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Strong, dark, oily wood Do you know Hinoki-san? It seems that you do

I think my mistake Was expecting summation Not a new function

By all of your woods Your spices and your grasses You create new wood

Magic ebony A mythical black rosewood Forbidden in trade

Well of deepest tones Bass rivers that never dry Vibrant dark hollow

In tiny vial Majestic mahogany Imaginary

Passes through customs Invisible to the eye Molecular code

Thrice obfuscated And not in this universe "What does this contain?"

Dutiful watchman Deserving only the truth "It's a Christmas gift!"

Fly, magic bassman Somewhere, in some universe The Wonderwood grows.

Is Commes des Garcon still culturally relevant, I wonder?

The dark, modern, woody style that the house specializes in--sophisticated and sleek and aloof--increasingly feels of a past decade, a one-time signifier of "taste" that has now trickled into mainstream handsoaps and mass-market grooming products.

Still, this is nice, if simple: pepper, ISO-E, cedar, sandalwood. Clean, woody, and inoffensive - the sort of daily driver for someone who wears a simple black tee and jeans, but both have some brand cachet.

In an age where things like Durga's Bowmakers exist, this feels a bit boring, but it's certainly nicely put together for what it is.

Love at first sniff. I've always been a fan of woody scents like Tam Dao, so I was excited to try this fragrance. However, over time, I found it becoming a bit boring. The blend of cypress and cedarwood is cozy and modern, but it lacks depth. Instead of reaching deeper into the base of the tree, it feels like it stops at the outer layer of the bark. It's still a good scent, but it's basic and simple. It's more like "Simplewood" than "Wonderwood."

I would give this fragrance a higher score if the performance was better. If you already own a lot of wood-dominant scents, you could probably skip this one. As always, it's best to sample before buying. You might also prefer something else from CDG's pebble line.

Wood. Wood. Wood.

What did you expect?

Imagine you have spent the day chopping blocks of fresh wood, you've got sap on your gloves and clothes. You see a huge oak chest full of cedar chips and decide to crawl into it and fall asleep. When you awaken the next day, you smell like Wonderwood.

It's pleasant and I can detect sandalwood, maybe a hint of oud, teak, oak, nothing really coniferous. But the star of the show is absolutely cedar.

Smells pleasantly of fresh cut wood and cedar chips. Longevity is nice, sillage is a skin scent after about 30 minutes on me. So not a big attention-grabber. I will give this one a thumbs-up simply because it achieves what it intends to achieve - this is for the pure wood lovers out there. I could see this being used as a base scent for something more exotic. But does stand on its own.

Woody, woody, Sandlewoody + dry, pepper...opens woody , stays sandalwoody. Best for inoffensive wood lovers and maybe layering with other more citrusy fragrances?

Weak sillage after 30 minutes but pretty good longevity.

7/10

After reading reviews and being just a little curious, I finally picked up a bottle of Wonderwood. Being a fan of wood-based fragrances I figured this would be a safe blind buy. I was pleased with this one from the first spray! Nothing offense or unpleasant from the onset and just gets more beautiful as it dries down. The only fragrance that kinda reminded me of this was a limited edition Carolina Herrera fragrance from way back called 'Sensual Vetiver'. Yes, vetiver. Wonderwood is a wonderfully balanced fragrance that belongs in every woody fragrance [i.e. sandalwood, agar, cedar] fan's collection. Love the presentation as well ... but don't like that the bottle doesn't stand up on it's own. I guess that's a CDG thing. -.-

Am I the only one that gets mint in the opening of this?

Mint and cedar from the off, freshly cut wood shavings like in a sawmill, quickly moving on to a decent Iso E Super woody fragrance with decent longevity.

Could have been so much more than it is.

Its soft and dry. Woody dry cedar, a bit of a thinner cedar, sort of transparent, sandalwood, pencil shavings. Blend all the woods you got. Well balanced, all the notes purr along together. Smells modern and a bit softly minimalistic. I love dry woody concoctions, so this should be directly in my wheelhouse, but it just doesnt really stand out incredibly at any point in any way. Doesnt smell bad, or sweet. A sad panda neutral.

It's like a fresh cutted tree, but filtered and fitted to become elegant, it's intense, masculine and classy. It will be better with more longevity.

This is okay but doesn't live up to the hype it received a few years back. Reminds me of a less refined Royal Oud.

6/10

For me , this starts off with a half and half blast of bergamot and pepper with just a hint of oudiness and a slightly turpy faint incense...I'm really getting the bergamot nice and clear, way better than I can detect it in other fragrances...nice on juicy and heavy on the lemony effect...sadly , not projecting very well on my skin...as the opening slowly fades back , different smells of wood weave their way in...nice and woody in that semi synth CDG way...i get a nice cedar-sandalwoody blend ...not quite hitting it out of the park for me...but not too shabby either...for me, a more realistic lumberyard-wood shop smell with nice flavorings would be more along the lines of Vagobondo, Costume National , or She Came to Stay...pepper flavor hangs for a while...doesn't last very long on my skin...OK , but just sampling is enough for me...time to move on...

Not just an overly woody concoction, Wonderwood comes off as a fragrance that mixes a strong but balanced cedar + guiac + sandalwood as well as a whole host of other scent-enhancing stars, such as pepper, incense [VERY evident in this one], cashmere, and vetiver.

Synthetic as Wonderwood is and feels, it is by no means poorly constructed. It is smooth, deep, and evokes the sensation of an incense shop rife with musks, oud, and exotic spices that make me feel confident and happy.

Understated but still gets noticed when worn, Wonderwood is certainly worth a try for lovers of smooth woody and spicy scents.

best wood base scent .all kind of wood exist in this fragrance cedar.sandalwood .guaiacwood.cashmeranwood.agarwood and cypress. woody dry smoky and alittle sweet.

Peppery, woody and musky. Starts off with a pepper blast that settles down quickly but hangs around for hours. The wood notes are the most pleasant and pleasing to smell and give a refined feel to the scent. Then as you get deeper into the drydown, a sweaty muskiness starts to blend into the pepper and woods. The feeling I got was that the musk eventually turned into the note that lingered the longest and probably was the most noticeable by others.

Very good projection and longevity. Lasts all work day and will get noticed with just a few sprays.

CdG WW was supposed to be the ultimate wood fragrance. I must admit I'm a bit disappointed by it given all the hype [and price].

I detect 3 basic wood notes: Cashmeran, Cedar [Iso-E Super] & Black Pepper. The first blast of WW yields the blur of Cashmeran. Cashmeran smells like soft powdery wood. I find the Cashmeran dominates throughout the life of WW. I guess I'm not much of fan of the Cashmeran note. I also get Black Pepper [light] and Cedar [moderate] which seems pretty common place in men's frags. And that's basically where WW ends for me. Oud? Sandalwood? Vetiver? Incense? Not to my nose. I'm content to get my “Wonderwood” fix with CdG 2 Man.

4/10

Stardate 20161103:

A reference sandalwood. Not the 40 year old oil but the tree.

A must for SW lovers.

With a name like Wonderwood I was expecting a pungent, macho blast straight from the woodyard but the opening of this fragrance came across to me as all peppery, androgynous frankincense. The peppery incense took a good five minutes to calm down and reveal any wood at all. First to arrive was cedar, and the combination of incense, pepper and cedar gives the frag a dry [but not dusty] warmth. For the next couple of hours the peppery incense and cedar dance together, with one or the other becoming the more prominent accord but rarely do I get the sense of both melded together. The black pepper remains in the background throughout, adding a cozy, almost dirty/clean spiciness. I really enjoy this effect. After about four or five hours the base is revealed as a sweet, resinous sandalwood, with perhaps a little oud. I am sure there are many more notes that my nose isn't subtle enough to distinguish, but to me cedar and sandalwood are the woods this fragrance is built around. Personally I don't get any vetiver at all which I know could be a disappointment for some; I am quietly pleased for myself, as I often find it embitters an otherwise pleasent drydown. Wonderwood lingers pleasantly on clothing and is especially enjoyable on a cozy sweater or leather jacket.

There isn't a particularly loud fragrance, projection is polite but still noticeable. With all the incense and wood I can definitely see the family resemblance between this and Comme des Garçons 2, although it is a more introverted sibling. It could certainly be read as the more masculine of the two, but I wear this very comfortably as a woman and it is quickly becoming my signature.

Wonderwood is an odd one for me. In theory it should have been a no brainer because - a CdG scent comprising wood, wood and more wood? Sounds like it should be right up my alley.

I first sampled it on paper several times, and it just never agreed with me. I think it was the first scent I had ever smelled with a prominent synthetic oud accord and there was something about the way the nutmeg, woods, and oud combined that turned my stomach in the way they clashes. I think the nutmeg just had too many associations with custard tarts and the like.

So, a few years later I was lucky enough to be sent a sample and actually took the leap to sampling it on my skin, and the balance of notes worked much better for me. The nutmeg no longer seemed as prominent and I had several years if smelling various oud accords, and even some cheap oud oils, to acclimatise myself.

Wonderwood opens with a burst of pepper, some subtle bergamot, a little incense, and some nutmeg. It dries down into a very rounded and smooth woody heart with the pepper still handing around. The smooth texture seems to come from the synthetic sandalwood notes, as well as the smoothing effect I notice synthetic oud oil often has on many scents, and it reminds me a little of Montale's Dark Aoud.

Although often described as a sandalwood scent, it's the pepper and the oud that really stick out to my nose, while the sandalwood blends with other woods [a touch of cedar, some vetiver, and the bitterness of guiac wood] to give it body.

A nice, smooth, comforting scent that I am still getting my head around.

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7 - Comme de Garcons "Wonderwood"

The note pyramid reads like an ode to wood: timber all the way down: wood without end through all stages, timber seasoned with pepper. The opening, though, is all vetiver. To my nose, this is not the vetiver of Encre Noire, i.e., wet, natural, and as gothic as a Victorian's nightmare; nor yet of Guerlain's vetiver, which is all grassy manicured lawns. This is vetiver in its pencil-shavings instantiation, dry and lacking in dimension, or any support from the other woods listed.

So you have to give CdGW some time before its best features emerge. Eventually they do: the remaining woods make an appearance and round out the whole picture, giving the lasting impression of real living wood rather than chips or offcuts. By the end, a touch of hardly detectable sweetness and fullness appears. The vetiver stays throughout, but in the drydown is accommpanied by the other notes as a supporting cast, all working to add depth and a dignified vibrancy to the main component. It's a little like the "Vetiver Concerto".

In short, I like CdGW a lot for its development and successful take on just-wood, highly recommend a try, and put both thumbs up here. I suspect it would work better in more temperate climes than the 30C+ heat I am currently in, and you might want to apply it at least two hours before doing anything important, but these are the only caveats.

This smells good and it is extremely easy to wear. When I say it I mean it. It's one of those fragrances that are just friendly and simple. Nothing weird about it. At a first try, nothing shocking, it's not one of those perfumes that you need to get used to with time. You just love it. Nice and easy.

It has a downside. No projection. It disappears almost after 30 minutes. I used an entire bottle and I think that I only got a compliment once, when I was talking to someone and I had this person really close.

Conclusion: this is not a perfume to mark an impression, this is a perfume you use for just the personal and individual pleasure of spraying it on yourself. So nice. I can absolutely recommend it.

Cannot smell it myself after 10 mins but my wife likes it.

Wonderwood opens with bergamot and a blast of spicy blended woods, bolstered by a soft, creamy cashmeran and sandalwood middle and base. The vetiver is quite pronounced and reminds me of the way vetiver is used in Sycomore, though I dare say I like this more synthetic fragrance better because it somehow seems fuller and cozier to my nose–more filled-out. The cushiony base reins in the cedarwood, cypress, and vetiver, which would otherwise be too sharp for my taste.

Longevity and sillage are better than average, and this scent reminds me a lot of fall. This is a good projector, too. If you like lots of wood with a smooth base, and don't mind the less-than-natural take on the ingredients listed, this one is for you.

This one is so comfortable it's the tracksuit bottom of woody fragrances; therein its main virtue [so supple, easy and everyday] and its main drawback [too easy and everyday]. Wonderwood is a peppery cedar with a high clear frankincense that wears light and fresh despite the evident spicing. Many CdG perfumes take an approach with natural notes that is akin to airbrushing – the note is recognizable but it is lifted and smoothed and buffed to the point that somehow takes it out of nature. I have a soft spot for woody perfumes, but this one left me wanting due to its uberpolished execution; which perhaps also explains the reviews that go, ‘I don't normally like woody perfumes, but this one did it for me'. The whole is brought together with finesse, it just fails to excite me. A shame as the name is so evocative and enticing. Oud is mentioned in the notes list but is so apologetic it seems hardly worth mentioning.

Was not fussed with this pretty generic wood scent. Decent longevity and sillage but playing it safe. Very deep and rich scent but not as beguiling and complex as CdG 2 MAN.