Creed Original Santal

You can buy the genuine Creed Original Santal straight from Creed. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Creed Original Santal opens with Ginger, Juniper, Bergamot, Rosemary, Coriander and Mandarin; a heart of Lavender, Geranium, Orange Blossom and Sandalwood; drying down to Oakmoss, Musk, Tonka Bean and Cedar, from notes Creed Boutique (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, aromatic, floral, spicy, sweet, woody, the coarse families Creed Boutique (official) cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Creed Original Santal runs £220 at Creed as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $6.99.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Original Santal by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Original Santal, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Creed Original Santal is listed as a men's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "men's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir (shares Rosemary, Juniper, Geranium); Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision (shares Rosemary, Geranium, Tonka Bean); Armaf Odyssey Mega (shares Juniper, Ginger, Geranium). These share specific notes with Original Santal, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Original Santal's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Original Santal, and has its own page.

Original Santal reads as citrus, aromatic, floral, spicy, sweet, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Armaf Club De Nuit Precieux 1, Mancera Cosmic Pepper and Xerjoff Louis Xv De Venoge nearby. We rank them by how many of Original Santal's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Original Santal, and each has its own page.