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

Oh, I really like this. I do understand the Angel comparison, especially in the opening, where the intense citrus notes over the chocolate and patchouli are a bit shouty. But whereas Angel then gets sneezy for me with its super sweet jasmine, this gets into deeper, rather softer and more comforting territory with the dark chocolate and cannabis notes. A bit like Angel Muse, but more subtle and less confectionary. It’s a little bitter, even, but the vanilla balances that. I smell the rose more and more in the dry down. I like this better than Angel, and it seems more versatile because it’s not so in-your-face. It’s great for wearing to work if the environment is not too conventional (I’m a poetry professor in Vermont, so my sense of what’s work-appropriate may be a little different from others’). Also great for layering. This would be a good signature scent, since it’s substantial enough for winter but not too heavy to wear in summer. Don’t worry about smelling like bong-water—the cannabis is present only as a curious and fascinating green note. Also, while it says “for men” above, this is totally unisex, and even reads as a bit femme, to my nose. I was confused about the “Santal” in the name, since sandlewood is not listed in the notes, but somehow there is, magically, a sandlewood accord perceptible in the dry down.

I purchased both Cannabis Santal and HM Hanae Mori as blind buys online. After reading about scents I figured that HM could be my day scent and I could wear Cannabis Santal at night, since they're both supposedly similar. Now that I've got them both I can say that they definitely are similar with the yummy gourmand notes, but personally HM is more to my taste. Cannabis Santal definitely smells a bit hippieish and earthy, which is fine for some, but not my personal style. It's a bit inscencey, and reminds me of my dad. My dad is a hippie/artist/writer type, always burning inscence and brewing fresh coffee, but he would wear Rochas Man as his signature scent, so the gourmand deliciousness of Rochas mixed with the inscence and that kind of earthy natural home smell is what Cannabis Santal is to me. It's definitely warm, and masculine in a soft and inviting way. I like HM Hanae Mori better, because it opens with a lovely burst of fresh citrus yummy-ness, then quickly loses the citrus and sits as a delicious gourmand, with fresh florals instead of the earthy hippie smell of Cannabis Santal. I would recommend both fragrances to people, as they're both good, it just depends on what you like. EDIT: Totally turned around on this once now. I love it! Not too hippie at all. It's just right!

I bought this after spending tons of time researching perfumes with vetiver for women. Many of the perfumes used cheaper quality vetiver, or often had toxins and even drugs in them (Angel, being one of them, has phenobarbitol -- a barbituate). I fell in love with this instantly, but I was afraid it was too manly for me. Quiet honestly, it is more suited for a man, but the scent is too gorgeous to pass up, so I wear it a night if I am having trouble sleeping (it's so comforting), or if I am going out I will layer it with something that has more floral and citrus to balance it out for me. It works. For me, I smell the base notes as the more distinctive features: the vetiver, musk and vanilla, and along for the ride are the citrus and plum and to deliver the predominating woods scent in a more accessible package. The middle notes just are there to soften the woods. I would not say this is a "look at me" cologne, but more of a, "I know who I am. I love the outdoors, and I love to be around people." I see that it is a personable cologne because it has some traditional woods in it, and has a welcoming approach with the plum and vanilla. The lack of toxic junk in it makes it more wearable and fresh. I wish all men wore this. Well done, Fresh!

The first couple times I wore this, I wasn't sure about it. I basically thought I smelled like a bar of milk chocolate. I mean, it smelled GOOD, but not how I generally want a fragrance to smell. However, after giving it some time, I definitely picked up on more of the complexities. The opening IS ridiculously gourmand for me. The chocolate and vanilla dominate. A video reviewer I watched described the scent as "doughy" and that definitely fits the bill. You'll find a little bit of the citrus notes if you look for them, but not much. The dry-down is really where this perfume shines, in my opinion. The sweetness mellows out and the earthiness of the patchouli emerges. Definitely a compliment-getter. The longevity is excellent, twelve hours plus on my skin. Projection is hard to pin down, I thought it stayed pretty close to the skin, but then someone said they could smell it when they walked in the door (I was sitting about six feet away). I'm kind of between like and love on this one. It's sweeter than I usually wear, but it's definitely compelling.

I don't know what's going on with my skin but the longevity here is zero. An hour, tops. Which is too bad because the initial spray if amazing for about 20 minutes. Then a soft musky sweetness then nothing. 2 days in a row of testing. The second day I made extra sure that my skin was well moisturised. Nothing! A pity. I'll try it again in the summer. UPDATE: I tested it again yesterday, ten months later. I love it! Longevity is definitely better. Maybe the tester was old? It was from Sephora. All those bright lights... It lasted 7-8 hours yesterday, not overwhelming, longer on clothes (some got on my sleeve. Could smell it on sleeve much longer). Love it now! I don't get any Sandalwood, I know it's not listed but--it's right there in the name. Patchouli, chocolate, musky rose dry down with a hit of vetiver. The dry down is more masculine than the opening. LOVELOVELOVE!! I really wanted this to work for me as I love all the notes and am obsessed with patch/chocolate. I'm glad it finally did.

A more spicy and less slaggish version of a*men. Its not available in the uk so i had to blind buy it. At first i was dissapoited as i thought its just a*men but then realised its more comforting and fresh than a*men and a lot less synthetic and sickly. I should also mention there is no cannabis smell to this at all. There is strong notes of chocolate and rose and you get a lot of vetiver left over at the end of the day. I initially thought the projection was quite weak but i seemed to get lots of compliments on it. The bottle is also really nice and old fashioned, mines came in a diff bottle to the one pictures. I thik im going to try rochas man instead of this as its cheaper and easier to get. But if that doesnt suit i will be back to cannabis santal for my cocoa winter fragrance.

I recently obtained a 100ml bottle of Cannabis Santal as part of a much larger order. This fragrance took me by surprise..... The patchouli in this fragrance is done to perfection....and all the other notes emphasize the excellence of it, in all its glory. It is indeed a hippie, doobie rolling, bongo playing patchouli......but there is a caveat to that...it is not the kind that “sticks to your ribs”.... It is all there....but not in a heavy opressive way. it quckiy effervesses into notes that are slightly aquatic / ozonic before the rich cacao becomes abundantly present. The only time our Lady Cannabis peeks out, is in the initial spraying. The Verdict: Excellence

I've read a few people say that this doesn't smell like cannabis at all but I can't help but think they want the burning "dank" spunky smell of a lit joint. This to me captures unlit sweet cannabis buds, dirty hair (in a sexy way, like a lived in body), slight warmth, well blended spices, and a dark bitter chocolate. It captures the haziness of a high to me. I love spraying it into my hair. It's like a warm boyfriend's sweater that's been stained with the smell of a good toke but comforts you with that soft human aspect. I feel powerful and a slight bit mysterious, confident, comfortable, and alluring in this scent.

This might be in my top 3 favorite fragrances ever. If you are a patchouli lover, this is an absolute must-have. If I didn't have a million other fragrances I could wear this every day in cold weather and not get bored. I get a lot of patchouli and vetiver up front, with the chocolate coming out to play on the dry down. This scent is like being wrapped in a warm blanket, drinking a cup of hot cocoa. It is really long lasting, and you only need 1 or 2 sprays or it can be overpowering. I've worn this for just about every occasion and scenario imaginable. I haven't dared to wear it in warm weather.

This is for patchouli lovers. Prominent patch for about half hour or more than it fades to the background but still noticeable through the life of the scent about 8 hrs plus. The plum is also prominent, giving off a kind of warm strawberry vibe. It's also woody and a tad smoky and a little sweet. The cannabis is more herbal than weedy. I'm also picking up a bit of powdery dark flower smell, reminiscent of TF Black Orchid. To me, this is a better rounded, less sharp, Black orchid. This is a warm cozy scent for autumn and winter. It's straight up the middle, anyone can wear this male/female.

Now this is what I expected from Angel! This smells like Angel from the bottle, but Angel on my skin turns into a really fragrant Christmas tree, with no chocolate at all. Cannabis Santal actually smells more feminine to my nose than Angel does because it has more chocolate in it. It's also much fresher and easier to wear, but like with Angel, don't wear this on a hot day. Ladies and gentlemen, in support of the statement "gendered fragrances are bulls**t", I present Exhibit A.

This is very heavy on the patchouli and I love it for that. It's rich, earthy, spicy, and ever so slightly sweet. I don't get any of the fruity notes listed, I would have thought there was also some sandalwood in the mix. Extremely comforting and nostalgic but somehow timeless. Very unisex and long lasting. I loved my travel size so much and was using it so quickly that I bought a full size bottle because I couldn't imagine being without this lovely fragrance.

This was an all time favorite for years before my pregnancy. I mention it a lot here because my feelings about a fragrance before and after is always different. I remember this as a rich yummy patchouli and dark chocolate with cannabis, magnolia(?), and plum. Maybe I got a bad bottle but I sprayed yesterday because I wanted something deeper and it just smelled like cat urine. I’m praying that it was just a bad bottle and not a horrible reformulation.

I originally had a sample of Cannabis Rose from the Fresh store back when I lived in SF in the mid 2000s. About to leave the country so I rushed back ... and no Cannabis Rose, only this. Dismay! But it is a beautiful unisex scent - warm, a bit sweet, woody and very dark chocolate. Doesn't smell like weed to me. Sillage is moderate. It's actually quite close in some aspects to the drydown of A.N.Other OR/18 - I'm wearing both today to compare.

Delicious. This thick foggy fragrance goes places. Its transportation in a bottle. This is Woodstock and Studio 54 disguised as a fine fragrance. A wolf in sheep's clothing the chocolate disguises a background of patchouli and weed - dancing around alight floral/vetiver base. Longevity and Sillage are wonderful and this lasts all day projecting about 3-6 feet. Full Bottle Worthy and a must have for me. Such a fun and exciting fragrance!