Santalum album Distilled from heartwood, grown and distilled in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon.) A brand NEW distillation of Sandalwood, true East Indian Santalum album, from a new source. I received a sample of this and everyone here fell in love. I am told it was distilled less than three months ago (in February or March 2007), but it "feels" well-aged. Much deeper and somehow more robust than either of our Tamil Nadu oils, very reminiscent of the last Mysore Sandalwood we were able to offer. (Kicking myself for not saving some of that for comparison.) It has the sweetness of the Tamil oils, but a deeper base note underlying the sweetness. This wonderful Sandalwood is exquisite now, I can only imagine what it will grow into when properly aged! We recently sent a sample of our Sri Lanka Sandalwood to our friend Siri, at Tigerflag Natural Perfumery. Siri wrote back: "You're right, the Sri Lanka sandalwood is out of this world. I have a little vial of 20 year-old Mysore sandalwood oil. It's always been the standard I use to compare all sandalwood oils against. This is just as good, in my opinion. Thank you so much for giving me a taste of this wonderful oil!" - http://www.naturesgift.com/essential/descriptions-y.htm#SANDALWOOD
