Tam Dao Diptyque for women and men

This is an amazing scent.Hope my review can help.I can tell I have tried a lot of parfum in my young life of 30 now. Also I worked in a sensory lab for a short time and my nose is mostly very sensitive to some smells and odors.
I bought it in Germany but dont remember the price.After comparing it to Wonderwood by CdC this one was more outstanding. I like Sandal Wood and Woody Notes. Here they become dark and sweet the longer you wear it.Very Unisex. In the end it is like Dark Chocolate. Very sexy and smoky. Good for the club... but it is not long lasting.Sadly.Forget the Club. Try it for Dinnertime in a nice Restaurant. you should compare it with Armani Prive OUD ROYAL. Some similarity here but Tam Dao can not beat OUD ROYAL in the most categorys.
Well.It has a soso longevity,ok!Some get maybe a headache of the strong woody notes. Well still the best Diptyque has to offer by now.Hands down.

scent: 8,5/10
longevity: 6/10

Lovely perfume. It shares many similarities with my beloved Serge Lutens Feminitie du Bois, as, in both of them, one of the main notes is Cedre. Both sweet, elegant, scentual but, if i had to choose one it would still be the SL one, which i find more interesting and better done. Tam dao is sweet (that strange sweetness of cedar which is nothing like candy sweet, or chocolate, etc..nothing edible) i'd say less sweet than feminitie and way more spicy, but both scents share a common base of woody sweetness and both are built up arround the prominent cedar note (a note that, int he other hand, is very distinctive by itself..), so yes...pretty similar specially in the draydown.

About longevity and sillage, i have to test it more, but so far the couple of sprays i did in my hand about 1h ago are starting to fade...which is not such good news. SL Feminitie du bois is no doubt stronger and has better projection, and i'd also say better sillage.

I like ii? hell yes..delicious. I'll buy it? having already the SL one i don't think it is worth as they are very similar...maybe a 50 ml bottle..but just because i want every perfume in the earth! haha!

This scent is very creamy that starts off with a nice spicy, woody edge at the top which fades away very quick i would say about ten minutes but doesn't completely dissapear, you can smell the spice there after the first ten minutes but its very feint also with the spice there is a mild sweet note im guessing thats the rose mixing with the nice creamy sandlewood. In the end your left with a very nice creamy scent which has a slight trace of spice and sweetness. i wouldn't have minded if Diptyque did make the rose note alittle stronger but it is still perfect. For me its the best creamy scent i have ever smelt. this scent smells different if you put your nose to the skin and try to smell the notes compared to putting some on and than letting the scent tell it's story. I see this scent being quite meture and has an artistic feel to it. for me if you like it wear it, i can't see anyone in there late teens or early twenties enjoying the scent if they do they have an excellent nose. Best time to use this scent would be year round, although would not reccomend in a very hot day. Sillage of the scent is actualy good for the first 1-2 hours. Lasting power of the scent is between 4-6 hours and a skin scent after that.Bottle design is amazing and sprayer is excellent.

9.5/10

I held off testing my array of Diptyque samples for quite some time, and I'm afraid that I started with the wrong one: TAM DAO. To my nose, this is an incense scent, pure and simple. The good news is that it lacks the asbestos quality which I've encountered in a the incense offerings of a couple of houses, notably Comme des Garçons. The bad news is that I just don't find this one very interesting. TAM DAO is a dark woody incense composition which holds potential but lacks the base notes that make for great orientals. I'm not detecting any benzoin, resins, musk, or much of anything else here. Just a solution of powdered incense. If that's what you're looking for, then you might like this a lot, though I should say that the longevity is not great (predictably enough).

My own preference is for incense ensconced in a significantly more perfume-y base. Incense alone is not enough to hold my interest. Désolée.

All Diptyque perfumes are amazing creations, every one of them offers a different olfactory experience which is quite surprisingly true to the concept and the name. Tam Dao is the smell of Angkor Wat, the famous ancient temple in Cambodia, the rain forests, smell of the monsoon rains, oh and amazing, distinctive sandalwood... It so successfully evokes a scene like all Dipytques that I'm actually undecided about the wearability of it. It's like smell, imagine and fly... On skin, what can I say, it's just unique, different.. I also must say, I detect an unlisted note in Tam Dao which pleasantly surprises me: It's camphor, and eucalyptus!

Acquisto fatto dopo averlo annusato, provato e riprovato. Come tante delle creazioni diptyque la nota principale è poi quella preponderante. Come dire.. profumi a senso unico. In questo caso l'immagine è quella della foresta di sandali; questo è inevitabilmente vero. Eccezionali le note di testa, sono caldissime e intriganti, direi esotiche. Un giorno mi è parso di sentirci pure il profumo di pane del fornarolo sotto casa e da allora ogni volta che lo indosso lo individuo e me lo godo.
Per il resto, anzi il resto è il sandalo, non quello delle saponette però.

Ultimamente l'ho un po' abbandonato. Non so.. ci sento un che di polveroso ma non nel senso della cipra. Mi riferisco alla polvere di casa, proprio quella che ti gratta le narici. Sono deciso a riprovare ora che viene il freddo.

In generale è un prodotto particolare, da provare prima dell'acquisto soprattutto se chi lo compra non ha ben chiaro il profumo di sandalo (no saponetta, no incenso..:) )

I just received this wonderful, my dreams can come true, scent! Woods, incense, everything I like and then some!

Tam Dao smells to me mainly of good incense ! I do smell sandalwood (reminds me of a soap we had when I was a child). I get the musk, Amber, myrtle, very scant rose - but little else! I don't really know what I was expecting but this isn't it! Quality perfume - but, unfortunately, not for me this time as I find it headache inducing!

Tam Dao = Kenzo Jungle Homme!

Tam Dao is lived up to expectations. Great unisex fragrance, a sensual embrace.
Amazing mixture of the spices( ginger, cardamom and pink pepper I feel), cedar and sandalwood on me,and I really feel some sulphurous thermal water touch in it!.:)This salty undertone makes this scent individual and give some tranquilizer feeling.

The sillage is subtle, some people will smell it other won't. Lasting power is EXCELLENT on my skin. It makes me feel very comfortable. The top notes smell like a very nice room spray, but the musky dry down is divine.

I tried this one out last night for the first time, and I am in love. It starts out fresh with a hint of floral sweetness, but then just melts into the heady lushness of the gorgeous Sandalwood, and finishes with intense Amber that lingers and lingers. I could smells this on myself all night, with only a few dabs on my skin at the beginning of the evening. It's just so special.

A comfort blanket in liquid form. My Rescue Remedy of the perfume world. Like opening a beautiful wooden box, climbing inside and curling up into a ball. Warm, woody and creamy. I find it a very 'round' fragrance if that makes any sense. It lasts all day and evening on me and a stranger told me the other night he thought it "very intriguing". One of my favourites of all time.

Tam Dao is all about woods. Quite soft, warm, delicate. I feel drawn to it because it almost has a texture- that of hot wood that cracks in the heat of the sun.You can almost feel the cracks with your fingers and smell the heat. At the same time it is a scent of paper- book left in the sun. It is slightly powdery, like saw dust.

It is a simple fragrance, but yet so beautiful. On the stay for a longer while, at least 4 hours or so. It creates a nice, summery, warm atmosphere which I really appreciate. I can see it as a perfect 'work' scent- I can't see how it could offend anyone, and despite being quite transparent, has quite a lot of character.

I love this! I really must get some more! On me, it's smoky and mysterious with a hint of spice. Just gorgeous! Reminds me of balmy nights in tropical climates.

Bizarre morrocan bazaar. Joss sticks in a bottle, but really posh joss sticks, lit in a luxe hippy penthouse somewhere. The Gettys pretending to be Mongolian in a yurt and live a simple life, albeit with all mod cons.

Beautiful soft sandalwood fragrance. The top has a slight touch of fresh cypress but this scent is very linear. It's sandalwood throughout the life on my skin. It's like someone took some sandalwood essential oil and thinned it out a little bit. It's very smooth and has the perception of sitting like a velvet blanket on my skin. This one sits closer to the skin. I would have liked more power from this fragrance. Longevity on me 6-8 hours.

It took using almost a whole bottle of this to realize that I just didn't like wearing it. I respect Tam Dao for what it is.....a linear sandalwood. I don't really detect all of the other notes except for the cedar and the rose, which I think makes this fragrance too sweet. In the end, it became a room spray. I think it made a much better home fragrance. A certain smokiness appeared when not on the skin. It was just like burning sandalwood incense.

I had gotten a sample of this fron Luckyscent.com, my favorite place to go for my niche scents. I love sandalwood, but I was disappointed. It smelled like nothing. I detected one note that I could not identify and then 5 minutes later: Nothing. I'm glad I only ordered the sample.

I visited the boutique and wasn't impressed with this fragrance. It smelled only like wood, was very boring, almost like one note of sandalwood. It actually reminds me of going to a cheap furniture store and buying unfinished wood. It only lasted 20 minutes before I couldn't smell a trace of it. The salesperson gave me a sample to take home. I tried it over and over again and got the same impression each and every time. I'm shocked at how expensive this scent is given its very poor quality.

In the very beginning Tam Dao smells slightly green and rice-like, an interesting combination, but within minutes dries down to a monolithic synthetic-smelling sandalwood that completely stifles any other notes. As time goes on, cedar makes its appearance and the sandalwood warms up and seems very natural. The whole thing is actually quite nice in a linear sort of way, but then I’m a big sandalwood lover. There’s plenty of sillage for the first few hours, but the scent gradually fades away over the course of 5-6 hours. This is first and foremost a naturalistic sandalwood scent straight up, so if you like sandalwood it’s worth a try.

Tam Doa is a truly genderless scent as it would not be out of place on anyone.

This fragrance is very different from what I imagined it to be before I had a chance to sample it. I was expecting a clean wood scent but Tam Doa's sandalwood is actually very warm. Once it settels I swear I can smell incense... It's not quite powdery but it certainly borders on it. Perhaps this is the rose's influence?

I appreciate Tam Doa because it's different from main stream fragrances and over all it is very pleasant. It has medium silliage and great lasting power. If I owned a bottle I would find lots of opportunity to wear it. However I do not LOVE Tam Doa enough to actually splurge and buy some for myself.

more masculine than feminine.Lots of cypress and little incense

well. I love sandalwood. Every sandalwood lover below was singing odes to this perfume. But i dont get any! I got the cypress and cedar wood melting together, forming DILL. I love the smell of dill but maybe not so much in a perfume.
I might like to sniff this on a man though.

This perfume is so rare because it has such a light touch, but it lasts on me forever.

When I first apply it, I get only sandlewood, then after 15 minutes I get cedar. For those of you who love wood, particularly sandlewood, you must try this. Its such an authentic sandlewood scent, nothing synthetic smelling about this one.

After about an hour or two, the musk begins to show up and stick around with the woods.

The problem I have with this scent is, while I love sandlewood and cedar, I dont want to just smell like sandlewood and cedar. I get no other notes from this. Nothing floral, nothing else.

I think this scent is a good one for layering tho.

I love sandalwood- but apparently not all by itself with additional cedar notes. All I got on this one was a clean cedar closet- kept sniffing for flowers and found none. It's not terrible but I don't want to smell of straight up wood-oh well

I just received a sample of this fragrance. It is a very clean scent on me. I like the sandalwood and the musk. These are the strongest notes on me. Really like this one....

I don't know why Diptyque's scents are declared as uni-sex, as those I know are far too masculine even for the most androgynous girl. This one, for instance, is wonderful for good-looking intellectuals. Truly original, it's supposed to make people curious about you and your ideas.

I'm in love with woody scents and sandalwood is my favorite one. I've been looking for a good blended sandalwood perfume and there it was! Very pricey, but i bought it without hesitation. Loved that unique idea of naming, bottle design too.
It gives me such warm and nice mood. If I found some guy who wear this, I'd probably fall in love with him. Love it!

This scent is very very appealing but for some reason I would not wear it as personal scent for myself. It's unisex, but I'd rather smell it on a man, because it's a tribute to sandalwood in its best form. All other notes are complementary and they play around sandalwood to conjure an image of spiritual young man with a tan wearing leather pants.
I also smell cypress which I really like and a good rate musk. Great scent! Almost mystical.

I am 19 or so, feeling older and wiser than my years. At a café called 'The Good Karma," sitting cross-legged on the creaky wooden floor, I sip herbal tea with my friends. In a few moments the music will start. Who was the band? Something acoustic I can't remember, but here's the guy in Earth Shoes and a waist-long pony tail, about to make some announcements. I'm wearing sandalwood and musk from a head shop. My scent mingles with spice of various teas, and the dry, herbal odors brought in on denim skirts and jeans, cotton halter tops, and flannel shirts. Pony-tail Man leaves the stage. We applaud, stirring up a roomful of sillage that has no name : I could have called it "Tam Dao."

I love sandalwood so I was naturally drawn to this one. I get no rose at all in the top notes-on me this is not a floral scent in any way, shape, or form! Instead, it is sandalwood and soft musk blended with very gentle and light spices. It is a perfume that you have to get close to smell-it warms on the body and is not a 'statement' perfume that hits the room before you do. If you like sandalwood in a calm, warm form, this is one for you to try. I believe you will like it.

I have given a second try to this fragance and it has pleased me a lot. Now I can get sandalwood and even cypress.
I have to try it on my skin but I am considering seriously to buy a full bottle of this.
Really good.

Edited in June 2010:

I own a bottle and now I can say it is simply wonderful.
The opening notes of cypress and myrtle always impress me, and the quiet, meditative drydown is quite unique.
Like other Fragrantica members have said, I can imagine Tam Dao as an intelligent, shy and spiritual young man who loves to read about different cultures, and has a hidden, adventurous heart.

By far, it's the most representative sandalwood perfume !!!

It's a shame I can't smell all its notes. I only get pepper, lots of pepper. However, it manages to be fresh and wearable.

Sandalwood. On my skin, Tam Dao is all about the sandalwood. It doesn't seem to have a whole lot of sillage on me. It just stays close to my skin, but it did last all day. I don't much smell the roses in it. Just sandalwood.