# Santal 33

**Brand:** Le Labo · **Perfumer:** Frank Voelkl · **Year:** 2011
**Rating:** 4.1 / 5 (8 ratings) · **Popularity:** #567

## About Le Labo
Le Labo è un marchio di profumi di nicchia noto per il suo approccio artigianale e i suoi profumi unici. Ogni fragranza è realizzata a mano con ingredienti di alta qualità, per creare un'esperienza olfattiva ricca di emozioni. Con un'attenzione particolare all'autenticità e alla personalizzazione, Le Labo cattura magnificamente l'essenza individuale.

## Top reviews
- ★5/5 — "Right Santal 33 was the one Le Labo I'd really been looking forward to. I mean it's sandalwood how can you mess that up? Well they've tried their hardest here. I can see why the green, watery almost cucumber like smell of papyrus might juxtapose yet compliment the creamy, spicy, woodiness of sandalwood...but it doesn't. To me the opening was awful and nothing like the soft beautifully composed 33…"
- ★5/5 — Spring, Summer — "Potentially one of the most controversial and polarising fragrances on the market, and yet I bloody love it. Santal 33 has all the sour, sharp and pickled gorgeousness that a lot of people hate, and while it does smell out of the ordinary there’s something about it I can’t resist.  Sometimes you come across a sandalwood fragrance with that slight pickled vibe, but overall leans into its creamier f…"
- ★5/5 — Spring, Summer — Casual, Office — "Beautifully fresh, woody, herbal, and aromatic.

The sandalwood here isn’t your expected creamy note, it’s dry. Mixed with the Papyrus/Cypriol that amps up the herbal, I personally love the dill / pickle vibe it gives."
- ★1/5 — "Awful, strong, nauseating, devoid of complexity, obnoxious, sour, and worst of all cheap-smelling. How this is so popular is beyond me. At first sniff I thought it was OK, but as soon as I had it on my skin and was forced to smell it for a few hours I found it intolerable. It's also completely linear and is indelible on clothes, so all in all it's a relentless, shouting, chest-beating, screeching…"

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