How does this Nardostachys spikenard oil smell? Describe its full aroma profile.

Intense earthy-woody valerian-animalic fragrance with rich musky-spicy undertones and an ancient-incense-like balsamic drydown — deep, mystical and sacred. The profile is not a simple scent but a layered composition: soil, animalic warmth, resin and temple incense, like smoke rising slowly from a thousand-year-old sanctuary. Valeranone drives the powdery-woody drydown, calarene adds green-woody depth and β-ionone brings an orris-like violet nuance; sweet, resinous, damp-earth and soft-spicy facets are all present and remarkably persistent.

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