WHITE PALACE 2023 sandalwood • white Mysore pure sandalwood essential oil in-house distilled • INDIA
WHITE PALACE 2023 sandalwood • white Mysore pure sandalwood essential oil in-house distilled • INDIA
WHITE PALACE 2023 sandalwood • white Mysore pure sandalwood essential oil in-house distilled • INDIA
• production: January 2023 in-house low-temperature hydro-distillation of selected wood from 100-year-old trees. “White” sandalwood oil is the lighter-colored oil from the first 24 hours of distillation. This is the first phase essential oil from our own limited-edition distillation of hand-selected extra-old Mysore premium sandalwood, slowly, gently, and patiently distilled at Vietnam headquarters by Tha and Pierre. Copper still, glass condenser. Aged one full year before public release.
• species: Santalum album
• notes of controversy: none
• part used: heartwood, dry-aged 12 years before distillation.
• scent description: WHITE PALACE is a fresh, bright, sparkling homage to rare extra-old Mysore sandalwood. White sandalwood oil from the earliest phase of the distillation process highlights and intensifies the crisp bright topnotes found in the worlds finest sandalwood oil, without being camphorous, sharp, or fleeting. Crisp citrus notes, acacia honey, Sauternes, are prominent, but float on an unmistakable classic top-shelf Mysore sandalwood heart and base. Absolutely no sharp edges from start to finish, high notes rise higher, low notes uncompromised. WHITE PALACE is a fascinating, unique adventure in the highest echelon of sandalwood experience. Aroma Sublime sets a new top-level standard among genuine Mysore sandalwood oils. An investment oil that will only improve with age.
The raw material required to make this oil is becoming exceedingly rare and ever more expensive, making our current stock potentially our final supply. Genuine Mysore extra-old sandalwood trees that are 100 years old, are almost impossible to find these days. We had to use an Indian government contact to obtain this quickly vanishing wood at great expense, but it’s your nose that will tell you the truth about our WHITE PALACE. Even those already familiar with very good sandalwood will level up and discover what the world’s finest sandalwood essential oil is really about.
SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES ON OUR SANDALWOOD SELECTION
There are two primary themes operating in the world of Santalum album sandalwood essential oil:
Approach #1 “Quintessence” is the large-scale sandalwood industry seeking to create a consistently clean, round, straightforward sandal aroma with a high santalol content, always looking toward a kind of quintessential "perfect", “clean”, “pure” sandalwood aroma. Any kind of divergent complexity, unexpected aromatic notes, or noticeable impressions of the terroir are discouraged here. This is really important when predictability is desirable, such as for the perfume industry. High Santalol content is the most important feature here. Quality and aromatic density increases with the age of the tree. Aging an already good oil in this category will almost always make it more buttery and round and smooth eliminating sharper top notes that tend to feature in younger oils. The goal is consistency and a kind of quintessential sandalwood perfection.
Approach #2 “Character” is one that favors variety and explores divergent sandalwood aromas that reflect unique tree and terroir as well as special processes in growing, harvesting, wood aging, processing, distillation, and aging of the finished oil itself. Of course it must first be recognizable as a true classic sandalwood aroma and higher santalol content will definitely be a desirable factor. However, this paradigm also favors interesting and unexpected aromatic notes as long as there is also discernible refinement and quality that would meet some kind of consensus among people with some kind of reasonably informed perspective. That is to say, it can't just be "interesting", it must be "interesting and good"!
This particular sandalwood oil, our WHITE PALACE Mysore Santalum album, is a nice balance between Approach #1 and Approach #2 above.
Through a special distilling technique, we have refined an isolated certain characteristics of the classic Mysore style sandalwood oil.
It is only slightly diversion from the “Quintessence” approach two crafting sandalwood essential oil, highlighting and intensifying the bright and stimulating top notes found in the very best Mysore style sandalwood oil.