Saving Santal

YOU CAN SMELL IT ON COLLARBONES and behind ears in the darkest, sexiest bars. It smells like your coolest friend who exclusively shops at the RealReal and has read every novel in the Neapolitan Quartet. It's sandalwood, and you may know it best from smash-hit fragrances.
Sandalwood “has this interesting milky creaminess,” says Frank Voelkl, the principal perfumer behind Le Labo’s Santal 33. “There’s something universally pleasant about it.” But its very mystique has brought the tree to near extinction.
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