Santal de Mysore
Christopher Sheldrake's description is accurate: the spices here nearly cry out.
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.
- Woody90
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Benzoin
- Saffron
- Wild Carrot
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readChristopher Sheldrake's description is accurate: the spices here nearly cry out. Cumin hits first with a bodily, fermented directness; saffron follows with its metallic warmth; cinnamon adds the familiar sweetness. Wild carrot contributes a brief, unusual earthiness — root-like and slightly dusty — before benzoin begins its work drawing the composition toward the sandalwood. And what sandalwood: the enormous Mysore variety, creamy and dense in a way already scarce when this was composed in 1991. Rose and musk integrate in the dry-down as softening counterweights. This is a challenging fragrance that rewards patience — the spice storm resolves into one of the great sandalwood experiences in modern perfumery.
Scent twins
In this family
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