Palo Santo Sage (Eau de Parfum) by Being Frenshe

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Palo Santo Sage Being Frenshe 2010 Eau de Parfum

7.3 / 10 33 Ratings

A perfume by Being Frenshe for women and men, released in 2010. The scent is woody-resinous. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Resinous

Oriental

Smoky

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Leather

Oud

Saffron

Weathered Popsicle

Heart Notes

Haitian vetiver

Himalaya cedar

Mysore sandalwood

Base Notes

Gaiac wood

White musk

Ambergris

Ratings

Scent

7.333 Ratings

Longevity

7.930 Ratings

Sillage

7.330 Ratings

Bottle

6.751 Ratings

Value for money

7.319 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 12/02/2024.

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Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/01/2022

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

2

Montale / Bakhoor

A unique, twisted and niche WORK.
For me, it is less incense (I rather don't associate it with classic incense, but rather with some smoke ... something burnt, but it is difficult for me to find any associations).
Once upon a time, someone ... I think when describing Dark Aoud (Montale) wrote about railway sleepers, lubricants, a workshop - and for me this is the smell.
Wooden (of various types of wood) railway sleepers, a wooden workshop smelling of grease, wooden blocks under the wheels and chassis, a slightly smoky and veeery dry smell (very well describing the word 'dry' as Zanzibar37 wrote).
To sum up - if you like such fragrances, including Dark Aoud (Montale), Kabul (Montale), Black Tourmaline (Olivier Durbano) - it's worth trying, and whether to have ... it's a personal matter, because it's not a fancy guy.
If I had to compare it to something that is closest in smell, in my opinion: Dark Aoud and Kabul.
A niche with a capital N.

12/16/2018

5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

MajorTom
100 Reviews

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MajorTom

Helpful Review 6

Raw and wild!

Montale refers to one of its new 2018 fragrance creations as raw and wild.

And that captures it, unfortunately especially at the beginning, completely from my perspective.

Because I really don’t know how to describe this top note. While I was left somewhat perplexed, my daughters commented something along the lines of, "Wow, you smell terrible" or "Eww, that’s really disgusting." Well, I am still searching for the right words, as the opening is so sharp (in the literal sense) that it takes your breath away. Domestos? It has a certain resemblance. Vinegar cleaner? No, much more aggressive, somehow caustic. Mentally back in chemistry class 30 years ago... Nitric acid??? Whatever, the scent was on my skin, so there was no changing it anyway. Mentally checked off. Even after 15-20 minutes, that piercing, unpleasant sensation remains.

And then, after about an hour, the surprise. The scent becomes almost mild compared to the opening. The heart note reveals resins and woods; I would even go so far as to suspect oriental oils - and not even as roughly as I would have expected after the beginning.

And when the whole story arrives at the base note after another hour, we have here a strongly oriental, spicy-smoky-woody representative of its kind. But in a remarkably fine manner that has surprised me incredibly positively.

Sillage: Thank goodness, after half an hour it decreases significantly, while the longevity is relatively good. The bottle is okay, fitting for the scent, in my opinion.

Conclusion: I advise against a blind purchase. Maybe there are people who find the opening somehow attractive; I am not one of them. I have never tested a perfume that comes across as so ambivalent. While I am completely convinced by the base note, the top note almost knocked me out. And that’s exactly why Bakhoor will not find a place in my collection.
0 points for the top note, 6 for the heart note, and 9 for the base note. That makes, according to Adam Riese and Eva Klein, 5. It’s a pity really; without that sting at the beginning, something really good could have come out of it. But as they say, tastes differ - give it a try - I’m curious about further comments.

Statements

8 short views on the fragrance

Jilly

7 years ago

4Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

12

Attention: Are you looking for a scent that combines the best traits of skunk and hedgehog? Jackpot
Top note = bodily harm

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Floyd

6 years ago

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

12

3

Surface fire
"Vertex shock"
Frankincense-Patchouli-Oud-Gujak-Spice-Mud
"Leg chaos"
Vetiver-Soft-Balm-Ink-Resin
"Hypotenuse harmony"

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Zauber600

6 years ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

5

1

A fragrant incense offering with sandalwood, oud, flowers, and surely more
For Montale, it's rather subtle
Linear and pleasant to smell!

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MartialScent

2 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

4

3

Paddling through the Amazon in a canoe. Occasionally, a rush along the shore. Indigenous people share stories. Damp jungle wood and cool, earthy vetiver.

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