Nude Santal & Heliotrope

I "blind" bought this based on the reviews, and the comparison to Bvlgari Black, which both my husband and I adored when it was available. I agree with the comparison! It is startlingly similar to BB, complete with a faint "rubbery" smell within the first hour of wear! I don't detect the lemon or orange blossom. However, it's warm, soft, woodsy, powdery, and elegant. I would agree that it leans a bit more masculine, but I do love musky scents so I'm still happy to wear it. And I love heliotrope too; it smells mostly of that, sandalwood, cedar, and vanilla to me.

Expensive and sophisticated scent from clean. Woodsy, cinnamon, heliotrope and tasty vanilla....very well blended with citrus. Definitely a unisex. Sweet ( but not too sweet) and dry. Louder than whispers in the library from Maison Margiela, Warm and comforting like a cuddle-up-blanket. Nice clean and highly refined. Will be perfect for autumn and winter days. Silage and longevity is both amazing on me. Worth every penny ! This will be an all time clean favorite for me. Love love love !

I adore this fragrance. It's cozy and enveloping and for this reason I try to layer with anything I can. My absolute favorite layering combo is this scent with YSL Libre. To my surprise it creates a deeper, richer Mon Guerlain scent. Definitely has a masculine edge but in a good way. The way a woman turns her partner's oversized hoodie into her own. It's that kind of burrowing comfort.

Initial thoughts were wow, this does smell really clean. And a bit masculine. I think it’s the combination of a citrus opening and a woody base.... Luckily this wears off quick. Like within 5 minutes. After 5 mins this becomes sweeter, and you can smell the effect of the heliotrope, although not really any orange blossom. During this middle stage it has a nice almondy vibe, a sweet, nutty scent. Not a super strong cherry like almond, or anything remotely as almondy as something like Italica, its more of a soft, gentle comforting warm almond than an in your face one. The middle is infinitely more feminine than the opening. Like a totally different fragrance! After an hour or so of almond it gets progressively more powdery, but still projects a lovely bitter almond creamy sweetness. If you smell your skin it smells almost soapy, it’s such a bitter almond. Hard to describe but it’s lovely. From 2 hours after spraying the sandalwood gets stronger. It still projects but is richer, a bit less powdery. I like this stage best, it lasts maybe another hour or 2. Then in the late dry down you get a sandalwood almost skin scent, that’s more of a soft feminine sandalwood rather than a strong woody note. Lasts maybe 6 hours until it’s just a soft skin scent. I was hoping for more sandalwood sooner, as currently I have many sandalwood fragrances I prefer more than this. But if you buy this expecting powdery almond it’s really quite lovely. Very niche smelling, and unlike anything in my collection.

I’ve been thinking about decluttering this fragrance because I just have too many perfumes but I’m glad I picked it up and wore it today because this is a really beautiful scent. Someone else said this is a very niche smelling perfume and I totally agree with that. I don’t have many perfumes in my collection with this combination of santal and heliotrope. It’s sweet, warm, and super duper cozy. I love the combination of the cinnamon, slightly soapy orange blossom, bright lemon, sweet heliotrope and vanilla, and woody sandalwood. The vanilla in the base helps to make the scent increasingly sweet as it dries down. It projects very softly and has a decent longevity, so I think I’m actually going to keep this. I’m really enjoying my scent bubble. It’s unisex, leaning a little femme but I would love to smell this on my boyfriend as he pulls off a lot of different scents well. Lowkey, it’s reminding me a bit of Mix:Bar’s Vanilla Bourbon. Both are woody, spicy, with a sweet vanilla note. Clean did a great job with this scent.