Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Santalol

Say itSAN-tuh-lawl

Pure, dry-creamy sandalwood heart, milky and lightly smoky, without top-note brightness.

What it is

Natural material from alcohol fraction distilled from sandalwood oil (Santalum album or spicatum).

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Concentrated sandalwood core to boost natural oils or rebuild sandalwood where whole oil is too costly.

Worth knowing

β-Santalol, a key carrier of sandalwood's smell, had its structure worked out by Leopold Ružička around 1935.

Also called

α- and β-santalol; natural sandalwood alcohols

On the label of 75 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

ShalimarGuerlain · printed “Santalol”Bleu de ChanelChanel · printed “Santalol”Coco MademoiselleChanel · printed “Santalol”Santal 33Le Labo · printed “Santalol”Side EffectInitio · printed “Santalol”Absolute AphrodisiacInitio · printed “Santalol”

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