Cannabis Santal

Home. Cannabis santal has a permenant spot in my frangrance collection. I don’t know how to write reviews, so... story time!! I am 37 and female. I discovered this fragrance back in my mid-20’s under a friend’s vanity in a box of “backup” cosmetics. We both worked at sephora at the time, so we were drowning in product (as Sephora incentivized with product in lieu of commission). As my friend had a sophisticated style and a certain feminine reserve, I was surprised to see that she had A) taken home a bottle by “Fresh,” and B) one named Cannabis Santal. She was overtly feminine, delicate as well - so, once I smelled cannabis santal, I understood why it was beneath the counter and not on top. Upon FIRST waft, I was entranced. I love spicy scents - coco Madamoiselle, Prada original. But with this, the initial impact was so intense, I wonder if perhaps there is something in the notes that ties to my subconscious lol. The first time I wore it, I remember feeling, I don’t know, reassured, even happy, any time my wrist happened near my face and I caught a lingering whiff. For whatever reason, this fragrance is “home” to me. I’m older now, and I go for more complexity and sophisticated femenine scents, so I don’t wear it as often as I used to, but I always have a bottle on hand and I still wear it - like when I want something less “perfum-y” than my Coco mad. I’ve even been known to spray it in my bedroom when I leave in the AM... the lingering scent puts me at ease when it greets me at night. I travel quite a bit, so every Airbnb I reserve gets a spritz or two of cannabis santal upon my arrival ❤️ While I’ve never met someone who didn’t like the scent, as a woman, I believe you must LOVE IT to wear it yourself. You should also enjoy compliments from others :) - men and women. With respect to men specifically, the only other fragrance that rendered more compliments (and free drinks lo) was Stella McCartney’s original Stella (remember that one? It was released around the same time I discovered cannabis santal, and it taught us moderns that rose isn’t just for grandmothers). Cannabis Santal is dirty, but clean - as in, not muddled. It’s strong and handsome, but to me, it has an irresistibly sweet sexiness. Sexy yes. Femenine? I’ll be honest, no. But that doesn’t mean a femenine woman shouldn’t wear it - hell, that combination is even sexier, IMO. Plus, at $80? Gimme a break. ❤️

This is a LOVE and for me this is a 4.5/5 for a hippie style patchouli fragrance, pretty darn good. As others have mentioned there isn't an unbearable wait to the dry down to get to nice patchouli. It pretty much comes out of the bottle smelling fantastic. To be honest, I think Fresh's fragrances are highly underrated. I love almost every single thing they put out. Their scents are all true to their brand image as well. You tend to get exactly what you expect from them and for me there are rarely any letdowns or surprises. Cannabis Santal smells almost exactly as I expected it to based on the notes. This is a wearable patchouli and no worries, it doesn't smell like a big doobie. It may smell a little like people who smoke cannabis because of the patchouli stereotype but that is it. I promise, you will not smell like Snoop Dog. I think this is marketed as being for men but it is completely unisex in my opinion. Straight down the middle, is fine for either sex. While fans of the Sugar line may find it too masculine, if you like patchouli, sandalwood or warmer fragrances such as those, I would highly recommend this. Extremely long lasting. I put it on yesterday at around 2pm and it is 8am the next day and I still smell it pretty well. On a side note, I absolutely love their bottles. They are so tasteful and clean looking. The sprayers always work really well also. For the price, amount, quality and pleasantness of fragrance, I do not think Fresh can be beat. It really is a great value if their fragrances appeal to you. Luckily for me, they do, and I have owned almost every single thing they have ever put out.

So surprised at how much of a workhouse this perfume is. I purchased this after becoming addicted to the earthy weed scents starting with Demeter Cannabis. I guess the roots of the addiction took hold in middle school with Gap Grass. There's just something very earthy but sensual about grass scents, and when you label it Cannabis a bit of that bad girl stoner panache is thrown in. To those that say there's no cannabis here...I mean, what were you expecting to smell? The aromatic tea-like fragrance of dried bud? I think the real heart of a cannabis note would be in the resin, the actual extrait of the weed's essence. And to that degree, I think the perfume accomplishes it very well. I really like Caroline Sabas work in general. As a nose I think she's really smart in her formulations and the performance to me is dynamic and not boringly linear. The bergamot and patchouli anchor this one and do not overshadow the cannabis, in my opinion. The fruity notes are there and the rose is very subtle; I find this one to be decidedly unisex. The performance is great; silage is moderate but longevity is superb. One time I wore this while holding my son and it transferred onto his head so much that my nanny kept remarking how good he smelled. So this perfume does project and it does last. The longevity when sprayed on clothes is beastly. Very impressive for Fresh. Also, this is a men's fragrance? Since when? I purchased this at Sephora in 2016 and it was with the rest of the other Fresh perfumes, so it definitely wasn't shelved with the rest of the men's colognes. Not sure why Fragrantica has it classified as such.

I am reviewing the round shaped bottle, I don’t know if the formulation is changed or just the bottle. First off I enjoy this fragrance, I can’t wear it all the time because it is sweet and certainly unisex but to me it’s very casual and fun, airy spring time scent. It’s not formal or professional so I wouldn’t wear it to the office or a job interview, but just about anywhere else on a bright spring day. It is sweet, In a cocoa butter kind of way, and has some flowery notes. I don’t get any of the fruit notes listed except some plum, but it’s very earthy and slightly bitter like the smell of the peel and pit rather then the fruit. If you take deep whiffs you will get patchouli which helps incorporate the earthiness. Call me crazy but I also get a mushroom smell during the dry down.I am sorry but I do not smell any cannabis. Like at all. I think that earthy, slightly urine like patchouli smell invokes memories of cannabis, head shops , incense and hemp rope. It’s what you smell when you walk into Earthbound, imported home decor store, or cosmetic section of a Whole Foods. It’s not cannabis but natural organic products and smells you associate with cannabis and the old school DIY stoners. Overall I like it, I just can’t wear it everywhere due to the sweetness. It’s not cloying or fake, just sweet smells on a man is not appropriate for everywhere. My wife likes it too so I go through the bottle pretty fast.

This fragrance is very important to me and nostalgic to the 2000’s - 2000 teens. I’m from New Mexico where fragrance is well polarized by oils and none to sheer cloying popular mall fragrance. My best friend and I moved to opposite coasts, me Bay Area, her, Brooklyn. We’d meet up and talk about our respective lives. Me in Santa Cruz wearing pure lavender oil and her jet set city girl. When I met up with her, her fragrance was mesmerizing and gorgeous to me. Love at first smell and it became my signature for years to come. I hated brand fragrances and found something that was a beautiful take on the low budget incense with sandalwood my friends were burning in high school. This fragrance was my gateway to the cannabis (lol pun intended) and santal world. Honestly I have not found any ability to get out of this world. Although I enjoy abundant categories of fragrances and consider this a hobby, my signature is always a take on santal. I’ve graduated to Santal 33 which yes trite etc but my journey here was authentic and free of the “that girl” influence. This beautiful scent is exactly what it states, fresh Santal Cannabis. Its performance is moderate and it lacks the complexity that higher end Santals have but this is a rock solid scent, beautiful and light and fresh. Definitely a must for lovers of clean fragrances and Santal based fragrances. 9/10