Beta-santalol is the softer, creamier of the two main sandalwood isomers — a smooth, milky, slightly buttery woody note with a gentle balsamic warmth. Less sharp than alpha-santalol, it carries the characteristic 'santal' roundness that gives Mysore sandalwood its signature velvety depth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Oud Firbest | — | 1–2.5% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1244.
Almost colorless, viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, woody and very tenacious odor.
The commercial product 'Santalol' is the mixture of alpha-Santalol and beta-Santalol, obtained by isolation from Sandalwood oil.
1) bera-Santalol comes as a minor component of “Santalol”, obtained as an isolate from Sandalwood oil. The separation of the two isomers by fractionated vacuum distillation is very difficult, if not nearly impossible. It may be necessary to produce derivatives of the two isomers in order to separate them quantitatively. The separation has no commercial interest. 2) A synthesis starting from 3-Methyl-nor- camphor-3-bromopropionate has been suggested, but it has no commercial importance.