Cremo

Palo Santo

Budget$, 1 of 5

VersionEau de Toilette

Bright cardamom and dry papyrus around aromatic Palo Santo wood.

The drawn Palo Santo bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Palo Santo’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, papyrus, palo santo drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Palo Santo, top notes: Cardamom, Palo santo

Dry-downwhat stays

Palo Santo, dry-down: Papyrus

What’s inside it

What the label names

0 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhyrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For more

Santal 33Le Labo · Many of its own wearers call Palo Santo a cheaper copy of it$348 for 100 ml

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Stallion 53Emper · shares cardamom and papyrus
Desert DawnByredo · shares cardamom and papyrus$330 for 100 ml
Eilish No. 2Billie Eilish · shares papyrus and palo santo$82 for 100 ml

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.