Incense worth a million

Aloes is a good spice wood, but also a very valuable Chinese herbal medicine. It was originally a dark wood that looked dark, but it was valued by the world for its ability to emit an elegant, long-lasting fragrance.

Recently, the agarwood bracelets at the Changchun Folk Art Exposition reached an astronomical price of 880 yuan per gram, nearly double the price of thousands of gold (nearly 450 yuan per gram).

Coincidentally, in June this year, Beijing Poly Spring Auctions, "Aquila carved xianshan pavilion embedded Western mirror seat screen" starting with 5.2 million, the venue buyers fierce competition, and ultimately to 20.7 million yuan high price to break the Chinese agarwood art auction record.

Has this hot incense that has been blowing recently been worth intervening? Where is the value of the incense? "Lujiazui" reporters after many visits to solve these doubts for you.

One gram of hard-to-find "Aquila is worth a million dollars." The Song Dynasty Cai Yong wrote in his "Tie Wei Shan Cong Tan", showing that the high price of aloe has existed.

In fact, the trees to which Aquilaria belongs are not worth the money. Mei Jiaqi, who is engaged in the research of spices, introduced that Aquilaria sinensis, Wanxiang tree, and Aquilaria sinensis in India can all form Aquilaria sinensis. These trees themselves have no great economic value.

Aquilaria sinensis is actually a balsam that was invaded by fungal infestation and changed after many years of deposition. The greater the density of the agarwood balsam, the more condensed the resin, the better its quality, so the ancients often submerged the agarwood into different levels with the ability to submerge the water: the sinker is called "Shuishuixiang" when it enters the water; Among them, half-floating and semi-sinking people are called "Shangxiang", also known as "Xiangxiang", "Zhongshuixiang", etc.; once again, a little water that floats on the water is called "Huang Shuxiang".

At present, Vietnam's Qi Nan Shen is the most superior incense. Mei Jiaqi said that the high price of agarwood is due to the fact that Aquilaria sinensis will undergo a long growth period after it begins to grow into knots. It will take at least a few years to a dozen years, and a high-quality agarwood will take decades or even hundreds of years to form. . Therefore, the output of agarwood is extremely low, and the world’s best quality Aquilaria sinensis oil is 1 million yuan.

In fact, even if it is not the top of the incense, its price performance has been very alarming, agarwood is generally processed into powder, oil or crafts, etc., and from the performance of the recent auction market, agarwood crafts are very popular with collectors.

The above Paul Lee spring shoot "Aquila carved xianshan pavilion embedded Western mirror seat screen", the whole device to the rare Jane's agarwood wood, an agglomerated splicing, craftsmanship, materials are quite abundant. The front panel with a glass mirror on the front of the screen, above and on both sides of the screen, are embossed with views of the landscape pavilion. A total of six pictures on the back, through optical principles, from the two circular holes on the front mirror, see through the light, we can see the depth of depth and 3D effect of the Western figures landscape, creating a new high price is reasonable.

At an auction in Ningbo in February this year, an agarwood carving with a height of about 95cm and weight of 4.69kg was sold at the auction sale of bamboo wood and toothpaste for 9.52 million yuan.

There are many such examples. In the fall auction last year, in the China Jia Deya Play Censorship, a box of agarwood in the Qing Dynasty (Agarwood Box weighs 3,000 grams and a small piece of agarwood weighs about 1265 grams. 4265 grams) with 7.13 million yuan transactions, unit price per kilogram has reached 1671 yuan, can be described as worth a veritable one-gram daughter.

Medicinal use and collection Because of the need for research, Mei Jiaqi has contact with the entire industry chain of Chen Xiang. He said that for reasons of price, there is not much market for agarwood in the aromatherapy industry. The agarwood has a good medicinal value. For example, rich people would put incense into the well water to kill insects and cure diseases. Mei Jiaqi said that the medicinal value of Chen Xiang is sexual symplectic, mild and non-toxic, and it has the effects of analgesia, phlegm, phlegm, and asthma, but these effects have more inexpensive Chinese medicines that can be replaced. Perhaps from a practical point of view, the price of agarwood is somewhat overheated. However, things are rare and expensive. The buying and selling of agarwood is still more from the aspect of investment in collections. For Mei Jiaqi who is a technology, the investment collection is entirely a layman.

In addition to the health effects, the incense incense is also a favorite of many literati. In the atmosphere of repeated smokes, it is an elegant thing to savor or write poetry. The fragrance is together with tea, flower arrangement, and paintings. The old scholars and doctors were called "Four Businesses."

The pursuit of this kind of course will also promote everyone's enthusiasm for buying and collecting incense. In fact, those articles that are closely related to the noble pursuit of the literati have long been "heated", such as jade, tea, teapot or red sandalwood, Phoebe, etc. One person described that he had a meeting with a customer. Sometimes he could burn up to a million of agarwood powder overnight. They felt that the taste of Chen Xiang smelled very comfortable, and even his thinking became more sensitive than usual.

In general, the same thing has the characteristics of market capacity, the amount of deposits, and the cultural and historical background. It is easy to be hyped, and there is no doubt that Chen Xiang has these characteristics.

But is the incense really overheated? In particular, the sky-high price of those above-mentioned auctions is expected to be born. Some market participants believe that material is only one aspect of pricing for Agarwood artwork, and more important is the artistic and historical value of the artwork itself.

At an art forum in China, some people have expressed this view: “In the past two years, the incense has gradually warmed up, and it has been sought after by Chinese and some collectors. Some people think that it should be based on the grade of incense, the quality of incense, and ancient times. In the past few years, Beijing Jiade, Bohai, Baoli, and Gutian auction companies have successively auctioned and auctioned a large number of ancient artworks of agarwood, and these vast majority are not a good incense, but they are frequently shot. The sky-high price is precisely because in the ancient artworks, the precious material is only a factor that determines its value factor. For example, in the spring of this year, Bao Li is a Qing Qianlong, a fragrant Western mirror, and it is neither a stranger nor a Nan. The reason why the top agarwood is accepted by the market is because it has great artistic value, historical value and cultural background. It is the perfect combination of Chinese and western culture and art!"

The fakes are prevalent However, no matter how good the incense is, after being visited, some spice collectors or gamers who buy and sell arts seem to feel that they need to be cautious when starting the incense, because there are too many counterfeits in the market.

In Qianzhou, who was doing calligraphy and painting business in Suzhou, she sold a piece of agarwood before. He said that in the market, those high-end players like the carvings and ornaments of the incense, but the incense itself is very scarce. It is not a suitable investment product for the general public. "This is not only because of the variety of agarwood and its high price. What's more important is that agarwood has a lot of frauds. It is difficult for ordinary people to discern. Even if it is from grain lines and fragrance, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false."

"The cost of investing in or investing in Aquilaria is high and the risk is high unless you go to your own country of origin." Now, Qian teacher has put his main energy on Jinsi Phoebe.

The Dalmatians, Dalberg, said that she had recently learned from a fan plant that some of the exporters of Chenxiang had issued bans. It has been very difficult to get the supply of Chen Xiang in the past two years. The handicrafts that were recently sold at the factory are almost all raw materials. The inventory accumulated in previous years in the factory.

"Aquila is more than 90% fake at the moment," she said. "The low threshold for counterfeit aromas and the high threshold for recognition have brought huge profits to counterfeiting."

She is not interested in buying agarwood. "In my eyes, the main selling point is that exotic goods can live in, but now most of the incense in the market, sources unknown, quality is difficult to guarantee, it has no process value. , Plus the high price, which is very high risk, over-hype, it is easy to lose money to earn money, it is like playing drums and flowers, and in the end who can only be considered unlucky.”

According to the introduction of Mei Jiaqi, according to the introduction of Mei Jiaqi, there are two phenomena of high-priced timber and illicit oil falsification in the market, and the means of identification materials are only burning and inaccurate, and the scented oil is due to high-tech detection means. It is entirely possible to improve and analyze it clearly.

Of course, the genuine fragrance of Chen Xiang is still very attractive. It can be seen from the high prices of the aforementioned auction items that the collectors are eager for the incense, and the existing data show that in the international auction records of Sotheby's and Christie's, the incense fragrance per gram. The price has already surpassed 63,000 yuan***. In the domestic market, the prices of the incense have started to rise astonishingly since 2009 and have risen more than 30% every year. Most of the market thinks that there is still much room for improvement in the price of the incense, especially those fine varieties. .

Maybe we can understand this way, in addition to the factors of hobbies or use, such as the preservation of the value of things like agarwood is as long as someone has a tray, it is suitable for collection. Now, because of its elegance and scarcity, it still rises, but nobody knows who will be the last buyer.

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