Cannabis Santal by Fresh, 2006

A great surprise indeed! What a hidden gem. Cannabis Santal despite the name has no cannabis in it. Instead we have a lovely chocolate/patchouli/plum option to the designer Angel Men. Here as a friend said and I quote, we have a green A* men which is much more versatile and easy to the nose. Great silage and longevity in this edp fragrance which is very under the radar. A must try in my opinion.

Chocolate, patchouli, fruit, and a hint of sandalwood make this a pleasant little concoction. There's also a bit of a synthetic edge to this which makes it smooth and glossy. Unfortunately there's no cannabis in here, but I suppose that's for the best. I like it.

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.

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.

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.

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..."

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.

this fragrance is a perfect example of how seasonality (weather and mood) affect olfactory perception. i bought this scent last spring, when it was getting warm (60's-70's), yet remained jackety, here in nyc. back then, from beneath the earthy acridity of the cannabis accord came through the warmth of the gourmand basenotes: arresting the two in a dizzyingly pleasurable tension. what made this so wonderful was that it allowed me to smell chocolatey, but not overly so: the gourmand sweetness was pierced through with an earthiness that itself seemed to correspond with the renewing springtime vegetation...... that was last spring. now, however, in the dead of an urban winter, i'm not getting the warmth, the bottom of chocolate, anymore. i'm only getting an acridity that doesn't make much sense to me right now. i absolutely LOVE this scent, but only in the spring and fall: it's not warm enough for the winter or fresh enough for the dead of summer.

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

I really love this Eau de Parfum! It is very masculine, spicy, smoky, sweet and incense. Cannabis Santal opens with a spicy-sweetness, then blossoms into a sweet, smoky, ashy incense, not the tar, burnt used incense but the kind that is softly filling the air of a shrine. The dry down is of a sweet powder, not cloyingly so, but soft; the sweetness is a constant role through the life of this scent. This cologne displays nothing of it's namesake...it does not show any of it's herbaceous character. I find this cologne to be very masculine rather than unisex.
The sillage is better than average and the longevity is about the same, a little better than average. This is a versatile cologne. You can wear this to multiple functions such as a nice dinner-date, formal function, into work, on the weekends, to clubs, a sport shirt or a polo. I highly recommend this fragrance, a must buy!