Reviews of Agua de Sandalo (2004)
by Adolfo Dominguez

A beautiful composition. An airy, woodsy fragrance that surrounds the sandalwood with luxurious notes. I bought a bottle in Mexico City, but I am having problems locating it here in the states, along with Vetiver Hombre. This is one of the most gorgeous masculine fragrances I've ever worn.

Very much the Sandalwood complement to Dominguez' Vetiver hombre. Both are masterful blends in which actual sandalwood or vetiver are not dominant, both are incredibly clean and fresh (as castopollux points out for Sandalo), both exude an incredibly refined, understated elegance and masculinity. While Vetiver hombre is a perfect fragrance in my book, this gets only four stars because I am a little disappointed in the top notes, the "watery" aspect of which comes across as somewhat too synthetic to me. The drydown, soft clean wood wrapped in silky transparent floral notes, is utterly addictive. It is, however, more of a cedary than a sandalwood note, in my opinion, or rather: we are dealing with (very well employed and high quality) synthetics. I truly love this fragrance, but it is on a different plane than Villoresi's divine Sandalo, which will give you an appreciation of what true Mysore sandalwood blended with rosewood smells like (LV Sandalo is my holy grail for a good reason). Nonetheless, Myrurgia's concoction is an excellent designer scent that leaves many better known brands in the dust. It is one of the few fragrances I paid full retail for - with no regrets - which says a lot about how much I like it. I have said it before and will say it again, that perfume afficionados are missing some very fine fragrances if they fail to seek out the Adolfo Dominguez line, difficult as it may be to find it beyond the borders of Spain.

Adolfo domingues creates, generally speaking, wonderfully fresh fragrances and this one is no different.
The top consists of bergamot, mandarine, violet leaves and some kind of water notes, the mid becomes a spicier but still fresh combo of nutmeg and ginger, and it has a base of sandalwood (of course) ,cedar, rosewood and musk. The thing here, is that as fresh as this scent is, you can still smell the wonderful sandalwood all over the place, and it’s such a nice and clean, clear sandalwood.
Forget those incense or even those vanilla bases of many sandalwood scents, this one is the sharpest of them all.
A summer scent like the best of them. Wonderful for the beach.
Even though I have always seen sandalwood as a masculine smell, this one is loved by women as well so it’s safe to say that it’s an unisex scent in that way: it’s just too fresh for anyone else to even consider what gender must be applied here. And that is fine by me. On me, the sandalwood adjusts to a masculine tone, and on women, I have smelled more the rosewood and flowery bits. I got a big bottle!.