Santal Kardamon 2018

Santal Kardamon by Lancôme
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7.5 / 10 121 Ratings
A popular perfume by Lancôme for women, released in 2018. The scent is spicy-woody. It was last marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Spicy
Woody
Sweet
Oriental
Leathery

Fragrance Notes

SandalwoodSandalwood Ceylonese sandalwoodCeylonese sandalwood Green cardamomGreen cardamom Mandarin orangeMandarin orange Pink pepperPink pepper

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.5121 Ratings
Longevity
7.8102 Ratings
Sillage
7.397 Ratings
Bottle
8.7104 Ratings
Value for money
7.226 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 30.12.2023.

Reviews

1 in-depth fragrance description
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Longevity
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Scent
DonJuanDeCat

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DonJuanDeCat
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Celebrate Germany's victory and read Parfumo comments
Santal Kardamon. So a fragrance that could "somehow" smell of sandalwood and cardamom. Wait, did I just say cardamom or cardamom?? What's the right word, anyway?

Well, what do you ask me, first of all I am full of foreigners here and secondly also not necessarily a language genius. I just get it ready to write comments and hope that Feheller drrin are not a lot of bad bad :D

And I also wonder if anyone will read this at all, since everyone will probably still celebrate yesterday's soccer victory for Germany, after all of Germany had been complaining more about the fact that they're probably already out in the preliminary round than I'm complaining about my women's problems here :D

Be that as it may, the correct name seems to be cardamom, with two "m "s (and woe betide one to think of M&Ms now, even if there should be these special M&Ms at the moment because of the soccer world cup, in which only dark brown (which stand for the black color), red and yellow M&Ms are in it... so in the colors of the German flag :DD). Nevertheless, it often happens that one reads or sees cardamom as well. What do you always write? Well, I've gotten used to cardamom now, but I think cardamom sounds better.
Generally cardamom is a very difficult fragrance for me, as I will explain it in more detail in the description of the fragrance...

The fragrance:
As expected, the fragrance begins with a spicy-sweet cardamom fragrance, which belongs to the better smelling variety here. I often have problems with cardamom. Sometimes it smells like I'm running away, but sometimes it just smells great. That's why sometimes I'm never really sure how this fragrance really smells. Probably I would have to smell it really pure, so without other scents...
After excluding all other listed scents I come to the conclusion that the cardamom that I perceive here smells pleasantly sweet and warm, provided that this is also the cardamom that I smell :D
You can also quickly smell the sandalwood, which is also soft and warm and therefore goes really well with cardamom. Then there's some pepper, which is clearly smellable and provides a spicy note, but is low enough to neither be stabbing nor make you sneeze! In the background I occasionally smell herbaceous green and light earthy notes. In addition, the fragrance has very light, powdery notes, which later make the fragrance softer and then even smell a bit like suede.
Otherwise it remains with soft and warm-sweet cardamom and sandalwood notes, whereby the sweetish in the base also reminds a little of amber.

The Sillage and the shelf life:
The charisma is good, but since the fragrance is soft, it doesn't seem annoyingly strong or oppressive to you or others. So he'll be good to smell without being exhausting.
I also find the shelf life good, as it is sprayed on in the morning and can still be smelled on the skin in the evening.

The bottle:
The rectangular bottle has rounded corners and comes across very high quality. It has thick glass edges and also a thicker bottom. A gold-plated plate has been attached to the front, which, by being punched out, produces a stylized plant motif. These motifs all look the same on the different fragrances in this series at first glance, but in fact you see a different motif for each fragrance. On the side of the bottle there is another metal plaque (at least it looks metallic) where the name of the fragrance can be seen. The lid is white with gilded accents. Like all bottles of these fragrances, this bottle has become absolutely beautiful here!

Ooh, although I am sometimes quite sceptical about cardamom, as it sometimes smells horrible for me (but probably rather only by the combination with various other fragrances), I find this fragrance totally successful here. It smells wonderfully soft and warm, is sweetish, slightly powdery and smells great!

It's not that heavy, but olfactory it still makes the most of the autumnal impression, so I'd better classify it under autumn, and then in winter. Spring actually works when it shouldn't be too hot. I would say that it could also be used during the day, but in my opinion it fits much better into the evening. Oh yes, I would recommend the scent of every lady here!

Soo,... after I have abandoned a commi yesterday once, I "make you happy" again with a commi tonight and hope that this is somewhat readable, since I had drunk yesterday a little too much... well... so that I'm still a little wobbly on my legs... and börks... the worst is always this nausea, whereby the worst of it is fortunately already behind me, ahem... :DD
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TombbbTombbb 4 years ago
6
Scent
For me the drydown has a leathery twist akin to Cuir Intense/Dark Lord. Definitely unisex, even leaning masculine.
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SchmlinGoodSchmlinGood 4 years ago
10
Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
10
Scent
This fragrance doesn't get enough love. It's an excellent unisex scent for cooler weather. Not to mention the bottle is ridiculously nice.
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FirasmalanzyFirasmalanzy 5 years ago
9
Bottle
7
Sillage
7
Longevity
8
Scent
A bit feminine but who cares when it smell's good? :)
And it's can be weared by men i think.
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