A soft, creamy woody note that is one of the main sesquiterpene constituents of sandalwood oil. On its own it is subtle and diffuse, contributing a smooth, milky-woody backdrop rather than a sharp character — closer to the pale, warm heart of sandalwood than to its resinous edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1243.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, woody odor, more dry, less sweet than the odor of the alpha-Santalene.
The material is included in this work for the sake of completing the description of chemicals related to Santalol, and at one time commercially available or presumed to be of olfactory value.
1) by isolation from saponified East Indian Sandalwood oil. It is extremely difficult to separate the alpha- and beta-Santalenes by fractional distillation. 2) a synthesis starting from Isoprene and beta-Phellandrene has been suggested but it has no commercial importance.