Sandalwood: The Scent of Zen

There’s reason entire monasteries are built out of sandalwood; why it’s the go-to incense for monks or anyone who practices meditation. Why it’s a pillar in both aromatherapy and perfumery. Mindfulness, induced by a butter creamy aroma like no other.

Join Ensar Oud and Sheikh Ehab as they discuss the magical fragrance of sandalwood, from Mysore to Africa, with some controversy thrown in for good measure…

Check out Ensar’s sandalwood oils, granules, and raw Tongan pieces here: https://ensaroud.com/category/santal/30

Watch Part 2 (Two Mysores and a Creed) here:
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TRANSCRIPT (Partial)
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Ehab: That's amazing that you mention that because I was going to ask you about…
Ensar: Distillation.
Ehab: Yeah. I was going to ask you about do the pots or things that were previously distilled in these pots, do they have an effect if they're new or if they're old because I've heard people say that sandalwood sometimes has a rubbery smell to it.
Ensar: I've never heard that.
Ehab: So I was just wondering…someone said that so I was just wondering could that be from the distilling process, from the pots, from whatever.
Ensar: This was steel distilled. I can tell that much and there's that steel note, that astringency of the steel note which is almost like that Papua New Guinea agarwood note which is why I love to distill those Sultan series oils in a steel pot because it imparts that…it compliments it perfectly.
Ehab: So it enhances it then, it doesn't…
Ensar: It enhances it in the gyrinops agarwood in the Sultan Series, but in the sandalwood what it does…now you see, there is a sharp contrast. You have this creamy, white, gentle, delicate, angelic aroma and then you have this steel note which is jarringly present. Then it's like what's that note doing there?
Ehab: But I still…with that…I still get this romantic, creamy…
Ensar: Meditative.
Ehab: Yeah, meditative.
Ensar: Zen.

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