The principal odor constituent of East Indian sandalwood — a soft, creamy, milky woody note with a warm balsamic undertone. Smoother and less sharp than beta-santalol, with a rounded lactonic-woody character that persists for days on a blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Almost colorless, viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol and glycerin.
Sweet and very rich, warm-woody, tenacious odor. Santalol is generally considered to be a refined edition of the Sandalwood oil odor. Free from the slightly nauseating-gassy, sometimes green-woody, rather pungent and less delicate notes.
Santalol is also used in flavor compositions, in trace amounts in various floral and fruity complexes. The concentration will rarely exceed 10 ppm in the finished product.
The title tricyclic sesquiterpene alcohol is frequently used in perfume compositions, not only in the classical 'Oriental' types, but in many modern-woody fragrances, Chypre variations, Muguet undertones and fixateur, Carnation, etc. It blends excellently with many resins and balsams, Opopanax, Myrrh, Tolu and Peru, with Geranium, Patchouli, Ionones, Methylionones, Vetiver, etc.
Santalol shows less tendency of 'standing out' of a flavor than does Sandalwood oil. It is, in other words, much easier to use Santalol in a flavor than it is to use Sandalwood oil.
Produced by isolation from East Indian, West Australian or Timor type Sandalwood oils. The commercial product, Santalol, consists of a mixture of alpha- and beta-Santalol, with a preponderance of the alpha-isomer.