🔍[Heavenly fragrance breaks the boundary: Hainan agarwood sells for a sky-high price of 280 million yuan]2024 is the first year for the awakening of the value of the agarwood industry
2024-10-10
🔥 Auction site: A piece of agarwood rewrites the boundaries of cognition
When the Sotheby's auctioneer dropped the hammer and announced that "Lot 219 Hainan agarwood was sold for 280 million yuan", the entire exhibition center fell into a brief silence - this number not only broke the record of the price per gram of agarwood (reaching 1 million yuan/gram), but also announced the amazing leap of agarwood from a collectible to a "hard currency".
Core data of the subject matter:
▸ Weight: 280g (equivalent to the weight of an iPhone Pro Max)
▸ Age: Hainan Huanghuali mother tree over 800 years old
▸ Fragrance characteristics: lightning strike pattern + ant nest honey crystallization (accounting for only 0.3% of the whole tree)
▸ Technology endorsement: "Aromatic ketone content reaches 19.7%" test report issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences
🌍 Value decoding: The logic behind the four-dimensional perspective of the sky-high price
1. Civilization gene bank
Carbon 14 testing shows that the agarwood was formed during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and is the same source as the spices used by Zheng He's fleet to the West
The wood grain contains the "sea water and river cliff" pattern, which is highly consistent with the Yongle blue and white candlestick decoration in the Palace Museum
2. A natural miracle
Micro-CT reveals its agarwood formation process: 17 lightning strikes → 3 generations of termites nesting → tropical fungi symbiosis
Contains more than 2,000 active aromatic molecules per cubic centimeter (ordinary agarwood only has 300-500)
3. Financial attributes
Benchmarking gold: The annualized yield of top agarwood in the past 10 years has reached 35.7% (gold is 6.2%)
Safe haven value: In the asset allocation of high-net-worth individuals around the world in 2023, the proportion of collection-grade agarwood will increase to 2.1%