Wood Sage & Sea Salt
Jo Malone London (2014)

This is a fresh floral marine scent with a touch of saltiness. It doesn't evoke a dirty beach or a seaweed-filled coast. Instead, the citrusy and mineral notes prevent it from being too oceanic, creating a crisp and clean coastal breeze vibe. While this may be one of the best from the Jo Malone line, its weak performance makes it hard to justify a full bottle. Given its type, low performance is expected. It lacks the spices of Epice Marine, the ambery woody bases of designer blue scents, or the heavy dose of calone found in some aquatics.

While unisex, it may lean a bit feminine due to the softness added by the sage. Marine fragrances are hard to assign a gender to, but the sage does give it a feminine leaning.

Overall, this scent is nothing groundbreaking, but it is still a lovely and relaxing scent that is worth trying if you visit your local Sephora.

Jo Malone's Wood Sage and Sea Salt Cologne captures the spirited crisp of a north English coastline and its body of minerals, driftwood and saltwater wisps; creating a scent story as soothing as its inspiration. This is a fragrance that is essentially pink and gray in essence like the natural colour of sea salt and bedrock it beautifully emulates; emanating cool whiffs of briny air, sulfuric moisture of red algae, camphorous woods and stony edges... Truly, an imagining that note-wise may suggest a green aquatic but delightfully far and wide from that sort. It can be collectively likened to a creamy and cool spa treatment, raised by its minor hints of buchu leaf, rounded plum, dried fruit, giving the greater sum of its parts, sage, seawood, grapefruit, and ambrette a full radiance that is ethereal, peachy clean and ozonic. The sage, in particular, with its mentholated drift carries an uplifting weight to the saline heart, offering a natural earthy depth to the accord. Surely, this is an ambient signature for warmer climate that fares well for a cologne with its soft sillage and longevity, especially on clothing. Simply, a gender bender that is intimate as hovering thoughts among gray pebbles, damp sand, driftwood, herbal shrubs, sea mists, cool air of a northern sea... Riveting!

Thumbs up for the scent alone but the performance is not great.

Really nice grapefruit opening that quickly evolves into a slightly sweet, citrus-floral-woody scent with a minor tea note. Very calm and pleasant.

I always thought of this as a feminine scent but wearing it more, it feels unisex to me.

Very light projection and doesn't last long, maybe 4-5 hours.

The restrained wood and the dominating sea salt hit me straight from the beginning. A marine opening due to a fresh ambrette-base crispness, as if and old wooden boat is drying out in the beach. And added green herbal undertone - sage with whiffs of leaves - mixes with the aroma of sea weed.

Added freshness is provided by an overarching grapefruit impression with the occasional whiff of lemon, especially at the beginning.

I get moderate sillage, good projection and four hours of longevity on my skin.

A nice and summery marine scent that is crafted well. Unlike some other creations of this house that often designs its fragrances for layering, this one is nicely wearable on its own. 3/5.

I have sampled a lot of jo malone. Never liked them enough to pull the trigger on a full bottle. Got this one as a gift, and i must say its better than most i have tried. Id say this along with lime and basil are probably the best of the lot. But even then there is a generic almost designer quality to it. The ingredients dont seem at par with other niche offerings in its price bracket. I dont really get any woodsiness, but a rather sweet salty aquatic inoffensive but unextraodinary perfume that can get cloying if overapplied. But like another review earlier mentioned its also quite fleeting if underapplied. Like with a lot of her newer offerings in the hermes lineup, christine nagel plays it safe, almost too safe!

Bright citrus (lemon I'm guessing, and grapefruit) opening, aquatic and extremely light. Very, very light: as in, dries down to a skin scent in 15 minutes light. As in, disappears from your skin completely in an hour or two light. I get sea salt, yes: and slight florals such as the sage and possibly lavender. Almost no wood, however: if it's there it is gone as quickly as it started.

Completely forgettable, performance is absolutely terrible: unforgivably bad. Maybe the worst I've had yet in a fragrance. Hard to even make a complete evaluation when I have scent that dissipates so quickly. What more can I say?

2/10