Cannabis Santal (2006)
by Fresh

Nose candy for guys. Sweet, soft, and woody, no sharp or jagged edges, and only barely butched up by carefully-dosed vetiver, patchouli, dark chocolate, and coumarin. The "cannabis" smells more like hemp, if anything - a sweet, earthy, somewhat scratchy hay-like accord with a slight tang - and the (surely synthetic) sandalwood is a mere background player, nearly drowned out by the borderline-cloying stewed fruit at the top and the velvety patchouli and coumarin later on. Brings to mind chilly autumn nights, home-baked goods, and mulled wine by the fireplace, but with a nice undercurrent of earthy must to keep things interesting. Not an intellectual fragrance, and certainly not the most elegant on the counter, but it hits its mark and could have been SO much worse. I dig it, man.

2nd November, 2011.

Cannabis and patchouli hearken back to carefree days of late adolescence and early adulthood. And who doesn't like the smell of sandalwood? This should have been a winner.

Instead I could find none of the purported elements in this frag.

It started off slightly green and salty. It quickly moved to a sweaty sweet vanilla, which wasn't what I'd anticipated, but it was okay for a bit. Then it dried completely off into sugary buttercream cake frosting. I smelled like a pastry shop. An hour later it was still pretty strong, so if you like it, know that the oils [whatever they happen to be] are decent. I had to scrub it off.

It just isn't anything like what you would imagine by the name and description. Quite disappointing.

5th April, 2011.

I wore this perfume forever, I found it both intriguing but also comforting. It smells nothing like cannabis, but the name fits anyway at least as well as YSI opium fits.

Then one day it just smelled like alcohol, the magic had just disappeared, and after the first whiff it disintegrated into an irritatingly sweet buzz. I immediately rushed to the store and bought a new bottle, assuming mine had gone bad; but alas the new bottle also smelled like wine that had been left uncorked overnight.

Nonetheless, I must give Cannabis a thumbs up because it has such happy memories for me.

1st February, 2011.

I 'm not sure if I like this one. It's sweet, airy, cocoa/nutty with a tinge of lavender and patchouli I think. The notes are ok. (Not wowza!) But there is a kind of chemical sweet hiss that is the essential character of this thing that's a little juvenile and grating. The clutch of white-sugarness is what tips this into "I dunno..."

10th January, 2011.

It's fine, but why buy this when you could buy A*Men? They're very similar and where they differ, I always seem to prefer A*Men. Also, the 'cannabis' tag on the name is just to grab your attention as far as i can smell.

20th December, 2010.

I got strong rose, chocolate from this perfume- a little dark, a little heavy . Somewhat cloying but no cannabis.

1st June, 2010.