One 10 gram bottle of Indian sandalwood oil costs about $74.  

In 1987 to 2004 veerappan became one of most wanted person in indian history partly because of smuggling sandalwood

Sandalwood is so valuable that there are sandalwood mafia who steal peoples sandalwood trees and traffic them.

It's expensive because it's a slow growing tree . My neighbours owns a sandal wood tree unfortunately it was robbed by some thief at midnight.its smell beyond our expectations.

Still cheaper than printer ink.

Australia has planted huge tracts of Sandalwood in Northern Australia. They built a dam with canals for an irrigation project and planted cotton but they were supposed to build a railroad to the area and trucking the cotton was two expensive. So much of it they planted in Sandalwood. They also found that the region was packed with cotton pest bugs but very little bothers the Sandalwood. It should hit the market in a couple of years and it should make it more affordable which is great because everyone who isn't allergic loves Sandalwood.

Still cheaper than mangoes from japan😂

Like someone else said, in the Northern parts of Western Australia, they're growing HUGE amounts of sandalwood. Good use of land that is otherwise pretty ordinary for food farming.

I had an 8-inch skull fracture and lost my sense of smell and taste as a result - NO smell - NO taste FOR MANY YEARS! ...-until one day when I thought I was having an old factory hallucination and thought that I had caught a whiff of flowers or coffee, my brother and I were in Union station in Toronto when we went around the corner and there was a flower shop next to a coffee shop! "I CAN SMELL SOMETHING - I CAN SMELL SOMETHING!!!" And though it was very weak, it was not a hallucination and I was able to smell certain odors. We were getting on a GO train and I WAS REACHING AND GRASPING AT EVERYTHING TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING I COULD SMELL!!!! I was like a MAD MAN (just can't imagine what the other passengers were thinking !!!) and then THE TEARS CAME!!! - just COULD NOT STOP CRYING 😭! THE DEEPEST MOST ANGUISH FILLED CRY I HAD EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!!! - which with ALL my force - I COULD NOT STOP OR SUPPRESS - and between sobs reaching and grasping for this or that or the other thing to see if I could smell it! (Again I just cannot imagine what the other passengers were thinking!) TRUELY LIKE A MAD MAN! This whole experience happened shortly before my birthday - and that year my brother got me THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT ANYONE HAD EVER GOTTEN ME - MY WHOLE LIFE! It was an authentic chinese SANDALWOOD BURNER and a dozen or so TINY STICKS OF SANDALWOOD! (YOU WOULD LIKE THEM AND BLOW OUT THE FLAME ALLOWING THEM TO SMOLDER IN THE CUP/BURNER/HOLDER/APPARATUS PROVIDED. the smell of the smoke was NOTHING SHORT OF GLORIOUS And I would use it ever so sparingly and was NEVER ABLE TO FIND ANY REPLACEMENT SANDALWOOD STICKS for it again! (THOUGH WE SEARCHED!) BUT AGAIN AND THE POINT IS - THE SMELL FROM THIS SANDALWOOD WAS JUST GLORIOUS and my brother will never know just how much it meant to me and how much I appreciate it to this day this day, some 30 years later 😢 -and if you were one of the witnesses to my MAD MAN shenanigans and my WHALING CRIES 😭 that day; I APOLOGIZE FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART AND I'M SO SORRY IF MY BEHAVIOR WAS UNSETTLING MADE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE CONCERNED OR CURIOUS -after having lost two key senses that keep you in touch with reality and safe from danger and so much joy and pleasure on the good side - THE EMOTIONS WE ARE POWERFUL AND OVERWHELMING BUT YEA FOR SANDALWOOD 😂🎉

Sandalwood incense is my second favourite

I'll pay it. If the farmers and workers make a better living for them and their families ❤

Bet it would be 10x the price if it came from somewhere else like France

I have about 10 red Sandlewood in my field. It cost about 2500 indian rupees per kilogram (Approx). Each tree weighs about a tonne. 1000kg × 10 trees × 2500 rupees = 25,000,000 rupees. I'll make 2.5 crores in future😅.

Indian sandalwood is mainly produced in Karnataka. Proud to be Kannadiga♥️🇮🇳

As an American, I normally don't stay long for these shorts, but I heard the word "oil" in a foreign nation perked my interest

Xerjoff - Ivory Route is my favorite sandalwood fragrances... Perfect blend with vanilla and tobacco ❤

Reminds me of how grateful we all should be for the sense of smell.. these are the things that we dont actually realise due to such mechanical life.

Literally one of my favorite scents.

They buy it for 50 cents and mark it up to 74 USD.

Sandalwood smells so wonderful!❤

I’m gonna find a way to make a counterfeit version and become a millionaire

I've tried about 20 different kinds of sandalwood. I have found the brand that I like the most. I wear every single day its body oil. I've gotten compliments from people on how good I smell. I don't even use much of it either. It's really from what I found over the years the strongest sandalwood I have ever used. .

Mysore sandal! ❤

I ❤️ Indian Sandalwood! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Lady 55,000 rupees isn't 74 dollars, its 687.5 usd

I appreciate the awareness this channel shares. I've increased my mindfulness of how I source and use things. Thank you

The same terpenes (organic compounds responsible for the fragrance of a plant) can naturally be found in cannabis.

This stuff was so cheap back then like literally less than 60 years ago. My mother use to have toys made out of full sandal wood and even furniture. It was very abundant in India idk how it became so rare!

Most of the sandal wood oil is not from the original sandalwood tree. These trees are rare.

Largest exporter of rare scent. *Still Indian*

I love sandalwood! I wore it for years, changing up with patchouli because I would stop being able to smell them after a while. I would wear one for about a month & the other for about a month.

Another video on why this is the most rarest thing on earth and cost $1000 per LB

indian bhut kam rupya rakhte hai export ke liye

I always wondered about sandalwood production methods. .ty for posting ....very informational and educational

I see mysore sandalwood soap! It's my favourite soap ever and makes my whole bathroom smell amazing. It's hard to get hold of in the UK but not impossible. I'm going to gift some to my friends and family this Christmas because I know they will love it.

I love sandalwood ❣️

Sandalwood and mitti attar are some of the most amazing scents in the world.

Sandalwoor oil is a heavenly smell!

Such an excellent samvad! Filled with information and explaining of a highly complex subject. Rajarshi is not an ordinary person; he is sort of a messiah for us in this ghor Kaliyug to wake up our long asleep awareness. He is truly a Godsend! 😇

Dude... Sandalwood growing anywhere in the world is not at par with one available in western ghats/malenadu sandalwood. You know, if it's possible to grow a quality sandalwood anywhere then, it was the most cultivating crop. The typical soil, water, weather and the location made sandalwood of karnaataka so typical. I've grown sandalwood trees for over 15-20 years but the quality of sandalwood wood is poor and the oil quantity also very less compared with the same aged trees growing at the western ghats area. Don't simply underestimate sandalwood and the tree. It's simply UNIQUE... It's real that every KANNADIGA must be PROUD of it.

*_PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON NAG CHAMPA!!!!_* 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🖤👏🏻🤙🏻 _Thankyou!_

How much does the actual wood cost?

Sandalwood is the best male fragrance period

The REAL reason sandalwood is so expensive is because of DEMAND.

KARNATAKA is very unique state... Which is in No.1 place in many aspects: GOLD production. SANDALWOOD production. COFFEE production. Best quality RICE production. HIGHEST ELEPHENTS production. Quality ENGINEERS production. Very FRIENDLY People. Many more....

I love the smell of sandalwood but great sandalwood-based perfumes tend to be expensive

We have more than 2500 sandalwood trees in our farm in Kenya. Unfortunately we can't sell them due to a life sentence imposed if caught trading in them.

Sandal wood bouquet extraordinary.

Sandalwood oil is more costly.

Pushpa made everyone remember its value

I first cloned the genes for sandalwood oil biosynthesis into bacteria, then yeast in 2010. UWA filed a patent and the technology was licensed out to a couple of companies. I never saw any cheques, so I hope it worked out.

It's not protect them you must protect yourself for growing them😊😮

Where can we get this pure Essential oil??

My favorite scent. For me or him. It's like pheromones.. makes my heart pump with just a wiff

The seemingly unimportant things that we place great value on is so intriguing to me.

How do they extract the oil ?

Would this help wooden made structures??

I have always love sandalwood since my Girl Scout days, im 58

I couldn’t tell if they were trying to protect the tree or arresting it

You gotta break a lot of pots in Hyrule to afford that. XD

i only buy pure essential oils. they're all expensive af, but worth it

So.. What kind of high does it give?

I squeezed the oil out of my sandals and it smells great!

Broooo!!!! I thought that was Russel Wilson in the thumbnail. 😂😂😂😂

Soo is there trading stocks for this?

The signature scent of the wook

If sandalwood exist does that mean bootwood also exist out there

I should invest in sandalwood? It feels like I have the information

I thought that india stopped exporting sandlewood oil in 2022

I've been looking for a good sandlewood scent oil & can't find anything... it's driving me nuts. I love the smell of sandlewood. I didn't understand the lack of it. 😢

Well no wonder i can't find my favorite body lotion. It had sandwood in it. No other can copy the original. Ive looked everywhere

Imagine walking through a forest with the blood of sandalwood on you and the other trees don’t bother you

I LOVE sandalwood

Govt meddling in sandalwood cultvation- visa vis australia cultivation will soon end ..

R.i.p OG trees..

That’s why they want to buy up the trees here on my land. Was suspicious of them.

All I can say is I just looked into growing a sandalwood tree and got put on a list.

❤❤❤sandalwood ny favorite 😍

Almost every Indian home would have sandalwood at home in small block for Pooja activities.

That shit smells divine

Lynx/Axe Africa fragrance 😉

Farmers have to pay the cost to protect the trees on their own farmland? 🤔🤨🧐

Geeze, perhaps we should form trade routes toward these spices

Now is a US farm and an Australian one the cost is more like $7 now 😅

How do you make sandles out of that wood?

Where there is a product there will be greed for said product and once it becomes popular, humans will destory in order to provide. Such is the life of those who have no consciousness

At last they used the term 'Indian' rather than ' south asian' .

Amazing 😊

still cheaper than whole foods

What is name of tree?

Just print it made in japan for 10x more expensive

mysore sandal :)

I wish I could grow one even if it was tiny

Pushpa....Pushpa Raj 😂

You cant just go and farm it in India. You need to get permission.

the guy that smell the parfume looks like neil de grease tyson

Knowing how people from India operate it’s probably not even sandalwood. 😂

That thumb nail though 🤣🤣🤣

oil in dry wood???🤯🤯🤯

fragrance oils are no joke man, just look at pure oud oil, its like 1 grand per mililiter

Mysore sandal soap Karnataka ❤