Green Cedar

Out of all the scents I've tried which list cedar (which is fair amount, as I have been searching for a great cedar) this is one of the very few that actually have a prominent and natural cedar. If you have smelled actual cedar, in wood or essential oil form, you will find that same cedar here. It is mixed with cardamom and magnolia, which adds a light touch to what would otherwise just be dry woody cedar. Depending on the day, I notice these notes more or less, but there is always that great cedar which sticks around for the life of the perfume. The biggest gripe I have in mainstream cedar notes is that more often than not, it seems to be a synthetic approximation, which I am guessing is Iso E Super. You will not find that complaint here, just a natural and honest cedar note. This is a perfect summer cedar scent, as it is not heavy in the slightest. The main criticism is I wish it had a bit more projection, and the short lived longevity. It smells good enough that I wish it stuck around for 12+ but it is more like 4 hours at little more than a skin scent. This could be a plus for someone looking for subtlety, with a sensitivity to strong perfumes, or is wearing it for themselves and not to garner compliments or make a loud statement. If you like natural fragrances I would highly recommend getting Abel's discovery set. I find this one mixes pretty well with Red Santal, and also White Vetiver.

I hadn't realized that what I've been looking for all this time was a pure and simple musky cedar, only lightly adorned with the ornamentation of spice and aromatics, giving it flesh and atmosphere. Green Cedar fits the bill, beginning with a freshly cut wood opening accented with cardamom oil. A current of angelica root oil and Ambrettolide (a naturally extracted upcycled isolate) imparts a supple, vegetal muskiness, underlining the woodiness of Green Cedar. The cedar here breathes, dryly exhaling from my skin like the heat from a sauna. The skin scent is so satisfying–⁠I find myself tracing my arm with my nose and taking in the therapeutic sensation of the cedarwood oils used here. After all, this is a 100% natural perfume, and a really good one at that, so much so that one may be convinced that it is mixed media. In fact, a naturally Ambroxan synthesized from clary sage is used here, to great effect, elevating and fixing the other natural materials. I really dig it.

A pillow soft cozy cedar scent with a whispering cardamom. It somehow has a subtle powdery quality. Perhaps it's the twice distilled Texas Cedar. I do recognize the Atlas Cedar as well, it's the backbone of this fragrance. I really dig it. Unfortunately the longevity is way below average (on my skin), say less than 2 hours before it becomes a faint skin scent. That's not acceptable for the price you pay. Apart from that tho, it is a beautiful fragrance. Together with White Vetiver, my favourites of the Abel Odor line. ETA: I’m now on my second bottle. There’s a piercing angelica note that get’s quite outspoken on my skin. It takes away from the wearing experience for me. Having said that, on my wife’s skin this doesn’t happen and I really love it on her. I get more of a soft ambergris note in the air, really nice.

This is an utterly exquisite + natural rendering of cedarwood. 'Green cedar' is beautifully balanced and rounded/creamy with the magnolia. A sumptuous earthy - birchy note initially and velvety drydown that's sexy and alluring. For me it conjours wafts of bark of the most aromatic cedarwood tree, in warm weather. I would have immediately committed to a FB if the sillage + longevity had been a little better. But for now I will just content myself with luxuriating with my 6ml tester + see where it ends.... (Though I have a feeling I may weaken - it's that luscious)

Really lovely if you enjoy wood fragrances: clean and fairly light. I got a generous-sized 6ml mini bottle of Green Cedar free from Abel (presumably as part of the promotion for their repackaged and more concentrated line) and I like it very much. I will probably weaken at some point and get a full size when the mini is used up - they are a bit spendy but 100% natural fragrances do not come cheap. The cumin note that other reviewers mention is fortunately so subdued as to be almost undetectable on my skin, which is a good thing as I really dislike cumin.