Peau Santal

Instant love! I procured a Miller Harris discovery set, mainly for Scherzo. I've heard lots of praise for it, and it is a beautiful scent. Peau Santal was a surprise winner though! It instantly felt like "my" scent. The sandalwood is creamy, but not too creamy. The frankincense gives it depth and a resinous quality, which I love. I am generally a fan of frankincense and here it's done well. The base is resinous amber with the sandalwood staying on through the whole wearing. The rest of the notes are support to make it balanced and wearable. For me it hits the perfect balance of depth/personality and wearability/mass-appeal. It's probably best in the colder months, but I can see myself wearing it in the summer aswell. I would probably avoid the hottest days, though. 10/10 - flawless. In my humble opinion ofc.

Beautiful, calming sandalwood. It's a "my skin but better" in the realm of Fleur de Peau but I prefer Peau Santal. It doesn't really smell like FdP, just evokes a similar feeling. The sandalwood does smell more like Santal 33, but the latter is not a "my skin but better" type of scent, IMO, which is why I compared to FdP. I detect no pickles in Peau Santal like in some other sandalwood fragrances. I don't normally like leather or pink pepper but they are so subtle here. I like that MH uses leather with restraint in their fragrances, at least from the ones I've tried. Although if I were to choose a calming sandalwood fragrance, my current favorite is Piano Santal, but this is a close 2nd for me.

Just got a sample of this after buying Violet Ida and I gotta say I am absolutely OBSESSED. A warm soft delicate sandalwood that feels like a warm hug or a big, fluffy cashmere scarf. Comparing it with other perfumes in the iconic sandalwood fragrance universe, I would say this is the 'warmest' smelling of them all, with Santal 33 as the middle between fresh & warm and Commodity's Book on the 'fresher', more masculine side of the spectrum. I have no words to describe how good this one is. If you are looking for a less fresh, sexier cozier version of Santal 33 then this is for you my friend.

I got a sample of this from Miller Harris, and I love it. So much, in fact, that I bought their Woody Trio, and this scent is included. I'm not well-versed in the fragrance lingo, but I know what I like. This lasted from 0630-8pm (now), and I can still smell it on my skin & clothing. It is unisex, but leans more feminine, to me. A previous reviewer mentioned cucumber notes, and, now that the scent is fading, I detect it, too, but I'm not mad about it. In my opinion, this is an excellent everyday scent.

This is a sandalwood queen in full glory and the best sandalwood perfume ever - say I, taking advantage of my right to total subjectivity. Because I absolutely love Peau Santal. I read the negative reviews on here and keep shaking my head. Soft. Warm, but clean. Elegant. Quiet, but distinctive. It's woody with only a touch of florals. So very beautiful.

Just the most beautiful soft sandalwood fragrance. There are no sharp edges, it's like a soft blanket enveloping you with all the lovely, warm aspects of sandalwood. The other notes blend seamlessly in the background. Lasts a few hours on me, with reasonable projection, however I just want to keep spraying myself with this as it is almost addictive.

Lovely sandalwood with a lot freshly crushed pink paper and nice sweetness in the base. It’s quite strong but also nicely balanced. I don’t think it’s similar to Santal 33 but you can definitely get lots of dryness and some pencil shavings notes too but I think they come from papyrus note. Follow me on IG: scent.guide

Oh my god I'm so in love with this. Bought a sample and instantly purchased a fb. It works beautifully with my skin chemistry, it feels like my new signature scent. It's the most feminine woody I've ever tried, this makes me feel confident and sensual.

This really is a very beautiful soft cashmere, buttery leather dream of a perfume. 10/10 suitable for any occasion or just at home to live in a heavenly wonderland.

the perfume equivalent of comfort food, it makes me feel cozy and warm, I love it!

One word: soft leathery magical cloudy blanket.

This has a surprising freshness to it, not listed in the accords. Then I looked at the notes and spotted violet leaf - it gives a cucumber fresh green scent and you can definitely smell it here, it should be voted higher but I guess people don’t realise that it’s what’s responsible for the freeness in this. It’s very dominant. There’s also wood, more of a mix than pure sandalwood though, despite the name, and a soft warm very light peppery spice too. So it is warm because of the peppery spiciness, but the violet leaf definitely keeps it a bit cucumbery and suitable for summer. A contradiction. Also there’s not enough vanilla to describe the wood as creamy for sure. This is much more feminine leaning than your usual sandalwood fragrances due to the cucumber fresh feel, although some could interpret that as masculine I guess, so overall it’s still very unisex. Dries down more musky than sandalwood, which is disappointing. Be warned. This is not a creamy sandalwood spice bomb. If you’re looking for a sandalwood dominant scent there are better out there. If you’re looking for a cucumbery summer-suitable very lightly spiced woody fragrance then this could be it. Quite unusual. One to try. Edit: after maybe 5 or 6 hours there is a sandalwood skin scent.

Wow, so many different perceptions of this perfume. I don't get any sweetness from this, or creaminess. Or specifically sandalwood, for that matter. To me this is a dry, woody, somewhat green leather. It reminds me a bit of Bruno Fazzolari's Lamblack, which is a bright but inky leathery vetiver. The sweeter base notes don't register on me. And I'm quite sensitive to sweet perfumes and don't generally like them in more than just a hint to round out some harsher edges. This never does that on me. Other perfumes it reminds me of in feel and ambience would be CDG Avignon or Ouarzazat. This has an incense quality as well. I think it makes a good layering perfume eith something on the sweeter side. I see Fall gets the seasonal vote, but I actually think a summer night will help this bloom.

As a scent: Peau Santal > Papyrus Moleculaire > anything else > Santal33 As a frag you use in daily life (wearability): Papyrus Moleculaire > anything else > Peau Santal Papyrus Moleculaire = the best spicy aromatic Egyptian papyrus/cypriol oil and santal wood on a resinous bed. Not complex but is a gorgeous blend with high ingr quality. I want a bottle but too expensive. Santal33 = sharp, cheap, mundane synthetic sandalwood, Bieber. *Peau Santal = dry, spicy, leathery, aromatic, and intimate. Pink pepper is strong. It combines all the goodness of the notes listed, but the projection equates to a cashmere blanket. So I sold my bottle after having been trying to love it. And to the comment below, you shouldn't expect all sandalwood to be creamy. A YouTuber has misled you big time.

This is a true skin scent and sandalwood is the star note in this composition. The opening is fresh and peppery - it almost tickles my nose. After a while, the scent becomes creamier and warmer but it remains fresh, thanks to the violet leaf at its heart. Olibanum adds a resinous, yet slightly green touch, and papyrus gives a dry, almost leathery facet to the fragrance. Cashmere wood applies powdery musk-like nuances, whilst crisp amber and vanilla enhance the creaminess and the warmth of the sandalwood. Although the warm and creamy notes are contrasted here with fresh and dry elements, the scent is round and well blended. Peau Santal bears little similarity to Santal 33, however it is much softer and smoother. It is a perfect skin/skin-like scent.

My very first impression of this one (almost a year ago) was that it was a little bit boring - and not very feminine, I thought! Actually, I was a little bit disappointed, when I got that big tester bottle - for a very good price. But eventually, I have changed my opinion totally. I am very fond of it, and even though I think it also can be very nice on a man, I now feel it is lovely on me as a woman. It is pure and spicy, special enough to wear on a date or a formal dinner, yet soft and cozy enough to put on before sleep. When I do that, I still feel it in the morning. But never too strong. Love it!!

I’ve enjoyed sampling Peau Santal. To me it is a better version of Santal 33, which I get a pickle vibe from. I do not get that from Peau Santal, it is woody and aromatic, very unisex. It has moderate longevity, I get about 2 hours where it projects nicely, and then it is more intimate. I have 25 Miller Harris samples and what I’m enjoying about this brand is that they all are very aromatic, you get gorgeous whaffs of their perfume. To me, Peau Santal smells very natural, it’s a sophisticated, but easy going scent that should get more buzz than it does.

Blind bought this for the notes and it just not for me. I appreciate it as a scent, but it is sooooo heavy on wood and pink pepper it dries your mouth for days. I could imagine I could like this on a man, but not on my own whom I like to smell sweeter and cozier, thank you. Beautiful scent, would like to smell this on different skin chemistry just for curiosity. If you like your whisky over 30 years old with no hint of sweetness, just plain dry wood, then maybe this one is just for you. Now I have a full bottle to get rid of.

When I first tested Babylon by Penhaligon's, I loved it, but couldn't even finish my 1.5 ml sample because it was way too strong for me. Three years later, I bought the Best Sellers set from Miller Harris and felt like Peau Santal's opening reminded me of a scent I smelled before. Today, I realized that scent is Babylon. Peau Santal is, in my opinion, a much milder, much wearable version of Babylon.

Very pleasant soft sandalwood scent. It’s more of a fresh and creamy style rather than warm, ambery or spicy. I get quite a strong citrus scent in the opening, plus a clean, grassy vibe throughout which I assume is the papyrus. It’s light and office friendly, but I was hoping for a bit more substance from a sandalwood scent. Also doesn’t last very long (maybe 2 hours).

A beautifully warm woody peppery perfume, both dry and creamy woods (although more so dry). I do find it comforting, calming, addictive, COZY. Sadly....only lasts an hour or two before becoming a skin scent 😭 jk actually it lasts for maybe 4-5 hours with moderate projection. Not at all like Santal 33

To me, the opening was really, really good. Very warm - everything I would want to experience with Sandalwood... But then the drydown kicks in, and it smellwd like several other perfumes wasn't crazy about. I can't even think of what they are, they are such a hard pass for me!

This is a very elegant, creamy sandalwood fragrance. However, it doesn't seem to last long with my body chemistry (or maybe I just go anosmic to it quickly?). If it lasted longer on my skin, it would be a love and full-bottle worthy.

I do love this fragrance. It smells spicy and sweet. I just feel it’s very linear and doesn’t have the projection, depth or longevity I would hope for. It does smell very relaxing, soft and not as harsh as other sandalwood scents.

at first, very woody and musk. but then it develops into a floral scent which captures you. I have given it around 7 hours for it to develop in. a bit powdery and spicy.

My housemate described it as a "sexy man" smell. Enough said. Didn't last terribly long on me but I liked it while it was there.

A dry spiced sandalwood that is more wearable and less serious than Santal Blush by Tom Ford.

Powdery in a modern way with some sweetness.

I like Peau Santal. It’s the second most interesting scent profile from the discovery kit, quite different than anything else I’ve smelled so far, designer or niche. On me, Peau Santal is true to its name. A delicate, soft, sandalwood forward scent with green, earthy, spicy, powdery nuances and a more warm, sweet vanilla, ambery base. It has a pronounced papyrus and violet leaf note in the middle that gives a harsher, sour edge, a strong contrast against the smooth, soft cashmeran, smooth sandalwood and resinous olibanum. The base structure is where Peau Santal is the most enjoyable, with balsamic, ambery facets and hints of ultra creamy vanilla. On my skin at least, it’s a scent true to its name, a skin scent with moderate longevity. While I can appreciate the uniqueness of the perfume, it’s not a scent profile I would enjoy wearing often so I don’t see the need to add a bottle to my collection. The two ml sample will be sufficient in case I am ever craving a scent like this. Because of the scent profile and performance, I think Peau Santal would work for most seasons, except winter. I see this scent just right for fall mostly, it gives a comforting feel.

Now this is extremely light and ethereal that I had a problem in detecting any scent at all. I eventually could pick up on a peppery freshness and a very soft sandalwood. Though it's so silky smooth and light you have to work your nose to try to discern it's presence. As time passes I can pick up very tiny hints of incense and violet within the very soft and light creamy sandalwood. The pink pepper adds a nice rosy dimension to the soft sandalwood and the fragrance comes across as very sensual. It smells nice with quality ingredients but for a Edp I feel it needs more body. Projection is way below average and longevity is about three hours.

This lacks substance and is quite dull for a sandalwood scent. The sandalwood isn't as creamy as I would like either. Smells like Australian sandalwood which is very crunchy to my nose. The pink pepper in here is also overbearing. I would have rather they used just the saffron instead. I'm just not enjoying many of Nardin's creations. I would rather they bring back Bertrand D. I think he is a much better perfumer. This perfume reminds me of Powdered Veil and Nanshe. They are all so similar to my nose that I can't tell where one begins and the other one ends.

Got this as part of a discovery set. Absolutely gorgeous opening with a soft smokiness and a touch of leather. Sadly, it has zero projection and is totally gone from my skin within an hour. Thought maybe it was just the sample, so got another. Same. Such a pity about the poor performance, as otherwise I’d have happily splurged on a full bottle.

A sandalwood fragrance that opens with a clear burst of frankincense; not at all what I expected. It’s very dry, woody, and only lightly creamy, with the sandalwood emerging after that initial incensey strike. Beyond that, I don’t get much more. It’s simple, serene, and not particularly assertive. Tag(s): frankincense, dry woody, serene

For someone who doesn’t generally like sandalwood scents (synthetic, which most of them are, at least) this one is palatable. Maybe I should say ‘tolerable’, like Mr Darcy ;). There is almost more cashmeran in this than sandalwood and I get a hint of saffron and papyrus. Quite lovely just not to my personal taste.

Dry, beige, monotone. A familiar, flat sandalwood molecule. I can see it for a meditative type of scent, but I have far better ones for that purpose. A lackluster release from a beloved brand.

A simple but pleasant scent; I like to layer this with more fruity scents. The longevity is disappointing though - I get only a couple of hours out of this.

The sandalwood's fine - soft, sweet, submissive - but the peau is problematic. On me this second half reads as a slightly sweaty, gently unlovely musk... maybe it's the violet leaf, as all the other notes listed here ought to be a hit, and Miller Harris is usually at least moderately appealing. Not quite sure what went adrift in the middle here, but for my taste it went astray. Not at all bad overall, but there's that slight tang of stale human which turns me off. May appeal to those seeking a really gentle, femme sandalwood scent with a femme, fluffy feel and no spice, as long as they've got the skin chemistry to mesh with it. To me this is miles from the punchy, savoury, fennel-flecked flavour of Santal 33 - it's far closer to the marshmallow-sugariness of CDG Concrete. Try, do try, but don't blind buy.

I love MH but I didn't like this at all. From the first spray to when it wore off (which was NOT long after, maybe about 45 minutes to an hour?) I got a relatively single-note sandalwood perfume. Some people have said that it mellowed out to a floral but for me it simply mellowed out into nothing. There was a small amount of bergamot for a few seconds but then wood and then nothing else. I received this as a 2ml sample when I bought Brighton Rock, so luckily didn't pay anything for it, and will be passing along the rest of that sample to someone else as it just wasn't for me.

Smells so synthetic and artificial on me - I don’t seem to have much luck with Miller Harris perfumes! Amber and woody notes are the strongest here. Sadly a massive miss for me.

Somehow this gives me instant nausea. The pepper and bergamot are too strong. According to my husband, it smells like a very old restaurant with burnt incense.

Yet another Miller Harris fragrance that is so lovely but lasts just a heartbeat and it is gone. More than likely just my chemistry but lamentable all the same. A day has gone by and I would like to add to my previous commentary! I happened to put on the flannel top I was wearing when I tried the tiny decant and it smelled heavenly. Soft and warm sandalwood! So, perhaps if I had a bottle and I could spray this lovely fragrance generously my initial doubt would evaporate. Sounds like a plan!

This smells like a sharper, harsher, MUCH less lovely La Fumee. Smoke mixed with pepper and citrus. People talking abut softness, creaminess and cosy cashmere....I have NO idea how you got there??? This is shrill. Sour. A confused, coarse, faintly hysteric fume. Ugly smelling. Very masculine. And it's old-fashioned, in the sense that it's a re-hash of a tired staple from Miller Harris. This is a perfume house looking backwards instead of forwards. What a shame. HUGE, huge miss.

This is a lovely, complex and intriguing fragrance! I notice a strong similarity to Gucci's Mémoire d'un Odeur (even though they hardly have any notes in common), but Peau Santal has that distinct olibanum note. Both are truly unisex fragrances, though the olibanum might just tip the Peau Santal just a little more to the masculine side. In any case, while it's a rather unusual fragrance, it's a safe blind buy for a fragrance lover.

Not much to say about Peau Santal other than magnificent. From first spray in the morning to last brush of my hair at night (which I give a spritz) it lingers like a cashmere shawl. It is sexy, cosy, soothing - office worthy, date enhancing, special night in juice. This is one top fragrance Miller Harris - with great longevity and well mannered sillage - only shares itself with me and those special enough to come close ;) Touché

This is good, I don't feel I could pull it off as it's so not ''me''. I have a love-hate relationship with sandalwood (and most woody notes) I love them in small quantities but not if they dominate. I prefer the dry down of this perfume, where it's a bit smoother, creamier and more musky. This is a stunning perfume though, as long as you like heavy woods and musk.

reminds me of narciso rodriguez for her and escentric molecule 04, which for me is not a good thing - pungent, sour sandalwood and musk. if you are not a fan of those two, then you likely wont like this one. it does stay close to the skin so i understand why others liken it to a cosy blanket or scarf. if these notes work for you, then it's worth a test!

It smells clean and sharp at the same time. I would wear this fresh out of the shower and then layer other scents with it. I love it. It could be a bit overwhelming at first, but then settles into this beautiful woody scent.

yesterday sprayed it on while driving my car and I knew it: massive moss - immediately in a nice warm sunny wood after a fresh rain shower - unfortunately after few seconds back in cold and rainy reality

مشابه بسیار نزدیک سانتال 33 اما کمی سبکتر، عمیقتر و کم جان تر ----------- Scent & Quality: 10/10 Longevity: 7/10 Sillage: 6/10 Creativity & Uniqueness: 7/10 Affordability: 5/10 ----------- Overall: 7/10

This is... nice! It's woody, soapy but not too soapy, and subtle! It stays very close to the skin. Edit: I spoke too soon... there is a leather dry down, but it's not bad.