Santal Blond

• Everyday
• Work
• Evening

Santal Blond draws on an almost ‘golden’ sandalwood, warm but never heavy, with the idea of a natural material shown off without excess. This is a living, balanced wood, neither too creamy nor too dry.

The perfume opens on a slightly spicy softness that adds relief from the start. Then the sandalwood takes centre stage, with a facet at once soft, dry and lightly creamy, beautifully balanced, which gives a real sense of material.

The fragrance then wraps around the skin, with woods and musks that bring warmth and staying power. That feeling of luminous wood remains, almost ‘warm skin’, with something very natural and elegant about it.

Atelier Materi is a French perfume house founded in 2019 by Véronique Le Bihan, who comes from Brittany. These roots show in the brand’s identity, shaped by raw, mineral landscapes and by an approach to perfume centred on raw materials. Each fragrance is built around one main ingredient, worked to bring out its different facets rather than diluted in a complex structure. The compositions remain legible, with a limited number of materials arranged to support this central axis. The house’s world also draws on references to architecture, seeking clean lines, structure and balance. This carries through to the design of the objects, notably a blue-tinted glass bottle and a hand-shaped concrete cap, both the result of craft work. Finally, Atelier Materi favours closely supervised production, relying on known partners and artisanal know-how, with manufacturing mostly carried out in Europe.