Carlos Santana for Men (2005)
by Carlos Santana

Smells Like a pumpkin pie on the beach in spring for half an hour then turns into 1 million for the rest of the life of the frag which is about 3 hours on my skin. Crappy atomizer, short life, and low sillage holds it back but i give it an 8. The opening is where it shines.

1st December, 2011.

Great fragrance..bought it blindly based on reviews..but I'm not dissappointed either..the opening is a bit sweet..but once it settles down it is just fantastic..perfectly blended..longevity and sillage are good..

29th June, 2011. (Last Edited: 5th August, 2011.)

Bought this blind based on the reviews and really like this fragrance. To put it simply it's 1 Million without the nasty tobacco and leather notes. Sillage and Longevity are very good, but it's not the jet blast you get with 1 Million which is a good thing. Great buy and the best celebrity fragrance by far.

17th April, 2011.

Well, I do love Carlos Santana's music.....my dad raised me on those first three Santana albums.

Concerning the fragrance, I received this as a Christmas gift a few years ago, and instantly liked it a lot - not one of my top favorites or anything groundbreaking, but a wonderful celebrity fragrance. Red is an accurate color to distinguish this juice by; cinnamon, apples, vanilla and musk conjure up images of Christmas or fall and apple pie. For the first half hour, at least on me, the vanilla and musk sort of intertwine with the apple to create a delicious little Maraschino cherry-accord. Definitely a cold weather fragrance. I smell a bit of nutmeg as well, but cinnamon is the big spice here - a sweet, spicy sillage monster for the first half hour, at the most, but it eventually dries down, becomes not as spicy, closer to the skin, and reveals a sexy base of musk and woods. Remains sweet throughout, albeit masculine. Lasts 4 to 6 hours on me, probably my favorite celebrity fragrance so far besides the similar (in color, scent, bottle shape, and ethnicity!) Spirit by Antonio Banderas..

8th October, 2010.

This is a very nice fragrance from start to finish,I think anyone who gives this a try will be surprised how good it smells a definite sleeper.

17th July, 2010.

I went blind on this one, I usually do well when making blind buys, but this one was just ok to me. Then again I've only been wearing it for 3 days, so maybe it's too early for a review.. but I just don't see myself liking this much more.

To me it opens up like apples & coconut, and actually smells like a uni frag. It's a very synthetic opening not nearly as delicious as the the apple opening in Nicole Miller. The apples in Carlos Santana quickly dry down and vanish within 10 minutes and it turns into a somewhat cloying and very powdery fragrance from there on out. As some others have said, longevity is 2-4 hours, but what's odd is that others can smell me still for hours to come, when I smell absolutely nothing. LITERALLY I smell nothing. The bottle is nice, but the cap is a b*tch to get off.. it's best to not close the cap to a snap, and just leave it staying on top and not actually snapped close.

Is Carlos Santana worth it? It's definitely not worth the retail price. I got a 3.4 oz for about 16 bucks and I'm a little disappointed at that price. I think it's a cheap fragrance, highly synthetic smelling and the biggest bottle isn't worth more than 12 bucks. 15-16 is a push, do not pay more than this.

Overall it isn't horrible, the dry down is a little better, my opinions may change, but as for now.. it's just an average cologne. This is not really a gourmand, more of a sweet oriental.

10th May, 2010.