Sandalwood oil of the day

[Olfactory Nomad]

ASO - Mysore/Tamil Nadu blend. Look at the colour of this oil! This is everything I had hoped and more. The thick maple wood notes are still there in force but now the lighter citrus of the Mysore is there as well. I'm totally expecting to still be smelling this come morning. This is a complete perfume.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

An Najwa - Mysore Antique 1960. This is pure butter this one. Zero citrus, just pure butter. Incredible.

 

[wckdthistle]

@Al Shareef Oudh Mysore Sandalwood oil with two year maceration of Mongolian musk. I made a small vat of this stuff....pure creamy woodyness with a strong muskiness running through it. No matter what the weather this strikes right with me each time.
Like the thread....

Curious, how do you macerate with Mongolian Musk?

 

[DubOudh]

Curious, how do you macerate with Mongolian Musk?

Put a small amount of the grains into the bottle containing the oil. Leave enough room in the glass bottle to take grains without over spilling. Allow a minimum of six months for the two ingredients to fuse together.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

@Joe this is the Sandalwood oil of the Day thread. Absolutely worth reading from the very start. Lots of great information here and it may just spark back your initial love for sandalwood.

 

[Joe]

@Joe this is the Sandalwood oil of the Day thread. Absolutely worth reading from the very start. Lots of great information here and it may just spark back your initial love for sandalwood.

Thanks. It would be nice to love it again as I have so much oil and chips I no longer heat! I used to love the stuff. One of nature’s most soothing woods. That and rosewood, but since rosewood is endangered ill never smell it again. Alone or in composition.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Alhindoud - Mysuru Special. I'm getting this savoury note from it today that is often mentioned by @Mr.P. It's really a very nice sandalwood.

 

[Joe]

Alhindoud - Mysuru Special. I'm getting this savoury note from it today that is often mentioned by @Mr.P. It's really a very nice sandalwood.

You're up early. I have some nice Mysore sandalwood and royal Hawaiian sandalwood that beats the rest.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

You're up early. I have some nice Mysore sandalwood and royal Hawaiian sandalwood that beats the rest.

That was pm here in Australia. We're upside down.🙃

 

[Joe]

That was pm here in Australia. We're upside down.🙃

Haha. Sorry. I hadn't known where in the world you were!

Joe

 

[DubOudh]

Today I used a sandalwood/Mongolian musk maceration that was started in 2020. I subsequently added about three drops of Bulgarian rose oil in about late 2021. It starts with a sweet tangy rose scent. After a few hours the musk becomes much more pronounced and the sandalwood's normal buttery notes are suppressed. Instead it has a strong almost vanilla note to the sandalwood. It has benefitted from the near five years together. Very happy with this.

 

[Mr.P]

Sandalwood of the day is the Al Shareef Tamil Nadu CO2 extract. An engaging complex variation on the sandalwood theme, combining notes of aged sandalwood oil and sandalwood co2 extracts. Several different layers in the topnotes set it apart from the aroma of a distilled sandalwood oil, with some nice maple and fenugreek adjacent notes. Here's hoping for more solvent extracted Sandalwood in the future. 🙂

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Sandalwood of the day is the Al Shareef Tamil Nadu CO2 extract. An engaging complex variation on the sandalwood theme, combining notes of aged sandalwood oil and sandalwood co2 extracts. Several different layers in the topnotes set it apart from the aroma of a distilled sandalwood oil, with some nice maple and fenugreek adjacent notes. Here's hoping for more solvent extracted Sandalwood in the future. 🙂

It's so good. I'm playing with the idea of blending into it some of my ASO Mysore and Siberian musk oil. What do you think?

 

[Mr.P]

It's so good. I'm playing with the idea of blending into it some of my ASO Mysore and Siberian musk oil. What do you think?

Honestly? I would not mix it with either, and keep it as a specimen. That reflects my weird fixation though...

 

[Joe]

Honestly? I would not mix it with either, and keep it as a specimen. That reflects my weird fixation though...

I agree. I tried and I can't find the CO2. I would reserve for a delight on its own instead of mixing it with steamed distilled Mysore. I've never smelled the CO2. But they're getting harder to find. My Agarwood co2 is no longer available. I like wearing it straight up as a perfume. I've used it in formulas but I'm keeping what I have left.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

Honestly? I would not mix it with either, and keep it as a specimen. That reflects my weird fixation though...

Well that's kind of why I'm yet to do it. It's so nice just on it's own. I could just buy another bottle though.

 

[Mr.P]

Well that's kind of why I'm yet to do it. It's so nice just on it's own. I could just buy another bottle though.

That takes a little pressure off. I have at times combined sandalwood CO2 extract with distilled oil because the CO2 extracts or more top note oriented and fade a bit in the tail compared to distilled.

 

[Olfactory Nomad]

I agree. I tried and I can't find the CO2. I would reserve for a delight on its own instead of mixing it with steamed distilled Mysore. I've never smelled the CO2. But they're getting harder to find. My Agarwood co2 is no longer available. I like wearing it straight up as a perfume. I've used it in formulas but I'm keeping what I have left.

Tamil Nadu Sandalwood - Al Shareef Oudh

Tamil Nadu sandalwood oil provides a truly complete and refined experience that speaks to the deep, timeless essence of India’s sandalwood heritage.

www.alshareefoudh.com

@Joe this is the one we're talking about. He also sells a blend of Mysore distill and this absolute so he's already done the job and it's perfection.

 

[PersonelHigh]

Al Hind Oud ~ Black Meat Root

A tropicana of rooty Vetivert with a bonanza of creamy banana incense.

 

[Mr.P]

I've had a chance to apply a couple of swipes of the new Sandalea from @AlHind Oud - enough to have a little bit of perspective on the topnote and basenotes but still very much getting to know the oil.

This morning I was struck by the fact that there seems to be a kind of signature style to the AlHind sandalwoods. There is this one pleasant sweet fuzzy aspect in the topnotes of his sandalwoods that I think of as AlHind terroir.

It doesn't dominate the experience of the oil, it's just a facet that's part of the topnote bouquet, but I think if you have smelled some of his previous distillations you will immediately recognize that slice of the aroma.

Like the others I have smelled it is a nice full clean heartwood oil - has the classic pale color and slight yellow tinge of ambient pressure heartwood oil. No accessory notes, no oddball facets, just straight clean AlHind style heartwood.

I am still tuning into the middle part of the development of the aroma but yesterday I had a really striking experience after applying a swipe and then forgetting about it. Maybe four hours after swiping I was getting this really tangible nice natural Sandalwood note, and for a moment (until I remembered what it was I was wearing) I was puzzled trying to figure out why the sandalwood was smelling so good. I am looking forward to seeing how today's wearing goes.