Santal Blanc

This is the perfect sandalwood for those who like clean woods. It is slightly creamy but not as much as e.g. Atelier Cologne Santal Carmin. It is woody but def not as dry-woody as sandal in Tam Dao. It is rather soft, soapy, blended well with a beautiful iris and musks. Can’t detect much of cinnamon. And pink pepper only makes a tiny appearance, otherwise smoothed over by the iris. This is pure elegance, gentle and understated like a second skin but better. Exquisite and balanced. For the soft, enveloping elegant scent category this is one of my top favourites along with Diptyque’s Fleur de Peau. Albeit they differ quite a lot.

Oh yes, this is the kind of Musc I like: clean, airy, slightly powdery. Santal Blanc is both fresh (almost citrusy fresh opening), slightly sweet and elegantly powdery with the iris note. A very clean and delicate Sandalwood scent. Fresh out of the shower or everyday errands scent. Intimate and soft, understated luxurious elegance. The delicate sweetness in Santal Blanc strangely remidns me of Wonder Bouquet Mugler Les Exceptions - that freshly baked buttery brioche of some sort kind of sweet, not the vanilla sugary one. Beautiful.

Beautiful sandalwood scent. Very comforting, like a warm blanket on a cold day. It isn't your typical sandalwood, rather it is soft and nuanced. This is a great sandalwood for those who dislike sandalwood as a note. It isn't loud or in your face. There is a bit of floral present, and it has a soft woody base. To my nose this isn't very far off the original.

Starts off with a fresh, almost green sandalwood-iris combo then takes a peppery-musky iris the lead, in the end sweet cinnamony white Woods and musk. Good projection, longevity about 5 hours. Relatively linear in the end, but very elegant. Such a fine, velvety composition!

Sandalwood in a very musky style, with plenty of pink pepper that creates a rosy-woody blend. The sandalwood in Santal Blanc is the same as that in Santal Majuscule (it is not the dry and "creamy" style sandalwood I was used to). I find Santal Blanc to be the muskier, woodier, non-gourmand version of Santal Maj - they are certainly not dupes but the sandalwood in both compositions are the same. Santal Maj is a thick winter blanket, Santal Blanc may be worn in all the other seasons. The lasting power isn't the best (probably 4-5h total, only projecting the 1h). The projection in the first hour is moderate for me as a chronic oversprayer with skin that loves to absorb scents. My opinion? This is a slightly feminine, wet/jammy sandalwood with the subtle sweetness of human skin, also with savoury qualities that creates a fleshy and lively radiance. For people whose body temperature runs cold like me, for those who don't radiate a personal scent or any body heat period, this fragrance will bring you to life.