He Wood Rocky Mountain Wood (2009)
by Dsquared2

Great woody and spicy fragrance.
First of all, very beautiful and unique bottle.
At the opening you can smell incense, black pepper and woods. great opening.
In the dry down you can smell floral mixed with stronger pepper and also weaker incense and woods also.
Beautiful and natural scent from the opening to the base.
Great projection and good longevity with this fragrance.
One of my favorites.

24th January, 2012.

He Wood Rocky Mountain by Dsquared2 - In the enchanting opening, one is treated to a cloud of white pepper, carrying a lovely, cool violet and refreshing, creamy lily. A strong heart with its brawny duet of cedarwood and vetiver makes one sense a wet forest, and carries off the floral accord to join its soothing base. Seguing to that drydown, a melange of warm amber, smoky incense and sensual musk overlay the woody and floral accords. This floral, incense and woody fragrance is one of the best outdoors scents, and is a very versatile fragrance. Wonderfully, the longevity and projection are both excellent.

14th November, 2011.

Like I wrote in some thread about this fragrance, it really captures ehm well the name "rocky mountain wood".... It really makes me think of a forest, that's wet in some way, with mountains or rocky hills.
Reminds me quite a bit of spring or fall here in Sweden, when you no longer need to wear to much clothes or you enjoy the last "warm & sunny" days (10Celsius or so, still bit chilly ofcourse) me walking through the local forests.......not much special about them but sometimes the air smell quite nice.........again like the name says.

I can't say whether this is a more "happy" than "depressing" a fragrance....

Also I don't think it's groundbreaking, I think it's a tad boring for MY taste, but h*ell this smells great..I just have gotten an addiciton for more strange and in different ways in-your-face-fragrances. Even for me one day I might just buy this.
I think anyone no matter age could wear this easily mature 13year old to 99 year old.

Lasting power for me is good, but sillage/projection fades after 3 hours. That's just me though. Anyway this can be found quite cheap nowadays.

(Based on 2-3 full wears, and a few spritses on my wrist now and again)

Nice to see a fragrance release that, to me at least, captures something so nicely.

10th October, 2011.

This starts out much weaker, dustier, and less sweet than the original. It's definitely more serious about resembling wet wood, though...in that sense the original was way too green and flowery. It's still a bit synthetic, though not as much as the original, or as l'Eau d'Issey Intense, which I reviewed recently and also found to be a nice, dirty, wet wood. Only after some time do the sweet green violets, which were so prominent in the orignal, come into play somewhat, and this gives it just the right balanced amount of sweetness. It's actually a very good walking-through-the-forest scent, and it took me a while to realize that because it's the scent of a much wetter, colder forest than the dry, sunny ones that I'm used to here in the southwest. In spite of its weakness, this flanker lives up to its name better than the original, and I'm very curious to try the new Ocean Wet Wood and Silver Wind Wood flankers. I'd almost give it a thumbs-up for being less synthetic, and overlook the weakness, but I won't because I'm so sick of violets these days, and the juice is so darkly colored.

5th September, 2011.

A very natural smelling fragrance, where at the beginning we can feel a pleasant woody aroma which through time mixes with some floral notes. Anyway, a subtle and relaxing fragrance. The only thumbs down is that on my skin this one doesn't last.

21st August, 2011.

A BIG thumbs up on this one from me. The top notes are OK, but uninspiring. My first reaction was "why all the hype on this one?" Then came the mid and base notes... Very nice cedar/flinty scent that lasts and lasts. Every time I wear RMW, I like it a bit more, and such a great value too at discounted prices online... Definitely five stars overall and value-wise from me.

25th July, 2011.