Black Hashish

Okay this do smell like BA but only in the drydown. BA is loud and harshly green, this one is smoother. Performance is off the charts, I wore it at work and after 9 hours it's still radiating from my clothes and faintly detectable on my skin. Overall very satisfied with the perfume, but I don't think this can be a replacement for BA. The original BA is non replaceable

A blind buy. I simply love it.

Black Hashish perfume was launched in 2018 and its concept talks about the strong smell of incense, always warm and enveloping. As I tell in the Oud Khasian’s review, Black Hashish also seems to me to be a relaunching of the 2013 Jardin Afghan fragrance, part of the brand's first discontinued collection. The current composition lists some considerable alterations in the olfactory pyramid. And speaking of the pyramid, Black Hashish brings notes of labdanum, incense, and green accord at the top. Then, violet, ambergris, and tobacco appear in the body of the fragrance, over notes of musk, coffee, cedar, sandalwood, and, again, labdanum. I think it's important to explain that the interpretation of Hashish, which gives the name to the fragrance, was not as literal this time as it was with Primero Marocaine. For those who don't know, hashish (or hash) is a resin extracted from the marijuana plant and there are several types. The black is known as Paraguayan and, according to specialists in the subject, it has inferior quality. On the skin, Black Hashish is much more about tobacco than anything else. There is a strong approach to the smell felt in tobacco stores when the tar spreads through the dense smoke and reveals the alcoholic nuances of whiskey. On me, the output delivers a mix of boozy, smoky, and medicinal nuances. After a few minutes, the ambery profile (which until recently, we called oriental) starts to dominate and the fragrance warms up and starts to lose its leathery effect. At this stage, it appears that Black Hashish has become weak and has stopped exuding. But the truth is that the output has a very strong hook and that makes it seem like the rest is weak, you know? After that, I don't think that the fragrance evolves much, nor that the presence of coffee is overpowering. But the sandalwood is quite evident and the base gains extra creaminess and an effect of Indian incense, one of those persistent ones. I confess that my expectation was different because the liquid is quite dark and I was expecting an uncomfortable fragrance, with a rustic aspect and almost fecal nuances, like a stable. But Black Hashish is more harmless and pleasant than its visual impact conveys, in addition to being unisex and distinctive. I really enjoyed getting to know it.

#1287 in my "Tour de Fragrance" I like this scent. It's a quality fragrance, with some similarity to the segment leader Nasomatto's "Black Afgano", but there's no need to spend $300 for something like this when Mancera's "Hindu Kush" is better and you can find it for less than $60. There are several more out there others have mentioned, but the Mancera is the best value. Definitely a scent for cold weather and after hours. I wouldn't wear this to the office, and I'd go easy with this in close quarters as this isn't a scent everyone will appreciate.

Has a strong and complex pleasant start that I can't really separate to individual notes, but the sandalwood-cedar mix that remains a couple of hours later is really harsh and generally male for me. It smells like.. like a guy who overdoes his deodorant, very in-your-face. I really like the start and middle, but the base is a big "no", I just can't pull it off. Gets better once the cedar is out, but only half so.