The difference between incense and sandalwood

Both agarwood and sandalwood are natural woods with obvious aroma. Although they are one of the four famous fragrances in the world, there are great differences between them in formation and aroma. agarwood is a kind of wood with injured mutation, while plant incense is a kind of wood. Under normal growth, there is aroma. agarwood is not only a kind of wood. Let's take a look together!

The essential difference between agarwood and sandalwood

1. Sandalwood: Sandalwood is the heartwood of Sandalwood family plants, which has important medicinal value. It is distributed in India, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia. It is also cultivated in China Taiwan.

2. Agarwood: Agarwood is actually a kind of balsam and solid condensate of woody components of Agarwood tree. Agarwood tree is invaded and parasitized by fungi after being bitten by insects, broken branches by wind and lightning strike in nature. Under the action of enzymes in bacteria, it erodes and decays starch stored in parenchyma cells of wood, producing a series of changes to form balsam. Finally, after years or even thousands of years of deposition, it forms a solid condensate with balsam and woody components.

The difference between agarwood and sandalwood is precious.

1, sandalwood: sandalwood is more common, sandalwood has yellow sandalwood, lobular rosewood, red sandalwood, ebony, green sandalwood and so on.

2. Agarwood: Compared with Agarwood, it is very rare. Vietnam lists Agarwood as a national treasure and prohibits exports, so it is less and less seen. According to the formation environment, agarwood is divided into soil sink, water sink, ant sink, inverted frame, etc. The raw material is Qi Nan as good. Of course, good agarwood is not only valuable, but also extremely rare.

The difference between incense and sandalwood

Sandalwood: Sandalwood aroma is more elegant, because it can calm down, mostly by religion, there are also sandalwood essential oils on the market, painted on the object, will emit a strong aroma.

2. Agarwood: The aroma of Agarwood is more melodious and thick, and the aroma is different from sandalwood.

Price difference between incense and sandalwood

Sandalwood: Sandalwood price is slightly lower, but also depends on whether it is true sandalwood, sandalwood and sandalwood are different, the price is also different.

2, agarwood: the price of agarwood is high, the best material is only a small piece, and the price is not easy to say, because it is rare, so the price is different every year.

The difference between incense and sandalwood

1. Sandalwood: Sandalwood has a pungent taste, warm nature, non-toxic, enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, has the effect of regulating qi and stomach, and treats heart pain, choking and vomiting, chest and diaphragm discomfort, etc.

2. Agarwood: Agarwood tastes pungent and bitter, has a slightly warm nature, returns to spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, has the effects of promoting qi and relieving pain, warming and stopping vomiting, absorbing qi and relieving asthma, and treats chest distension and pain, stomach cold vomiting hiccup, kidney deficiency and qi inversion asthma and other symptoms.