Santal Nabataea
Santal Nabataea opens with a dusky, almost smoky warmth — black pepper cutting through ripe apricot, giving the entry a surprising tension between spice and sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Black Pepper
- Opoponax
- Apricot
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readSantal Nabataea opens with a dusky, almost smoky warmth — black pepper cutting through ripe apricot, giving the entry a surprising tension between spice and sweetness. The sandalwood anchors things quickly, pulling the fruit into its creamy, resinous orbit rather than letting it read as overtly gourmand.
Opoponax deepens the mid-stage, adding a balsamic density that blurs the line between wood and incense. Coffee surfaces gradually, lending a dry, slightly bitter edge that keeps the composition grounded.
The overall effect is a dark, intimate woody-resinous profile with lactonic warmth. Nothing here is sharp or angular — it settles close to skin, rich without being heavy, suitable for cooler evenings when something quietly enveloping is called for.
Scent twins
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