Agua de Sandalo
Adolfo Dominguez (2004)

This one has a personality. It stand out elegantly from the sweet-aquatic-mass produced cologne nowadays. It's much more natural and simple but not linear at all. Rosewood, sandalwood and peppery notes are the dominant and bring up an airy and light aroma which is very enjoyable. Sadly, it stays too close to skin and last 2 hours at best on me. What a shame...

Clean, wet sandalwood that feels a little sweet and peppery. A little flowery. A nice fragrance but doesn't hold my interest for very long.

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, though I love the latter while this is merely fair. Both are well-crafted blends in which actual sandalwood or vetiver are not dominant, both are incredibly clean and fresh (as castopollux points out for Sandalo), both exude a refined, understated elegance and masculinity. While Vetiver hombre is a perfect fragrance in my book, with the bonus of evoking childhood memories, this gets only three stars because I am disappointed in the top notes, the "watery" aspect of which comes across as shriekingly synthetic to me - there is this awful onion rubbed on aluminum note a certain material always evokes. The drydown, soft clean wood wrapped in silky transparent floral notes, is quite beautiful. It is, however, more of an abstract wood than a genuine sandalwood note, or rather: we are dealing with a nicer version of synthetics than at the top. I have cooled off on this fragrance since discovering better sandalwoods and because my tolerance for certain synthetics is diminishing. My wife loves the drydown of this, however, and since she hates most of my perfumes, that alone is a significant reason for keeping it in the wardrobe. This my sound luke warm, but in the end Myrurgia's concoction is still an excellent designer scent that leaves many better known brands in the dust. 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!.