Sandalwood Album Essential Oil

$80.00
Sandalwood Album Essential Oil

Sandalwood Album Essential Oil

$80.00
Size 5ml

Fragrance Material | Essential Oil

Soft, creamy, and quietly radiant, Sandalwood Album Essential Oil is one of perfumery’s most enduring and revered materials. Distilled from the heartwood of Santalum album, it offers a serene, milky woodiness that anchors compositions with warmth, elegance, and extraordinary longevity.

Sandalwood Album reveals a smooth, velvety aroma defined by creamy woods, subtle sweetness, and gentle balsamic undertones. Never sharp or dry, its character is rounded and meditative, with a natural skin-like warmth that unfolds slowly over time.

Sandalwood Album functions primarily as a base note, prized for both its olfactory beauty and fixative qualities.

Recommended concentration:
Fine fragrance: 0.5–5%, depending on desired richness

Blends harmoniously with:
Florals (rose, jasmine, ylang ylang)
Resins (frankincense, benzoin, labdanum)
Spices (cardamom, coriander)
Musks and amber accords

Suitable for non-perfumery applications including luxury skincare, balms, massage oils, soaps, and incense-style home fragrance

It lends depth, softness, and exceptional longevity to both minimalist and complex compositions.

Material Type: Essential oil
Botanical Name: Santalum album
Plant Part: Heartwood
Extraction Method: Steam distillation
CAS Number: 8006-87-9
Origin: India
Odour Profile: Creamy, woody, soft, slightly sweet, balsamic
Appearance: Pale yellow to golden viscous liquid
Solubility: Soluble in oil and alcohol

For external use only. Do not ingest
Dilute before skin application
Store in a cool, dark place in a tightly sealed container
Shelf life: 5+ years when stored correctly
Sustainably sourced; vegan and cruelty-free

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Every professional perfumer works in dilution. It's not a beginner shortcut, it's the correct way to evaluate and blend aromatic materials. At full concentration, materials smell harsh, inaccurate, and often overwhelming. You're not smelling the material, you're smelling too much of it.

When you dilute a 5ml aromatic material to a 10% solution, you extend it to 50ml of working stock. That's five times the material to experiment with, evaluate, and blend, without wasting a drop of something precious and expensive.

For powder materials like ambroxan, calone, and vanillin, dilution isn't optional, it's essential. Powders need to be fully dissolved in ethanol before they can be accurately measured, evaluated, or incorporated into a formula. Without this step, you simply can't work with them properly.

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