Fragrance Finder Selection

The Best Sandalwood Fragrances

Mysore sandalwood is perhaps the most luxurious and desirable ingredient in all of natural perfumery: creamy, milky, lightly sweet and enveloping in its softness, it was once the base of almost all great feminine and masculine fragrances. Today protected by strict regulations in India, it has become rare and precious, replaced in most formulas by Australian sandalwood (drier and woodier) or synthetic santalols (often cleaner and more lasting). This selection gathers the fragrances that honour sandalwood in all its forms — from the mythical natural to the most successful modern reconstitutions. Fragrances that envelop and warm, that create that impression of perfected skin that only sandalwood can generate. A journey to the creamy heart of perfumery.