Distinguish real – fake incense

To distinguish, the simplest way is to directly smell the product, if at first there is an alcohol smell, or a strong aroma, it is a chemical impregnated product.
Ask: I bought a rosewood bracelet for the house is very fragrant, please ask what factors in addition to the fragrance to distinguish real – fake incense? Hoang Thi Thu (Hanoi)

How to distinguish real – fake incense? Illustration Mr. Bien Quoc Dung, Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Agarwood Association: Raw materials for making agarwood products today are mainly natural and artificial incense. However, natural frankincense is very precious, rare, high cost, so very few establishments make products from this type of agar. The main product is made from artificial agarwood, which is gourd plant grown and cultivated with agarwood. It takes 10 years for the seedlings to be planted until the time they can be drilled. After transplanting agarwood, it takes about 5 years to create agarwood, but not every tree after transplanting produces agarwood, the success rate is relatively low. Therefore, artificial bass is also very precious and the price is quite high. One characteristic of basswood is that it is very soft, so it is difficult to use machines to mass-produce items such as bass rings that have to be done by hand. The grain is mass-produced mechanically, not of agarwood. Producers often use chemicals with a deep odor to seep into wood grains to imitate agarwood. To distinguish, the simplest way is to directly smell the product, if at first there is an alcohol smell, or a strong aroma, it is a chemical impregnated product. Because a really deep smell is usually faint, mild, it takes a new temperature to release the fragrance. Another trick often offered by the seller to lure customers is to put the series of bass rings in the water. If the circle sinks, it proves it is deep However, the agarwood wood is not only soft but also light, so it will float on the water, of course there are still pieces of wood submerged in the water, which are pieces of wood with many deep essential oils crystallized from many years. The cost of this type of submerged bass is very high, each ring made from this type of bass is the lowest at 400 million VND / chain. According to the Life science