Thanks for posting your result.
What precisely did you test?
- 5 years old plantation spine piece of Kyara from a Kyara plantations in Vietnam.
What was used as the internal standard?
- Selection, Confirming age, Analysis GC test, Comparing constituents.
It looks to me as though it was the wrong choice as you'll note that the sum of the weight percentages only amounts to a ~9% total.
- GC test always done through braking down the material for all solid materials, then it needs a solvent unless it's elementally analysis through burning and gas test.
It makes sense that an analysis of Kyara would predominantly consist of sesquiterpenes and hydroxylated sesquiterpenes,
however from what I recall Kyara should contain the basic agarwood markers and then have additional kyara markers,
- kindly see the attached references, a little search will clear your ambiguity.
from what I see, only a couple in this test are agarwood markers.
- what kind of agarwood, as this can consist of over 200 different kind of wood.
Also, I believe kyara is rich in chromones, another element missing from your own test.
- Based on what test or what reference?
I looked through your posted references, I don't think I saw a single common component.
Am I missing something?
- agrwood by Rozi mohamed - tropical forest page 110, Inkedagrwood by Rozi mohamed - tropical forest page 109 (it's there)
Any work done in this direction would be very interesting to read through,
I hope you keep us posted about any developments Ali Attar makes.
- sure will and probably you guys will hear about it from many other sources.
A couple of sources have said that big auction houses have their own validation methods for kyara,
- true as I `mentioned the test will give you clear indication of the quality, age, and even mono region.
I'm still looking for anybody who can link to the validation process used.
- check the references the books and researches there address it in details.
What precisely did you test?
- 5 years old plantation spine piece of Kyara from a Kyara plantations in Vietnam.
What was used as the internal standard?
- Selection, Confirming age, Analysis GC test, Comparing constituents.
It looks to me as though it was the wrong choice as you'll note that the sum of the weight percentages only amounts to a ~9% total.
- GC test always done through braking down the material for all solid materials, then it needs a solvent unless it's elementally analysis through burning and gas test.
It makes sense that an analysis of Kyara would predominantly consist of sesquiterpenes and hydroxylated sesquiterpenes,
however from what I recall Kyara should contain the basic agarwood markers and then have additional kyara markers,
- kindly see the attached references, a little search will clear your ambiguity.
from what I see, only a couple in this test are agarwood markers.
- what kind of agarwood, as this can consist of over 200 different kind of wood.
Also, I believe kyara is rich in chromones, another element missing from your own test.
- Based on what test or what reference?
I looked through your posted references, I don't think I saw a single common component.
Am I missing something?
- agrwood by Rozi mohamed - tropical forest page 110, Inkedagrwood by Rozi mohamed - tropical forest page 109 (it's there)
Any work done in this direction would be very interesting to read through,
I hope you keep us posted about any developments Ali Attar makes.
- sure will and probably you guys will hear about it from many other sources.
A couple of sources have said that big auction houses have their own validation methods for kyara,
- true as I `mentioned the test will give you clear indication of the quality, age, and even mono region.
I'm still looking for anybody who can link to the validation process used.
- check the references the books and researches there address it in details.
Yes, the overuse and misuse of the term does annoy me.