Sandalwood oil of the day
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-Renton-
True Ouddict
How did you get this? It is not available in his website shop. Is it gone?
Obada
True Ouddict
It will be available in the future
Mr.P
oud<3er
The dark colorā¦ that canāt be sandalwood essential oil. Is this a resinoid or absolute? Maybe oil soluble dye in the gel caps?
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True Woodict
i mean it is 124years old. do we know many sandalwoods this old? maybe it is normal for sandalwood this age to be brown? or maybe its not distilled but extracted. curious also
Mr.P
oud<3er
Well, the 100 year old stuff i have have seen is completely transparent yellowish. This is out of a sealed flask. The gelatin cap 1910 oil is a bit reddish - has to be from the gelatin or addition of extract/absolute.
It wouldnāt surprise me if it was an extract, and that isnt a bad thing! One of my favorite oils is a Sandalwood absolute.
It wouldnāt surprise me if it was an extract, and that isnt a bad thing! One of my favorite oils is a Sandalwood absolute.
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True Woodict
maybe the 100years old claim was really like 40 years old lol jjust saying with an open mind, not saying truth again , just speculation. i think you are right tho. either absolute, or capsule contamination like al was saying.
-Renton-
True Ouddict
The oldest sandalwood oil I have seen is 45 year old Indonesian sandalwood oil, and it looked like this:
Mr.P
oud<3er
Well, that sure is different. I would love to know what causes it to darken up like that! My guess is added absolute or CO2 extract or resinoid.
If someone were to ask my advice, I would suggest approaching dark colored Sandalwood oil with a high degree of skepticism (unless someone like Al Shareef or someone truly trustworthy with lots of long-term experience says otherwise).
My hope is that I am wrong and in fact there is this whole amazing world of highly pigmented sandalwood oil that Iāve been missing out on but I would be pretty danged surprised because Iām not just referring to my own personal collection, but those of others who I trust as well
If youāve got your eyes on a pigmented oil, I suggest getting a sample (and running it by someone if you are new to Sandalwood) before spending too much money on a bottle. I am not saying it will be bad. Iām just saying something is different and itās worth being cautious about. Iāll believe it when either al hind or ejayb actually see it happen lol
If someone were to ask my advice, I would suggest approaching dark colored Sandalwood oil with a high degree of skepticism (unless someone like Al Shareef or someone truly trustworthy with lots of long-term experience says otherwise).
My hope is that I am wrong and in fact there is this whole amazing world of highly pigmented sandalwood oil that Iāve been missing out on but I would be pretty danged surprised because Iām not just referring to my own personal collection, but those of others who I trust as well
If youāve got your eyes on a pigmented oil, I suggest getting a sample (and running it by someone if you are new to Sandalwood) before spending too much money on a bottle. I am not saying it will be bad. Iām just saying something is different and itās worth being cautious about. Iāll believe it when either al hind or ejayb actually see it happen lol
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True Woodict
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True Woodict
i realize that still the shoyeido oil and the yamadamatsu oils i extracted with alcohol still blow them all away. the capsules the kangi the ensar one all of them. the capsules are up there but if i do not open them up to smell them and also heat some on the kinam heater i cant say anything more than how the capsules smell. the capsules smell completely different than the oil i extracted. way more velvety and smooth while the ones i extracted, shoyeido smells like spicy purple candy grapes and the yamadamatsu like butter essential oil and sandalwood spicy warmth. the oils smell as loud ad the wood but on the skin man do they linger in the air for many hours. the projection on the alcohol extracted oils are way above the distilled oils, maybe not in the first hour but in general way more projection. its like its raining invisible powder sandalwood all day
Ahmaoud
True Ouddict
That's a surprising finding, I would have never guessed that an extract would project more than a distillated oil, maybe I need to locate some of these high grade sandalwoods and try this extract out for myself!
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True Woodict
Do it you will see exactly what I mean. The distilled oils smell much stronger and project a lot more for the first hour or so but then projection cuts down a lot. I noticed they become skin scents. The oils Iām talking about you can put your nose 5 inches away and wonāt be able to smell it but you will be smelling it lingering around you all day itās so strange
-Renton-
True Ouddict
Tea Guru's Sumba Vintage red and black meat sandalwood oil is red, not completely dark but not completely light red either, somewhere in the middle, closer to darker than lighter and it starts off with basically no creaminess or butteriness, it starts off for the first 5-15mins with intense tropical fruitiness with a hardcore woody sandalwood note. After that it is extremely creamy, buttery, with a rich woody scent reminiscent of old, rare, wood in a church with a touch of the sandalwood wood note.
Mr.P
oud<3er
The extracts that I have especially the carbon dioxide oils have been very punchy - much more intense woody / mapley aspects compared to the distillate. However, if you put a drop of CO2 oil on one arm and a drop of good quality distilled oil on the other, the CO2 oils do not hold up over time - they are very showy out of the starting gate, but lose their pizzazz right when the distilled oil really starts to glow
-Renton-
True Ouddict
It says this on his etsy: Extraction Method: Semi Vacuum Distillation
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