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I trudged through the dense forest and visited unknown herbs. This is a small island in the Indian Ocean, which is famous for its rich spices, commonly known as Xiang Island. I have a vanilla crown on my head and a vanilla bracelet on my wrist. On her finger, she wore a ring made of grass. Walking, the fragrant wind is blowing. These vanilla ornaments are all local indigenous children, picking up herbs on the road while walking, knitting them and giving them to me.

There are many kinds of herbs. This is the raw material of lipstick, which can roast lamb chops ... At first, I tried to recite their names, but soon I gave up my futile efforts. Vast, too much.

I was thinking about the past of my old country when suddenly an old woman came out of the grass. Her face is black and wrinkled, and there is no moisture in her whole face. It is like wood charred by thunder and fire, even drier than a mummy.

I was so scared that I thought I met a tree demon.

The back of her hand is like charcoal, and her palm is pale pink. I was almost pale with a small bottle in my hand and said something to my guide quickly.

The guide hesitated. The appearance of the old man seems to be beyond his expectation. However, some people in the national tradition respect the elderly. After patiently listening to the old man, he told me that the old man said she had some spices and asked if you wanted them.

I tried to hide my surprise at being harassed and said politely, what spices?

The guide translated my question. The old man's expression became awed and he hit the floor and answered calmly. The tour guide turned to me and said that she said this is the mother of all kinds of incense.

This sentence makes me curious. I repeat gently, the mother of all spices? What is this thing?

The tour guide corrected me that it is not the mother of all spices, but the mother of all incense.

I couldn't respond at the moment and asked, is there a difference?

The tour guide said they were very different, but they were different in principle. The mother of all spices does not exist, because there are so many kinds of spices that it is impossible to have a unified mother. If we must find their similar source, it can only be this tropical land under our feet. However, Xiang Ma exists. It is in this bottle, and the best fragrance in the world comes from it.

At this point, I had to open the small bottle and smell it. Unscrew the bottle cap, gather together in the past, and sure enough, those inconspicuous bark-like gray-green particles exude an extremely strange fragrance. I seem to have met an acquaintance.

How much is a bottle? I asked.

The old man reported a number, which is valuable.

If it were me, I wouldn't buy it. But I remember a friend in China who loves vanilla. I paid for the vial. The old man made the deal and returned to the jungle without saying a word. I saw the shadows of the trees dancing without a trace. If I hadn't kept this little bottle in my hand, I almost suspected it was an illusion just now.

In the later tour, I was absent-minded and repeatedly asked the guide what the name of this spice was. He looked up the dictionary on his mobile phone, called his most knowledgeable companion for advice, and got a sentence, this is the mother of all kinds of incense.

After returning to Beijing, I finally remembered that I had smelled this fragrance before.

This fragrance comes from agarwood.

It usually takes decades to form a good agarwood. Those unparalleled products sometimes take hundreds of years because of their high resin content.

Either way, those mother trees containing agarwood must be injured first. There are many reasons for wind trees to be injured in nature, such as mountain fires attacking wild animals to climb, rain and hail tearing up insects to eat ants ... and even unexplained local deaths. The oil accumulated after injury will form "fragrant seeds" at the wound, and then the wind tree will make persistent efforts to gather more oil to the wound. In this way, balsam will spread, and after thousands of years of alcoholization, agarwood was born.

Aquilaria sinensis is sweet, but the way to get it is thrilling. Because the wild agarwood in nature is tiny, the demand is huge and the price tag is high, people can't wait for the timetable of nature. Since agarwood comes from the wound of tung tree, wouldn't the output of agarwood be greatly increased if the tung tree was artificially injured?

In fact, no matter what tools you use, you can't get rid of knives and axes, peeling and heartbreak. In short, it is artificially causing deep trauma to Aegiceras mandshurica, and then using the instinct of Aegiceras mandshurica to secrete fat and scab, artificially making agarwood. It is conceivable that a few years later, those who used to wield knives and axes should be ecstatic to count the fruits of their victory.

Wind tree is the mother of agarwood. Although its "fruit" is as rich as the city, its mother tree is not delicate, and it can grow in red soil, yellow soil or sand.

Ask the master, what do you think of the fragrant wind tree if it is a particularly fertile land rich in deep humus?

I said, naturally, just make more incense.

Shi Xiang said, otherwise. In fertile soil, paulownia trees grow faster, but they are not very fragrant. Where the shade is large, the water is too rich, and the fragrance is slow, or even not fragrant at all. Only paulownia trees, which grow very slowly in poor soil, have a good fragrance, although they are not growing well.

I was surprised and said, really?

Shi Xiang said, for example, somewhere in Guangdong, there is an Aquilaria sinensis, which has been growing for 50 years. The height of the tree is more than three feet, and DBH is more than one foot. Although I have been vaccinated many times, it just doesn't smell good. The same Aquilaria sinensis, if in the wild state, grows slowly in poor soil, and its appearance is not good-looking, dry and thin, but it has more fragrance and oil. The quality of incense is good and the fragrance is strong. While speaking, the yang and fragrance of agarwood whirled around us, making people feel like a Xiangjiang River. Tell the master that the fragrance of agarwood can not only purify the environment, but also transform the atmosphere through the spirit of wood to create the most stable and auspicious space.

The perfumer asked me, do you know which kind of wild agarwood has the best fragrance?

I said, I don't know, please let me know.

Shi Xiang said that it is best for the wind tree to make incense at the crack split by lightning.

I said, why?

Because this is the burning of skyfire, it will not rot the wound, and it can also highly stimulate the wind tree to secrete resin with the greatest strength. Very sweet. Remember, the wind tree is harmless and odorless.

At the moment, my feelings for agarwood are extremely complicated. It goes without saying that it is the best fragrance in the world, but the process of extracting fragrance is so cruel that it is simply killing elephants to get teeth in the plant world.

Harmless and odorless, so is the wind tree, so is the world! How many wonderful things are written from suffering, and how many outstanding wizards are born in sorrow.

The wind tree is dead, but its child, its essence-agarwood is still alive. It has been smoking for three days.