Norwegian Wood

The only wood I think of when I think of Scandinavia is pine but this is distinctly sandalwoody. And quite lovely. It’s been six months since I got this and maybe it’s my imagination but it seems to have really improved and has gone from a like to a love. Norwegian Wood might be inexpensive but definitely does not smell “cheap” or overly artificial - the exact opposite in fact - natural and beautifully sandalwoody. If you blind tested any fragrance aficionado unfamiliar with Norwegian Wood, I guarantee they would never, ever, guess that this is a “cheapie”. It smells almost niche quality and actually has a vaguely buttery, resinous thing going on that reminiscent of Cartier Pasha Parfum. Performs best in Winter with longevity around 3-6 hours, sitting close after the first two. Norwegian Wood is not bad at all - in my mind’s eye I could see a pimply adolescent rocking this for a hot date at a shopping mall. Seriously though, this would be a great after gym/sport fragrance for a teenager. Smells clean, natural and not “perfumey”. A very pleasant, unpretentious fragrance that smells a lot more expensive. The drydown is quite lovely: reminiscent of a resinous Indian sandalwood. If you’re in the market for a budget fragrance it’s excellent value for money.

Appearance The cheapness of the bottle is incredible, it’s embarrassingly cheap, it looks like it should be a mustard jar. This def does not belong on your display shelf. I think this alone is why so many people rate it low. Smell But this does smell nice and doesn’t smell cheap, cheap in the sense of synthetic dollar store frags. It’s a light and airy woody scent with some noticeable lavender in the opening then after an hour or so the vanilla and slight incense come out. The lavender disappears quickly and It smells something like the Shalimar edp dry down, due to the powdery woody vanilla and incense vide. It’s completely unisex. Performance It lasts well enough, but it seems to be an intimate scent after an hour, maybe if you spray heavy, 10+ sprays, then you’ll get decent projection. This is worth getting, the price is unbeatable. I really like this one. The smell is great, unless you only like ambroxan heavy blue bottle freshies etc. then you might not appreciate it.

This is straight up wood with a little vanilla sprinkled on top. You're not going to go on a fragrance journey with this, you're going to flat out smell like a woodshop beginning to end. Personally I really like it however longevity is an issue for me. Next time I will go from 4 to 6 sprays and see what that does. Update: After 8 hours with 5 sprays it was a fairly strong skin scent on me. I think that 6-8 sprays will probably give a solid 7-8 hours performance without being overpowering and a couple more as a s good skin scent. Also the atomizer on this isn't the greatest.

I picked this one up at ROSS for 6.99 + tax. 3.3 oz bottle. Sprayed some on my arm as soon as I got in the car and was blown away by the sophistication of this scent. It's supposed to be all woods, and I suppose it is. I smell lots of sandalwood--my favorite! It's very masculine, warm and woody, and so far I really like it. I remember wearing the original Kanøn way back in the 70's and it was quite good, too. You could do far worse for your $7 than this. Cheaper than lunch and lasts a whole lot longer. Thumbs up, guys.

I know most reviews of Norwegian Wood across the internet are pretty horrible, but when my boyfriend wore this it was simply magic. It must have been his skin/body chemistry because it never, ever smelled cheap or offensive. It was a very unique is its woodsy warm charm (albeit very loud if he wore too much). It didn't remind me of any dollar store body sprays. It had rare notes I'd never experienced before and trust me I'm a huge snob when it comes to cologne. I say yes to this one for sure.

Delightfully sharp and woody in its opening, this fragrance is well worth the minuscule amount for which it can be bought. I paid $6.99 at either Kohl's or Ross for this wonderful gem' while visiting the US. There is a slight greenness to this one which is not reflected in the notes, possibly due to the combination of moss, citrus and whatever synthetic woody aromachemicals are used. For some reason it reminds me of a woody version of Absynthe pour homme by Avon.

Blind buy and cheap from Marshall's and glad I did. This is some good stuff. Extremely long lasting, I could still 11 hours later smell it on my arm. I mostly get the base notes, sandalwood, cedar, and vanilla, and very little of the head and heart. Either way I am OK with that since this combo smells very nice together. If you see it and can get it cheap I would jump on it. Lasts better than some of the stuff that costs 200 dollars for sure!

This smells better than anything else my husband has & he has many expensive fragrances. I'm not exactly sure how to describe it but it's so warm & welcoming. Much better than anything aquatic or fresh. Reminds me of welcoming vanilla & woodsy

Norwegian Wood is pretty decent juice on it's own for what it is and how much you pay. Since it is more or less straight up Sandalwood and Woody Notes I have been layering it with other fragrances with some pretty good success

I love this fragrance. It smells natural. The sandalwood is the prominent note to me. I have mixed it with Brooks Brothers Gentleman for the violet and Gucci II for the tea. The three make a gorgeous combination.

Poor one's Gucci Envy. I saw the comparison here and had to check. Upon first blush it is quite similar to Gucci Envy. Get it for 10 bucks. Save $150, really. Yes miss, this is Gucci Envy. Thanks for asking.

Excellent fragrance for anytime lasts and lasts on me not complex it's wood sandle wood soap with shaving powder almost beautiful love it

Fabulous. Certainly worth having in the collection.

Kanon Norwegian Wood was another scent that I recently retired to the offseason shelf and cabinet. It is a bit like a Taco Bell grilled breakfast burrito. Despite the European name, Norwegian Wood is a First American Brands product. This company has 24 fragrance brands in its portfolio and usually sells budget scents. Other American companies such as 5 star fragrances have proven that they can sell first rate fragrances in the under the $20 price range as they do not have to pay steep import taxes and tariffs that jack up the prices of most fragrance products. Norwegian Wood has some synthetic in it and its opening has a bit of an antifreeze smell. However after about 20 minutes this starts to die down and you get a very good Woody scent that would easily be comparable to very good and very expensive wood based scents. The wood notes seem rich, fresh cut, and expensive with the vanilla giving it just a nice touch of creamy sweet and barely a hint of citrus and florals to brighten things up a bit. Because of other reviews on this forum. I pulled my old bottle of Gucci Envy out and compared them. Clearly they are both sandalwood fragrances. The Gucci seemed sweeter with more of a green fresh cut wood and the Norwegian Wood seemed older and drier as if it had been dried and aged for kindling. Gucci Envy is a better product but I sort of like the sawdust edge of Norwegian Wood and it sort of hangs in there and says hi. I suppose the Gucci could sneer a bit at Norwegian Wood but the Kanon would knock it in the teeth when you went to price a brand new full bottle of each. Gucci is not as good as its price tag anymore and the Kanon is better than its own. Performance is adequate to poor even for a budget scent. I like budget scents to give me 6 hours and with Norwegian Wood the first 45 minutes is synthetic, and poor as the synthetics overwhelm the fragrance. Then the fragrance settles into its sweet spot and the woods come out and they are lovely, creamy, elegant, and beautiful for about 2 hours after which the scent starts to slope downwards and becomes a skin scent at the 4 hour mark and is gone by 6. Id say the sweet spot of the heart of this fragrance is 4 hours. I dislike the opening and the drydown clocked out early. Many fragrances use Sandalwood as a base note and this one doesnt hide it behind tops or mids. I guess that when you pass go and bring Sandalwood right to the heart of the fragrance that you have forsaken the opening and mid and gone straight to base. And it oddly seems to work. But without an opening or mid you don't get a long lasting fragrance. My usage of Norwegian Wood has been strong. It probably was my most worn scent this past fall and also the fall before and I wore it a few times during winter. For whatever reason, this seems to be a magic bottle where even though I have used it many times, the bottle seems to stay almost full. I think the sprayer pushes out less juice and I under apply it because of the initial synthetics which irritate my nose. I did buy a backup bottle of it and also the other 5 products in the Kanon line. After I use up the Kanon that I have I will most likely not replace them. The bottles of Kanon come with real wood tops, look nice and are collectible for those that care about collecting bottles. Overall, I am going to grade this one out at 73 and knocking on the door of average. You can easily buy this one in the $10 range or $3 an ounce and you could probably find it for half the price if you would look. I think the backup bottle that I bought was less money than you could spend on a 1.5 ml sample of niche. I gave this fragrance maximum points for value. And I hammered it down hard for its opening and lack of base and non existent drydown. Men seem to like this fragrance and give it a bit of lumberjack thumbs up. And women give it smiles as well. I have received compliments from both and even my Dad likes it and thats rare. The compliments aren't glorious raise your eyes to the heavens and gushing praise type things. But rather normal you smell nice today comments. This really does not surprise me because once you get past the synthetic opening, the heart settles into a wonderful woody scent that smells as good as bottles that cost hundreds more per ounce than this one does. Its not complex, takes you on a journey, or does anything fancy; And its not big, bold, or loud. But it is Sandalwood and Sandalwood is a nice note and scent and this one smells good at its heart. This like Thallium Sport is the type of scent that is a bit of a dumb reach in that you can put it on and by the time you arrive where you want to be, it is in the sweet spot of its scent life. I think that for about 4 hours, I am smelling about $100 per ounce better than I spent. I like sandalwood fragrances but exportation of mysore sandalwood and the essential oils from it have been banned from India. And Australian Sandalwood production and supply is inferior to demand. I could run my mouth about some major league big league woody scents that have become rare and expensive after they were discontinued but it doesnt matter for the purpose of this review. Norwegian Wood has a horrible synthetic opening. However, the opening soon goes away and it settles nicely into a lovely, creamy, crisp, hint of brightness, very woody manly sawdust cut sandalwood for a brief 4 hours and then it fades fast and is gone. For a $3 per ounce scent to smell a $100 better than its price tag for 4 brief hours is an accomplishment. I own my fair share of scents and decants and I am not going to run out so I do not worry much about needing to apply more or switch to something different later on. I suppose there are people that wake up and put on Roja Dove to walk to the shower. Im not one of them. I like having some budget scents around me that are decent and do a nice job and keep me from looking at Green Bottles of Envy that would be near impossible to replace should they empty. And I do not think I have ever as a grown man ever had breakfast in bed. There are probably people that will read this that at least act like butlers bring them crumpets each morning. Sometimes, I drive over to Taco Bell and get a breakfast burrito. I admit it. Sure the service is bad and slow and sometimes you have to wait 15 minutes in the drive through. But those burritos are pretty good, affordable, and worth the wait.

Like many others, I bought this blind because it was inexpensive. I confess that I don't scent myself everyday, though I seem to be changing that habit. I hadn't really used this much until recently and had branded it as "inoffensive and decent, but not stunning" after a few trials. Let me say that I've changed my mind a bit. It's a somewhat obvious fragrance with a nicely balanced sandalwood heft in the base and some gentle augmentation of cedar, and lavender. The vetiver is present, but not enough to hijack the profile. I only get vague hints of vanilla, but it becomes the barest hint of caramel deep in the drydown. Someone said that this doesn't feel like a finished fragrance, but I have to disagree. The citrus in the head isn't as volatile or bright as I like and a bit obvious, but I think perhaps the worth of this scent lives in the heart and base. My bottle is older, from 2010, but I don't think the juice has altered in the bottle. I didn't have any desire to put this back into rotation until the weather cooled off a bit more. I'm not sure that I like this as a spring or summer scent, but it works well for fall and is inexpensive enough that you can be generous or reapply without any guilt. I'm glad that it found it's way back onto the shelf instead of the armoire drawer...

Welp.. I bought this ultra-$6.99 cheap at Ross purely for the name. I figured even if it's utter crap I was amused by the Rubber Soul whimsy. A pleasant surprise was had.. I like it..quite a bit. I'm a total sucker for sandalwood ..which is mostly what I get with a enjoyable sweetness arriving a bit later.. yeah it's got nothing to woo a snobbish Fraggie ( the scent equivalent of a Foodie ) but I've always been happy to let the good times roll wherever they appear.. I especially like it for work.. I do security for a mega-huge,mega-paranoid tech company and the Wood just settles in and feels right at home with my uniform.. giving me a warm woody glow through those graveyard shift hours.. on a pop culture note.. " Norwegian Wood " is one of the great mystery songs.. did they have sex or not?..did he burn the furniture?or the whole house the next morning?..the other great mystery is,of course, " Ode To Billy Joe "..what the hell got thrown into that damn river? ( besides Billy Joe)..and WHY?.. that makes me want to find a fragrance that Billy Joe McAllister might have worn..any ideas?

This fragrance is hard to describe in the best way. It opens with a slightly charred wood note—smoky, dry, almost campfire-adjacent—but not harsh or acrid. Beneath that, there’s a soft creaminess that sneaks in, followed by a subtle touch of vanilla and a faint citrus brightness that keeps it from feeling too heavy. What really makes this scent special is the dry-down. That’s where the magic happens. The smoke softens, the wood becomes smoother and warmer, and everything settles into something quietly beautiful and a little addictive. It’s not the strongest in terms of longevity, but while it’s on the skin, it’s captivating. I do miss when this was priced around $14.99—especially now that it’s discontinued—but I’m glad I stocked up when I did. Norwegian Wood is an odd fragrance, slightly unconventional, but genuinely beautiful. Even with that hint of burnt wood, it just works. Sometimes “it smells good” really is the most honest description.

Me voy a referir a Kanon Agarwood, el cual aun no esta registrado aqui. Ayer recibi la botella, fue una compra a ciegas despues de leer algunos comentarios positivos en Basenotes, etc, tambien habian muchos negativos, pero como saben, uno siempre quiere probar y como no es cara. La use ayer y la estoy usando ahora y dejenme decirles que es la fragancia mas mala (pesima, horrible) que jamas haya tenido, huele tan sintetica, la longevidad es alta y la proyeccion media, gracias a Dios, porque me da dolor de cabeza, no se puede percibir ningun olor agradable en ella, la compre porque soy fan del oud, pero el que le puso ese nombre a esta fragancia, nunca debe haber olido aceite oud o incienso o lo que sea. La botella y la caja estan bien diseñadas. Muy arrepentido de esta compra, por suerte solo gaste el ella $ 13.00, creo que la regalare muy pronto. Mi calificacion es de -10/10 = 0

I bought this blind at my local TJMaxx for $7. It is a very comforting woodsy smell. I have been spraying onto my hubby before bed because as we snuggle up, and can smell it, and I just find it very soothing. Of course, the weather has been cooler, and we've been sleeping with the windows open. We put the heavier blanket on the bed, and we fall asleep listening to the crickets and frogs/toads in the marsh singing at night. This scent takes me to one of our favorite hobbies, which is camping. It's damp, and then it's dry. It's mossy, and then it's a warm. It seems to change a bit back and forth on him, and I like it. It does not have really good sillage, but it's longevity seems pretty good.

"I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me; She showed me her room; isn't it good Norwegian Wood?" Yes, it's good; yes, you are all good my to-the-point splash of the day - clean, with diamond clear dew drops on your wooden crown, interesting in your woody duality - artfully combining your aromatic cedar/fir nature with the sugary mapleness, quite lickable at the drydown which seems to go on forever, and doesn't want to evaporate, like those mists and fogs over the fjiords cutting deeply into the heart of your home in the norwegian rain forests. "And when I awoke, I was alone;the bird has flown So I lit a fire; isn't it good Norwegian Wood?"