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Sandalwood Oil
(Mysore, India)
Botanical Name: Santalum album
Extraction: Steam distilled wood
Appearance: Clear, light amber
Origin: Mysore, India
Aroma: Rich, soft, smooth-woody-musky sweet and tenacious
Sandalwood
is the name for several fragrant woods and their essential oil. Most are
medium-sized hemiparasitic trees of the Santalaceae family of the genus,
Santalum. The most notable members of this group are Santalum album, Indian
Sandalwood and Santalum spicatum, Australian sandalwood. Several other members
of the genus species also have fragrant wood and are found across India,
Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands. Sandalwood has been valued for
centuries for its fragrance, woodworking and for various purported medicinal
qualities.
Sandalwood oil is a beneficial skin treatment
and used in a range of skin and hair care products. The oil is widely valued in
perfumery in India and Europe. The oil is used in perfumery, both in India and
Europe. It has a characteristic sweet, woody odour which is widely used in the
fragrance industry. It has excellent blending properties and the presence of a
large proportion of high-boiling constituents in the oil also makes it valuable
as a fixative for other fragrances. In India, where it is produced, it is used
in this manner for the manufacture of traditional attars such as rose attar.
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