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Santal Blanc
Especially for this comment I took out of the cupboard my bottle, which I bought many years ago during my Serge Lutens phase.
Sandalwood was an occasional companion in my Age of Aquarius youth phase besides patchouli. Although I was more interested in patchouli. Later I got to know the wood as incense and here its true nature was revealed to me.
Okay, just upfront, this is not really a commentary to describe this perfume.
Sandalwood is only possible for me as wood when it is smoked in the classical way and there it comes, besides Palo Sonto, really excellent.
In perfumes, where woods often play an important role in the base only if it fits the overall composition. Similar to the bass, which determines the timing, in the beat together with the drums, which make up a certain piece. As the main scent, sandalwood is difficult... like here, although SL tried a worthy attempt here.
Here is a small excursus from the High Song of Salamon, when the Queen of Sheba, Salomon once paid a visit and brought sandalwood with her in her luggage...
.... There was no spice like this, which the Queen of Sheba gave to King Salamon. The people of Hiram and the people of Solomon, who imported gold from Ofir, also brought sandalwood and precious stones. And Solomon made of the sandalwood stairs in the house of the LORD and in the king's house, and harps and zithers for the singers. Such wood had never been seen in the land of Judah before. And king Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all that she pleased and all that she asked for, more than the gifts she had brought to the king. And she turned and went to her country with her retinue What she asked for is clear from history. It is important to know that the queen, who had previously heard from one of the wisest men, wanted a child from King Salamon.
This was the real reason for their visit. This great queen was inspired to be impregnated only by a truly wise man What do you mean she wanted a smart white man to be the father of her child. And she had the baby. It was Menelik the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba who founded the Empire of Abyssinia in 980 B.C.
Anyway, the sandalwood played a major role in the seduction arts of the Queen of Sheba.
And that is still the case today. Not that the fragrance should simply make you horny, rather it can open a space where a couple opens up to love before the fusion...
I think that Serge Lutens, who now lives in Marrakech, knew this legend well when he wanted to create an immortal monument to sandalwood with this fragrance. Chapeau, he totally succeeded.
Sandalwood was an occasional companion in my Age of Aquarius youth phase besides patchouli. Although I was more interested in patchouli. Later I got to know the wood as incense and here its true nature was revealed to me.
Okay, just upfront, this is not really a commentary to describe this perfume.
Sandalwood is only possible for me as wood when it is smoked in the classical way and there it comes, besides Palo Sonto, really excellent.
In perfumes, where woods often play an important role in the base only if it fits the overall composition. Similar to the bass, which determines the timing, in the beat together with the drums, which make up a certain piece. As the main scent, sandalwood is difficult... like here, although SL tried a worthy attempt here.
Here is a small excursus from the High Song of Salamon, when the Queen of Sheba, Salomon once paid a visit and brought sandalwood with her in her luggage...
.... There was no spice like this, which the Queen of Sheba gave to King Salamon. The people of Hiram and the people of Solomon, who imported gold from Ofir, also brought sandalwood and precious stones. And Solomon made of the sandalwood stairs in the house of the LORD and in the king's house, and harps and zithers for the singers. Such wood had never been seen in the land of Judah before. And king Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all that she pleased and all that she asked for, more than the gifts she had brought to the king. And she turned and went to her country with her retinue What she asked for is clear from history. It is important to know that the queen, who had previously heard from one of the wisest men, wanted a child from King Salamon.
This was the real reason for their visit. This great queen was inspired to be impregnated only by a truly wise man What do you mean she wanted a smart white man to be the father of her child. And she had the baby. It was Menelik the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba who founded the Empire of Abyssinia in 980 B.C.
Anyway, the sandalwood played a major role in the seduction arts of the Queen of Sheba.
And that is still the case today. Not that the fragrance should simply make you horny, rather it can open a space where a couple opens up to love before the fusion...
I think that Serge Lutens, who now lives in Marrakech, knew this legend well when he wanted to create an immortal monument to sandalwood with this fragrance. Chapeau, he totally succeeded.
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