Santal Blond
Cardamom and bergamot open with a citric, green-tinged warmth, the cardamom giving lift rather than heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Soft Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open with a citric, green-tinged warmth, the cardamom giving lift rather than heat. Within minutes the centre softens into creamy sandalwood, jasmine adding a thread of floral brightness that keeps the wood from going milky-flat.
The drydown is straightforward: tonka bean smoothing the sandalwood into something resinous and faintly sweet, with the cardamom still detectable at close range. There is little development beyond that arc.
The overall character reads as a polished sandalwood study with a spiced citrus opening. Quiet rather than radiant, comfortable on warm skin, easy in cooler weather. It sits closer than it projects, suiting daytime wear and unhurried evenings without pulling toward formality.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
