers say how much agarwood they have reached. In fact, they haven't measured it themselves, and they don't even know what these oil contents mean. For the oil content of agarwood, there has been no unified view in the industry, and some refer to the parts excluding wood, that is, gum, resin and volatile oil are all considered as the oil content of agarwood. At this time, the seller's so-called oil content has increased, and some can even blow up to 99% oil content. This is Qin 'an's first-class product, which can't meet the high standard. But these sellers are not afraid, and buyers can't verify it anyway. Therefore, there is no effective guarantee to buy some agarwood marked with high oil content. Even the gum, resin and volatile oil of soft first-grade Qinnan products are less than 70%, and the gum, resin and volatile oil of most second-grade products are only 40%-50%. As for the really useful volatile oil, it is only about 30% of the first-class Qinnan product, and the content of the second-class product is only 3%-5%. As for the third-class products, they are all less than 1%. ?
At present, many materials are about how to identify the original pieces of Aquilaria sinensis, but few people teach how to identify bracelets, which leads many customers to apply the method of identifying the original pieces of Aquilaria sinensis to the identification of bracelets, so that some good bracelets are considered inferior or fake. This paper mainly talks about how to identify agarwood bracelets. Please note that it should not be used to identify the original agarwood bracelet. ?
Let's take a look at what is fake first. The so-called fake bracelet is that at present, criminals soak scented agarwood wood in a pond to turn black, add spices for cooking, and add artificial essence similar to agarwood to make fake agarwood. This kind of fake agarwood is not only ineffective, but also harmful to physical and mental health. Only 300 ~ 600 yuan/kg is sold in the market. ?
Definition: The following true agarwood refers to the agarwood that conforms to its own definition. For example, dead agarwood is regarded as dead agarwood and live agarwood is regarded as live agarwood. If there is a live agarwood as a dead agarwood, it is a fake. This article mainly teaches the identification of dead agarwood bracelets, so those live agarwood fake dead agarwood are classified as fakes. Although it is actually agarwood, it still has certain medicinal value, but shoddy is also the basic feature of counterfeit goods. ?
What are the basic characteristics of these fake agarwood?
The color of (1) is black. Generally speaking, a good agarwood is the darker the color, the better. When criminals make fake agarwood bracelets, they usually make them very dark, just like counterfeit money is mostly made into 100 yuan denomination. This is also based on the impetuous psychology of many agarwood buyers. Most agarwood buyers like the best but the cheapest. I don't know that only very high-grade agarwood will be very black, and most of those cheap but black bracelets are dyed. Therefore, I hereby advise the vast number of agarwood buyers to get rid of the floating psychology and not blindly seek black. Often the darker the color of the bracelet, the easier it is to fake it. But I'm not saying that black agarwood is a fake. I just advocate that you should not blindly seek black when you start learning to identify agarwood. Buy some goods B or C first, and improve your recognition level. ?
Tip: It doesn't mean that the real black agarwood is the best. Please note that the darker the color of the same variety of agarwood, the better. For example, A+ goods submerged in water are cyan and black. This kind of A+ goods is not as black as the sunken B+ goods, but the price is much more expensive. For example, black soil sinking is too common, and now it is popular to collect red or yellow mud sinking. So the darker the better, the correct statement is that the darker the color of the same variety, the better. For example, red agarwood takes red and black as the top grade, and water takes blue and black as the top grade. ?
(2) Strong flavor. Fake agarwood was not as strong as real agarwood before. I don't know who said this sentence: "The thicker the agarwood, the better." Now the counterfeiters have changed the process, making the fake agarwood thicker than the real agarwood. Although the fake agarwood is getting thicker and thicker, one thing can't be imitated, that is, the fake agarwood is not as mellow as the real agarwood, so everyone should smell the agarwood. If it tastes dry and pungent, you can't buy it any more. If the taste is mellow and the taste is not very strong, it can at least explain that it is a pile of real agarwood. Please remember that no matter how thick the fake agarwood is, it can't compare with the faint real agarwood. In addition, the view that "the stronger the agarwood, the better" is also wrong. Natural agarwood, some agarwood is not very fragrant at first, but it will become more and more fragrant later. These are good goods. And some agarwood smells very strong, but it means that life is coming to an end. Therefore, the grade of agarwood should be distinguished according to its alcohol content. Often those that taste mellow but not very fragrant are also potential stocks, which will become more and more fragrant in the future. If a bracelet doesn't smell of alcohol, even if it smells good, it is a low-grade product. Those thick and strong agarwoods are not credible, because the higher grade agarwoods are all improved by alcohol. ?
If you can't tell whether the taste is mellow or not, you can also try this method: generally, fake agarwood tastes blunt, so long as it is at the same distance, you can smell exactly the same taste from any angle, while real agarwood will have strong and weak changes from different angles. For example, putting agarwood on the top of your head smells better than putting it on your abdomen, because the smell of agarwood has gone down. It takes a little time to buy a good agarwood, and it will taste good when it accepts you. ?
Tips for identification: Except agarwood hanging upside down, other agarwood will smell it at a distance, that is, hold the agarwood bracelet with your hand, and don't smell it by your nose, so you can't smell the true taste of agarwood, because the smell of agarwood is distributed along the line, so you should first click it and smell it at a distance of half a hand. If you can smell it at half a hand's distance, you should look farther to see if you can smell it. Never put agarwood on your nose from the beginning, so you won't smell the real agarwood. Generally speaking, the closer the fake agarwood is, the thicker it is, but the real agarwood is thicker from a distance. This is different. ?
(3) Fading. It can be said that many bracelets will change color after wearing for a period of time. For example, the more expensive rosewood is, the darker it is, and the darker it is. So is agarwood. It can be said that the real agarwood will fade, but the fading of agarwood is temporary. For the preparation of patina, the oil is only temporarily absorbed by thymelaeaceae. It changed back after a while. Because fake agarwood is dyed, it won't come back if it falls. If you find that your agarwood fades, please look at your hand bowl to see if there is a circle of black or brown dye. If there is, it is fake. The reason is that the oil on the surface of fake agarwood is infected, while the oil of real agarwood will not leave any traces. ?
Tip: Really agarwood will fade. If it is a real agarwood bracelet, its fading time is immeasurable, which is related to the temperature change of the owner and the humidity of the environment, so everyone's bracelet is different. Different varieties of bracelets have different color changes, and the most stable is the red earthy fragrance, which becomes the slowest. The heavy fragrance of dark brown ants becomes the fastest, followed by the heavy fragrance of blue-black water, which becomes faster than that of ordinary black soil. For the sink, fading means that patina will be formed and it will become more fragrant. For clay tanks, it may not fade for hundreds of years, but if it fades, it means the end of life. Ordinary soil settlement is similar to water settlement. If the color fades, it will be repackaged, and then it will become more fragrant, but the soil will settle slowly and become slurry slowly. ?
(4) Modeling
Many buyers will ask the beads to be round and flawless when buying agarwood. ?
I can only smile at this, because most natural agarwood is hand-processed, so it is good to be about the same size, and it needs to be round. The fake agarwood processed by this machine will do. Most of the real agarwood is oblate, and only a few pieces can reach the standard of perfect circle. ?
Because the material of natural dead agarwood is not uniform, a string of bracelets is inevitably a bit flawed. Especially for good goods, the good part of agarwood is juxtaposed with the second part. Asking for good goods will inevitably bring in some parts. On the contrary, low-grade agarwood can be made very evenly. Therefore, if you ask for good agarwood, you must be tolerant and a little embarrassed. No one is perfect, and the truth that gold is not enough is also applicable to the identification of agarwood. ?
(5) Price [This statement is not used as a basis for judging the authenticity of agarwood, but only as a reference]?
I didn't want to write this, and it would be suspected of hype. It will also offend people, but think about writing something. ?
Everyone likes cheap and good goods, but things like agarwood, the real agarwood, are on the verge of extinction, but some businesses will still advertise at low prices. According to common sense, the rarer things should be more expensive, just like pandas. If they can reproduce like mice, it is not a national treasure, but a national disaster. ?
Cheap is the general psychology of customers, so generally fake agarwood will be sold very cheaply, and generally real agarwood is rare. The boss who gets the real agarwood will cherish it, and there will never be the idea of crying and selling. Because the smell of real agarwood can make people feel dependent, while the smell of fake agarwood can make people upset. If a person smells these fake agarwood, he will be eager to sell it. Usually, the characteristics of these businesses selling fake agarwood are that the price is very low. Even if the bid is very high, you will be reduced by several hundred yuan immediately after several rounds. You said that you would wholesale his things back, and you would also say that there is a large supply. At this time, you should be rational. The real agarwood comes from Vietnam only a few hundred kilograms every year, and there are fewer good goods. Is there really a wholesale? Only those fake ones that have been soaked in medicine can be wholesale to you. ?
Other words are impetuous, and sellers who don't know much about agarwood should also pay attention. Generally speaking, the smell of agarwood can make people quiet (except those who wear wrong attributes). This quietness is like the meditation effect in Qigong. Generally, if the seller of agarwood has a large inventory, even if it is put in a wooden cabinet, the taste can be revealed, and people who smoke agarwood for a long time will be very calm and will never have a very impetuous language. Many people who buy high-grade agarwood are as precious as treasure, and I once asked Qi Nan. ?
Therefore, I advise you not to buy fake goods on the cheap. At present, the prices of raw materials in Vietnam market are as follows for reference only:
Qin' an first class? 600,000-1,000,000/kg (note that all Qin 'an refers to first-class products, and Qin 'an without second-class products).
Pour second-class goods? 200,000 to 250,000/kg
Submerged second class? 30,000 to 50,000/kg?
Second-class soil sinking? 1.5,000-40,000/kg?
10000-20000/ kg submerged tertiary product?
The third-class product of the earth sinking? 06000- 10000/ kg?
Live agarwood 300 yuan -800 yuan?
Of course, I don't mean that a high price must be genuine. Price is not the only criterion to measure the quality of a thing. If the fake goods are marked much higher than the real ones, can they also be turned into the real ones? Therefore, the most important thing is to look at the buyer's eyesight. The phenomenon of collecting together, counterfeiting and shoddy has always been the biggest problem. It is suggested that friends who play collecting should watch more and buy less when they start collecting, and talk to experts in this field more. Of course, it is best to see the real thing, so as to improve your appraisal level. Of course, they can also collect some specimen-type small pieces in various aspects for comparison. In addition, I suggest you play with the collection.
Finally, summarize an argument: for agarwood, the high price is not necessarily true, and the low price is definitely false. ?
House prices of Tibetans in Hero Mountain and China are different.
Expensive can't be guaranteed to be true, and cheap is also fake.
Zhongheng fake goods
Speak for yourself. I hope it works.