Sandalwood Demeter Fragrance Library Cologne
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moldy rainforest
Sandalwood smells beautiful, it has a reddish-brown color, almost terracotta. I use it as blocks and as granules in drawers, with odds and ends, in shoe cabinets, in boxes with things that you want to keep but no longer need for fragrance and to ward off mold. Whenever I open the doors or drawers, a lovely, woody exotic scent greets me. The terpenes of sandalwood not only smell good, they are odor-neutralizing and anti-mycotic. Sandalwood shavings are also used as incense. A beautiful scent.
So what about the scent suggestion from Demeter "Sandalwood"? It smells citrusy for a moment and then develops a musty, mushy odor, moldy.
Like wood that is infested by a sponge, that is, fungus, rotten and eaten away by woodworms. A moldy rainforest where the ground is damp, the decaying trunks lie on the ground and rot away with fungi, mosses, and lichens. The resinous and the sandalwood-typical terpenes/wood oils have evaporated and been decomposed by the mold mycelium. Only a few bitter scent components have survived.
So either the scent in the test vial has gone bad. Or it is a failed attempt to recreate sandalwood scent. I need to wash this off right away. An unpleasant smell!
Addendum 03.07.2014. I am currently testing "Sandalo" by Villoresi and it has the same slightly mushy scent, just not as moldy and much more expensive. This is also not sandalwood; it seems to undergo a strange transformation in the processing into perfume fragrance material. Immediately after applying "Sandalo," I remembered "Sandalwood" and must apologize a bit and raise the rating.
Addendum 05.07.2015
Correction - or how one judges something about which one is not properly informed.
Sandalwood scents for perfumes are different from the red wonderfully fragrant sandalwood. I have become informed and wiser about this now. Sandalwood in perfumes serves as a fragrance component that makes scents softer and creamier. But even there, there are significant differences and many replicas and "substitute sandalwoods."
So what about the scent suggestion from Demeter "Sandalwood"? It smells citrusy for a moment and then develops a musty, mushy odor, moldy.
Like wood that is infested by a sponge, that is, fungus, rotten and eaten away by woodworms. A moldy rainforest where the ground is damp, the decaying trunks lie on the ground and rot away with fungi, mosses, and lichens. The resinous and the sandalwood-typical terpenes/wood oils have evaporated and been decomposed by the mold mycelium. Only a few bitter scent components have survived.
So either the scent in the test vial has gone bad. Or it is a failed attempt to recreate sandalwood scent. I need to wash this off right away. An unpleasant smell!
Addendum 03.07.2014. I am currently testing "Sandalo" by Villoresi and it has the same slightly mushy scent, just not as moldy and much more expensive. This is also not sandalwood; it seems to undergo a strange transformation in the processing into perfume fragrance material. Immediately after applying "Sandalo," I remembered "Sandalwood" and must apologize a bit and raise the rating.
Addendum 05.07.2015
Correction - or how one judges something about which one is not properly informed.
Sandalwood scents for perfumes are different from the red wonderfully fragrant sandalwood. I have become informed and wiser about this now. Sandalwood in perfumes serves as a fragrance component that makes scents softer and creamier. But even there, there are significant differences and many replicas and "substitute sandalwoods."
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Palonera 12 years ago
*nose wrinkle* - judging by the other comments, it seems your tester really has gone off. Unpleasant...
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