Wood - Spices
by Montale

it's radioactive polar bear urine for the first 20 minutes, but the rest is fragrance heaven. No1 compliment getter.

12nd January, 2012.

a great disappointment ((( very sweet and bland. i can't feel anything woody (well, spicy either). a bad 'feminine oriental' perfume.

12nd June, 2011.

I rarely scrub and I scrubbed this off.
A sweet synthetic blob.
I think I threw up in my mouth a little.

12nd March, 2011.

Worse than air freshener - this has the nauseating, syntheticky sweetness of a product sold to mask unpleasant hospital odors (NILodor, specifically). I get cardamom and orange blossom, mostly. Vile. Can't comment on the drydown, only stuck it out for 10 minutes.

10th March, 2010.

The sour, metallic opening is so utterly hideous that it's hard to keep Wood-Spices on long enough to evaluate! Possibly the most vile, disgusting top notes I have ever encountered. I'm not sure that any development is worth enduring this stench, but I persist with the same morbid curiosity that drives motorists to gawk at pileups on the highway.

The sour note eventually resolves into something resembling citrus, but only in the way a cheap room air freshener does. If possible, the accords become even more abrasively chemical as they age. Heavens help me, this gunk also has terrific projection and sillage, and I'm afraid I will be smelled in the next room.

Uncle! I can't do it anymore! I've worn Wood-Spices for 30 minutes and I cannot endure the torture...must...must...scrub it off...

5th January, 2010.

Okay, so maybe the wood is not so prominent after all. And maybe they could have come up with a bit more creative name. But having said that, whenever I wear this I always get compliments. I like it - it's rich and warm, and definitely spicy - great for Fall or Winter. And if you can get past the thoughtless name, this is at least worth trying.

20th November, 2009.