Description
Sweet Davana High-Quality Essential Oil לענה דבאנה
5ml
Organic Wild harvested
From Dried Flowertops and while plant
Southern India
RARE
Davana grows in Southern India where the coveted Mysore Sandalwood trees grow. Davana has a fruity green top note and soft sweet tobacco-like notes that is also green and liquor-like in aroma It has balsamic warm wood and slight bittersweet undertones. My husband says it smells very like a 50-year-old scotch or rich Cognac liquor. I agree and it is a must-have in making natural exquisite perfume or cologne. I really like blending this one with Gardenia, Honeysuckle, or Cistus for a sweet expensive natural perfume for stress release.
This essential oil is often considered fairly new in the Aromatherapy world but in fact, I fell in love with this oil back when I worked in the perfume industry in the 80s. This was very well established otanical in use as far back in the early 1950s. Davana essential oil was used by luxurious perfumeries around the world to enhance fragrances to achieve tea-like notes or rich sweet liquor tobacco masculine notes. Mostly, it’s used in eastern and ambrée perfumes, chypres, and fougères, for example, are often blended with Davana where fruity, tea-like notes are desired.
Traditionally, healers in India have long used the herb for all manner of women’s reproductive issues, from helping to support regulate menses to easing menopausal concerns. Davana is used to treat uterine and ovarian cysts that help fertility and promote positive outcomes. Often used to treat coughs and colds and seasonal allergies can also be used in an inhaler to clear lung congestion and quiet the mind to sleep better.
Davana smells the same to everyone while in the bottle, but it really takes on a different aroma of its own depending on who is wearing it. It really transforms the aura of the individual and those around experiencing the aroma. A medicinal herb, as well as a beautifully fragrant plant from flower to root in one plant, is a rare treasure.
In the middle east, the plant does grow but it is not as fragrant as the southeastern Indian variety in my opinion. Some Sanskrit language texts says that Sandalwood and Davana were traded with the Middle East and Israel possibly through King Solomon which might account for why it does grow in Israel but not in great abundance to make essential oil and any Herbalist forgers who recognize the plant will snatch it up quickly when found growing wild.
We really are blessed to have found our small distilling partners in India for this essential and our Mysore sandalwood because they are making it intended for herbal medicine and fragrance only. We feel extremely grateful to have these artisan producers of this amazing essential oil.
