Cri Du Kalahari

If I need to give one word to this: soliwood. It opens with the fresh and piney punch of cypress and pepper, just like Comme des Garçon's Wonderwood. Then the major players - cedarwood and sandalwood comes out in few minutes. The cedarwood here is not the creamy/lactonic Virginia cedar (as you'd get in Diptyque's Tam Dao), but rather the slightly dirtier smelling Atlas cedar. It's like walking around in a carpenter's shop while he's chopping and dusting the cedar tree trunks. For the sandalwood, I'm afraid it takes more time to notice - perhaps with a lazy nose and when you are out or if you are smelling this on someone else. Assuming the sandalwood note is created by synthetics such as Javanol, Pashminol, Ebanol, Bacdanol, Sandalore etc. it'll surely require one to experience this scent on different settings and times as these molecules can be hard to get in one two quick wear. So need to give this fragrance more time to discover all its facets - but overall very good woody release, though I think the price is on the higher side.

I really enjoyed this. I found it very unique. If you like wood, you will love this. This smells like a very delicious, smooth and creamy Sandalwood. That's where all the Santal 33 comparisons are coming from. (Santal 33 is nice but has terrible performance). Right next to that Sandalwood is some fresh cut cedar. I've cut plenty of cedar fense boards and this is very realistic cedar smell. The combo is super nice. I love the blending, the 2 woods are so even. Sometimes you think the cedar is pulling ahead and sometimes the Sandalwood. But they stay even. Longevity is great, and projection is above average. The only drawback is it's pretty linear. Could be a signature scent. 8.2/10.

It's glorious! Everything is about cedarwood, sandalwood and their marriage under the stars in the desert. It's a bit green and bitter in the opening and gets dry and woody after the first hour. Here and there there are tiny peekaboos of sweetness but it still remains a major resinous-woody fragrance with intoxicating sandalwood accord Truly of the best woody scents released in the last decade. So well crafted and speaks volumes on the skin. Longevity is excellent, sillage easily arm's length. Men would probably appreciate this fragrance more often but on warm skin it's very much unisex.

very underrated house and no one talks about this beauty right here. It reminds me a little bit of by Kilian sacred wood maybe fresher more versatile version and also a lot stronger in the performance department. This here lasts well over 10 hours on my skin and projects well for about 3 hours. A must try in my opinion. one more thing i wish i would be able to describe a fragrance as @Roge' did in the comment before me. 30-June-2020

A perfume that can be described by what is it _not_: Not sweet, not flowery, not green, not the slightest vanilla or citruses of any kind - and that is good for me. Baobab wood? Perhaps, I would have guessed sandalwood. Some lacquer solvent, not acetone, though - or several gallons of IsoE super, woody, dry and chemical. The pepper and the hint of suede in the dry down save it for me and so it becomes a summer worthy scent.