Dries Van Noten · 2022 · Nisrine Grillie

Santal Greenery

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Dries Van Noten asks about $319 for 100 ml
100 mlabout $319

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright bergamot and grapefruit over green violet leaves and a creamy fig, settling into sandalwood and soft white musk.

Dries Van Noten says

You’ll smell bergamot, grapefruit, Violet Leaves, Creamy Fig Accord, sandalwood and White Musk.

The house’s page

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The drawn Santal Greenery bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Santal Greenery’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, grapefruit, violet, fig, sandalwood, white musk drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Santal Greenery, when you spray it: Bergamot, Grapefruit

As it settlesheart notes

Santal Greenery, as it settles: Violet, Fig

What staysdry-down notes

Santal Greenery, what stays: Sandalwood, White musk

What’s inside it

What Dries Van Noten names

BergamotGrapefruitViolet LeavesCreamy Fig AccordSandalwoodWhite Musk

What the label names

6 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.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Farnesol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterAvobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Dylan Blue Pour HommeVersace · shares bergamot, grapefruit, violet (sweet violet), fig and 1 more$129 for 100 ml · about a third of Santal Greenery’s about $319
Dia WomanAmouage · shares bergamot, violet (sweet violet), fig, sandalwood and 1 more$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Santal Greenery’s about $319
Legend SpiritMontblanc · shares bergamot, grapefruit, sandalwood and clean linen
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.