Palo Santo 
Carner Barcelona (2015)

Word to the wise: this completely falls apart in warmer weather, so if you live somewhere where it's warm all year you might want to just stay away.

The name is curious since nobody will smell this and immediately think of palo santo. We may be able to evaluate it as a kind of abstract portrait, a riff on palo santo's lactonic and woody facets.

Boozy, almost gooey warmth defines the opening of this scent, giving off an impression of davana mingling with warm milk with rum.

In the mid and especially into the drydown, this does start to coalesce into a squint-and-you'll-see-it palo santo accord: a bit green, a bit woody (mostly an effect of guaiac, cedar, and vetiver having been blended tightly together, methinks). Texturally, it's somehow both milky-creamy and dry-sandy, both scratchy and smooth.

Like many lactonic scents, it's a wear-with-caution kind of thing, since out of context milk aromas often read as "off" to passersby who catch whiffs of your sillage. Personally speaking, though, I'm enjoying this fairly novel creation.

Guaiac maple malt
With burnt tonka syrup and
Vanilla ice cream.

Palo Santo thus
Remaining a mystery
The wood and this scent.

In the same way that
Answering the great questions
Leaves a greater mess.

I think the listed notes in Palo Santo (2015) of guaiac wood and cedar may be the dominant smell of this in the top, based on similar-smelling fragrances with those notes, such as Affinessence Cèdre-Iris (2015, which lists both) and Olympic Orchids woodcut (2014, which lists cedar).

This one also lists warm milk, which does seem to match.

Into the base, I started liking it and switched from neutral to thumbs up.