Peau Santal
Peau-Santal opens with a dry, almost textile-like quality—saffron and pink pepper create a faintly metallic warmth rather than spice in the conventional sense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Sandalwood90
- Incense60
- Amber60
- Black Pepper50
- Oakmoss50
By the editors · 2 min readPeau-Santal opens with a dry, almost textile-like quality—saffron and pink pepper create a faintly metallic warmth rather than spice in the conventional sense. Bergamot provides lift without sweetness, keeping the introduction austere and composed. This is sandalwood imagined through a filter of restraint.
The heart develops into something cooler and more vegetal. Violet leaf brings a cucumber-like freshness that contrasts with the resinous weight of olibanum and papyrus, giving the composition an unexpected green undertone beneath its woody framework. The interplay feels deliberate, almost architectural.
In its final stages, moss and amber anchor the sandalwood without overwhelming it, while vanilla appears as suggestion rather than dessert—a soft rounding rather than sweetness. The result is a sandalwood portrait that favors skin-like intimacy over projection, appealing to those who want their wood fragrances cerebral rather than comforting.
