Sandalwood Mysore “Signature” Oil
Sandalwood Mysore “Signature” Oil
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Finest genuine Mysore Sandalwood. Pure heartwood.
Deluxe premium-grade oil with exquisite richness
Ethically sourced from Mysore (मैसूर कर्नाटक), India
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Variety: Santalum Album
Distilled from wild and plantation sandalwood trees (including the esteemed heartwood) in Mysore (Mysuru), Karnataka with a minimum age of 25 years, this is the finest quality sandalwood essential oil (मैसूर चंदन तेल). This is the authentic sandalwood of bygone days, sourced from the region formerly known as the Kingdom of Mysore (encompassing a greater area than the present day Mysore city).
This essential oil is so vibrant and alive that it dances. Packed with creamy goodness that typifies the highest quality sandalwood, this product also has a classic almost musky animal intensity in the dry down. This is not a linear B-grade sandalwood extraction, this is a rich and complex classic sandalwood oil. Wear it straight on the skin, add it to a perfume, or put it down to age for a decade. This is the gold standard of sandalwood which is why it carries our “signature” mark.
Authenticity
Our oil has a verified (Z)-α-santalol content of 47.5% and a (Z)-β-santalol content of 20.4% confirming its authenticity via ISO 3518:2022 (the international standard for verifying Sandalwood oil).
Kingdom of Mysore
Mysore sandalwood oil is extracted from trees that come from the southern parts of the Western Ghats, basically encompassing present day Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the Konkan region of Maharashtra. The finest quality is from the forest regions of Marayoor in Kerala and present day Mysore city in Karnataka (formerly the capital of the greater Mysore kingdom). Much confusion exists today as trees from areas outside Mysore city are correctly (but confusingly) a source of traditional Mysore sandalwood oil.
Legal Information
As of 2022, the government of Karnataka removed all restrictions on the private growing and selling of sandalwood on the open market.
Origin: Southern India (regions of the former Kingdom of Mysore); मैसूर कर्नाटक
Part: Heartwood
Method: Steam distillation at source
Odour Impact Scale
Scale Interpretation
Sandalwood Mysore “Signature” Oil has a moderate odour presence (4/10 strength) when evaluated directly, but shows a restrained impact in blends (3/10). Can be used generously without dominating.
IFRA 51: No restriction for category 4
Average Use:
1.5% in a perfume compound
Appearance: Pale straw liquid
Longevity: Lasts > 400 hours on a smelling strip
Fraterworks® is strictly a reseller of this product and is neither an agent nor official distributor for Payan Bertrand.
General Information
General Information
Like most suppliers and makers of quality raw materials for fragrances, we do not filter many of our products. This ensures that no odiferous matter is lost prior to use but can result in the appearance of small particles or slight clouding.
All alcoholic fragrances should be macerated for up to a month and then chilled in a moderate freezer overnight before being filtered fine. This will remove all cloudiness or detritus and is the industry norm.
IFRA Standards
IFRA Standards
Permitted amounts in finished product:
IFRA 51: 100%
IFRA49: 100%
These are derived from calculated concentrations which do not replace chromatographic quantification on individual lots. Disclaimer...
For Trade Use Only
For Trade Use Only
Our products are intended as building blocks in the perfume creation process; they are not to be applied to the skin undiluted.
These raw materials are for use by the perfumery trade only.
Sandalwood Mysore “Signature” Oil, An Indepth Look:
Sandalwood is one of the oldest known perfume materials, and it has at least 4000 years of history and uninterrupted use. It is believed that the oil of sandalwood was known in Ceylon over 1000 years ago, but it is only within the past century that the oil has appeared in European and American perfumery.East Indian Sandalwood Oil is a pale yellow to yellow, viscous liquid, having an extremely soft, sweet-woody, and almost animal-balsamic odor, presenting little or no particular top note, and remaining uniform for a considerable length of time due to its outstanding tenacity. The oil blends so excellently with rose, violet, tuberose, clove, lavender, bergamot, etc. etc., that it is almost a common “blender”-fixative in countless woody-floral and Oriental-floral bases, chypres, fougères, clover, carnation, origan- types and other perfume types. Furthermore, the oil is used as a base for co-distillation of other essential oils, e.g. the most delicate florals: rose, mimusops elengi, anthocephalus cadamba, pandanus, etc.. In India, the so-called “attars” are made with sandalwood oil distilled over such flowers, or by distillation of these flowers into a receiver with sandalwood oil.)
As a background note and sweet fixative in amber perfumes, in opopanax and “precious wood” types, it is almost obligatory, and it blends beautifully with the ionones, methyl ionones, oakmoss and labdanum products, patchouli oil, vetiver oil, natural and artificial musks, geranium oils, mimosa absolute, cassie, costus, clove bud oil or eugenol, linalool, geraniol, phenylethyl alcohol, hydroxycitronellal, bucinal, cyclamal, etc.
East Indian Sandalwood Oil is not infrequently adulterated with Australasian sandalwood oil (lowers the laevorotation), with araucaria oil, copaiba oil, heart fractions of aged Atlas cedarwood oil, Amyris oil, or various rare East African wood oils (e.g. the Brachyleana Hutchinsii, see Muhuhu Oil), with bleached copaiba balsam or with various odorless solvents such as benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, diethyl phthalate, isopropyl myristate, liquid paraffin, etc. etc.
S. Arctander. Perfume and flavor Materials of Natural Origin, Carol Stream: Allured Publishing Corporation, 2008, pp. 574–576.
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