Essential oils · Woody & Resinous family
Sandalwood essential oil
Santalum album
Đàn hương · Santalaceae
Soft, sweet, milky wood. So quiet in the opening that many people think the bottle is weak.
It is quiet because the santalols evaporate very slowly. You have to wait a few minutes on skin or paper for the smell to open, and after that it stays for days, almost unchanged. Few oils are both so discreet and so lasting.
The oil lies in the heartwood, and the tree needs several decades before it has heartwood worth distilling. That is why Indian sandalwood is expensive and so often replaced with other species or synthetics. The botanical name on the label and the lot analysis are the two things to look at before the price.
- Plant part
- Wood
- Method
- Water distillation
- Vietnamese name
- Đàn hương
- Scent family
- Woody & Resinous
- Plant family
- Santalaceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Sandalwood
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
In the scent dictionary: Đàn hương — a description of the smell, the compounds behind it, and how to smell it for yourself.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Also from the wood Atlas cedarwood · Blue cypress · Camphor ct camphor · Ho wood · Palo santo · Rosewood
Same method: water distillation Agarwood