Santal Blanc Van Cleef & Arpels 2019

You've moved to a new city for that well-paying job and are invited to a white party by colleagues. It's late summer, the evenings are still warm, but you're not crushed by the heat. What to wear? A white short dress is too informal, so it becomes white Marlene pants, a white shirt, and a matching blazer if necessary. All rather unisex and classy, because tonight is not the night to seduce anyone. The party takes place late at night in a courtyard in a large location, you are welcomed by a sea of warm lights and candles. There are a lot of well-heeled people dressed in white with champagne glasses in their hands at bar tables. More like generation 30+. Fine appetizers are served with green, unripe figs. Daring combination, but something different, I think to myself. It gets a little cooler, the wooden benches absorb the humidity and you notice a sweet smell. Cocktails are being mixed at the bar, a favorite seems to be Pina Colada. I watch the action and chat with several attractive people, sweat glistening on their faces. The conversations remain very superficial and distant, it takes me out of my comfort zone, I like it for now but on other days I wish for more warmth.
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Santal blanc smells green-natural and synthetic-milky at the same time to me, never smelled it like that before. It doesn't really fit into my collection, but somehow I just like it and I had to keep smelling it!
In my opinion, it has a luxurious distance and still has a leeeeicht Animalik in the drydown and on clothes I perceive quite clearly coconut!