Santal de Kandy
Santal de Kandy opens dry and peppered — black pepper and cardamom rasping over the first inhale, more austere than its sandalwood billing suggests.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Woody85
- Warm Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readSantal de Kandy opens dry and peppered — black pepper and cardamom rasping over the first inhale, more austere than its sandalwood billing suggests. The bergamot in the wider note set keeps it from going purely woody at the start, but the dominant impression is spice on bare wood.
A single thread of jasmine and a violet curl through the heart, never fully blooming; they read more as ornament than subject. The composition spends its real attention on the dry-down, where the sandalwood meets cedar and patchouli in a smooth, slightly creamy plank — clean rather than milky, structured rather than rich.
It wears close, evenly, without much arc. Office-safe, weather-flexible, and quietly competent.
Scent twins
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