2 Wood
Olivier Cresp built Dsquared2 2 Wood Eau de Toilette around trees rather than around a joke about them, and it is the most straightforwardly pleasant thing in the house's range.
Lemon and citron open it, both sharp, the citron a little rounder and more peel like than the lemon, with pink pepper rasping across the top. Then the wood arrives and stays. Cedarwood is dry and pencil sharp, haitian vetiver is rooty and a little smoked rather than grassy, cypress adds a cool green resin, and silver fir brings the clean cold air of a conifer in winter. Musk and amber close it quietly, the musk smoothing and the amber lending just enough warmth to stop the whole thing feeling austere.
This is a four to five hour fragrance at this concentration, with a bright, loud first twenty minutes and a calm, close remainder. That profile makes it easy to wear in an office or in heat, where a heavier concentration of the same materials would be hard going.
It was launched in 2021 and sits alongside the other Wood fragrances as the brightest and most citrus led of them. If you like the idea of a forest scent but find most of them gloomy, this is the version with the windows open.
It suits men and women equally, works from spring through to autumn, and is a sensible daytime bottle rather than an evening one. Dsquared2 was set up in 1995 by the Canadian born twins Dean and Dan Caten, who had moved to Milan three years earlier, and the label built its name on menswear that mixes sportswear with a certain amount of showing off, plenty of denim and North American references. The fragrances carrying the name are made by a licensee.
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