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Mehr Basmati, weniger Santal... und es hätte etwas werden können... (by Gold)

Collection Notes de Fond

Santal-Basmati Affinessence 2015

7.6 / 10 240 Ratings

A popular perfume by Affinessence for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is woody-creamy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Creamy

Sweet

Spicy

Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

Mysore sandalwood

Basmati rice

Cashmeran

Iris

Patchouli

Perfumer

Alexandra Carlin

Ratings

Scent

7.6240 Ratings

Longevity

7.1196 Ratings

Sillage

6.4197 Ratings

Bottle

7.1175 Ratings

Value for money

5.7122 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone · last update on 01/29/2026.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Notes de Fond collection.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/20/2021

10Scent 5Longevity 4Sillage

Olfactology
6 Reviews

Olfactology

Top Review 9

Delicate, tranquil, Bali Spa fragrance

Soft, slightly sweet, milky scent of toasted rice with sandalwood oil base. That is a scent of rice powder used in Thailand and on Bali when you order a Spa bath. Another reference - genmaicha tea, a green tea mixed with with toasted rice. The scent is very delicate, I can imagine wearing in to a yoga class, some meditation session, otherwise it is too quiet to compete with scents of the urban environment. Its almost too good for this hectic world. But its a definitely #1 choice if I'm going for a Bali escape.
Technical: too quiet, disappears way to fast, overpriced for its performance. But scent itself is divine.

04/18/2024

8.5Scent 9Longevity 4Sillage

LastWonder
492 Reviews

LastWonder

3

Sweet Rice

This is a rice fragrance that anyone can enjoy. Its realistic but also sweet, creamy, and woody. Its a "your skin but better" fragrance. So its a gourmand but its not crazy sweet and sticks close to the skin. No one is going to smell this fragrance on you and tell you that you smell like rice, unless they are also into rice fragrances. Its a very comforting and cozy scent for staying in or going about your day. It lasted on my skin for at least 6 hours and the projection wasn't really there but I do think the intention of this scent is to be a skin scent. Its €179 for 50 ml, which seems to be the going rate for that size and quality of fragrance.

11/03/2024

Alexlinhcao
124 Reviews

Alexlinhcao

2

Santal Basmati

Santal Basmati is really pretty. It’s warm, soft, cozy, and gently sweet. There’s a rice note in there, for sure. I wouldn’t say it’s as realistic as what I experienced with Fior di Pane, but it’s a beautiful interpretation of a rice scent.

I do want to point out that the initial spray is oddly fruity, almost cherry-like though. I’m wondering if the rice accord was developed with something like an almond note which would explain the similarity to cherry. In addition to that, it’s quite a soft and short-lived scent.

For me, it reminds me quite a bit of Commodity’s Milk+ Bold. That one is more intense with a heavier dose of cashmeran and sweeter as well, but they share a cozy gourmand-meets-wood quality.

12/16/2024

5Scent 7Longevity 4Sillage

parfumpixie
377 Reviews

parfumpixie

2

just okay

grainy, wheaty basmati rice thats shrouded in lipsticky orrus and powdery sandalwood. I do find the whole scent to be a bit empty? lackluster? just missing some oomph to it. It feels flat I suppose. The notes are there, creamy iris, starchy rice, soft sandalwood, yet they lack depth. I think as a carefree sandalwood this works, but as a serious fragrance I find it falters

02/24/2025

5Scent

Satago
27 Reviews

Satago

1

Too sweet for my taste

Aaah, I'm so disappointed! When freshly sprayed, this smells like heaven in a bottle: woody, spicy sandalwood and creamy rice. But when it dries down, the sweetness comes and overwhelms everything. I'm so sad, I wanted to love this so bad but it's just too much for my senses. In that sense, I would put it in the same category as Un bois vanille

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