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Andrej_V_88 – :
very lovely and suitable for luxury youth
من این عطر مونتال رو خیلی دوست داشتم
واقعاً تازه و فِرِش هست
من توش مرکبات حس نکردم البته
موندگاریش هم به نظرم زیر دو ساعته
trupcinskii – :
Bright yet smooth, with noticeable citrus over sandalwood. I wish I had a better way to describe this — I was overjoyed when the first waft hit my nose — but I just don’t have the words. A beautiful summer or daytime scent. Happy yet smooth and sexy.
Edit: I’m shocked to see the listed notes! I’m allergic to the “ocean” scents I’ve tried in the past, and there’s no citrus. Well, I smell what I smell.
Once Santal Wood has dried down to a skin scent, it’s remarkably similar to the drydown in Nina. (My favorite drydown since 2007.) It has the same faintly fruity enhanced skin warmth.
It has to be applied lightly though. There’s a “freshly sweaty skin” saltiness that works best in small doses.
Contecruel – :
Scent – green aquatic sandalwood.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, day or night.
Projection – I did get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 12hrs consistently.
andrej000 – :
I bought it because of comparision to vintage Carolina Herrera 212 Men but IT’S NOTHING LIKE CH 212 god damn it !
Its more like Kenzo Pour Homme meets CH 212….
Juniper and sea notes indeed resembles the old CH212 but where the fuck are green notes which are the essence of CH212 ? THERE ARE NO GREEN NOTES…
Therefore Santal Wood is very ordinary, generic sea/juniper/woody frag…
3/10
elortarixerie – :
here, lots of reviewers were right, even when i tested it before on the paper strip at shop (there were lots of sandalwood) …. it´s totally generic/acquatic … i´m disappointed a lot !!! i love montale but …. i´ve missed now
lisinka – :
Man!! Why all the hate for this one?! I actually enjoy it quite a bit. Are there other fragrances that smell similar? Absolutely. However, this is a very fitting fragrance for casual occcasions in warm weather. Great as an outdoors fragrance too. What I like about it is that it doesn’t possess the strange synthetic Montale DNA that some of their fragrances have. I was sorely disappointed by Greyland and Dark Aoud.
This has got some marine freshness which isn’t as strong as some fragrances (Millesime Imperial, DG Light Blue)
It also has a nice soft dry sandalwood to it which is nice. It’s very wearable. Safe for work. Safe for almost all casual occasions and I quite enjoy it, and it’s a deviation from my standard dry-woody-spicy fragrances that I so often gravitate towards.
A+ for me, I put a bottle on my want list 🙂
jevogupd – :
Generic , its the cousin of Nautica Voyage , i look somewhere else and never look back
gapur2009 – :
Really nothing to add that hasn’t already been said, but I’ll throw my two bits in anyways…
This really doesn’t feel like a Montale, let alone a sandalwood fragrance. There are some nice moments which pop through, but by and large this is just way too generic, and seems better suited to a department store, or even discount fragrance outlet.
The dominating “seawater” note is the same thing one would find in every scented men’s deodorant found in a drugstore.
This feels like a less potent version of Kenzo pour Homme, so as far as the dollar to millilitre to potency ratio goes the KpH is probably the better buy.
A far more interesting option as far as an aquatic Montale goes would be Aoud Forest, or even Embruns d’Essaouira. To my nose Santal Wood actually smells like a half-developed Embruns.
Danehahdzjeix – :
Thank you, Colin Maillard — was going to blind buy, but not now. It’s no wonder why BeautySpin had this so heavily discounted.
Kasperxxx – :
wow…disappointed. veeery disappointed. this smells like something bvlgari would’ve put out. generic ‘fresh’ scent with negligible sandalwood scent. this smells like the countless ‘joop’ varieties, which isn’t bad, just not the expected sandalwood. le sigh…
hrach66 – :
A rather dumb name “Santal Wood” which means Sandalwood Wood.
Aslont – :
@ alfarom – i agree with you.
Main “problem” with Montale’s perfumes that they have monster longevity. In this case it is really the problem coz we have to wait couple of hours to reach nice and pleasant drydown. In my opinion it isn’t worth doing this! We have to abide way too long with synthetic, generic and chemical scent. Once again Montale prove that his doing “love” (blac oud, attar, red vetyver) or hate “scents” ( white oud, fougeres marines).
loalaybreew – :
Montale does a sport fragrance. They have to be kidding us. A generic opening of fresh woods enriched by the typical sporty-aquatic vibe that we’re experiencing in most of the current designer’s masculines of the last ten years. Pepper and juniper included…Take the worst part of Gucci Envy for Men and mix it with any sport fragrance available on the market.
Things get definitely better during the drydown where Santal Wood verges towards the transparent woody-spicy territories already seen in Costume National Pour Homme and, say, Ormonde Man. The base is actually nice, not overly synthetic, radiant and well blended but, overall, the fragrance doesn’t have the ability to poperly stand out.
Not as bad as I initially thought yet somewhat of little interest.
Rating: 6.5/10
zverushka – :
!!
the right notes for santal wood are as follows:
Topnote: Nutmeg, Black Pepper, Juniper, Violet Leaves, Kardamom
Heartnote: Sandalwood, Atlas Cedarwood, Patchouly
Basenote: Frankincense, Ambergris!
I tested it 2day !!in my skin ;:sea water, juniper and oakmoss! ldidn´t smell any sandalwood!!!!! may be I should give it smoe time to try again 🙁 . for now it should be named 🙁 water see) aqua fresh montale !It is not bad!! but of course for its price, I would prefer another fresh perfume with less price!!
I give it 7.5/10 as a summer fragrance !
and 6.5/10 for the price.
int1651 – :
Just tried it, different from other Montale’s, a bit salty, santal is very present, more wearable by men than women but I could wear it, the sillage is tremendous!