Green Wood
Santolina is the material that makes Dsquared2 Green Wood Eau de Toilette worth a sniff. It is a silvery Mediterranean herb, bitter and camphorous, closer to a crushed shrub than to anything you would find in a bottle of designer cologne.
Lemon opens the fragrance with a thin, bright sharpness and bourbon pepper gives it a hot dry crackle, but the santolina is already there underneath, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. The middle is short and deliberate, just vetiver and cedarwood, one rooty and faintly ashy, the other dry and clean, and together they turn the herbal opening towards wood without softening it. The base keeps that discipline. Ambroxan adds a mineral, slightly salty warmth, cypriol brings a dark, almost smoky earthiness, and musk pulls the whole thing in against the body. Seven materials, which makes this a tightly built composition rather than a complicated one. There is no dramatic turn to wait for, and what you smell at twenty minutes is broadly what you get for the next three or four hours. Projection is moderate and the drydown is dry and skin close. It arrived in 2019, and within the Wood family it is the austere one, better suited to spring and autumn than to high summer. It reads as masculine without being aggressive, and it suits men who would rather smell like a hillside than like a fruit bowl.
The label behind it is Italian based, founded in 1995 by Dean and Dan Caten, twins born in Canada who had settled in Milan in 1992 and built a reputation on denim, sportswear and a taste for excess. The perfumes are made by an outside licensee.
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