Sandalo Lorenzo Villoresi for women and men

NOt the best sandalwood,
i can feel something like glue
bitter in a bad way
it remember me layer of parquet

Thanks to some very savvy and generous European perfumistas (wink wink Rebella) I've had a chance to become familiar with this house.

I now realize that Villoresi has his own signature, and honestly I think I could pick one of his creations out from a line up.

The man likes his lavender. I know htis is listed as an Oriental Woody but to me it is an woody aromatic, which all of his scents tend to smell like to me.

Sandalwood is one of my favorite bases, and you'd have to bend over backwards to ruin this for me. Sandalo takes an interesting twist with the citrus and rosewood opening. Four hours after applying I'm left with a sweeter opponax and labdanum accord (i.e., hte heaver oakmoss and patchouli arne't stickign out), with a very citrusy sweet dry down

Is Villoresi's flair my thing? Not really. While it doesn't turn me off and I certainly can't say anything bad about it, I like darker and more complex finishes.

Villoresi, in my opinion, is a man's perfumer. His scents on my female chemistry don't sparkle, but i suspect that they might on a man.

The most meditative fragrance I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Perhaps as close to a holy grail as I will ever come, and this quite literally: warm, comforting, tempering, fortifying, Sandalo is virtually a pocket-size religion. The spiritual dimension and ritualistic importance of several key ingredients support this bold claim. I find the sandalwood to be an immediate presence here and the oils grouped around it serve to emphasize its calmly uplifting woody sweetness rather than the harsher, pungent aspects equally latent in this mysterious Mysore wonder. You will find very different sandalwoods, but none better than Villoresi's intellectual and emotional masterpiece.

This is one of the most vile sandalwood scents i've ever sensed. Actually the name seems very wrong, i cant detect any sandalwood( at least made in a recognisable manner).It starts with a very unnatractive orange citrus note but i never judge a scent by it's top notes.Then the citrus part became more floral, like neroli and propably rock rose. The worst part though is the drydown an intense bourbon whiskey like ambery burnt dessert with a hideous bitter incense layer. I don't know if it's my skin or my imagination or there's something very wrong with this one!