Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Sandela

Say itsan-DEL-uh

Soft, creamy-nutty sandalwood; faint on its own but extremely long-lasting.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1942.

Where it comes from

sandalwood isomer isolated by distillation

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Fixative and milky sandalwood base; supplied thinned in isopropyl myristate because it is very viscous.

Worth knowing

It descends from the first synthetic sandalwood odorants, made in German laboratories during the Second World War.

Also called

Isobornyl cyclohexanol (IBCH); Sandiff; isocamphyl cyclohexanol