Product Overview
We are very excited to have come across a most excellent Santalum album essential oil, this time from Australia, with an aroma that is very much like the classic Mysore Sandalwood from India – yet another beautiful Sandalwood essential oil to add to our offerings. This could very well be the Sandalwood oil well worth setting aside for aging: its aroma is very deep, soft, sweet-woody, with a very long, full-bodied, balanced, extremely sweet and creamy-smooth drydown. If nothing else, get a sample to check out this beauty, but fair warning – be prepared to swoon and be hooked!
(Previously known as Sandalwood - Fine)
This Sandalwood essential oil comes from trees that are plantation grown using sustainable practices. In addition, replanting occurs on a continuing basis, thus it is guaranteed ethically harvested. This oil is composed for the most part of a sesquiterpene alcohol – α-santalol[1] – a compound that gives viscosity and a woody aroma as well as being responsible for much of the beneficial effects.[2]
The Sandalwood essential oil most recognized is distilled from Santalum album in the Mysore region of India. It is an alarming fact that Mysore Sandalwood has endured severe population decline and genetic impoverishment (i.e., become nearly extinct) due to decades of over-harvesting, mismanagement of forests and illegal poaching – all driven by lucrative global demand. This is good news and bad news. The bad news is that high value plus harvesting restrictions are powerful incentives for the development of synthetics and the routine adulteration of genuine Sandalwood oils.[3] The good news is that this near tragedy created a new industry in other regions for cultivating various species of Sandalwood (including S. album) using more sustainable practices – a successful strategy for redirecting market pressure away from this precious botanical. Sandalwood, an exquisitely fragrant and praiseworthy tree, like the majestic elephant, has been nearly loved to death. May your usage of Sandalwood be mindful, and may you be present in the magnificence of every application.
Eden Botanicals sources a wide variety of sustainably harvested Santalum species from reputable suppliers in different geographical regions that we are sure will enchant and delight even the most discriminating Sandalwood lovers and natural perfumers. Sandalwood oil is beneficial in targeted skincare preparations and facial serums to improve the appearance of aging, dry, or congested skin. The divine aroma inspires an ambiance of peaceful contemplation and lends elevating and centering properties to meditation and incense blends.
1 Industry communication.
2 Bowles, E. Joy. The Chemistry of Aromatherapeutic Oils, 3rd ed., 2003, pp. 75-6.
3 Turin, Luca. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell, 2006, p. 77.
