Very interesting. it grows in me every time I smell it. Good performance too.

Tom Ford is a ghostly, glacial coniferous rosewood sandalwood melange of chilly, bitter, peppery woods. It is a tiny, sinister statue of a scent in an empty room where the temperature drops suddenly, with no explanation. The perfumed version of a little gremlin that appears in a haunting tale; one that skitters in the corners of your vision when the eye is focused elsewhere and inches eerily to your pillow when you're at the knife's edge of wakefulness and dream.

I get good performance from this misnamed, creamy sandlewood scent. Indeed, for me it's a delicate but strong, slightly gourmand sandlewood, like a less obnoxious Santal 33 but with a tiny touch of cardamom. I get no oud, but I wasn't expecting any, as is the case with almost all perfumes which have "oud" in the name. It's a polite woody perfume, not unique, not worth the price, but pretty and very unisex all the same, so it does have merit. Many have mentioned Hayat here, and while it's nothing like Hayat (which is way more potent and much less sandlewoody), they do share, erm, perhaps I can say a "tone". I like Hayat, but it's much less wearable, and way more screechy and abrasive and has a strong lavender note. All in all, I don't get the love for this perfume, although it's by no means bad, but I have many other more interesting sandlewood scents I prefer to wear.

It baffles me that people complain about performance. I find this absolutely relentless, and as with many of the private blends, the charm wears off way before the perfume does. It smells remarkably similar to Orto Parisi's Stercus, a scent based on the smell of bumhole.

I have loved this fragrance since the first time smelled it in 2017. In August 2020 I finally got a 50ml bottle and it is better than I remember it. Such a timeless and original smell, it makes me feel calm. As previously said in other reviews, the longevity is not great, but it is made up for in the quality.