Sandun Ceylon

This high-grade Sri Lankan sandalwood oil has become the new criterion other santals have to live up to. I even compare Mysore oils to it… 

The fact that it’s Sri Lankan santalum album does make it rarer than most varieties, but it’s not just because it’s Sri Lankan sandalwood that I love it – it’s because it’s a fantastic quality sandalwood distillation.

Compared to Indian or Australian santal oils, Sri Lankan santalum is a touch sweeter and less dry, and this high-grade distill is also several notches smoother than just about everything I’ve tried.

Sundun Ceylon is so creamy and gourmand, other sandalwood oils seem astringent when you smell them in contrast. As I’m writing this, I’m comparing it to three other quality sandalwood oils and all three smell great neat – but as soon as you compare them to Sundun Ceylon, they smell tart, overly balsamic, with an acidic pitch akin to what you smell in oxidized oils. Not that any of them are actually oxidized… Sundun Ceylon is just so smoooooth.

There’s a mellow animalic tone to the profile – a sign of the quality heartwood it was distilled from – that gives you a delicious tinge of creamy musk riding atop the heavenly sweetness of fossilized amber and frankincense stirred into the smooth buttery heart that makes this such an addictive and meditative aroma to have wafting from you all day.

If your collection of sandalwood oils is missing a Silani, then Sundan Ceylon saves you from working your way up and directly gives you the cream of the crop. If you’re a sworn santaladdict, this will probably become your new daily.