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Main Collection

Santa Sangre Bortnikoff 2021

7.1 / 10 60 Ratings

A perfume by Bortnikoff for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is woody-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Floral

Sweet

Citrus

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Tahitian vanilla blossom

Pink grapefruit

Jasmine sambac

Heart Notes

Pink lotus absolute

Thai white lotus

Base Notes

Dragon's blood

Indonesian sandalwood

Siam benzoin

Mysore sandalwood

Perfumers & Creative Guidance

Rajesh Balkrishnan
Dmitry Bortnikoff Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

7.160 Ratings

Longevity

7.348 Ratings

Sillage

6.347 Ratings

Bottle

8.247 Ratings

Value for money

5.134 Ratings

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The fragrance is part of the Main Collection collection.

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/17/2025

6.5Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Chrysoptera
105 Reviews

Chrysoptera

3

Likeable but forgettable

Santa Sangre incorporates sweet vanilla, citrus, indolic florals, resins, and mild, pleasant, masculine woodiness. To be honest, none of these components really wowed me. The vanilla was overly strong and sweet, while the resins and sandalwood were a little wimpy. I've been lucky enough to sample quite a few amazing Bortnikoff fragrances and this one isn't a standout, in my opinion.

09/06/2022

Mlleghoul
474 Reviews

Mlleghoul

1

Hovering beyond perception

Rajesh Balkrishnana thoughtfully sent to me a sample of Sante Sangre, and I thought that was pretty cool and awfully generous. I believe this is meant to be a scent highlighting both lotus and dragon’s blood, which is a really intriguing concept because regardless of what they might actually smell like, those two notes feel so very different to me and conjure wildly different associations. Lotus being sort of delicate and ethereal and watery and dragon’s blood more spicy-powdery, rich and balsamic. The scent surprisingly enough opens with citrus and soil, a really zippy, tart, grapefruit-orange, and earthy garden smells of freshly turned dirt on a late spring morning when you’re trying to do a bit of planting before the day gets too warm. This is followed by a very pretty vanilla orchid flower and warm, smoky tonka note, along with soft, candied confections of resins and woods, like a sort of amber nougat with a sandalwood custard-cream center. Sante Sangre is a fragrance that hovers just beyond your perception; you can’t smell it on your wrist in the moment, you smell it where you were standing just a few seconds ago, in the room you left an hour ago. It’s a bit of a temporal anomaly of a perfume that’s really just begging me to break a few laws of space in time. In order to finish this review tonight, I feel I’d best served by tootling through a worm hole to future me or slipping through a secret window to past me in order to collate and coalesce all of the mes wearing this scent, so that I can get the full picture of it. I will get to work on that.

06/01/2022

7Scent 4Longevity 2Sillage

Lioncourt
120 Reviews

Lioncourt

3

Nice but easy

Wonderful smell that goes beyond Bortnikoff's usual olfactory line.
Perhaps Sir Winston or Triad could resemble each other in fragrance style.
It is very nice, really easy to like for all audiences.
In fact, so easy to like that in my opinion, knowing some of the other creations of the house... I find it one of the least interesting in terms of smell, since I personally need to be surprised much more when I consider purchasing high cost perfumes.

It is not new or different. It is not fancy or original.
Just easy.

If we take into account the very short duration on the skin (nose on skin, 4 hours?) and the absolutely zero projection and silage... it is a very expensive whim to have a bottle of this.

02/16/2022

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

SUNNYNOSE
22 Reviews

SUNNYNOSE

5

Addictive and Attractive

Santa Sangre by Rajesh Balkrishnan and Dmitry Bortnikoff

Am outstanding fragrance, which I have been wearing a lot lately. It's soothing, captivating, enthralling which transports you to a place where there is no pain, sadness or anxiety.

Santa Sangre starts of with juicy grapefruit note which is so subtle and unique that you will fall in love with it's first sniff. Vanilla literally add spark to the opening, a vanilla which is not cloying but honey like sweet extracted from its flower directly.

It slowly transforms to its floral category when lotus comes into picture, a lotus (soft and else) which would put every lotus perfume to shame (honestly). Lotus complimented by vanilla and sandalwood makes a beautiful bubble around you that is so energizing, heavenly and unique that the aroma of this scent literally calms you down in a way that all your demons inside have gone off to sleep.

The color of the juice is exceptional, thanks to dragon blood resine which is incense based and gives it smoky feel and I love it.

Overall, a beautiful scent by 2 amazing people! I adore my Sayat Nova, and I would cherish this as well.

Thanks Dr Balkrishnan and Bortnikoff for yet another successful project and a fragrance which is not only signature worthy but exclusive and royal.