Sandalo

First of all, it's a unisex scent. It can be worn by women and men and by all ages. Then, it's a flat and linear fragrance. I don't smell anything else appart from a dry and subtle note of sandalwood. Not the one of Body shop for example, that one is a definite male scent. This one is bitter and very very natural, not at all feminine, but not at all annoying. When you wear it is like wearing on you a small forest of sandalwood trees that were naturaly destiled and their scent wasn't artificially intensified with other additives. It lasts very long, without occupying the whole place you are in. I couldn't say I am mad about it, I think it's hard for anyone to get mad about this kind of perfumes...unless you like NATURAL scents. I wear it because it gives a certain 'gravity' that sometimes is needed in my job. It's also very good for layering, one can put on another more floral perfume later, the two of them will blend to a wonderful and unusual scent. It's interesting that its subtleness makes it easily wearable by a woman.

I kinda like this, but to me, it smells like 80% javanol @ about 5%, with just a touch of patchouli and amber -- maybe a bit of rose if I strain the nose a bit. Not a fresh or woody kind of sandalwood, but more of a synthetic molecule type. But where straight javanol can get a bit mildewy and stodgy (at least to my nose), this does have an almost honey-like undercurrent that redeems it into something either a man or woman could pull off. Dry down lightens into something a bit reminiscent of a slightly more adult Johnson's baby shampoo vibe -- which is to say clean and light for a wood-centric scent, and pleasant if not terribly serious. Expect performance more on par with a top-heavy summer scent -- lightweight, staying well within arm's length and lingering for a 3-4 hours as a skin scent. Good, not great, but a fantastic value considering the pittance for which it can be had.

NOT a safe blind buy. NOT a "hidden gem". If you are looking for a sandalwood fragrance, look elsewhere and keep looking. Reason I say this is to prevent anyone else from making the same horrible mistake I made in blind buying this monstrosity expecting a sandalwood fragrance. Don't do it! Byblos was a Milan design collective featuring various young designers, named after an iconic hotel in Saint Tropez. Big in the 1970s. The young Gianni Versace collaborated with Byblos (before he was famous). I remember Byblos mainly because they used to make awesome sunglasses. The same cannot be said for their fragrances. Some years ago in Italy I found (and stupidly blind bought) both the EDT and the now-discontinued EDP of Byblos Sandalo. Both are disappointing, except in the EDP the disappointment is more intense. Byblos Sandalo is a screechingly artificial, floral-soapy atrocity originally designed for women and utterly devoid of anything resembling sandalwood Sandalwood is my obsession - a raw material I know intimately in all its incarnations: the four sandalwood varieties native to India, the seven native to Australia, and the three Pacifiic island varieties - including Santalum Album, Spicatum, Austrocaledonicum, Paniculatum, Lanceolatum, Acuminatum, Malayagiri, Laoshan, Red, Black, so-called "West Indies sandalwood" (Amyris) - and this bizarre concoction from Byblos does not smell like any of them. If it was meant to be an accord it fails miserably. More like a practical joke. Sandalo was originally one of a series of linear, single note dominant fragrances for women, released by Byblos as both an EDP and EDT as a “fragrance palette” to be mixed and layered with each other à la Tom Ford, the EDPs in a squat, cylindrical bottle, the EDTs in the same bottle as pictured above. The other fragrances in the series seem to have been long discontinued and I forget what they all were now, but there was Rose, Musk and Amber and they each had a different coloured flacon. Byblos Sandalo is unspeakably, offensively, awful: a sweet, floral, soapy abomination that simply does NOT smell like any sandalwood that exists in the real world. Nor does it smell like any half-decent synthetic sandalwood either: it quite obviously does not contain Javanol, aka "Molecule 04", one of the most expensive sandalwood-esque aroma chemicals, nor does it contain Bacdanol, Firsantol, Polysantol, Brahmanol, Ebanol, Hindinol or any of their contemporaries however it might possibly contain one of the extremely cheap, prehistoric, synthetic sandalwoods like Indisan, Sandalore or Sandela. To be honest, I can’t imagine anyone wearing this by choice and suspect the only reason it’s still around is because suckers (like me) looking for a sandalwood fragrance mistakenly buy it. Caveat emptor Really don't understand the reviews full of hyperbolic praise for this crap. Byblos Sandalo is cheap and nasty - and smells cheap and nasty. To be brutally honest, anyone who thinks this abomination smells like sandalwood clearly has no idea what sandalwood is. Taste may be subjective but reality is not. Don't waste your money on this garbage. Even free it would be a ripoff. If you’re looking for a real sandalwood fragrance, do yourself a favour and get LORENZO VILLORESI SANDALO instead. [For a modestly priced sandalwood try Korloff Rouge Santal, Floris Santal or Pal Zileri Sartoriale]

All I get is a some orange-y sour rose supported by some low quality oily patchouli. No wood to my nose. Performance is poor, but it might be better like that, actually. I agree with the previous reviewer (roman.walters) that this has little to do with sandalwood, and that even under $20 it's not worth it. It's just bad and unbalanced. (it's rare that I say that)

Unisex scent. Simple sandalwood...citrus..light rose-y...woody. Nice spring/summer scent...for me. Does not go "barber-shoppy" on me...thank God...lol. Mild sillage/longevity....but still very worth the low price point. I like,I like !!!