Collection: LES ÉCRINS - Precious Aromatics shining in Sandalwood oil

 In traditional Indian perfumery, Sandalwood oil is sometimes used as a “noble canvas” for other aromatics or blends; offering its "guests" a privileged expressive space, supporting them with its fixative properties and longevity. Of course, it also infuses them with its own spirit and presence.

This collection is dedicated to such Écrins.

Sometimes the aim is primarily to give space to unfold for the finer nuances of aromatics which would be too powerful on their own, like jasmine or osmanthus, sometimes it is to create unique new fragrant synergies, as is the case with the ever inspiring mitti attar.

While some traditional Indian attars, result in the co-distillation of aromatics into a Sandalwood oil base (like with mitti attar, and also sometimes a complex set of ingredients like in the case of shamama attar), blends are also frequent, and many of them are also simply duets, like sandalwood-rose for example. 

Some products of this collection are delicate and discreet, other are powerhouses of kinds (see each item’s description).

Important note on Sandwlood oils used for this collection :

By design, sandalwood is never meant to be the star of the show in elements of this collection.

It is the canvas for other aromatics : a synergy element in service to the blend as a whole, like often used traditionnaly, or a balanced component of a codistillation profile.

For blends, we use sandalwood oils that are not dominant / overpowering (as sandalwood can easily become when interacting eith other aromatics). They are distilled from relatively younger trees compared to our stand-alone sandalwood oils (circa 25 years).

Such oils do offer other aromatics longevity and fixative properties, but in the later stages of drydown they do so more in a bisabolol "second skin" way, rather than a rich santalol one; suited for not overpowering other ingredients during the dry-down.

For people looking for a strong sandalwood experience we recommend using oils from our dedicated collection (link below) that are described as such. Those can be enjoyed and worn as such (our preferred use of rich / complex sandalwood oils). They can also course be used  for layering / blending according to personal taste. 

Never hesitate to contact us to ask if you are unsure of which oils / blends would fit the best for your tastes or expectations.  We also always recommend ordering samples  first to make sure our offerings do fit them.

For our artisan pure sandalwood oils see our dedicated Sandalwood oils collection.

We offer some of these products in bulk and wholesale quantities.

Don't hesitate to contact us for inquiries.