Desert Road
Desert Road
Desert Road
$45.00
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Desert Road
$45.00
The road winds like a black ribbon through the Chihuahuan Desert. Heat mirages look like water on the distant blacktop. The engine hum drowns out the rest of the world, and the air smells like motor oil, a worn leather seat, creosote, and a hint of last night.
SIZE: 20 mL alcohol and phthalate-free Eau de Parfum.
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Fragrance Notes
| FRAGRANCE FAMILY Green Resinous Leathery | ||
| FRAGRANCE TYPE Dusty Light | ||
| NOTES | ||
| TOP Petrol Cactus Blossoms Galbanum | MIDDLE Desert Shrubs Black Pepper | BASE Leather Baked Earth Vetiver Agarwood |
Wearing It
How to Use EdP
- Apply to dry skin after showering while pores are clean and open.
- Roll Eau de Parfum on two to four pulse points on the body.
Body heat helps to diffuse the fragrance as you wear it, and a more personalized scent will develop as it mixes with your skin’s natural oils. The scent will last 6–8 hours.
How Long EdP Lasts
Eau de Parfum by Bandholz will last 6–8 hours. To maximize performance, apply to dry skin after showering while pores are clean and open. Roll Eau de Parfum on two to four pulse points on the body. Body heat helps to diffuse the fragrance as you wear it, and a more personalized scent will develop as it mixes with your skin’s natural oils.
Fragrance Strength
Bandholz Eau de Parfum contains approximately 20% fragrance in the formulation.
Size of EdP
0.68 fl oz / 20 ml
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Returns
We want you to be happy at Bandholz, even if the product doesn’t work for you. Everyone has different fragrance preferences. While we’d love to say our products will work for 100% of the people that buy them, we know that’s simply not the case.
Don’t worry; if you aren’t completely satisfied with our products, we’ll take care of you. If something doesn’t work, we’ll find you a fragrance that does, and if we can’t, we’ll make you whole.
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USA Shipping
Our goal is to ship any order out by 2:00 PM CST the same day. During the holiday rush, orders can take up to three days to ship. The average shipping time is two days but varies based on your location (we ship from Texas). Shipping timeframes are not guaranteed and provide a rough estimate for when you will receive your products. Rates are for continental USA.
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Ingredients
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Parfum (Fragrance)
Bandholz roller-ball EdP is alcohol-free fragrance with a MCT Oil base (highly refined coconut oil). Made from phthalate-free natural, naturally-derived, and safe synthetic ingredients, Bandholz Eau de Parfum is subtle enough to layer, yet distinctive enough to leave a lasting impression.
NO PARABENS / NO PHTHALATES
J
Desert Road is one of the most unique fragrances I've ever worn. The petrol note grabs your attention at first, but it quickly blends into warm leather, desert plants, and dry earth to create something surprisingly smooth and wearable.
It perfectly captures the feeling of driving through the desert with the windows down—warm, rugged, and peaceful. The dry-down is where it really shines, with leather, vetiver, and agarwood adding depth without becoming too heavy.
If you're tired of fragrances that all smell the same, Desert Road is a refreshing change. It's creative, masculine, and unforgettable.
J
Desert Road Men's Cologne
R
One of my boys often tells me how he loves the smell of the garage that holds my old Alfa Spider and lawn tools. When you first open the door, it smells like oil and fuel, liquid potential energy. Desert Road evokes that mixed with pleasant desert fragrance. It's great for a day when there's work to be done or a drive to enjoy.
M
This is my favorite scent. I even caught my wife putting it on. It has a very different smell to it that sets it apart from any other.
C
Well I think I have a problem. I am addicted to the Desert Road fragrance. I can’t get enough of it. I need a bigger bottle. I must have more! MORE I say!
M
I got the starter set and this one is by far the best. It stands out among the rest with a light distinct and interesting smell that makes you stand out in a crowd.
B
There are a few more I'm looking forward to trying, I have short game, old money, Temple smoke, desert road, black sails, and ghost tracer, Ghost tracer is very subtle but is a very nice fragrance, So far they are as described, I'm not disappointed.
S
So far it’s one of my favorite colognes. It’s hard to explain how it smells to me other than a new car type smell. You know when you get in a new car? Not the exact smell, just the good smells of getting in a new car.
M
Great scent will need more soon
B
Loved the beard oil and now I love the EDP! My favorite scent of the all.
Z
Desert Road, Norse Winter, and Black Sails are great.
J
I don’t know how they did it - but I can smell the overheated tire and parched desert floor. The weirdest part is it smells *good*. All that’s missing are the vultures circling overhead.
F
Received Desert Road on Monday. Really great scent. I live in Las Vegas and it smells exactly like when rain hits the hot road for the first time ( when it does rain here😂)! Awesome mix. You get this hint of gasoline in a good way plus desert botanicals! Will be purchasing again in the future. Go get some!
D
I like this one and have received compliments!
K
My new favorite! This would dethrone Temple Smoke as my daily wear but there is not a collection yet! I need a sea salt spray, styling paste, and mustache wax in this scent, but I will make due with the cologne and beard oil for now.
W
This cologne roll-on smells like a combination of a well worn leather bag with tones of dried earth, sagebrush, agave, and mineral. I absolutely love it. I picked up the bundle of four scents and highly recommend you do the same. You get four great scents for less than three.
B
Desert Road is my favorite cologne by Beardbrand! I'm so glad they brought it back and I really hope they make Desert Road Beard Oil!
C
Smells amazing. Will buy more.
A
I was born and raised in southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. I have lived in New England for the past 20 years, but I am still very much a desert rat at heart. I miss the unique environment I grew up in. The sights, sounds and scents of the desert, especially after the summer monsoons. Nowhere else on Earth smells quite like it. The wet creosote bushes release a scent that is unmistakable. When I saw the add for Desert Road, I immediately ordered it. A few minutes after I rolled it on, I was right back in the Sonoran Desert of my youth. I love this cologne, and will definitely stick with it.
L
I'm not sure how they nailed the hint of blacktop and mixed it with cactus... but man o man this is my go to summer scent. The desert road cologne mixed with beard oil = kissy mouth chef gesture, but in a Harley kind of way!
P
I like the scent enough to try and sneak its use. My girlfriend on the other hand has made it very clear it goes or if I try to wear it I go.
N
So i’m new to the beard brand community, ordered the sample 4 pack of colognes. Desert Road, Bold Fortune, Old Money, and Temple Smoke are the fragrances I chose just based off the notes. Desert Road is by far my favorite! Of course when I checked it’s a cologne only item. Please make this a mainstay fragrance with full line up of products!!
N
Desert Road Men's Cologne
D
Desert Road Men's Cologne
J
Desert Road Men's Cologne
D
As a huge fan of leather scents, I loved the Desert Road oil when it was released. I had just wished it was stronger and lasted longer. Pairing this cologne with the oil solves both of these issues. I was pleasantly surprised that the cologne allowed the fragrance to really open up and let the desert shrub and cactus blossom notes come through a bit after application. The light petrol note and leather still live up front, and the dry down returns to the leather and ends with the baked earth. Love it!
A
Nice winter scent, masculine, feel good scent. Beardbrand now has an amazing line of cologne scents. Buy them all & you won’t be disappointed. My top favs now: Ghost tracer, Black sails, Four Vices, Desert Road!
T
Make this a regular line for beard wash, softener, oil, soap, etc.!
T
Love this scent!
M
I love Far West Texas, and I wanted to create a fragrance that embodied the boldness and complexity of the region.
My initial thought was West Texas oil fields. The contrast of man vs. nature. Fire and petroleum against the comforting, familiar fragrances of the desert. I thought a lot about Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.
But when the fragrance came together, there was this initial burst of what smelled to me like diesel exhaust, and my visions of oil rigs evaporated into the many times I have driven across the Trans-Pecos. This fragrance became more about the desolate southwestern highways. The hum of the engine and the dust. The sun-faded leather and heat mirages lifting from the blacktop.
The petrol note gives people pause. Is this going to smell like gasoline? It’s not. It’s more of a quick burst of diesel — like a big rig just fired up the engine and rolled out of the roadside diner at the exact moment you stepped outside into the waning daylight. It quickly gives way to dusty and green notes of desert shrubs and cactus blossoms. And then it settles into a worn leather — like a dependable pair of cowboy boots — vetiver, and baked earth.
Desert Road is about dissonance — the push and pull of forces at conflict with each other that somehow result in something entirely unexpected, yet familiar. Two things that are at odds with each other end up stabilizing each other.
I love this fragrance. I hope you do, too. Keep on trucking.