308 SANTOLINA
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Santolina
Note Profile
About
Santolina is cotton lavender, and it does not smell like lavender. It sits closer to the Artemisia herbs: strong, dry, camphoraceous and bitter, sharp enough to read as slightly medicinal. It opens on a chamomile-and-yarrow top with a fleeting red-berry lift, then settles into a green, bitter, faintly boozy herbal dry-down.
Scent Profile
Santolina smells dry, bitter and herbal, closer to Artemisia herbs than to lavender despite the name. A camphoraceous coolness runs through it, sharp enough to read as almost medicinal. It opens on chamomile and yarrow with a fleeting red-berry lift, then settles into a green, bitter, faintly boozy herbal dry-down.
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Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can build Santolina from materials such as:
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Natural extract Santolina oil
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Artemisia ketone berry · honey · minty
Smell words come from published sources.
Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Camphor
A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.
Origin
Santolina chamaecyparissus, a low silver-grey Mediterranean shrub of the daisy family with yellow button flowers. The essential oil is steam-distilled from the flowering herb. Hermitage Oils names artemisia ketone as the major constituent at about a third of the oil, and says that in isolated form it "exudes herbaceous, berry, honey and light mint qualities". The common name cotton lavender describes the foliage, not the smell.
Usage in Perfumery
It works where a fougere or chypre wants bitter camphoraceous herb without lavender's floral roundness. Used sparingly: it is sharp and penetrating.
Similar Notes
Perfumes featuring Santolina
A selection of reviewed perfumes where Santolina appears prominently.
