Best vintage sandalwood fragrance?

[cedlong]

Hi, I'm interested in buying a vintage fragrance containing real (Mysore) sandalwood. Maybe something from the 70s or 80s? Any suggestions?

 

[rum]

You're going to need two things before even deciding on which one to get:

• Patience like you've never experienced before
• A lorry load of cash

These things don't come cheap and don't appear often. Just be prepared for disappointment before you strike it lucky.

To answer your question:
Crabtree & Evelyn Extract of Mysore Sandalwood

 

[JON RODGERS]

Samsara and Bois Des Iles are both magical in vintage formulations. They would be right at the top of any sandalwood list for me.

 

[grayspoole]

Indian sandalwood was used in vintage fragrances along with various synthetics. Today, “Mysore sandalwood” has become a buzzword , a holy grail, and a marketing strategy for artisanal perfumers, but there is nothing magical about Mysore sandalwood except, perhaps, that it is no longer available.

If you are trying to learn more about the smell of high quality natural sandalwood, try this:

https://enfleurage.com/sandalwood/

If you want to wear a vintage perfume with an excellent sandalwood accord, try vintage Samsara.

 

[cedlong]

Indian sandalwood was used in vintage fragrances along with various synthetics. Today, “Mysore sandalwood” has become a buzzword , a holy grail, and a marketing strategy for artisanal perfumers, but there is nothing magical about Mysore sandalwood except, perhaps, that it is no longer available.

If you are trying to learn more about the smell of high quality natural sandalwood, try this:

https://enfleurage.com/sandalwood/

If you want to wear a vintage perfume with an excellent sandalwood accord, try vintage Samsara.

Thanks, I have Mysore sandalwood essential oil and I can tell the difference between it and the Australian variety. Hope to find a fragrance for men with it in it.

 

[PStoller]

You might try perusing this thread:

https://basenotes.com/threads/the-quest-for-the-sandalwood-fragrance.430033/

I have a few faves, but apart from the C&E, I don’t think there’s a consensus. Like any other note or ingredient, sandalwood sings better in combination than it does alone.

 

[Redfish365]

For me I love the (Mysore) sandalwood notes in vintage Égoïste, Griffi Uomo and Grés Monsieur. I also really like the sandalwood in the base of Etienne Aigner's 1975 original masculine.

 

[PStoller]

Myrurgia Maderas de Oriente is one of the great sandalwood fragrances.

 

[cedlong]

Thanks!

You might try perusing this thread:

https://basenotes.com/threads/the-quest-for-the-sandalwood-fragrance.430033/

I have a few faves, but apart from the C&E, I don’t think there’s a consensus. Like any other note or ingredient, sandalwood sings better in combination than it does alone.

Thanks!

 

[ScentBeagle]

vintage Samsara (extrait) was said to be 30% Mysore sandalwood

 

[cedlong]

vintage Samsara was said to be 30% Mysore sandalwood

Wow, I'm going to have to try some!

 

[Bonnette]

Pstoller, I'm in awe. That's one of the most beautiful bottles and presentation boxes I've ever seen. 🤩

My vote would be for Samsara, but my hunch is that the OP wants something more concentrated, like the C&E.

 

[ScentBeagle]

I can only imagine the collection @PStoller has curated!!!!

 

[hednic]

Like any other note or ingredient, sandalwood sings better in combination than it does alone.

That's why I enjoy Santal De Mysore by Montale, unfortunately long gone.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

vintage Samsara was said to be 30% Mysore sandalwood

Wow, I'm going to have to try some!

Samsara extrait is what to look at.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

For a slightly more modern sandalwood with some spice I'd recommend Egoiste Cologne Concentree

 

[cedlong]

Thank you!

 

[PStoller]

Pstoller, I'm in awe. That's one of the most beautiful bottles and presentation boxes I've ever seen. 🤩

I’m not prone to buying multiple versions of a single scent, but I confess I wanted all these variations on Maderas de Oriente for the bottles as much as their contents. The larger ones are EdT, while the central bottle is extrait. If you look carefully, you’ll see what look like toothpicks or twigs on the bottoms of the EdT bottles: those are sticks of sandalwood. (There’s one in the extrait as well.)



“Nótanse en el envase lós residuós que cónstatan la singular elabóración de este perfume. En cada frascó de órigen y bajó invocaciones cabalisticas, han sidó puestas en infusión dentró alcóhól de flóres, ramas jugósas de arbustós de las selvas Asiaticas, astilladas en cuartó creciente.”

Online translators make a hash of this, so I welcome the input of a native Spanish speaker. Basically, it’s bragging about the sandalwood in the bottle. What cabalistic invocations have to do with that, I haven’t a clue. Perhaps they were praying nobody would get a splinter from dabbing.

 

[sunnymitra]

Either Courreges Homme or Arden Men Sandalwood - neither are easy to find, but both contain plenty of Mysore sandalwood.

 

[Jean-Sté]

Either Courreges Homme or Arden Men Sandalwood - neither are easy to find, but both contain plenty of Mysore sandalwood.

I love Courrèges Homme. I wonder whether it is because of the Mysore sandalwood in it ? (I just learned there was plenty of sandalwood inside...)