This is another beautiful fragrance from Serge Lutens. Unfortunately I can't find it in the original bottle (seen above, the tall bottle), but I have it in the newer square botlte. It opens with spice...

Starts off with savoury spices (I mostly smell fenugreek) before the sandalwood emerges, somewhat sweet and creamy, but not at all nauseating in the way that sandalwood can sometimes be to me. In fact...

Santal blanc is a linear, quiet, natural smelling, sweet, creamy, calming powdery sandalwood once it dries down and I find this part truly lovely. My gripes are: i) The performance is average at bes...

Eventually creamy sandalwood that starts with an argumentative tone and then decides to make peace with me. I don't like the top notes on my skin, some dark and not so deep spiciness accompanied with ...

I worship the beginning of this, and I am not a sandalwood girl. But then it does something less than pleasant, before settling into a very nice, perfectly pleasant drydown. The end is creamy woods wi...

As with Lutens' Arabie, this stuff reaks too. Terrible. I like strong, heavy perfumes (Coco Chanel, Shalimar, Tabu, Angel etc) but this I can't stand. Just like Arabie, it makes me feel sick to my sto...

So many SL fragrances have an overpowering pencil-shaving note to my nose and Santal Blanc is no exception. There's some lovely sandalwood in there, but it's been smothered by a massive note of empti...

Notes: white sandalwood, cinnamon, fenugreek, pink pepper, rose, jasmine, orris root, musk, benzoin and copaiba balsam. This fragrance opens with a blast of spices dancing on a sandalwood parquet flo...

This started off smelling like a mild curry on me then gradually softened and I could smell the sandalwood. Not my favourite but ok,probably wouldn´t buy it again as I don´t fancy smelling like a curr...

This is a very enjoyable, pleasant scent on paper. I can smell the sandalwood, and it is light and woodsy and accompanied by Lutens' typical (and overrated, in my opinion) sweet syrup smell. I was con...