The production process of agarwood mainly includes multiple steps such as searching for fragrance, screening, cleaning, grinding, blending, and blending.
Searching for fragrance and screening: First, you need to find high-quality agarwood raw materials, which have evolved naturally to form rare and high-quality agarwood resources. The raw materials are screened according to quality, and high-quality ones are used to make top-grade incense products, while low-quality ones are used to make ordinary incense products. 1
Cleaning and grinding: The screened agarwood raw materials need to be further cleaned to remove impurities, and then the raw materials are ground into incense powder by hand. This step is crucial to ensure the purity and quality of the incense. 12
Blending: Blending is a key step in making high-quality agarwood, which involves selecting appropriate auxiliary spices to mix with the main agarwood to achieve the ideal aroma effect. This process requires technical experience to ensure that the aroma of the incense is stable and has a sense of hierarchy.
Blending: The blended incense powder is mixed into incense mud, and various spices are fully integrated through repeated kneading and beating to form a uniform incense mud. This step is crucial to ensure the physical and chemical stability of the incense. 2
Molding and post-processing: The mixed incense mud is pressed into shape, which can be incense sticks, bracelets or other forms of incense. The formed incense needs to be dried in the shade and stored in a cellar to further stabilize the aroma and improve the quality. Finally, it is packaged as needed and prepared for sale.
In addition, there are also artificial methods of incense formation, such as artificial drilling, fungal infection and burning. Although these methods can accelerate the production of agarwood, the quality is often not as good as that of naturally formed agarwood.
