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      The Wedding – Silk Santal | 36 (2023) • KAYALI🔺, ScentAdvice

      KAYALI
      The Wedding Silk Santal 36

      2023

      The Wedding – Silk Santal | 36 (2023) • KAYALI🔺, ScentAdvice


      sparkling champagne
      white freesia
      blackcurrant
      nectarine
      pink praline
      jasmine
      Damask rose
      orange blossom
      sugared musk
      sandalwood
      oakmoss
      amber woods
      vanilla absolute

      ‘Designed as an ode to everlasting love, Mona and Hassan created The Wedding Collection to wear on their special day. Aptly named after the silk gown Mona wore and the velvet suit Hassan wore on their wedding day. The Wedding Silk Santal | 36 and The Wedding Velvet Santal | 35 were inspired by and are bound by the strength of creamy Sandalwood. Also known as Santal, this hero note grounds each scent while also glorifying the unique blend of decadent ingredients found in each bottle. Timeless when worn alone yet amplified when layered together, these juices are made to be shared and celebrate love in all its forms. This joyful fragrance opens with Sparkling Champagne and silky White Freesia, while Pink Praline, Lush Nectarine dominates the heart of this romantic fragrance. The sweetness of Sugared Musk and the creamy Sandalwood perfectly round out this dazzling scent as a toast to the celebration of love.’ – Kayali

      The Wedding – Silk Santal | 36 (2023) • KAYALI🔺, ScentAdvice

      Silk has an interesting opening. A real fruitiness in the opening that I didn’t expect to be this forward. Sparkling, peachy champagne with a floral tinge, sitting on top of sort of generic creamy sweetness. Not like the citrussy Casamorati Lira or Dama Bianca, but a different kind of fruitiness, ever so slightly tropical perhaps.

      I like the first minutes a lot, but maybe my expectations weren’t wrong after all, as the spark fades super quickly. Most of the brightness is gone within 5 minutes, before turning this into a fully sweet fragrance that falls flat for me.

      The vanilla as many have remarked on is similar to Vanilla 28, but the ones saying it’s a nearly identical fragrance overall I disagree with. Silk Santal’s sweetness smells similar, but it’s significantly more lactonic and creamy. And Silk Santal overall is more fruity and floral-ish. Which also makes it lean traditionally feminine more (makes sense given the theme). It’s a pleasant and pretty scent, but that’s about it as far as I’m concerned.

      As with many of the Kayali, there’s something in the way it feels and wears that comes across as fully designer to me. I’ve not found a way yet to put it into words and I’m sure I always offend some readers, but there’s fragrances that you smell that instantly take you to either a men’s or, in this case, women’s section of a Sephora-like store. Silk Santal 36 is 100% that. You’ll find similar feeling scents in a Sephora much more likely than you’ll do in a niche perfume store. This could’ve been in a women’s JPG or Lancome line and fit in perfectly.

      Silk Santal 36 is sure to be another crowd favorite and I prefer it over some other Kayali’s (especially Yum Pistachio). Vanilla 28 was probably my favorite Kayali so far and it suits me better than Silk Santal 36. They’re in the same ballpark, but for me Silk Santal is trailing behind it.

      I still simply do not understand the hype for most Kayali amongst those with serious perfume collections and I think Silk Santal is the perfect example of that. It feels entry-level, generic and ‘affordable’. Which is fine, because it is affordable when compared to the quite a few brands, but I don’t feel that you get ‘more than you pay for’ with this either. At $100/50ml, I’d be more inclined to say this is quite expensive for a designer fragrance, rather than calling it an affordable niche fragrance.

      Sidenote: This was released alongside Velvet Santal 35, which I ended up liking a lot more, so give that review a look if you’re interested.


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