Santal Noir
Santal Noir arrives in Dior's La Collection Privée as the definitive dark sandalwood — a perfume that earns its title through sheer presence rather than literalism.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Sandalwood80
- Cinnamon65
- Amber60
- Rose50
- Leather45
By the editors · 2 min readSantal Noir arrives in Dior's La Collection Privée as the definitive dark sandalwood — a perfume that earns its title through sheer presence rather than literalism. Cinnamon, clove and pepper announce it with confident warmth, rose oxide threading in an unusual metallic-floral shimmer against the spice. The heart deepens through a dusky rose, the musky softness of ambrette seed, and the jammy weight of plum and dried fruit — somewhere between an aged wine cellar and a warmly lit boudoir. Sandalwood in the base is creamy and generous, smoothing leather's coolness into something almost cashmere-like. Long-lasting, assertive, quietly seductive — a statement piece built for cool evenings.
