{"id":9003,"date":"2023-06-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/2023\/06\/14\/sandelholz-langsamkeit-des-duftes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:49:00","slug":"sandelholz-langsamkeit-des-duftes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/2023\/06\/14\/sandelholz-langsamkeit-des-duftes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandalwood and the Slowness of Fragrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style>\n  html, body, #wrapper, #main, .uncode-page, .page-wrapper, .content-wrap{<br \/>\n    background:#faf5ec !important;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj{<br \/>\n    --iomh-bg:#faf5ec;<br \/>\n    --iomh-surface:#f2ead9;<br \/>\n    --iomh-surface-2:#ece0c8;<br \/>\n    --iomh-ink:#2a2117;<br \/>\n    --iomh-ink-soft:#4a3d2c;<br \/>\n    --iomh-ink-dim:#8a7a5f;<br \/>\n    --iomh-ember:#c14e1e;<br \/>\n    --iomh-ember-2:#a63e15;<br \/>\n    --iomh-moss:#5f6b45;<br \/>\n    --iomh-moss-dim:#8a9468;<br \/>\n    --iomh-line:#ddccac;<br \/>\n    --iomh-serif:'Fraunces','Iowan Old Style',Georgia,serif;<br \/>\n    --iomh-mono:'Space Mono','SFMono-Regular',Consolas,monospace;<br \/>\n    --iomh-sans:'Source Sans 3','Segoe UI',sans-serif;<\/p>\n<p>    background:var(--iomh-bg);<br \/>\n    color:var(--iomh-ink);<br \/>\n    font-family:var(--iomh-sans);<br \/>\n    line-height:1.6;<br \/>\n    -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj *{box-sizing:border-box;}<br \/>\n  .iomj img{max-width:100%;}<br \/>\n  .iomj a{color:var(--iomh-ember-2);}<br \/>\n  .iomj h1{margin:0;text-wrap:balance;}<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj.iomj-fullbleed{<br \/>\n    width:100vw;position:relative;left:50%;right:50%;<br \/>\n    margin-left:-50vw;margin-right:-50vw;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-wrap{max-width:680px;margin:0 auto;padding-inline:24px;}<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-eyebrow{<br \/>\n    font-family:var(--iomh-mono);font-size:0.7rem;letter-spacing:0.1em;<br \/>\n    text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--iomh-ember-2);<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-meta{<br \/>\n    font-family:var(--iomh-mono);font-size:0.72rem;color:var(--iomh-ink-dim);<br \/>\n    margin-top:8px;letter-spacing:0.02em;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-header{padding-block:56px 0;}<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-header h1{<br \/>\n    font-family:var(--iomh-serif);font-style:italic;font-weight:500;<br \/>\n    letter-spacing:-0.01em;<br \/>\n    font-size:clamp(2rem,5vw,2.9rem);line-height:1.08;margin:10px 0 0;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-lead{<br \/>\n    margin-top:20px;max-width:62ch;color:var(--iomh-ink-soft);font-size:1.05rem;<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-figure{<br \/>\n    position:relative;margin:36px 0 0;border-radius:2px;overflow:hidden;<br \/>\n    border:1px solid var(--iomh-line);background:var(--iomh-surface-2);<br \/>\n    aspect-ratio:4\/3;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-figure img{<br \/>\n    width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;display:block;<br \/>\n    filter:grayscale(0.82) sepia(0.28) saturate(1.15) brightness(1.04) contrast(1.05);<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-figure::after{<br \/>\n    content:'';position:absolute;inset:0;<br \/>\n    background:var(--iomh-ember);mix-blend-mode:color;opacity:0.22;<br \/>\n    pointer-events:none;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-figure.iomj-figure-contain{aspect-ratio:3\/4;max-width:360px;margin-inline:auto;}<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-figure.iomj-figure-contain img{object-fit:contain;filter:sepia(0.15) saturate(1.05);}<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-figure.iomj-figure-contain::after{opacity:0;}<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-credit{<br \/>\n    margin-top:8px;font-family:var(--iomh-mono);font-size:0.68rem;color:var(--iomh-ink-dim);<br \/>\n  }<\/p>\n<p>  .iomj .iomj-body{padding-block:28px 64px;}<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-body p{font-size:1rem;color:var(--iomh-ink-soft);max-width:66ch;margin:0 0 20px;}<br \/>\n  .iomj .iomj-body p:last-child{margin-bottom:0;}<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"iomj iomj-fullbleed\">\n<article class=\"iomj-wrap\">\n<header class=\"iomj-header\">\n<p class=\"iomj-eyebrow\">Journal \u2014 Plants<\/p>\n<h1>Sandalwood and the Slowness of Fragrance<\/h1>\n<p class=\"iomj-meta\">Field notes \u00b7 June 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"iomj-lead\">A sandalwood tree gives almost nothing of its scent for twenty years. What it finally yields has been prized, and overharvested, for three thousand.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"iomj-figure iomj-figure-contain\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e4\/Santalum_album_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-128.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"iomj-credit\">Santalum album, from K\u00f6hler&#8217;s Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887) \u2014 public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<div class=\"iomj-body\">\n<p>Santalum album, Indian sandalwood, is a small tree \u2014 rarely taller than nine metres \u2014 native to Indonesia, the Philippines and Western Australia. Carried across the Indian Ocean by Austronesian traders more than three thousand years ago, it took root in southern India and became so closely tied to the subcontinent that most people now think of it as native there.<\/p>\n<p>Only the heartwood carries the fragrance, and it takes its time: the oil \u2014 nearly 90 percent santalol, the compound responsible for sandalwood&#8217;s warm, milky scent \u2014 develops after about a decade and reaches its full strength only after twenty years of growth. A tree cut too early yields wood with almost nothing to it.<\/p>\n<p>In Hindu and Buddhist ritual, sandalwood paste and smoke have marked temples, cremations and daily devotion for millennia; in perfumery, its oil grounds fragrances from incense to eau de parfum. That combination of slow growth and constant demand has taken a toll: Indian sandalwood production fell from around four thousand tonnes a year in the early 1970s to under three hundred by 2011, and the species is now listed as vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>India responded with decades of strict export and harvesting controls \u2014 reason enough for much of today&#8217;s sandalwood incense to come from plantations rather than wild trees. What is burned in a few seconds took twenty years, at least, to become itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal \u2014 Plants Sandalwood and the Slowness of Fragrance Field notes \u00b7 June 2023 A sandalwood tree gives almost nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}