We provide Home Delivery

Chandan is the Indian name for sandalwood (specifically santalum album), which grows on the western ghats of the Indian subcontinent. Sandalwood essential oil provides perfumes with a striking wood base note.

The inner wood or heartwood is used for carving and the bark when powdered is an important raw material in the manufacture of agarbatis. For the extraction of oil, used by the cosmetic and soap industry, the tree has to be uprooted, for it is the roots that have the highest percentage of oil.

Even spent wood after oil extraction is an important raw material in agarbati manufacture. Sandalwood scrapings are powdered and sold in pouches. The powder makes an excellent face and skin pack.

A Hindu home usually has a billet of the wood which is rubbed on a stone plate sprinkled with water and the resulting paste is applied to the foreheads of idols during puja.

Sandalwood, one of the finest woods for carving, is said to be next only to Ivory for intricate workmanship and mystical aura. A large number of idols, figurines, and decorative objects are made out of it, including figures of deities, animals, birds, chess sets, jewellery boxes, pill boxes, walking sticks, night lamps, crazy boxes, seals, flower vases, key chains, pens, bookmarks, letter openers, necklaces, chanting beads, charms, etc.