Sandalwood

Botanical name: Santalum album

 

Extraction method: steam distillation

Part of plant: heart wood

Origin: Australia

 

Info: This Sandalwood oil comes from a plantation established in the late 1990’s in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The area was formerly desert and has been transformed into a forest. The first trees were harvested in 2014 and a new distillery has been set up. This is the first large scale plantation of the Santalum album species.