Santal Volcanique
Richard Ibanez builds Santal Volcanique around a central tension: the clean, milky warmth of sandalwood set against a volcanic spice arsenal.
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.
- Woody55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Sandalwood
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Lime
- Cedar
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Musk
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readRichard Ibanez builds Santal Volcanique around a central tension: the clean, milky warmth of sandalwood set against a volcanic spice arsenal. Lime opens with refreshing brightness before ginger, cardamom, clove, and nutmeg arrive in quick succession — a rich, complex spice accord that reads layered rather than linear, each contributing a distinct facet. Ylang-ylang introduces tropical floral richness, giving the spice a sweetness to work against. Coffee's roasted-bitter depth adds an unusual dimension before sandalwood and cedar resolve the base in creamy, resinous wood, amber and vanilla extending the warmth through a long dry-down. A confident, complex composition from a Parisian house that earns its price point.
Scent twins
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