Versace · 2019 · Christophe Raynaud

Santal Boisé

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Versace asks $330 for 100 ml
100 ml$330

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Milky, balsamic Sri Lankan sandalwood with smoky, oud-like cypriol, warmed by ambery gurjun and saffron.

Versace says

You’ll smell sandalwood and cypriol.

More from Versace’s description

It also mentions Srilankan sandalwood, Gurjun balsam (ambery gurjun) and Saffron.

The house’s page

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The drawn Santal Boisé bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Santal Boisé’s scent picture, a draft: sandalwood, cypriol, gurjun balsam, saffron, virginia cedar, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

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

As it settlesheart notes

Santal Boisé, as it settles: Cypriol

What staysdry-down notes

Santal Boisé, what stays: Gurjun balsam, Saffron, Virginia cedar, Cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Vanillin (vanilla), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Versace names

SandalwoodCypriolGurjun balsam (ambery gurjun)Saffron

What the label names

24 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.

3 citrus4 herbs & lavender2 florals7 woods2 sweet5 spices1 musks

Citrus3

Limonene (orange peel)alpha-TerpineneTerpinolene

Herbs & lavender4

PineneCamphorLinaloolTerpineol

Florals2

Rose ketonesGeranyl acetate

Woods7

Cedarwood oilSandalwood oilSantalolCedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)VertofixEbanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices5

Eugenolbeta-CaryophylleneCinnamalIsoeugenyl acetateIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Safran RoyalVersace · shares sandalwood, cypriol and saffronabout $386 for 100 ml · about the same as Santal Boisé’s $330
Guidance 46Amouage · shares sandalwood, cypriol and saffron$550 for 100 ml
Northern LoveFrédéric Malle · shares sandalwood and saffron
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.