Okay so this fragrance was the one from Celine which I'd heard people talk about in terms of how different an how much it smelled of Palo Santo, a much confused material and I'm sorry but I don't find this particularly indicative of the smell of palo santo. Thank god as well because that is such a bizarre thing, certainly my experience of it is. I recall someone, somewhere saying this Californian name thing is actually fitting because it smells like the Palo Santo grown in Southern California, and while I can't say I've smelled that, the Palo Santo I know is not dissimilar to Sandalwood but with mad, almost untamable facets, or 'side effects' I think they'd be called if Palo Santo was a drug. I don't doubt this formula contains some sandalwood aroma chemicals, but I wouldn't call it a sandalwood(palo santo) based thing but some folks do and that's worth noting. I like the opening, it's very classy, fresh bergamot and immediately woody in that linalool way and actually vaguely reminiscent of rosewood if anything, and a touch of the Serge/Sheldrake feminite du bois, spirit wise not suggesting this smell of that as such. What I do perceive is a sort of modern, French woody Iris accord, not shying away from it's Iso E Super base and elegant orris accord, the woody facets of approximated vetiver & cedar, but mild, fluffy and without the edge and scratch of those raw materials, probably because they're not present (at least not in any great quantity) I think it's a very nice perfume. That's about the most bland statement I could muster, and I'm afraid this is quite a bland perfume, complete with a bit of a lack of presence and persistence. I would place it in a category with Bois D'argent and L'eau d'Hiver and it's no less classy and understated, just not as good. It's actually far more like Prada Infusion series but even lacking some of the prettiness of those, and they were a revelation at the time, this feels greener, mossier and to me slightly more masculine leaning but no better off for those characteristics. I like the perfume, I know it doesn't sound like I do but I do, I'm just underwhelmed and I have to be honest it doesn't grab me the way I'd hoped, I thought this would be up there with Nightclubbing but there's far less to get excited about here.