Sandalwood: a scent of the Orient

Sandalwood plant

An evergreen plant, sandalwood is six to nine meters tall and grows in rocky, sunny places. Its fragrant wood is used, in addition to extracting essential oil, also for the production of carved objects and incense sticks.

The Sandalwood tree is a small tropical plant of the Santalaceae family native to southern India, eastern Indonesia, and northern Australia, but currently grows in tropical and subtropical forests of different countries, with a humid and rainy climate. Only after thirty years of life is the tree felled to use its wood.

New Caledonia

Santalum austrocaledonicum.

Our Sandalwood originates from New Caledonia, an archipelago of islands nestled in the Pacific Ocean, from which a precious essential oil, also called "liquid gold", is extracted. On the Isle of Pines, the indigenous people work sandalwood by hand, almost exclusively with hand tools, which is why its availability is very rare and expensive.

Sandalwood

Its warm and spicy scent transports us to tropical forests and oriental palaces. Sandalwood has a very slow and deep vibration; its action is calming, balancing, and harmonizing. Sandalwood envelops the person, filling them with joy. Sandalwood is communicative and can help overcome isolation, to accept others with an open heart by demolishing selfishness.

Sandalwood essential oil

The essential oil, obtained from the bark, promotes lung opening by improving respiratory capacity. It strongly releases emotions held in the chest and has a calming, relaxing effect, promoting sleep.

Sandalwood calms the activity of the rational mind and helps to integrate the mind with the senses, that is, it facilitates a more immediate awareness of the "here and now". By calming mental work, sandalwood allows those who practice yoga and meditation to enter the deeper stages.

Sandalwood

Sandalwood has always been considered an aphrodisiac, but it also has deeper and more mysterious effects: in Indian Yoga, it is associated with the sacral Chakra, which governs sexual energy, but also with the highest Chakra, the seat of enlightening wisdom.

Sandalwood properties

It is used in Asia as a building material for temples, sacred images, tools, ornaments, and many other objects. It is used as a perfume, cosmetic, and as incense burned in Hindu and Buddhist temples.

In traditional Indian medicine, sandalwood is used for its anti-inflammatory and anti-infective properties, applied as a paste to inflamed skin.

Sandalwood incense

The funerary uses of sandalwood: used in funeral ceremonies and for embalming. In meditation practices, it is believed to promote ascent to God. For Buddhists, sandalwood is said to be the tree of paradise, whose wood was used to make the chariot of the Sun. In Hindu mythology: Indra, considered the king of the gods, rubbed his chest with sandalwood, which stained his skin a golden color. Even today, its scent is believed to ward off evil spirits.

Sandalwood perfume

The perfume has a strong enveloping and sensual note: its scent is sweet, woody, rich, warm, and deeply masculine. It calms the mind, helping men to purify themselves from an excess of thoughts.

It evokes distant exotic, mystical, and sensual atmospheres. Diffused in the environment, it brings calm, dampens aggression, and tones the heart. Recommended for people who worry excessively and can never relax.

Sandalwood properties

Main properties: Antispasmodic, nervous calming, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, healing, astringent, diuretic, expectorant, balsamic, venous and lymphatic decongestant, tonic, carminative, aphrodisiac, anti-moth.

Sandalwood aphrodisiac

In Indian yoga, it is associated with the sacral Chakra, which governs sexual energy, but at the same time also the highest Chakra, the seat of wisdom. The essence of sandalwood is used by Tantric Yoga schools to transport the sexual experience because it helps awaken Kundalini, sexual energy: this, rising through the subtle channels through which vital energy flows, reaches the center of the highest enlightenment.

It is advisable to surround oneself with the scent of sandalwood to promote communication between the various centers of subtle energy.

Sandalwood essential oil

Sandalwood essential oil 1 ml

It promotes lung opening by improving respiratory capacity. It strongly releases emotions held in the chest and has a calming, relaxing effect, promoting sleep.

Sandalwood perfume 30 ml

Sandalwood perfume 30 ml

Strong enveloping and sensual note: its scent is sweet, woody, rich, warm. It calms the mind, helping men to purify themselves from an excess of thoughts. It evokes distant exotic, mystical, and sensual atmospheres.

Aytar perfume 30 ml

Aytar rests the heart and purifies from an excess of thought, opening up to greater awareness and deep calm. It brings peace and a sense of openness, helping to experience emotionality in its highest and deepest form.