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Quick answers
What is Sandalwood?
Creamy santal — milk and temple wood, now mostly farmed. Wild Mysore is a story, not a supply chain.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
How should I wear Sandalwood?
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
Which season fits?
Cool to cold, close to skin. Heat turns creamy wood into sun lotion.
Does skin chemistry change it?
Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
An accord is a geometry. Sandalwood is rose, jasmine, sandalwood, oud, vetiver, musk or amber stacked on purpose.
Naturals and molecules share the same pyramid; IFRA draws some of the lines.
Accords
- Attar sandal — Flower ruh into album oil.
- Samsara temple — Jasmine + sandal + iris hints.
- Santal 33 pickle — Cedar, cardamom, leather-sandal.
- Aldehydic sandal — Bois des Îles.
- Javanol cream — Modern designer “sandalwood”.
Materials
- Santalum album — Indian / plantation; α- and β-santalol.
- Santalum spicatum — Australian; drier, less creamy.
- Javanol — Givaudan; potent creamy sandal.
- Polysantol / Ebanol — Firmenich sandal synths.
- Mysore legend oil — Old stocks; mostly a story now.
- Sandela — Older cheap sandal molecule.
Smell the materials before you trust a note list on a box of Sandalwood.
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