Where it differs: Origins of Santal pushes vanilla and benzoin harder than Original Santal, so the drydown is creamier and sweeter, with less of the juniper and oakmoss bite.
Smells like Creed Original Santal.
3 bottles the community rates close to Original Santal, 94 percent cheaper at the top, with the one thing each does differently. warm spicy, woody, aromatic, unisex.
Scent overlap
Both bottles' accords, strongest at the top, facing each other. A bar joined through the middle is one they share.
Notes of Original Santal
What Creed publishes. Black means Dua Fragrances Origins of Santal shares the note.
Top
- juniper berries
- coriander
- ginger
- rosemary
- bergamot
- mandarin orange
Heart
- sandalwood
- lavender
- geranium
- orange blossom
Base
- tonka bean
- musk
- cedar
- oakmoss
Notes of Origins of Santal
What Dua Fragrances publishes. Black means Original Santal shares the note.
Notes
- sandalwood
- vanilla
- benzoin
- ginger
- lavender
The 3 worth trying, ranked
Similarity is the owners' vote plus the note overlap. Price is a typical US bottle price when the house publishes one. Bars are each match's own accords.
Where it differs: Individuel opens fruitier, with a raspberry and pineapple-citrus kick, and dries down thinner and more synthetic than the smoother, richer sandalwood and cinnamon base of Original Santal.
Where it differs: Joop! Homme is much louder and syrupy, its orange blossom, honey and cinnamon sweetness burying the juniper and lavender freshness that keeps Original Santal airy.
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Two bottles, two prices, one honest sentence. Every match on the site has this card.
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