Sag Harbor

I'm going to agree with Sherapop that this is a HUGE Peony fragrance at opening, but the other note that doesn't get much recognition yet is noticeable...is honeysuckle. Go for a walk on a summer day, walk past a honeysuckle grove -- as kids, we used to pull the stems to release the liquid at the end that was so fragrant, this really brought back memories -- and you'll immediately recognize that element. I mentioned in a previous review that I felt they did a bang up job on this, and that opinion hasn't changed much. What I appreciate more that I've smelled it in more detail by wearing it is the incorporation of unique elements. Ivy. Grapes. Honeysuckle. Bay leaf? Ok, maybe I could do without bay leaf, but it's interesting albeit not very noticeable. Oud probably doesn't lend much to the composition, other than the current popularity of Oud for its own sake; something more indigenous to Long Island might have been a better choice here or at least more authentic. Nonetheless, this opens as a hugely floral scent, stays largely that way throughout, and dries down quite well. If you're big fan of peony, this is one to try. If not, you should probably avoid it as Sherapop recommended. Also, my wife noticed a bit of similarity to Chelsea Flowers. Me? Not so much, though the Peony, Magnolia and Sandalwood do lend similar touches. For me, they were very different experiences. But if you really want a lively floral where you can get a strong sense of a warm summer afternoon amidst a flower garden in August, this can evoke the right vibes or bring back lost memories.

11/26/19 - The official website has Sag Harbor listed under women’s perfumes. Aside from that, the notes should inform the inquirer that this is all about femininity - Bergamot, ivy leaves, Sag Harbor bay accord, peonies, magnolia, oud, amber, sandalwood. What’s “Sag Harbor bay accord”? lol - moving on, I guess —> This frag is all about sun, spring, summer, and breezes carrying scents of green leafy bushes of white florals. Office friendly as it’s fresh, clean, and friendly. Sillage is arms’ length so you won’t gag anyone out of the room or if they’re sitting next to you - unless you OD but that’s with all frags. WTH is with this flanker? Such a disappointment - could it be any uglier? Such a pity for such a wonderful scent that celebrates all there is about being a carefree and beautiful woman. This should be on a see-thru bottle with etchings to allow the light to dance off and reflect prisms around the room. It’s simple and elegant. I hate what they did to its pkg. Damn shame - SMH.

A gorgeous fruity floral that maintains its freshness throughout. It reminds me of cotton candy grapes and those elaborate cocktails you get at Tiki bars. Does smell like Tommy Girl and some Clinique Happy flankers, but much stronger and made with quality ingredients. The sandalwood and Oud are there but mostly imperceptible, they’re there just to give the fragrance some body and heft, you wouldn’t be able to pick them out if you didn’t know they were there. I mainly see young or feminine woman wearing this, but a dapper yet casual man could pull this off. This wouldn’t fly at the auto repair shop unless you’re man enough to handle some comments. But please go easy on this, it smells deceptively light and airy at first but grows in strength as it warms yo with your body, 8 sprays was good at first but after 30 minutes it was way too much. Good longevity also.

This is the second testing of a Bond 9 scent for me. The first one was Chinatown...which is awesome !! This one is a green floral...yes ivy makes an appearance too...toning down the sweety/fruity a little. I can't say that it reminds me of "shampoo"...lol...but , could be true. I get a green/fruity/floral with wood-ish tones underneath. I find the scent calming and yet uplifting too. I like it. Probably not a full bottle purchase...I glad I got a sample.

This is heaven in a bottle, flowery and fruity. Peony, magnolia, honeysuckle and bay leaf. Sweet peony, fragrant magnolia, the honeysuckle is just the right amount, not cloying like others I have tried. I recognized the fragrant bay leaf because we use it to cook. I know what it smells like and picked it up right away. Unisex. Great for spring/summer.

This is a complete masterpiece from Bond. It gives me Miami vibes. It would be perfect in high heat. It smells masculine to me although there are quite feminine notes. I can see Nicky Jam wearing this in Miami. It's an excellent Bond men's fragrance.

I smelled this a couple weeks ago and they did a bang-up job with the fragrance. Really a great balance of florals mixed with the woods and grape (I suppose a nod to Long Island wine-making?). The ivy was a neat touch! Superbly done.

Love at first sniff. Easy wear scent....very pleasing....greenery/floral/magnolia....fresh...aromatic...a touch of aquatics...IMO. Average performance. Daytime, feel good scent. The only negative...is that Bond is quite $$$$$ ....

Deliciously lemony, green and floral. It makes me Happy. Perfect for a summer day in my cool cotton sundress, straw hat, strappy sandals, boho bag and bright pink lipstick. Worth every 36000 pennies.

Beautiful, Unisex, fresh and uplifting fragrance. I can't say more than that. Going to get a bottle ASAP.

a must have!!!! got to check this out in Vegas. Great stuff!

I've voted 'Like' on this one but frankly it's just because it's a pleasant smell not a truly great perfume. If you can get past the overbearing fruity opening and the incredibly shampoo-like quality which dominates the whole experience, there's some merit in there. The opening is a berry concoction which is super feminine and smells EXACTLY like more than one of my girlfriends shampoo's. Then that powdery minimal clean white peony/magnolia combo which is the heart of this fragrance. I'd say its a warm synthetic base of amber when dried down but still the dominant fruity/floral powder. The kicker for me is the Ivy. Yes you can detect it and that is the honestly Sag Harbor's saving grace (although it dies away after a hour or so) and keeps this scent from just being cheap or a total chickfest and actually reminds me of carthusia or another Italian house which use this herbal, green scent against the nagging powder of a modern base. Unfortunately it will always win over and there's no way I could were a scent like this. I'm glad after my missus washes her hair that the smell doesn't last too long, let alone her then applying a fragrance which is much the same. Some are going to love this and good luck to them, as I mentioned I think it has some merit as a high price fragrance...just not for me. Update: This is very long lasting stuff, dies right down to the skin but very good longevity.

This is totally Not a Man's scent. That being said.. The more i smell it on me the more i like it. I only say that because I really enjoy Peony and Ivy. It reminds me of being a kid around my Mom and her Mom. They both loved Peony and Hyacinth and Tiger Lilly etc.. Those kinds of flowers just bring back memories for me. Plus they all smell great. This scent is really something for women. I can see a very metro guy wearing it and pulling compliments but Not somebody in the look of someone like Jason Momoa. I got a sample of this just because i saw the notes and had a good idea it was going to be very feminine. I was right as soon as i sprayed it on my skin lol. This is very Peony heavy. I love it but this is just not for me. Not sure Unisex is the right fit but then again.. it very well could be epic on the right guy. Lovely scent and brings back memories for me but this is more for the ladies.

This is similar to the other Bond no 9 feminine leaning compositions. For some reason they all allude to characters from SATC to me. This reminds me of Samantha at a business meeting. It’s soapy, fresh, mature whilst being still super glamorous and flamboyant. This suits a corporate peacock. A tall lady in 5 inch, painful stilettos and a tight pencil skirt, short blonde hair and red lipstick. She is very assertive and commanding in her presence. She glides past in a hurried manner, with a calm exterior and her movements are traced by this beautiful powdery and fresh peony. However, there is a bite to her that is coming from the abundance of bitter green notes that create distance. She may always be composed and polite but she wants everything her way and will not stand for anything else.

This fragrance turned out to be way more feminine and way more floral than I expected. I even gave it a few wears over several weeks. Still ended up giving my wife what was left of my samples. Initially it smells like one of my wife's foofy lotions; the scent is very strong up front. After some time, it does calm down and stays very clean, very "white" and floral to my nose. Oddly, this is a "beachy" scent to me, but this is more the scent of the person wearing SPF 100 in the shade, and less the person out in the sun wearing coconutty suntan oil. 7/10 for me personally, it's just not to my taste but it's a pleasant, uplifting fragrance nonetheless.

This is nice enough. Very green and peony upfront, it is light, uplifting.. a happy fragrance! @dantek121 noted it as Shelter Island without the oud, which is honestly a pretty damn good description! Quite loud initially, and stays pretty loud so watch the trigger finger. Full bottle worthy? Not to me. Another one of these scents that is just middle of the road. Great, pleasant, easy to wear, but if I'm spending that kind of chunk of change on a big bottle I really want it to be special in some way.

Fresh, fruity , floral , green yet woody and smooth. It has a nice hairspray vibe in the opening while The ivy and grape are pretty apparent giving a nice juicy green vibe but there’s something different there maybe the bay leaf.... The florals throughout are wonderful and wow the touches of the smooth waxy spicy sandalwoody/amber note that reminds me of those wax melts or incense I can’t quite point it out but I love that scent and the contrast it gives

Well blended fragrance that last. Good job Bond!!!!! This is fresh and fruity with a touch of florals not bad.

This is a waxy lemony fresh floral fragrance. I mostly get the green notes of ivy and bay leaf with a strong fresh peony note in the beginning. After about 15min I get the magnolia and watery grapes. There is some bergamot throughout, but it is a supporting player imo. I get some sandalwood and a soapy honeysuckle in the dry down, but I never get any amber or oud. This is a fresh out of the shower kind of scent. Unisex leaning feminine - very floral and smooth and delicate. Not really my thing, I prefer Peony & Blush Suede by Jo Malone for a fresh floral. The suede note warms it up and makes it less “waxy lemony fresh”. Longevity 9/10 (8hrs+) Projection 6/10 (2-4ft) Scent 6.5/10 Clean girl aesthetic.

I envision a woman in a sundress wearing a light floral perfume, lotion, and a sunscreen without coconut🧴 I feel like I can pick up some other Bond fragrances in here like maybe fire island and a little bit of jones beach without the musk used in that one. Overall it's fine, but too feminine for my taste. Scent 5/10

Love the brand but this one just doesn't do it enough for me. Top notes are quite unique, definitely one to try if you're looking for a different kind of freshie but don't blind buy.

I suppose it was inevitable, since Bond no 9 releases something like ten new perfumes each year, many of which I do happen to like. But SAG HARBOR opens somewhat sweetly and then marches directly to a large-sillage peony drydown familiar to me from such fragrances as Ann Taylor POSSIBILITIES, which I coincidentally tried again only last week, having happened upon a purse spray of unknown provenance lying around my humble abode. Peony, I repeat: peony. Maybe it's just me, but this is a big peony frag, and the peony really drowns out all of the other alleged notes. This is good news for peony aficionados, but not such good news for me, someone with a long-confirmed peony problem. Fortunately, Bond no 9's version is not so overwhelming that I feel the need to go soak in the tub. No, but it's also not something that I'll be reaching for again. I may be hyperosmic to peony, so my idiosyncratic experience should not deter others from testing SAG HARBOR, but I do believe that this composition is far more feminine than masculine. Another big, bodacious floral perfume from Bond no 9 occupying the same general olfactory neighborhood as some of their other recent launches, including CENTRAL PARK WEST and I LOVE NY EARTH DAY. Very floral, again, but this time it's nearly all peony nearly all of the time! This analogy may be helpful: Freesia: ASTOR PLACE:: Peony: SAG HARBOR I definitely recommend this perfume for testing by women who love peony. If peony is your thing, you may have found your Bond no 9 at last!

An exceedingly disappointing, generic, mid-quality scent that leaves no lasting impression. I like Bond No. 9-- despite the mismatch between craftsmanship and price, they have a charm, even when fairly banal. But sadly, Sag Harbor doesn't have enough charm to make up for its other shortcomings.

I have a sample of this. I'm not impressed at all and certainly not for the price they want. If I were to get this in a swap, I'd try to trade it away. Very floral. It smells like the air freshener in my Grandmother's bathroom.

1980ies shampoo. Not for me, thanks. I prefer the grapes in my wine ;-) Ivy is a pest in the garden. I am sure some Ivy-League young student will love this, though it ain't for me.

Way too flowery! I cant see a manly man pulling this off.

I’ve sampled more than a dozen of the Bond no 9 perfumes, and I’ve smelled another 10 or so more in passing. There is a sameness to their mixed floral perfumes that concerns me. They smell the same, yes. That’s the subjective part. But I recognize that I dislike their sweetened-floral fragrances in general, and I must question how this colors my judgement. Dislike aside, to look at a prolific perfume line, patterns develop, and while Bond do make some traditional, innocuous mixed florals of no particular note (Chelsea Flowers, Park Avenue, Madison Soirée) they also have a stock style that they are apparently under a spell to release every third perfume or so. This style is the hazy, musky, boozy, lingering-sweet floral. Examples: Fire Island, NY Musk, Bleecker St., Nuit de Noho, Lexington Ave, NY Amber, Some of these perfumes are less ‘floral’ than others, but the floral screech is the seasoning that allows the pancake-syrupness to shine. These perfumes ride on an overwrought, thick, lingering sweetness that requires any other note to shriek at top-volume to be heard. Which brings us to the peony in Sad Harbor. The peony note in perfumery is famously uncouth and abrasive. When paired with a base that requires a shouting match in the first place, peony shows itself not to be a pleasant note. The name works, though. Sad Harbor evokes the collapsed end of a Hamptoms-climber drinks party. Flotsam and wounded vanity strewn around cocktail tables scented with abandoned, spilt fruity cocktails. Hits of salt air and sick. I take back everything I’ve said about perfume being a weak tool to evoke a complex narrative. from scenthurdle.com

"Sag Harbor" is a delicate floral fragrance that seems to be more suitable for women since it's completely focused on peonies. I really wish I could feel more the grapes, but it seems that they are only there to give some kind of soft fruity support to the long lasting peony note. They never reach the limit of making "Sag Harbor" a "fruity-floral" fragrance. The base is soft and woody and the oud note has a similar use as in Bond's "NY Amber" (but not as strong), providing a somehow soapy contrast to the floral development. Bond No. 9 has many interesting fragrances and covers a great variety of fragrance families but, differently from what the company tries to allude, "Sag Harbor" has absolutely nothing marine about it; it's just another floral fragrance. Longevity and sillage are okay, but nothing spectacular as well.

I'm loving the scent. It smells like a more aromatic and probably a better version of Delina la rose since the silage is a bit stronger. The bay leaf and ivy give this kind of an aquatic/ aromatic touch to my nose. I would love to wear this on a boat cruise or a rainy day since it reminds me of fresh wet greenery with mild sweetness. Pretty unisex in my opinion since that bay and ivy balance out the peony well without one dominating the other. I wish I was bold enough to get the bigger bottle first, but it was a total BB and it was a stretch to expect perfection with the notes involved. Good pick up though!

There was an episode in the show "Seinfeld" where they fought over a perfume called "The Beach". I always wondered what such a perfume would smell like. Well, Sag Harbor - this is it. The Beach. I have spent time on Fire Island, or on Jones Beach, and this atmosphere of salt water, shrubs in dunes, sun shine and lotions, all combined, with some slight booze aroma thrown in, that is The Beach. I like it. Never big on describing individual notes, just feelings. This could be an unisex cologne, lavishly put on when the day is hot. Wear it with ease, a non-pretentious go-to bottle of summer.

Inoffensive but disappointing. No projection, very little lasting power. I applied it at 18h00, it is now 21h30 and there is nothing left but a hint of sandalwood. It starts off as a kind of zesty green scent, I can pick out the top notes especially the ivy and bergamot, and then it just kind of dies off. There is no great dry down to speak of. It projects so little that the husband didn't even mention it. Usually he tells me if he likes it or sometimes it reminds him of other things he has smelled before. This one, no reaction whatsoever. Not sweet, green unisex fragrance.

This is a really nice fragrance. At first, a blast of peony mixes with the grapes. Then comes the honeysuckle, and also a marine note mixing with a damp wood smell. There's a spicy note in there too. It's not sharp though, nice for a woman. It makes me wonder how this would develop on a man since there are a lot of florals in here. It's a very intriguing fragrance, you keep getting the whiffs of the different notes and you want to keep smelling. Not sure that I'll purchase it...but I'm enjoying the sample.

A very well done unisex sent leaning towards the Fem side of the fence at first, very fresh good for spring and summer. Dried down quickly on me to A light Floral. As time progressed took on a very nice sort of masculine tone. I will retest when I have more time and follow up. This is Very well made! Quick note took A shower and scrubbed it off, and when I got out it still smelled as strong as when I got in! I need more time to wrap my head around this one, very deceiving Fragrance. 10/10 Quality

This one is a very green floral on me---I wish I got more grape and oud in it, although the ivy is a nice bright note that I wasn't expecting. Honestly, this smells better on my SO than it did on me---longevity was 3 hours, tops. There are so many other Bonds that I prefer and find more interesting, and I'm sad that the notes I was hunting for in this one never really made an appearance. Definitely try before you buy! The bottle is gorgeous, of course.

For whoever it is, it's a pretty nice fragrance with a peony flower at its maximum strength and juicy mouth-watering grape candy. Very feminine but lively and fun. It's still have that really musky oud base like many other Bonds tho. I would really like it if the peony gets toned down just a bit. Not super unique, but it's something different for Bond No.9 lovers, I guess.

I love the scent. It smells fresh, green, citrusy and slightly floral all in one sniff. I don’t know why it reminds me of the fragrance Clean Rain but it does. This is a day time scent definitely Spring to Summer for best performance and it set a sunshine bright day mood.

Actually not as bad as most of their fresh ones. But it reminds me of a fructis shampoo, and who wants to smell like a fructis shampoo for the price of 200$ for a bottle. Yes the Peony note outshines everything else, and the grapes are well behave modestly. 3 out of 10

This totally transports me to a nice small house with a white fence & lake out back😌...its so peaceful and you stroll thru the garden and catch periodic whiffs of sweet flowers- I only wear this with the color blue, it just matches so perfectly & women love this!!!

I used to used this scent to lure women to me, I would give a women I'm interested in this as a gift...this always blows them away...it doesn't just smell good, it's an experience... it's the small house with the white picket fence on the water no lie!

The initial smell is a little too feminine, fruity, and floral. But the drydown is nice. Overall, Sag Harbor is nice if you want something different in your collection for the summer. It's great for those muggy days.

I'm not a big fan of this fragrance house but I LOVE THIS JUICE! I usually wear it with the color blue & it just makes me so happy. It hits hard & lasts all day, this is my favorite next to the Hamptons.

Exceeded my expectations when I blind bought. purp grapes. Sophisticated and flirty. Definitely not a man's scent. Iv'e never been to sag harbor, but by the notes listed all shine.

This fragrance is too floral and feminine to be worn by men. It reminds me of Cacharel's Anais Anais and Lauren by Ralph Lauren. Hands down this one is aimed at the ladies.

Sweet floral greenery. I really do get a sense of grapes on the vine, fresh flowers and leaves in the garden. Very pretty and safe. Perfect for your garden club.

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A very green scent with a sweet kick. Reminds me of a spring rain.

Really nice. Smells like Shelter Island minus the oud. Unisex.

My coworker just told me I smell “eat you alive” good :)

Is it unisex or leaning toward masculine?