Ex Nihilo

Santal Calling

Woody Vanilla · 2022 · Antoine Maisondieu

NutmegIrisMilky AccordSandalwoodVanillaMusk

Occasion

Smart Casual/Social

Seasonality

Winter

Sandalwood softened with milk and iris. Creamy, quiet, comfortable.

Taste Profile

The Natural archetype

The Natural

The Soft Presence

Warm enough to feel right. Easy enough to forget.

Not every choice needs to be a statement. This one just works and keeps working. The best kind of invisible.

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How Santal Calling smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Santal Calling sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber, and carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.

Warmthtemperate0.58

Santal Calling sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.

Projectionmid-range0.48

Santal Calling sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.

Riskmid-range0.37

Santal Calling sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available.

Texturemid-range0.50

Santal Calling sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.

Sweetnesslightly sweet0.48

Santal Calling carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.

Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.

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