Amyris is sometimes called West Indian sandalwood, which it is not. It is a Caribbean tree whose wood gives a mild, creamy, faintly sandalwood-like oil at a fraction of the price. Heavy woody alcohols, mainly valerianol and elemol, make up almost the whole thing. In lab tests it held back a range of bacteria and fungi.^[1] It has also been used to anaesthetise fish for handling, which is an aquaculture use rather than a human one.^[2]