Sandalwood Profile

The sandalwood aroma profile is characterized by warm, woody notes with subtle creamy and slightly sweet undertones. This scent family appears in cannabis strains through terpene combinations—particularly alpha-santalol, beta-santalol, and supporting compounds like caryophyllene and myrcene. Strains expressing sandalwood aromatics often carry indica or hybrid lineages with woody-dominant parent genetics. The profile is commonly associated with older landrace lines and some modern breeding work focused on complex, layered terpenoid expression. Documentation of sandalwood-forward cultivars remains limited in formal strain records, making sensory identification variable between growers.

Breeders targeting sandalwood aromatics typically select parent plants showing stable woody and creamy terpene expression across generations. This trait is often pursued through hybrid crosses combining indica wood-note genetics with cultivars expressing secondary creamy-sweet compounds; stabilization requires multi-generational selection and controlled growing conditions to maintain terpenoid con