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[1] [3] This tree is valued for the rich red colour of its wood, and in recent years [vague] there has been a marked uptick in the use of red sandalwood as a component of incense, especially in the west. The tree is not to be confused with the aromatic Santalum sandalwood trees that grow natively in Southern India.
Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods. Sandalwood is often cited as one of the most expensive woods in the world.
It is made from a combination of sandalwood and either champak [1] [2] or frangipani. [3] When frangipani is used, the fragrance is usually referred to simply as champa. [4] Nag champa is commonly used in incense, soap, perfume oil, candles, wax melts, and personal toiletries. [5] It is a popular and recognizable incense fragrance. [6] [4]
Incense-stick burning is an everyday practice in traditional Chinese religion. There are many different types of sticks used for different purposes or on different festive days. Many of them are long and thin. Sticks are mostly coloured yellow, red, or more rarely, black. [41] Thick sticks are used for special ceremonies, such as funerals.
Sandalwood paste is used in Hindu rituals and ceremonies to mark religious utensils, decorate icons of deities, and applied by devotees to the forehead or the neck and chest. Sindoor is a red cosmetic powder, worn by women in many Hindu communities along the parting of their hair ( maang ) to denote that they are married, or as a dot on the ...
The red wood is fragrant and used as incense, like sandalwood (Santalum spp.) A decoction of the bark is used in local medicine to treat fever in people and to increase the appetite of oxen and buffalo.
Agarwood is one of the most expensive woods in the world, along with African blackwood, sandalwood, pink ivory and ebony. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] First-grade agarwood is one of the most expensive natural raw materials in the world, [ 6 ] with 2010 prices for superior pure material as high as US$100,000/kg, although in practice adulteration of the wood and ...
Almug tree; traditionally thought to denominate Red Sandalwood and/or White Sandalwood, but a few claim it is Juniper: Pterocarpus santalinus Santalum album Juniperus excelsa: 2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10, 11; 1 Kings 10:11, 12 שקד šāqêḏ: Almond: Amygdalus communis: Genesis 43:11 אהלים ’ăhālîm: Agarwood ("Aloe") Aquilaria ...