Sandalo Nobile
A sandalwood study with a warm, slightly animalic frame.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Woody90
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Iris
- Fig
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA sandalwood study with a warm, slightly animalic frame. Cumin in the opening flickers between skin and spice; saffron carries leathery red threads alongside it.
The heart brings iris and fig — iris cool and powdery, fig adding a milky-green sweetness. The combination softens what would otherwise be a sharp, edged top into something rounder, more wearable. Underneath, the sandalwood is the reason for the whole composition: creamy, slightly resinous, with that distinctive lactonic warmth.
Musk in the dry-down keeps it close to the body. Reads as quiet luxury — the kind of scent that rewards proximity and doesn't reach for crowds.
Scent twins
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