Dsquared²
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The citrus trio hits with almost shocking clarity, bergamot's petitgrain-like edge cutting through lemon's brightness whilst mandarin rounds the corners. Violet leaf appears quickly, bringing its strange metallic-green coolness, like snapping cucumber stems mixed with crushed geranium stalks. Ginger fizzes underneath, creating a sherbet-like effervescence that feels both fresh and oddly synthetic, a deliberate embrace of modernity.
As the citrus recedes, cardamom emerges properly—not sweet chai spice but the green, eucalyptic quality of crushed pods—weaving through what's now clearly an Ambrox-dominant structure. The woods begin their slow materialisation, pale and smooth, with vetiver's earthy rootiness providing just enough weight to prevent the composition from becoming entirely abstract. It's here that the fragrance settles into its identity: clean but not soapy, woody but not heavy, occupying that difficult middle ground between presence and discretion.
What remains is predominantly Ambrox's signature mineral warmth, that slightly salty, skin-like quality that hovers close, joined by a whisper of vetiver's pencil-shaving dryness. The woods have become almost imperceptible, more of a textural element than distinct notes, leaving a scent that feels like expensive cotton sheets dried in coastal air. It's intimate, deliberately quiet, the kind of fragrance you notice only when leaning in—or when someone gets close enough to notice you.
Wood for Him occupies that increasingly rare space where synthetic transparency meets natural warmth, a fragrance that smells deliberately modern without falling into the soulless void of many contemporary woody releases. The opening is a citrus triptych—Sicilian lemon's sharp brightness, Calabrian bergamot's oily greenness, and mandarin's soft sweetness—that crashes together with surprising force, like sunlight hitting bleached driftwood. There's an immediate coolness here, something almost aqueous in how the citrus interacts with the violet leaf's cucumber-like freshness, before ginger and cardamom introduce a peppered, slightly medicinal spice that keeps things from veering too clean.
What makes this compelling is how Morillas uses Ambrox not as a diffusive bomb but as a structural element, its mineralic salinity threading through the composition like a wire frame. The "blond woods" descriptor proves accurate—this isn't dark, resinous wood but something pale and almost bleached, as though cedar and cashmeran have been sun-dried on Mediterranean stone. Vetiver appears in its rooty, earthy form rather than the common grassy interpretation, anchoring the base with just enough soil to prevent the whole construction from floating away entirely.
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