Matière Première · Aurélien Guichard

Santal Austral

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Matière Première asks about $280 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $190
100 mlabout $280

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Creamy Australian sandalwood with velvety, almond-milk iris, warmed by sweet benzoin resin and tonka bean.

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The drawn Santal Austral bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Santal Austral’s scent picture, a draft: sandalwood, iris, benzoin, tonka (coumarin), limonene (orange peel) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Santal Austral, when you spray it: Limonene (orange peel)

What staysdry-down notes

Santal Austral, what stays: Sandalwood, Iris, Benzoin, Tonka (coumarin)

What’s inside it

What the label names

4 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.

1 citrus1 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins

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

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Iris d'ÉliteVersace · shares sandalwood, orris, benzoin and tonkaabout $385 for 100 ml
LustreAmouage · shares sandalwood, orris, benzoin and tonka$475 for 100 ml
Reflection 45 ManAmouage · shares sandalwood, orris, benzoin and tonka$550 for 100 ml · about twice Santal Austral’s about $280
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.