Bois de Santal

If you’re looking to smell exactly like a stick of palo santo, you’ve found your mach. This is a subtle but amazing perfume, especially for the price point. Strong peppery opening, immediately followed by the loveliest woody palo santo. There’s little to no sillage on me, but it smells absolutely incredible. In love with it, will be wearing it all winter. Edit after a few months of wear: I still like it, it's definitely a winter fragrance. In summer/early fall heat it had a cloying, kind of buttery, fatty smell to it. But in winter, I don't get that note at all - I wear it super regularly now. Sits close to the skin, not too powerful. I wear it to the office, for going out to restaurants, more formalish/less playful settings.

Como empezar con este perfume que es diferente a todo lo que he probado, realmente la primera vez que lo probé quedé completamente confundido ya que no conocía su existencia pero su olor es increíble, todas las personas que me huelen con este perfume les llama la atención su picor por la pimienta y su suavidad por el lado del palo santo que son a mi parecer sus notas más dominantes, que generan una armonía en su evolución que da vibras al perfume que usaría un millonario en un atardecer vestido de lino disfrutando de oler bien y verse bien. Simplemente no hay palabras para expresar como el olfato interpreta el armado de esta fragancia ya que uno logra separar su estructura y disfrutar su limpieza en cada respiración.

Wow, this one! I feel like I finally found a woody fragrance that works for me. Usually they are something i want as a diffuser, or something only hip people can pull off, but this has some deliciousness that makes me feel comfortable to smell like it. Opening is quite peppery which I usually don’t like, but it goes well with the freshness of cypress in here. Creamy and sweet sandalwood follows, and then some more woody notes which probably is palo santo, it’s so soothing and calming, almost meditative. I instantly ordered some palo santo sticks as well coz the smell is so good and I need to smell the real stuff. When I compare it to Tam Dao, this is more spicy while TD Is more quiet dry and grand.

Smells exactly like that one guy I was obsessed with in high school. I could close my eyes and follow him with just my nose like a bloodhound, his sweat smelled that loud to me. Trying to recreate that experience made me get into perfumes. Predictable herby spicy opening, woody insane animalic drydown. If you miss Stash enough to scream cry in SJP's DMs, this is for you. If you smell like this naturally, I'm in love with you.

Recommend. Scent is decent (there's enough going on for it to have a seat at the table), Performance is above average and value is A++