Apollo Hyacinth

This smells so, so, so good. For the first time this year, I cut the hyacinth from my garden and put them in a mason jar to brighten up my office. I didn’t realize how potent they were in fragrance and had to move them to the hallway - but they smelled incredible for ten or more days. I then began to wonder why they don’t use hyacinth in more fragrances and wanted to try one out, and that’s how I stumbled across this incredible fragrance. I opened the box and before I even took out the bottle I thought “it smells like the color green.” You can smell the vetiver citrus right away. Then I smelled the bottle sprayer and could get the top notes. They were so divine I had to test it out despite the fact that it was 10:30pm and I’d essentially be wearing it to sleep. It’s perfect. First 10 minutes smells so green and fresh (almost aggressively, as though there was a lot of lime in this) and...like a hyacinth. The dry down is mellow, soft, like when you put highly fragrant flowers in a large hallway and the scent dissipates perfectly in to every corner - not too strong, yet not weak either - you notice it when you walk in but eventually it just becomes part of the atmosphere and makes you feel happy. It loses that aggressive quality as it melts with the body chemistry and becomes a vibrant, soft, effortless hyacinth-lily fragrance. It’s really, really wonderful. 10/10 recommend.

bright, beautiful and clean, imo a unisex floral. noticeably green and dare I say 'wet', but not in an 'aquatic' sense, moreso the smell of a very green, dewy and fresh hyacinth. There's a bit of what I would call a bite to this, not unpleasant but undoubtedly a tone meant to ground the formulation. I believe its the vetiver working it's magic but this is simply one man's nose. powder tones lent by way of angelica and LOTV. Absolutely shines in the spring like nothing else I've worn. This stuff is not cheap, but it must be said that in no way does it smell of poor quality. Longevity is fine - roughly 6 hours is my mileage. The projection however is quite solid; for only lasting as long as it does, its really only a skin scent for about the final 2 hours or so. I'd say the first 4 are AT LEAST moderate and its more accurate frankly to describe the opening as firmly 'strong'. To be honest though I think you could absolutely overspray with this, I mean, if you got money like that anyways.

This is the star in Eric Buterbaugh's line up. A really lovely hyacinth w/out the overstrong trumpeting of most hyacinth frags, just a lovely green floral of sharper edges (incl a lemony citrus brightness that doesn't announce "lemon") that manages to be complex, dense and incredibly fresh all at once. Hyacinth is prominent and LOTV present w sig support from woody green vetiver and the dry green intensity of oakmoss. Lasted several hrs and sillage initially is fairly big. It was a pleasant surprise as other EB’s have not impressed as I'd expected they might. This one is exquisite, a favorite and fb worthy. Sadly discontinued and will be very htf. As someone deeply attached to Norell, this scent occupies similar territory and it's no surprise when looking at their notes. Both rely heavily on hyacinth, galbanum and oakmoss. 8.5/10.

Impression based on wear test in store. One of the most beautiful crisp green perfumes laden with gorgeous white flowers I have tried ( does not smell like hyacinth imho). Both sillage and longevity were good for green perfume category. When you buy the full size dabber bottle, it comes with 0.3 oz travel size spray bottle and glass funnel. FYI Surrender To Chance sells decants. I finally bought this several days later. It performs really well in extreme heat. It will never be an exact replacement for the original Balmain Vent Vert. Nothing will because of all the restrictions but this one is close enough..

I am loving my decant of this. The first time I'd ever smelled Hyacinth was on a vacation to AZ a year ago. I was in Home Depot and they had a bright pink Hyacinth plant. I couldn't believe such a beautiful scent was hiding from me my entire life. I bought the plant and brought it home where I lived off that smell for a few weeks. This smells so much like the real plant it's incredible! It's not sharp and it doesn't smell like soap. Other than that, it smells spicy and peppery just like the real thing smells to me.