Eau de Santal
A crisp citrus-and-cardamom greeting gives way almost immediately to sandalwood, the heart of this composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- Powdery50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Grass
- Lavender
- Clove
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readA crisp citrus-and-cardamom greeting gives way almost immediately to sandalwood, the heart of this composition. The wood arrives cool and slightly austere, shadowed by vetiver's earthiness and cedar's pencil-shaving dryness. Lavender weaves through quietly, lending a barbershop refinement without dominating.
As it settles, the spices—clove and nutmeg—warm the woods from within, while olibanum adds a faint resinous depth. Vanilla and amber appear late, softening the edges just enough to make the sandalwood feel inhabited rather than architectural. The musk remains subtle, a skin-like backdrop rather than a statement.
This is sandalwood rendered classically: clean, composed, neither overtly masculine nor aggressively woody. It suits those who want the note itself front and center, supported but not crowded by its accompaniments. A straightforward study in restraint.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
