Meanwhile I have 50 g of high-quality sandalwood oil on the way and I paid less than $150. If you want to drop $100 on a milliliter of an oil like sandalwood go for it but folks, this ain't oud. For me it is best applied in generous swipes and i just don't see the value in a $300 3ml bottle of sandalwood. I believe I have smelled the very best sandalwood oil you can get over the last 30 years of my life and unless these guys are magicians, which they are not, I personally don't see the value. (Not talking about small batch personally or amateur distilled stuff like Tyson - this is a different category in my mind but maybe I'm wrong).
Still if you have to have the most self-aggrandizing brands and products and you've got $300 burning a hole in your pocket, I can see why it might be gratifying to buy this and then tell yourself you have the best sandalwood oil in the world.
As for people picking "fairly good" all I can say is the small $$ i have spent have not been given to the biggest braggarts. For me at least if I see two different retailers and one has two pages talking about how special they are and how much everyone else sucks And the other is just honestly listing their product descriptions, I will give my money to the person who's putting the energy into their product and not so much into their marketing and sensational fictional stories.
tired of the sandalwood and agarwood "carnival barkers" honestly in case it isn't obvious. If these guys feel like their stuff won't sell or compete well against other vendors without the sensational advertising copy, what does that reveal about their true feeling about their product ???
I'm not talking about folks like Tyson who are just buying sandalwood at a higher price and distilling it themselves, sharing the details and passing on the cost. I'm talking about all those miracle $300 sandalwoods where the actual details on who distilled it where and how are vague (= purchased or commissioned) and all the detail is in baroque BS descriptions of intangible evocative hyperbole to appeal to emotions, of which ROYALE is the perfect example of utter BS. You know what royale equates to? Exactly the same thing as rhinestones on a necklace. Or "faux carbon fiber" in a car interior. Fake luxury. We are not being sold oils from the King's Coffers folks... so why pretend? My kid got over costume jewelry when she was 5.