Choya Ral

Charred sandalwood, smoky-sweet, with a burnt-creamy depth. Choya ral is sandalwood pushed through fire -- the sweetness blackened, the creaminess carbonised, leaving smoke and memory.
- Type
- Складник
- Olfactive family
- Смолисті
- Source
- seashells (gastropod shells)
- Chemical class
- pyrolysis distillate
Запах
Докладно
Отримання й хімія
Спосіб отримання
Destructive (dry) distillation of Santalum album heartwood in a sealed copper vessel. The pyrolysis smoke is condensed and often collected into a base oil (sandalwood, or sometimes vetiver). The process is part of the traditional Indian attar-making tradition.
- Формула
- Complex mixture (pyrolysis distillate) — traces of pyridine, pyrazines, phenols
- CAS
- N/A (complex pyrolysis distillate of seashells)
- Ботанічна назва
- N/A - marine animal-derived (seashell distillate)
- Зовнішній вигляд
- Dark amber to brown viscous liquid
- Сила запаху
- Висока
- Синоніми
- Choya, Choya resin
No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)
- Нота
- Obtained by dry distillation (pyrolysis) of seashells; yields a smoky, animalic, marine oil
У парфумерії
Choya ral is a smoky-creamy base note produced by destructive distillation of sandalwood. It contains guaiacol, cresols, furfural, and residual santalol traces. The note bridges sandalwood and birch tar: smoky yet sweet, burnt yet creamy. It works in smoky ambers, incense, and dark-wood compositions where standard sandalwood is too gentle. More clean than choya loban (charred frankincense), with the recognisable ghost of sandalwood sweetness.