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Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Australian sandalwood oil
Drier, sharper sandalwood with green, resinous-balsamic and faintly sweet floral facets.
- What it is
- Natural oil from wood of wild and plantation Santalum spicatum trees.
- Where it comes from
- Western Australia
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Sustainable sandalwood body for woody bases; often blended with synthetics to round out its drier character.
- Worth knowing
- Its santalols total roughly 20–45%, against about 57–79% in Indian sandalwood, which is why it smells drier.
- Rules
- Limited. Its farnesol content counts toward the IFRA farnesol limit.
- Also called
- Santalum spicatum; Western Australian sandalwood
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