Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Sandalore

Say itSAN-duh-lor

Rich sandalwood with milky, creamy warmth and a faint leathery-grapefruit edge.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1976.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Adds volume, creaminess and trail to sandalwood reconstructions and woody bases.

Worth knowing

Its close structural cousin Adoxal smells marine and aldehydic—a small molecular change turns sandalwood into sea air.

Rules

Limited. IFRA 49th Amendment limits for skin sensitisation.

Also called

Santal pentanol; 3-methyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethylcyclopent-3-enyl)pentan-2-ol