L'Eau D'Issey Pour Homme Wood&Wood Intense

The wood is evident. The rest of the fragrance has a dry fruit aroma and something that comes off tonic like. I brought this for fall and early winter at home with my hardwood floors and heavy oak furniture working on various career projects. I don't do "pause for alcohol" cheapies but I can't afford to spray something expensive just because either. This was $66 for a 3.4oz at my favorite general buy option. It can be had for as low as $54 from a reputable source. It's value is equal to it's quality, so while the wood and entire composition is simple it doesn't smell cheap. The drydown maintains integrity. They're some nutty whiffs and fruity waves in the composition but not as vibrant as I would like. I won't call it boring if it's consistent. The performance is less than average keeping this in the home body lane. Armani's Abslou Instinct is a richer meal featuring ebony wood. For people who came up in the sweet tonka era, they may not get the full woods and it will come off like an Invictus style fragrance with it's citrus top going creamy sweet. The unlisted tonka doesn't lay heavy on me, I get the woods smell.

Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey Pour Homme Wood & Wood opens with a moderate projection of sweet, fruity, spicy, and soft woody accords. The opening is delectable, fresh, tasty, and very pleasant. The apricot is the most prominent fruity note, sweet, peach-like, and rich; the sandalwood and elemi add a sweet, rich, resinous, and warm note with a soft spicy cardamon touch behind. The ambroxan is not strong but it helps with the projection of these accords. The vetiver and patchouli don’t have any significant participation; on the other hand, the Virginian cedar and woody notes contribute with a soft, fresh, and aromatic woody note. The fragrance is relatively linear, all feature notes come up as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue into the dry-down. Once Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey Pour Homme Wood & Wood has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, sweet, resinous (elemi), apricot, cardamon and woody (sandalwood, woods) fragrance. The fragrance feels delectable, delicious, fruity, gentle, inviting, mild, natural, sweet resinous, rich, sweet, unisex, woody, and pleasant.

'Wood & Wood' opens wide and tarty with citrus and cardamom, although transitions quickly into the middle notes; it is heavenly. I am not sure why it is called "Wood & Wood" because the majority of the woodsy notes are way in the background. Apricot, ambroxan and sandalwood steal the show during its power play. I do not agree with some reviewers describing this as a weak scent; it is solid, fruitful and creamy. The sillage is outstanding, it will outlast most of my higher value colognes. 'Wood & Wood' smells like a blooming apricot tree during summertime, it is my best description for it. The woody notes will reveal themselves during the base performance, as a skin scent. I sampled before buying, which is my advice. I'm overall very satisfied and will fully enjoy it for years to come.

Wonderful citrus open typical of a Miyake, a tangy grapefruit leading the way. On middle notes I get a sweet fruit, like a dried apricot. Later towards dry down the scent gets bluer with a woody shower gel (but still very citrus) feel. Wood & wood name is presumably for the sandalwood and cedarwood, but I think it could have been Grapefruit and Shower Gel as those notes are stronger throughout. It's a lovely scent, just misleading a little. I wanted something clean for doing my weekly grocery store runs, and this definitely does the trick -- on skin it stopped projecting somewhat quickly (acts like an EDT), but did much better on clothes, where it held those opening and mid notes.

This is my favourite fragrance, I think its perfect for weather up to around 24 degrees (Celsius). I would recommend it for relaxation, it smells natural and doesn't give me any headache or heartburn from over spraying like some other fragrances which is a big plus if you aren't being too careful about your spraying. The woody notes are really nice and they don't overpower the rest of the ingredients. All in all wood and wood is a very mature and distinguished scent, if you want to smell different from others while still wearing a reputable and fashionable brand without wearing something so out there that it isn't to the palette of others I would highly recommend!!!