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Scandalwood 2017

7.0 / 10 32 Ratings
A perfume by Heretic for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is woody-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody
Floral
Spicy
Resinous
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Atlas cedarAtlas cedar CorianderCoriander RosewoodRosewood
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Bulgarian roseBulgarian rose Ylang-ylang absoluteYlang-ylang absolute
Base Notes Base Notes
SandalwoodSandalwood LabdanumLabdanum MyrrhMyrrh White muskWhite musk Orris butterOrris butter

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Scent
7.032 Ratings
Longevity
5.626 Ratings
Sillage
5.226 Ratings
Bottle
6.438 Ratings
Value for money
5.813 Ratings
Submitted by CPL, last update on 09/02/2025.
Interesting Facts
The scent was created in collaboration with Dita von Teese.

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What the fragrance is similar to
Erotique by Dita von Teese
Erotique

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions
3.5
Scent
celeblas

119 Reviews
celeblas
celeblas
1  
Bruised Rose and Wood
This opens with a blast of rose - bruised rose petals, soaking in water. It lightens up a bit from that sour beginning as it develops, and the sandalwood begins to show up. But the musk and cedar combination creates a bit of a paint thinner accord - a resinous chemical-like fragrances with the rose and sandalwood on top. Further into the dry-down it becomes very reminiscent of an early Comme des Garçons fragrance. After just a minute or two of developing this is indistinguishable in my scent-memory from Comme des Garçons 2, if a little bit more airy and bright. Quite an achievement but not sure if it does what it set out to do!
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Byrehoe

202 Reviews
Byrehoe
Byrehoe
2  
mistress hickory
Nowhere near as naughty as the name would suggest. This is a soft, varnished rosewood that transports me before a crackling hearth. Or maybe it smells like someone wearing rosewater in a cedar-wood dry sauna. For whatever reason, I can’t shake a slight hickory barbeque accord. Think more a savoury/smouldery woodfire instead of a tobacco. There’s nothing edible listed in the notes – and I wouldn’t say it smells meaty – though there’s something about the cedar-smoked rose that is borderline mouthwatering. Like most Heretics she flits away after three hours, but the final hour has the the smoothest, most satisfying transition into a singed-petal powder.

Mental Snapshot: A gourmet supper in an alpine chalet, snug inside an antique armchair. Burgundy velvet, burnished leather, library shelves gleaming with vintage trinkets. You’re dining with an old friend or a partner. Or blissfully solo. Or a tempting stranger. (Choose your own adventure). The windows are sugared in snow, but the ornate fireplace holds the room in a warm embrace. There’s not a single item on the menu the chef wouldn’t recommend, and they’re right.

tl;dr: bbq burlesque?
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Mlleghoul

453 Reviews
Mlleghoul
Mlleghoul
4  
very bare and barely there
Scandalwood is a fragrance that makes me a little sad. I first discovered the brand when I used Polyvore, a sort of virtual moodboard for curating imaginary closets and creating fantasy outfits. I used to play around on it every single day for nearly a decade, and then in 2018, without warning, they shut it down. I was pretty upset--I made many friends through Polyvore and it was a fun distraction that got me through some rough patches. Were any of you guys over on Polyvore? There's a few similar sites now and I've been using one called URStyle but it's just not the same. I'm ghoulnextdoor over there by the way, if you ever want to say hi. Anyway, this is a perfume review, sorry. Scandalwood is inspired by Dita von Teese and much like her own outfits, the scent is very bare and barely there. Light and close to the skin, it's a lovely blend of sandalwood, cedar, rosewood, leather, and musk. It's not really all that erotic unless you get off on quiet naps and whispered ASMR. And hey, it takes all kinds.
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7
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
6.5
Scent
Meggi

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Meggi
Meggi
Top Review 23  
Flext
I wonder if Mr. Little accidentally slipped the "c" in In the names, I mean. Because the diffusely woody-pink opening is soon followed by something strangely creamy, caramely- sweet. That'll be sandalwood. Maybe the provider had a play on words in mind? Anyway, he should have given himself the "c".

After barely ten minutes, the fragrance is creamy-sweet at its core, with a hint of H-cream. The so-called rose is little more than a sweet-like swab, which - to its credit - makes a brave effort to develop a touch of Montale leather, and thus a touch of profile. Later a kind of bitter spice floats beside it, I think of some kind of wood for it. And if I hadn't basically (see the PS) done it with a natural scent, I would have typed on a contribution from Iso.

But these are side effects. In the main strand, the creamy caramel creaminess leads the fragrance into the nettlessness. He seems to me like a completely debunked, almost deflected version of part-time stinkers like 'Oud Ispahan'.

At noon at the latest, however, it is also over, then reigns a (admittedly quite decent) in turn creamy-sweet colored wood note, whose dustiness is apart bound. Myrrh? I can imagine. In the early afternoon it seems to me that an end has been reached with primarily plain, light wood, which is pleasingly rounded off at least by a conceivable blob of vetiver. Not bad, just zero-command exciting. And it's not scandalous at all. Since every brown belt heats up to black shoes the minds more reliable.

Conclusion: Gradually I am somewhat saddened by Heretic. Until now, I considered the slightly bland, light wood notes to be a privilege of chemistry. Of course it doesn't smell laboratory here, but with other natural scents I was able to experience much more basal wealth, Heretic can't keep up with that.

I thank KingLui for the sample.

PS: Because of the declaredly synthetic musk, I have decided against the tag "#100 percent nature" this time.
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mnememneme 24 days ago
4
Sillage
4
Longevity
3
Scent
The floral aspect is so overwhelming that I can’t really detect any sandalwood at all.
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PinenePinene 2 years ago
5
Bottle
4
Sillage
2
Longevity
8
Scent
very gentle scent. low sillage and projection so if you are scentsitive you may enjoy. but may be too imperceptible to many. sexy tho
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