Pure Indian Sandalwood Oil

Specifications

Botanical name : a) Santalum album L.

b) Santalum spicatum (R. Br.)A. DC.

Family : Santalaceae

Introduction

Sandal (Santalum aldum L.) is one of the most economically important forest species of Kaena- taka and Tamil Nadu states. This species is the source of the world famous East Indian Sandalwood oil. Santalum aldum occurs at the North to the Nilgiri in the South and 400 km horizontally from coorg in the west to Kuppam in the East. The tree flourishes well from sea level up to 1350mt. altitude but the formation of the heartwood seems to the bestbetween 600 and 900 mt with an annual rainfall of 850-1200mm. Thus a comparatively cool climate, moderate rainfall spread over several months and much sunshine seem to be the ideal conditions for the growth of hearwood. Attempts were made to extend sandal beyond its natural belts. However, the wood odtained from such trees is ether poorly scented or without any aroma.Sandal has become naturalized in some parts of Rajasthan.Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Sandal trees heve recrntly been introduced in Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Manipur, Orissa and west Bengal East Indian sandalwood oil is one of the oldest. Most expensive perfumery raw materials still in use in modem perfumery. Steam distillation of the heartwood and roots of evergreen trees have an oil with a characteristic, long –lasting, inimitable , multifaceted very pleasant, sweetwoody animalic milky-nutty odour with excellent fixative properties20 . sandal wood oil is obtained by simple and efficient method of steam distillation of heartwood of Santalum aldum. Sandalwood is powered and sieved to get mesh size of 12 to 36 and then charged into copper or stainless still. Steam is bubbled up at the base under pressure 20 – 60 psi for 100-120 hr. The crude oil floating on the surface of distillate is skimmed off and filtered. On an average, sandalwood yields about 5-6% of oil . The tree is native to India ,Sri Lanka, Indonesia and surrounding islands. Indonesia and India are the major producres of sandal wood oil . The sandalwood-like odour type is of great importance for the fragrance industry .

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Sandalwood in hindi  called chandan and Santulam album in English.

Sandalwood oil is used in perfumes and cosmetics, In my sandalwood oil are always available Reftractive Index @27 C   1.500 to 1.507,Optical Rotation  is  -15 to -20 free alcohol as santalol (C₁₅H₂₄O)- 90% minimum.

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