Sandalwood E.O Indian Legends Trilogy Part Three

Adam Michael has this to say “So it’s Christmas Night 2024 at 9pm and here we have Sandalwood Indian Legends Trilogy Part 3. Essential oil. Five years ago to the day, I released Sandalwood India Gold Super Premium CO2 and it was a massive hit. This kicked off my transition and increased fascination into the world of high end Indian sandalwoods – so sourced from private collections or via organising custom distillations of epic age old logs.

This sandalwood has been produced by the very same chap that was behind India Gold and thus this release date is deliberate, it’s a mark of respect by me – to the greatest sandalwood producer I have so far encountered. My respect for him is top because he has tried and failed countless times, yet he kept going and I love that, I really love people like that, they don’t give up, they just keep trying and now he has hit a home run to be proud of here with this sandalwood.

Aromatically the profile here is 100% masculine, with immense buttery sandal-sweetness bursting from the get-go, intensifying for several hours on the strip and skin. I think when you venture down the sandal rabbit-hole, nearly everyone arrives at the same outcome – we all want that buttery milky creamy woody sweetness, and this sandalwood has it in droves, it’s drenched in the good stuff. You could be forgiven sincerely for thinking this is a blend of the most desired fractions because as this warms up on the skin, as it fires up its engines, it gives you the notes we truly desire and with intensity and saturation galore.

This one reminds me a lot of that original India Gold from 5 years ago crossed with our buttery Indonesian Gold beauty. Definitely one for the sandal-worshippers and everyone that appreciates genuine old-school sandalwoods. Beyond the sandalwood buttery sweetness you have those classic animalic drivers here, with some cedarwood atlas tonalities that dirty it up a little bit along with touches of aged deer musk, that give it some real body, some additional oomph and dark sultry masculine vibes. On the skin I get a solid 8 hours of wear and as it goes into the long dry down from about the 20 hour mark to the 200 hour mark the aroma profile is still very bright, full on incense, woody, creamy, buttery, milky with musk and cedarwood atlas nuances still present in trace form and finished at the end with some pine nut tonalities.

I had this sandalwood evaluated at the University of Messina and confirm a-Santalol comes in at 54.90%, the b-Santalol comes in at 19.24% so total of the two is 75.14%. Other highlights include a-trans-Bergamotol at 5.57% and epi-b-Santalol at 2.21%. Wood used estimated at 85-90 years of age, legally sourced, of a very gloopy but pourable consistency, deep orange through to jelly red in colour subject to volume/weight. And if you would like to see video content of the consistency of this aromatic – please check out our latest Instagram post here.

For perfumery uses, I recycle what I wrote about India Gold …Uses, personally this is a perfume in its own right and I feel it is a true shame to add anything to this material. However if you are creating a sandalwood base, and want to keep it all natural, and want power in the top through to base, then this is a 100% no hesitation purchase. Ouds, roses, vetiver, heady florals, soft florals, spice, woods, resins, regardless of the fragrance group, sandalwood can be a friend to all. And this one is also wonderful within meditation as it has the brain-buzz, mind-altering, spiritually enriching qualities in droves, testament to age of the wood, and the rockstar producer who juiced this.”

Botanical Name: Santalum album

Origin: India

Wild/Plantation: Plantation

Santalols Content: 75%

Alcohol Soluble: Yes

Oil Soluble: Yes

Wholesale weights (all prices excluding vat): 50G = 730 Euros. 100G = 1250 Euros. 250G = 2850 Euros. 1 Kilo = 10750 Euros.