Santal de Mysore Serge Lutens for women and men

When I first smelt it I was in Palais royal SL amazing tabernacle for my first time. I was so drown into emotions that I started crying, this is how touched I was by this scent. It is a Santal Mysore: so rare so reach so emotional. They just took it and expand the different facets it already have. I am happy it exists. Thank you Lutens and Sheldrake.

Call it what you like, but this is no sandalwood. What it is is an Indian buffet, and a harsh, caustic one at that.

Honestly folks, save yourselves the jingle and powder your hair with curry. This did not wear well on me at all. Its pure spices. I scrubbed it before the dry down, as it was testing my patience and at the end of day I have too many options to bother with a bad sample.

So, not for me, unfortunately.

This sandalwood opens with a fragrance just like fresh, high-quality maple syrup (I put this sample on before breakfast and starting salivating for pancakes)! Woody, spicy, but too sweet and sugary for for my taste in a man's fragrance. The maple syrup persists all the way through the drydown, but after two or three hours the maple syrup makes way for the sandalwood to emerge, leaving an overall sweet, sugary sandalwood (spicy, woody) drydown. This is ok for a change of pace (if you want to risk being bitten by your SO before breakfast), but I prefer a much drier, more simple sandalwood fragrance. I would not buy this.

A very spicy, bordering on curry scent on me. Santal de Mysore eventually melts into a warming veil of sweet sandalwood and cinammon, balanced by the benzoin.

Sadly enough, it's my private sandalwood-trauma. Too strong, too rich, too spicy - erm, glutting. I don't feel well in salty/sweet notes in perfume, so Santal de Mysore almost killed me with its power and oddness. I admit - it's intriguing, as every Lutens' perfume - but definitely not for me.

This is unusual. I don't mean in an extreme manner, it's rather subtle. At first whiff I get honey and woods. An amber and tobacco note follows. Then it takes a completely different turn into coconut, spice, and sandalwood. If finishes with the cumin, a little sweetness, and the sandalwood. Definitely unisex, leaning more towards the masculine.

What I like most about this is it's like an exposed piece of aged sandalwood with nearby scents wafting around at the same time. I appreciate that there are no smokey or incense notes to be found as that has been done to death.

I like the freshness/purity of it. I imagine being outdoors, in the woods in a foreign country in the summer/late fall in the late afternoon, with beams of sunlight streaming between the aromatic trees in almost a prism pattern. It sets a tone of peace/tranquility.

LOVE !!! LOVE!! LOVE this fragrance!!
RICH , WONDERFUL , EXOTIC!!!
at 200.00 a bottle ..
I'll have to wait to purchase this for my birthday .. til DEC 19th!!!
by then I can justify my purchase ..
B-day present and Christmas gift to myself....!!!

If there was a type of sugar called "sandalwood sugar", it would smell like Santal de Mysore-it's a dark sweet sandalwood, not so dry-rich like a gourmand-like chocolate or caramel or coconut. Nevertheless, it's a woody scent, free of such notes. It opens a bit much for me-too sweet, but dries into a more typical sandalwood-mixed with the scent of hot skin. Very comfortable, and high quality-absolutely not bad, but not stunning.

Goddamn Serge for not mass marketing some of this stuff in the states...because this coconut scented sandalwwod makes me want to smell it on the back of the neck of a big happy puerto rican girl at a NYC parade in july, my arms around her, she's giggling as I tickle her. Good perfumes make you think stuff like this.

I like this original bell jar of Serge Lutens Santal de Mysore. It`s very interesting fragrance for me. Not a typical woody sandalwood, but it is a great and unique scent. The sandalwood doesn’t really take center stage in this fragrance. Instead, the opening notes are dominated by a thick and heavy carmel like accord, and the drydown is very heavy in cumin. It’s rich, sweet, spicy, and woody.This beautiful unisex fragrance gives me a feeling of peace and harmony, and is the best rendition of Mysore sandalwood that I have smelled.