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Synthetic tropical fruit cladderadatsch
I would like to do without a big introduction to Montale Tropical Wood and come directly to the fragrance description. Wrapped in a typical Montale bottle, this blue and gold bottle offers a fruity, summery scent with woody undertones. Montale is not one of the most expensive niche brands (115€ for 100ml, 65€ for 50ml for Tropical Wood). I was very curious about the scent pyramid, so I got myself a bottling.
The attack is very fruity with immediate spicy woody undertones reminiscent of oud. The whole thing has a really tropical, summery and happy vibe in combination, but it disappoints after a short time. That the fruit should smell like passion fruit in the prelude is a matter of doubt, because I have no comparisons. I can't really perceive pineapple. In the following minutes Tropical Wood becomes more floral, discreetly rosy and sweeter. While the oud nuances slowly disappear, my nose senses unpleasant side scents that remind me of rubber. Really unpleasant and should not be in this fragrance.
After about 2.5 hours the woody oud tones have completely disappeared. In the base, sweet vanilla pushes itself more into the foreground and merges with the fully synthetic fruit mix, whose individual components cannot be separated. The further course of the fragrance remains linear, sweet and fruity.
For my taste, the fragrance tends more in a feminine direction. The idea behind the fragrance, to combine tropical fruits with tropical woods of the agar tree (which grows mainly in South East Asia), from which the oud is made, is basically interesting. In fact, Montale has managed the tropical prelude well. However, the woody note is just too short for me, I would have needed woody base notes for my taste and not vanilla. This could have been better for the synthetic fruit. Montale didn't miss the theme at all, but the "wood" was missed out.
The durability of TW is good with about 8 hours, Sillage on my skin is average. Nevertheless, I won't get a bottle, I imagined something better and in the end it is too feminine for me personally. It seems to me that the perfumer didn't take the time to perfect this fragrance and has hastily launched it on the market
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