Sandalwood Flower

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Sandalwood flower is a faint creamy floral built to give sandalwood a lighter, more transparent top. The one trade source that describes it calls it sandalwood heartwood diluted tenfold with a floral lift, and says twice that it is barely perceptible. It is a fantasy accord, not an extract.

Scent Profile

Creamy_woody is the lead and it is the sandalwood reference the whole accord is built on: 'creamy-sweet and barely there, like sandalwood's heartwood aroma diluted tenfold', with a 'faint woody-milky quality' returning in the drydown. It sits well below sandalwood's own 0.72 because every quote insists the note is faint. White_floral is the 'floral lift' the same source gives the accord, held under the lead because the source says it is less narcotic than jasmine. Honeyed is stated directly: 'light, sweet-floral, barely perceptible, honeyed and gently creamy'. Floral is the general petal sweetness under the white-flower reading. Sweet_vanillic is the 'creamy-sweet' half of the dominant claim, the sweetness that is not honey. Lactonic is the milky texture in 'woody-milky', separate from the woody part. Green is deliberately low but not zero, because the source says 'less green than magnolia' and magnolia sits. That is a comparative claim, not an absence, so the facet is kept.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Floral, Sweet & Gourmand

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

The flowers of Santalum album, the Indian sandalwood tree. They are small and very faintly scented, and no commercial extraction of them exists. Premiere Peau frames the note explicitly as a composed accord whose job is to carry sandalwood's creamy character in a lighter, floral register. No source says which sandalwood the accord is diluted from. Real Indian S. album is now rare in trade, so the underlying heartwood reference may in practice be Australian S. spicatum, but nothing confirms that.

Usage in Perfumery

Fragrantica records 4 perfumes and Parfumo none. Fragrantica files it under Flowers with the one line 'Flowers of Santalum album have a pleasant sandalwood smell.' Parfumo's only match is a perfume named Sandalwood Flowers by Abdul Samad Al Qurashi, with no published pyramid. Use it where a sandalwood impression is wanted without the weight, or to soften a white floral without adding green.