Sandalwood Auroshikha Incense

A natural incense manufacturer with the utmost respect for international standards, Auroshikha is based in Auroville, southern India.

All their products ensure a very high quality as well as a great satisfaction to use them.

The sandalwood, it evokes the incense of Indian temples whose manufacture is essentially based on this fragrance, it is the sacred tree.

Traces of sandalwood are found more than 4000 years ago, it is of all religions, eras, texts and customs. Its botanical name is Santalum album, it is a tree of about ten meters, it is harvested mainly in the south of India, especially in Kerala, Mysore being the capital of this precious wood.

Besides the scent that one derives from sandalwood, it is or has also been used for embalming, carving, cremation, especially in Benares, ex Varanasi, furniture manufacturing ....

As far as we are concerned, it takes a tree of thirty years to obtain an impeccable quality of essential oil. This implies, because of its demand, that for decades these trees have been cultivated and replanted in other parts of the world than Asia.

The best sandalwood shavings that have been powdered are steamed by distillation. In powder or incense sticks, in pure perfume, this warm and woody fragrance intoxicates and is found in the biggest perfume houses.