Scent One: Hinoki

Absolutely stunning. The first time I wore it the cypress nearly overwhelmed every other facet and it was so incredibly fresh and green I half-expected foliage to start sprouting from the seams in the seats of my car as I drove around running errands. Now that my nose has had time to acclimate to it I'm picking up these beautiful wood notes, as deep as anything I've ever encountered. It's nothing like holding a block of dead, processed wood to your nose, which is what I typically associate with woody fragrances, but like walking through an untouched forest or the rich, piney blast of a branch freshly shorn from a tree, still so fresh with life that it's almost damp. It reminds me so much of the woods that surrounded my childhood home and the solitude of losing myself in them for hours at a time. The way the green notes dance at the very edge of sweetness is a thing of beauty. It may be the most natural fragrance I've come across; there isn't even a sense that this is mimicking anything from nature, but one that an aspect of nature has somehow been captured and immaculately preserved. There's this tremendous, quiet sophistication to it, and a self-assuredness that's only achieved at the very highest levels of a craft, once it becomes clear you no longer have anything left to prove. This is my first experience with Comme des Garcons, and it's immediately obvious to me why they're held in such high regard.

Burada yorum yazan kişilerin büyük bir bölümüne göre bu parfüm İskandinav ülkelerinin ve Japonyanin ormanları gibi kokuyormus. O ormanları görmediğim için bilmiyorum ama yeşili bol bir orman koktuğu kesin. Kokulu bazı ot ve calilarin olduğu ormanda yürüdükçe sonra ayakkabımın altının bu parfümü biraz da olsun andıran şekilde koktuğunu söyleyebilirim. Bu etki ilk 20 dakika var. Sonra ise odunsu ve biraz baharatlı bir havaya bürünüyor. Yine de keyifli havası sürüyor. Ama ilk baştaki etkinin muhteşem olduğunu söylemeliyim. Bu parfüm üzerinde iyi çalışılmış. Farklı olmayı başarmış. Bence hak ettiği ilgiyi görmüyor. Ödül aldımi bilmiyorum ama bence ödülleri hak ediyor. Bunu söylerken tabiki özgün yanını dikkate alıyorum. Genel parfüm sevenler için değil. Onlar için muhtemelen "garip" tanımlamasını hak edecektir. Eğer parfüme meraklıysanız bunu dolabınızda bulundurun. Serin bir sonbahar günü ormanda yürüyüşe çıkın. Keyfini çıkartın. Kalıcılık orta düzeyde, koku dağılımı ise makul. Tene yakın kalıyor, kalması da iyi. Kokunun çok sevdiğim bir derginin adı ile çıkıyor olması daha da güzel. Bu durumda ormandaki yürüyüşe bir de dergiyi ekleyin. Keyfiniz ikiye katlanacaktir.

This isn't really a hinoki scent (the inspiration is there), but it is an amazing airy, sauna-inspired woody scent. I think of wooden baths and steam touching cypress needles. Woody, green, realistic leaning. It smells like fresh-cut conifer wood but not necessarily a pencil cedarwood (which is a plus for me.) Camphorous and resinous but the main components are wood, needles + air. Everyone else has said I wanted to say, but because I love this perfume so much I just had to leave a review. I have seen many people describe scents as "being forest after the rain". I've disagreed many times (I have to wonder if they ever stepped inside a forest before). This one does actually feel that way for me though it is not damp or rainy at all but has familiar atmospheric qualities. I love anything naturalistic + conifer with a nice dose of wood and this is easily one of my favorites. The downsides are the longevity, I would give anything for this scent but lasting a few more hours. Also, I highly recommend layering it with Heretic - Dirty Hinoki.

Between the opening notes and as this settles into its second act, it oscillates, back and forth several times, for me, between "fresh" and "musty" which brings me unending fascination not only to this scent in particular, but to perfumery and the wonders it holds in general. Though, one might not find "musty" particularly enjoyable or even endearing, any positive feelings and emotions -I- might find with musty are at least in the forefront of my mind in this particular perfume. To be said of "mustiness" and how wear-able this is as a fragrance, obviously, it may smell a little... unorthodox, to say the least, but personally, I don't care about how I smell in proximity to others. You like my smells or you don't! Sorry! Who's to say one even smells the same things I smell upon myself, anyways? Perhaps my muse finds this enchanting on me?~ That being said, I would have a bottle of this on hand and wear once in a while to change things up. I love the variation of wood in this scent.

This is the first fragrance that I fully fell in love with. It is so intoxicatingly green, throws me into a state of calmness. It helps me return to a stableness within myself, a serious beauty. Green, gray, brown, clear rain drops. Quiet moment next to a chilly bus window. Closed eyes. I wore this heavily during an odd vacation I took to San Francisco to visit a friend. I was in a period of thick depression, separation, heavy eyes and constant fatigue from citalopram. In the days I walked around alone, taking in the new city, insanely beautiful surroundings but such a fraught culture and mythology. I had to come home each day from wandering parks that were practically nature reserves to take sweaty naps on a leather couch, then wake myself up and reapply Hinoki. It is corny but with the this scent I gained a certain peace towards life during a period where I was grappling with sufferance. This fragrance is very fleeting, little trace of it after a few hours of wear.