Description
Extraction Sandal Wood Oil is extracted by means of Steam Distillation Botanical Name :Santalum album Common Method Of Extraction :Steam distillatio Parts Used :Stem heartwood Aroma :woody, exotic smell Chemical Composition It contain main chemical components that are santalol, santyl acetate and santalene. The essential oil contains 90% santalol. Santalol, a primary sesquiterpene alcohol forms more than 90 per cent of the oil and is present as a mixture of two isomers, a -santalol and -santalol. The characteristic odor that sandalwood oil contains is mainly due to these santalols. The other constituents that oil contains are the hydrocarbons santene, nor-tricycloekasantalene and a- and ,-santalenes; the alcohols santenol and teresantalol; the aldehydes nor-tricycloekasantalal, and isovaleraldehyde; the ketones l-santenone and santalone; and the acids teresantalic acid occurring partly free and partly in esterfied form, and a-and -santalic acids. Essential Oil Information The sandalwood is one of the oldest tree on earth. It is an evergreen parasitic tree that grows with the help of other trees. The tree has brown-gray trunk, leathery leaves and the flowers are pink & purple in color. The sandalwood trees grows exclusively in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Timor Islands of Indonesia. Vietnam and New Caledonia also have well controlled plantations of genuine Sandalwood.
