Sandalwood Sacré is a woody, airy, and spiritual Eau de Parfum built around a milky sandalwood and patchouli that evoke Indian rituals and precious wood incense. Created in 1981 by Yuri Gutsatz, founder of Le Jardin Retrouvé, and later reissued by the House, this niche sandalwood fragrance is now certified Mood Booster WELLBEING for its calming and harmonizing effect.
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Sandalwood Sacré opens with a fresh and almost soapy impression thanks to aldehydes and lemon, like clean air before a ritual. The milky sandalwood quickly unfolds, rounded by patchouli, oak moss, and a bouquet of jasmine, geranium, and ylang-ylang that add a floral softness. In the base, woody and resinous notes blend with subtle warmth (tonka, labdanum) to create a velvety woody trail, intimate, evoking the clear smoke of sacred woods in a temple.
Near Chandod, on the banks of the Nerboudda, lie these sacred groves where Hindu temples blend into nature. One imagines ancient trees, sun-warmed stones, and the smoke of sandalwood and incense rising into the calm air. This is the inner landscape evoked by Sandalwood Sacré: a sacred garden, more mental than touristy, where one comes to seek silence, introspection, and protection.
By transposing this place into fragrance, Le Jardin Retrouvé offers a "portable sacred space": just a few spritzes are enough to recreate this woody calm, as if entering a gentle sanctuary, far from noise.
When Yuri traveled to India in the late 1950s to set up a raw materials factory in Bombay, he discovered the richness of local ingredients: sandalwood, patchouli, flowers, resins... This multi-year stay transformed his approach to perfumery. Sandalwood Sacré became for him a kind of essence of India, a concentrate of his travels, the temples he visited, and his fascination with sandalwood.
Created in 1981 under the name Eau de Santal, then revived during the renaissance of Le Jardin Retrouvé, Sandalwood Sacré is now a bridge between this personal history and a contemporary vision of perfumed well-being.
Sandalwood Sacré is for those who love soft woody fragrances that soothe rather than overwhelm. It will appeal to fans of sandalwood, patchouli, and delicate musks, as well as those looking for a ritual fragrance to accompany meditation or moments of calm.
Sandalwood Sacré is for those who love soft woody fragrances that soothe rather than overwhelm. It will appeal to fans of sandalwood, patchouli, and delicate musks, as well as those looking for a ritual fragrance to accompany meditation or moments of calm.
Sandalwood Sacré is also available as a scented candle and pillow mist, to transform a bedroom or living room into a woody cocoon. The candle diffuses the milky sandalwood, oak moss, and patchouli in a warm light, perfect for an evening ritual.
The mist, lighter in texture, allows you to fragrance your bed linens and the air in the room before bed, in line with the wellness and harmonizing aspect of the fragrance. These formats align with Le Jardin Retrouvé's goal of creating "olfactory indoor gardens," for both the body and the home.
Sandalwood Sacré smells of milky, clean sandalwood, rounded by patchouli, oak moss, and soft flowers like jasmine and ylang-ylang. The result is a velvety, spiritual woody fragrance that evokes a clear incense rather than a heavy or smoky wood.
Yes, Sandalwood Sacré is designed as a genderless woody fragrance. Its woody softness, clean nature, and meditative quality appeal to both women and men, as well as anyone who enjoys soothing skin scents.
With its Mood Booster WELLBEING certification and its harmonizing woody accord, Sandalwood Sacré is particularly suited for moments of meditation, reading, or centering oneself. Many people use it as a small scented ritual for protection and self-reflection.
On most skin types, Sandalwood Sacré offers medium to long-lasting wear, with a noticeable trail for several hours without being overwhelming. The milky sandalwood, patchouli, and oak moss remain in the background, leaving a soft and soothing woody impression at the end of the day.
To fully enjoy Sandalwood Sacré, spray it about 15–20 cm away from pulse points: neck, wrists, inside elbows, or behind the ears. On clean, well-hydrated skin, two to four spritzes are enough to create a velvety, harmonizing woody trail, perfect for moments of calm.
Sandalwood Sacré is formulated with organic alcohol and contains no added dyes, preservatives, or UV filters. It aligns with Le Jardin Retrouvé's clean beauty approach, with a composition designed to remain as pure and transparent as possible.
The Sandalwood Sacré bottles are designed to be mechanically refillable: they can be opened and refilled, for example, by transferring the fragrance from a 50 ml bottle to a 15 ml one. There are no dedicated refills available online yet, but the bottle design allows them to be reused rather than discarded, in a more sustainable approach.
The Sandalwood Sacré Eau de Parfum is ideal for wearing this milky sandalwood directly on the skin as a personal wellness fragrance. The pillow mist is perfect for fragrancing bed linens and creating a calming atmosphere before bed, while the candle diffuses a soft light and a spiritual woody scent in the room to accompany meditation or reading moments.
The garden behind Sandalwood Sacré
Velvety, woody and spiritual, it weaves milky sandalwood, patchouli and oakmoss with a soft floral whisper, like a perfumed ritual in a temple veiled in sacred smoke.
Sandalwood Sacré was created in 1981 by Yuri Gutsatz and later reissued by Le Jardin Retrouvé in Paris.
