Agarwood is a popular product on the market today, ranging from agarwood incense, agarwood buds to agarwood bracelets. Agarwood bracelets are a form of feng shui bracelet that are quite expensive compared to other feng shui products on the market.
Agarwood is precious because of the essence that creates agarwood. When an agarwood tree is injured, it secretes a protective oil to protect itself. Over time, that oil layer accumulates and gradually forms agarwood with a brownish-black or grayish-brown color. Agarwood has a mild and gentle fragrance. It is this unique fragrance that makes agarwood valuable. There was a time when agarwood created a fever and was even more expensive than gold. But now people cultivate agarwood more, so the fever has subsided. However, natural agarwood still holds a high value.
Natural agarwood is considered a precious feng shui item because it absorbs the spiritual energy of the earth and sky, with a natural fragrance.
The feng shui meaning of agarwood
Agarwood bracelets emit a gentle and soothing fragrance, which helps relax the mind, reduce depression, increase joy, and bring peace to human beings. Agarwood is a precious herb in Traditional Chinese Medicine that can be used to make tea that improves health. Agarwood brings luck, dispels negative energy, and eliminates evil spirits. Wearing an agarwood bracelet helps homeowners encounter more luck, prosperity, and wealth.
Agarwood has a high value because it stands between the earth and sky and has undergone many years of rain and sunshine. It absorbs the natural spiritual energy such as sunlight, wind, rain, and sand, making it considered to be a substance that absorbs the essence and abundant spiritual energy of the earth and sky. Agarwood has a very high energy, which supports the energy of the wearer and repels evil spirits.
Currently, there are natural agarwood and artificially cultivated agarwood on the market. The value of natural agarwood is naturally much higher than that of cultivated agarwood because natural agarwood takes several decades to form. Cultivated agarwood is formed by human intervention, such as causing mechanical wounds to the tree trunk and then using various chemical stimulants. It is sold at a much lower price, around a few million Vietnamese dong.
The limited forest area today makes natural agarwood very rare, so the market is flooded with cultivated agarwood and fake agarwood. Wearing fake agarwood that is dyed with aromatic substances has no effect and can even be harmful due to the scent of the aromatic substances.
Distinguishing real agarwood
In the world of agarwood, based on the level of oil contamination, color, flavor, shape, weight, and origin, agarwood is given different names such as: Eye agarwood, Island eye agarwood, Pillar agarwood, Green ant agarwood, Thin ant agarwood (Dirty agarwood, Birth agarwood).
Currently, buying and selling agarwood mainly relies on experience. Therefore, to recognize real agarwood, pay attention to:
Observe the wood grain on the agarwood piece: If the natural wood grain, lines, bumps, and irregularities are not perfectly even like a drawing, it is real agarwood. If the wood grain is even, it is artificially drawn.
Fragrance of agarwood: Both natural and cultivated agarwood have a mild and gentle fragrance, which is pleasant to smell without any pungent odor. Agarwood soaked with aromatic substances has a strong scent. When burning a real piece of agarwood, you will smell a subtle fragrance, white smoke, which quickly dissipates.
Color: Real agarwood has a mixed color of black, white, brown, and yellow, intermingled with each other, without a completely uniform color on the agarwood pieces. In addition, agarwood with an oil content of over 25% can sink in water. High-end agarwood can have an oil content of 60-80%, and when touched, the buyer can still feel its natural glossy smoothness. In contrast, fake agarwood has a shiny black color.
Over time, real agarwood becomes darker and shinier when worn, without losing its fragrance. Meanwhile, fake agarwood will lose its scent over time and can cause allergies to the wearer.
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