Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Isobionics Santalol
Say iteye-soh-bye-ON-iks SAN-tuh-lawl
Creamy, milky natural-type sandalwood, close to the heart of Indian oil.
- What it is
- A molecule made by fermentation.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Sustainable, nature-identical santalol to replace or extend scarce sandalwood oil in woody bases.
- Worth knowing
- The microbe, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, carries a plant gene for santalene synthase—no sandalwood tree is cut.
- Also called
- Biotech santalol
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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