Daphne: Aquilaria Resinatum.

According to Latin naming rules, product names are expressed in italics, which is an international common naming principle. In Chinese-speaking countries and regions, there are many interpretations of agarwood, which is the product of rich China culture.

There is only one Latin name for Aquilaria sinensis-Oleo Resina Aquilariae, which means the oleoresin or rubbery gum of Aquilaria sinensis in Daphne family.

Daphne has only one Latin name-Aquilaria agalloch a Roxb, which means the agalloch tree named after Roxb.

So according to Latin expression, Aquilaria sinensis and Daphne are different products. In the last process of blending high-grade perfume, agarwood, musk and Long Xianxiang should be used as tail fragrance or pressed fragrance. In international trade, it is necessary to indicate in Latin whether the product is agarwood or Daphne, otherwise Daphne will be regarded as agarwood.

Many countries use English agarwood as the lingua franca of Daphne.

What we see in our hands, what we hang around our necks, and what we sculpt in large-scale crafts are not agarwood. They are all agarwood of Daphne family without exception. This word consisting of agar+wood, plus the suffix-wood, is still inseparable from the concept of wood.

How to confuse Aquilaria sinensis and Daphne odora?

Since ancient times, agarwood has been used as medicine, and Daphne has made it into handicrafts. However, because there are fewer and fewer agarwood, later generations replaced agarwood with Daphne, so that now when agarwood is mentioned, it is considered as Daphne. The common Daphne family has little efficacy, so it is necessary to use real agarwood or the top-grade Daphne family as medicine.

The earliest record of agarwood in China is "Suhexiang Pill" in Taiping Huimin Heji Prescription in Song Dynasty, and the first medicine is agarwood. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu, Empress Dowager Cixi suffered from facial paralysis for many years, at the age of 71. She ordered the imperial doctor to subtract frankincense from Su Hexiang Pill and add musk, and named it "Lafayette Su Hexiang Pill". Since then, Su Hexiang Pill has gained great fame and formed a famous first-aid drug with Angong Niuhuang Pill. Therefore, future generations say that without these two drugs, Chinese medicine hospitals cannot be Chinese medicine hospitals, and Chinese medicine practitioners cannot be Chinese medicine hospitals without knowing these two drugs.

Aquilaria sinensis is a fungus that invades and parasitizes after the tree of Aquilaria sinensis is injured. Starch in wood parenchyma cells undergoes a series of chemical changes under the action of enzymes secreted by hyphae, and finally becomes balsam. When balsam began to form, the starch in the cells disintegrated and gradually disappeared, and soon yellow secretion gradually appeared, which is what we call agarwood resin. They first gather in a corner of the cell cavity, or present a thin layer around the cell cavity, and then gradually fill the whole cell cavity. In the process of agarwood formation, the tree tissues around balsam were also infected, forming Daphne with different degrees of infection. Because different trees are infected by different environments and wounds, they will produce different smells. Among them, the best quality tree belongs to Daphne Aquilaria. In ancient China, this kind of wood was called Daphne, and later it was gradually mistaken for agarwood by later generations. In fact, they are all describing an agarwood tree. Agar-refers to the agar medium on which fungi can grow, and wood is wood. When we are lost in the unfathomable whirlpool of agarwood, foreigners will calmly think that it is just a kind of wood with fungi. Xiang Supreme Aquilaria has long insisted on making real agarwood, only making real agarwood! Is your trustworthy choice! Interested friends can go to the website of Xiang Supreme Aquilaria sinensis to buy it.