Santamanol™

Note Profile

Molecule

About

A synthetic sandalwood alcohol, CAS 28219-60-5. Creamy, milky and woody, sold on how much sandalwood character and staying power it adds to a formula. Santamanol is one of at least eight trade names for the same molecule.

Scent Profile

Creamy_woody is the note and both sources say it first. IFF's whole olfactive line is 'Sandalwood, woody, milky, creamy'. ChemicalBook's odour string at 100% is 'sandalwood creamy woody milky waxy greasy musk', and its prose calls this 'a powerful sandalwood odor'. Two independent sources give creamy and sandalwood, so this facet carries the narrowest spread in the vector. Dry_woody is the plain word woody, which both sources print alongside sandalwood rather than instead of it, and ChemicalBook's odour type field is simply 'woody'. Lactonic carries milky, stated by both sources, together with the waxy and greasy terms ChemicalBook adds. Waxy and greasy have no facet of their own in this vocabulary and lactonic is the one that holds a fatty, milky texture. Below sit clean_musk, which is the last word of ChemicalBook's odour string and appears in only that one source, sweet_vanillic and amber_resinous. Neither of those last two is stated by any source. They are kept small with wide spreads rather than zeroed because every published sandalwood synthetic here carries some sweetness, and zeroing a facet nobody discussed would assert an absence nobody claimed.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~30h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Sweet & Gourmand

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

Origin

Not found in nature. ChemicalBook describes the synthesis: condensation of alpha-campholenaldehyde with propionaldehyde, then reduction of the aldehyde group. The product is a clear colourless liquid. The same molecule is sold as Sandalmysore Core (Kao), Sandaxol (DRT), Sandasweet (Hangzhou), Santaliff (IFF), Madrol, Sandelice and White Lehman Sandalwood. IFF's compendium entry gives the systematic name 2-methyl-4-(2,2,3-trimethylcyclopent-3-en-1-yl)but-2-en-1-ol and the formula C13H22O.

Usage in Perfumery

IFF states the job directly: 'To give increased substantivity and sandalwood character to fragrances.' ChemicalBook adds that it is used in perfume compositions for soaps and household products, which is where a cheap, powerful sandalwood alcohol usually goes. IFF rates note impact High at top, heart and base, so it is not only a base fixative. Attested on 1 Fragrantica perfume and 2 Parfumo perfumes across 2 brands.