De Los Santos
Byredo's de Los Santos opens with an austere, almost medicinal sage that feels more like smudge smoke than herbaceous greenery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Lavender75
- Smoky70
- Herbal65
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Clary Sage
- Ambroxan
- Olibanum
- Musk
- Clary Sage
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readByredo's de Los Santos opens with an austere, almost medicinal sage that feels more like smudge smoke than herbaceous greenery. The clary sage lends a slightly sweet, hay-like warmth that softens the initial sharpness, but the impression remains resolutely dry and contemplative rather than bright.
As it settles, olibanum introduces a resinous incense quality, while ambroxan provides a clean, mineral backdrop that keeps the composition from turning overtly devotional. The musk here is pale and skin-like, never powdery or animalic. What emerges is less a traditional fragrance than an atmosphere—spare, meditative, with the austere beauty of whitewashed adobe walls or linen robes.
This suits those drawn to minimalist compositions that evoke ritual and stillness rather than seduction. It wears close, almost private, and asks for patience rather than immediate gratification.
Scent twins
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