Common Name:- Sandalwood, Chandan
Botanical Name: Santalum album Linn.
Family Name: Santalaceae
Parts Uses: Wood

Sandalwood oil has a characteristic sweet, woody odour which is widely employed in the fragrance industry, but more particularly in the higher-priced perfumes. It has excellent blending properties and the presence of a large proportion of high-boiling constituents in the oil (about 90 percent santalols) also makes it valuable as a fixative for other fragrances. In India, where it is produced, it is used in this manner for the manufacture of traditional attars such as rose attar; the delicate floral oils are distilled directly into sandalwood oil.


Sandalwood as well as the vital oil extracted from it has effectual antiseptic properties that are very beneficial in healing disorders relating to the urinary and genital organs like cystitis or inflammation of the urinary bladder and gonorrhea, sexually transmitted diseases that leads to swelling and irritation of the genital mucous organs.

Physicians practicing Ayurvedic medicine use a paste of the sandalwood to comfort rashes and prickly skins. Chinese herbal medicine practitioners use the sandalwood to alleviate chest and abdominal pains. The sandalwood oil forms the foundation of many fragrances that possess an outstanding wood base shade. Incidentally, like other timbers, sandalwood too has a woody aroma, barring the fact that it has a vivid and an unsullied advantage along with some normal substances that have similar, but independent functions.