Jacarandá

As mentioned, the notes listed here on Fragrantica are not correct for Jacaranda... interesting... Bergamot, Patchouli, Cedar, Moss. I find it interesting because the notes listed for Jacaranda on the Fueguia 1833 website lists the notes as, Rosewood, Mahogany, and Spruce, which seems more in line with what I experienced in wearing this fragrance. I wonder if there was a reformulation or something? Anyway, this is a nice woody, aromatic with some excellent wood notes. It starts out with a strong varnished woods presence. It is quite potent, but has been thoroughly enjoyable to me. There is a sweetness along with the varnished wood notes in the opening that makes it different than the varnished smells of D.S. & Durga's Bowmakers. Jacaranda has strong projection for the first few hours. My wife and I went to a basketball game this evening, and she complained that my fragrance was too strong. I disagreed with that assessment, as it smelled wonderful, but she said it had a sweet note she didn't appreciate and it was too strong. I didn't find it too strong, however, I did apply from my sample quite liberally, so perhaps it's best to sample this one in smaller doses than I did tonight. The opening is nice, but the dry down is what I enjoyed the most. It becomes quite coniferous in the dry down and the spruce really ahh..."spruces" thing up quite a bit! It is really nice for someone who loves coniferous notes and fragrances...like me! I was pleasantly surprised by that wonderful dry down. Now I've found another coniferous fragrance that's on my list of must haves! It's so exciting!

I purchased this last year and forgot about it until today, I remember at the time of purchase I spent over an hour smelling all their fragrances and using the coffee beans in between, while the SA tried to lean me more toward the feminine fragrances I kept coming back to this one. It reminded me of a smell from my childhood I couldn’t quite place it but I knew it was a fond memory that was an attached it. Spraying it today I realised it reminded me of my favourite uncle and his love for cars a masculine clean alpha scent. The smell takes me back to those memories when he would bring his latest new car to take us out for a spin in it, he would always be freshly groomed and buzzing with happiness and pride with that new car smell and warm petrol and oil smell. I’m glad I purchased it no regrets at all especially as it’s jogged a happy memory for me. I have nothing to compare it to in my collection and can honestly say as a fragrance it is quite unique. You will either love it or hate it!

Wrong pyramid - this is rosewood, mahogany and spruce. Simply put this is the most true-to-life "sauna" scent I've smelled. My friends who accompanied me sampling at Holt Renfrew Vancouver a few years ago agreed. It's layers of aromatic woods, one on top of another. It's deep but not ambery, more "piney" and can almost strike as "synthetic wooden floor cleanser/varnish" if you apply too much. I find this to be true with all Fueguia 1833 scents in general. I recently obtained a sample vial. When my partner first sniffed the vial he thought it smelled of "cough syrup" - really was just his way of saying how dense the perfume is lol. Today I wore it, and across the room on his gaming chair, the man exclaimed "Wood! Is that you?" :) My point is, just don't overspray and make sure there's ample of room for this perfume to diffuse... you won't be disappointed. Decent sillage and longevity.

This is like getting up close and personal with universal wood—intimately smelling it while admiring its grain, whiffs of varnish that has polished its surface. It could be a red cedar, it could be knotty pine, maybe its cherry or mahogany, spruce or rosewood. Perhaps it could be all of them, an ode to all the sharp and briskly fragrant woods of the world, distilled and lacquered into a polished monolith. The intrigue here is in the overtones of licorice root and sweet balsam that temper the sharp, terpenic pungency of its wooden core. I will agree with others that have smelled this that it evokes dry saunas, mills, carpentry, guitars and violins and such. It is truly satisfying as the ultimate "timber as object" sort of smell—wood that has been cut, carved, molded, and made into something. It is a delight.

This smells like a box of good quality pencils. Love it. Gives me the same art school vibe as the wildly expensive Muskara Boswellia (not on the database) that exactly mimics the turpentine smell when you open an old box of oil paints. What makes it so expensive? Pheromones... so yeah. Gimmickry aside, these two fragrances complement each other very nicely.