Arbolé Arbolé

Arbolé Arbolé is probably one of the most skillfully blended, minimalist, patchouli based designs I've put my nose on in modern times. I know this is a drastic statment. But for me it stands besides my favorite patchoulis Corps & Ames by Godet, spiced, dusty, milk chocolate, earthy, boozy patchouli with creamy, savory, lustfully warm sandalwood and Patchouli Antique produced by Honoré Payan for Les Néréides (Thanks for the facts @gezakolab) a raw, thick, rich, peaty, dry, cakey, vegetal, dense, black chocolatey, boozy, earthy, patchouli which I also consider my gold standard and reference for the raw note. Personally I would much prefer to wear Arbolé Arbolé, Patchouli Antique, or Corps & Ames as compared to a vintage patchouli classic like Coromandel. Sure, Coromandel is a crowd favorite deservedly, and I wouldn't argue with you if it was your favorite patchouli composition, but for me I found it too busy with other things namely vanilla and sweet resins, coming across quite sharp in its retro feel, and unpolished in my opinion for me to love it as a patchouli fragrance. Sadly, to me Richwood does it's likeness a disservice. I desire a patchouli that feels smoother on my senses made with more polish, dimension and character that remains true to the raw ingredient. The profile of Arbolé Arbolé brings to mind so many different associations through its simple use of patchouli and tonka bean. It is creamy, it is dry, it is cherried, it is boozy, it is floral, it is peaty, it is green, it is chocolatey, it is fresh, it is honeyed, it is textured, and above all it is incredibly smooth and somewhat vintage. I've never smelled richer tonka bean or patchouli since Patchouli Antique or Tauer's PHI Une Rose de Kandahar both of which this very much reminds me of. After testing all of Hiram's line I'm confident in saying they are using some of the best ingredients I've smelled in independent perfumery. Each fragrance spears no corner untouched about a particular ingredient's profile. Blending with naturals that are generally rich and heavy must be balanced very meticulously to achieve this level of transparency in the composition. With naturals alone it is nigh impossible sometimes to find balance, not only on its own but especially when taking into account the performance of Hiram Green fragrances. Slowdive and Hyde were my introductions to the house and I've never smelt anything like them or that does what they do as good as they do. There is undoubtedly some of the richest, carefully distilled natural essences in indie artisinal perfumery used in these fragrances even when comparing Hiram to the modern Artisanal Oud and attar scene that charge extremely large prices for fragrances with similar quality ingredients. Either the ingredients are excellent or the blending is excellent, honestly just both, but it really feels like this person has a very high talent for perfumery and ingredient sourcing. Arbolé Arbolé opens with a massively nutty, almondy, tonka bean that is oily, play-doh-y, creamy, musky and lactonic suggestive of the behavior of true quality tonka bean essences. To me the opening is smooth, rich and comforting wearable even for rest. Upon drying down to the mid Arbolé Arbolé smells slightly like the tonka, almond and patchouli base of Tauer's PHI Une Rose de Kandahar one of my favorite roses and one of the most well-blended modern roses I've personally smelled. The mid of Arbolé Arbolé is a finely balanced harmony of sandalwood, tonka bean and patchouli where you can catch wafts of a sparkly, glossy, cherry and oily, almond essence from tonka bean, chocolate nuances and some slight peaty, earthy, density from patchouli and milky, fluffy, dusty, slightly dried, wood facets of sandalwood and cedar. Though a very rich and dynamic profile, no ingredient ruins balance and there is always more to discover upon multiple wears. You might also get totally different notes on your skin as I've been told, like ylang ylang, peaches, heliotrope, or tuberose, Arbolé Arbolé uses very rich natural ingredients after all. Arbolé Arbolé is an atmospheric marriage of rich vanilla tonka bean having a slight cherry nuance due to its benzaldehyde content with lactonic, warm and slighty dusty sandalwood and thick, dry, earthy, boozy patchouli as the foundation. I found the tonka bean extract in Arbolé Arbolé to behave exactly like the tonka bean essence in Affinessence Vanille Bejoin and Guerlain Tonka Imperial, two +$300 fragrances. What's so incredibly unique about this composition is that at times, on me it has this phantom smell of roses or rose jam. There is an ever so soft patchouli peaty-ness at the far dry down that the sweetness from the tonka bean settles to. An extremely well done, full-bodied, minimalist fragrance that somehow feels both ancient and modern at the same time. Unisex with decent wear length and polite sillage that lingers slowly. The Spanish poem Arbolé, Arbolé... by Federico García Lorca meaning "Tree, Tree..." can be seen as a metaphorical piece. In the poem a girl picking olives is approached by Horse Riders with Andalusian ponies, then by Bull Fighters and then in the afternoon by a lone young man all asking her to accompany them back to their towns. Upon each approach she refuses to listen to them and remains like the olive tree, unmoving, rigid in her stance and married to her duties. A tree with oily, green, nutty, sweet, tonka bean, creamy, buttery, sandalwood upon an earth of smooth, rich, patchouli. It somehow makes me hungry. It will be a deep struggle for those wary of natural earthy patch, and powdery, nutty almonds. Try it and decide for yourself. 🪵🍃🫒 10/10

Having studied a little Lorca in college, I appreciate the connection here between poetry and perfume. Hiram Green's perfumes are consistently creative and high quality. The fact that they are made from all-natural ingredients is just a bonus. Arbolé (named just once according to my sample!) is more than just a tree-like scent. I expected it to simply be green and woody, but instead, it features a masterful use of patchouli, complemented by tonka bean and vanilla, with some woodiness in the background. Despite its relative simplicity and short list of notes, Arbolé is a multifaceted scent that oscillates between being earthy, dry, creamy, lush, smoky, sweet, spicy, boozy - the list goes on. Arbolé opens with an incredibly aromatic tonka bean note, softly spicy, nutty, creamy and sweet, reminiscent of Play-Doh - beautiful and comforting in equal measure. It is rare to find tonka bean featured so prominently, and especially as a top note. The patchouli follows, initially dusty and dry. The patchouli note is quite unusual here - it is not the distinctive hippie-herbal patchouli that every fragrance fan knows and loves - instead, it is greener than usual and somewhat metamorphic - it becomes increasingly lush as it develops. It marries beautifully with the tonka bean, the sweet spiciness of the latter complementing it wonderfully. A heliotrope-like note emerges, perhaps how the tonka bean smells to me as it develops, adding a hazy, powdery element to Arbolé. There is a hint of gourmand about this scent here - the vanilla-almond is almost chocolate-like, which also marries well with the patchouli. As it progresses on my skin, a woody-vanilla accord develops in the background. It is a little boozy, just the right amount of sweet, and the woody notes add depth. There is some smokiness at this stage, with an incense-like note adding colour, complementing what remains of the earthy patchouli. It fades to a smooth vanilla-amber skin scent with tonka bean remaining until the end. Sillage and longevity are moderate, and it is a transeasonal, daytime scent. An unusual, multifaceted scent that can best be summarised as patchouli-tonka bean, Arbolé is different to what I expected, and so much more interesting for that. It features oriental and chypre facets, but cannot quite be placed in either category. "Tree-like" isn't the first descriptor that comes to mind when smelling Arbolé, but it certainly applies at times. Perfectly unisex too. More wearable art from Hiram Green. 4/5.

When I smell Arbolé Arbolé, the imagery that comes to mind consists of building blocks, rounded on the edges, of all different soft-hued colors, watching Chapi Chapo and Alfie Atikins/Alfons Åberg on Pinwheel, children's film festivals (on reels), and nap time. Its sound would be triangles, recorders, a celesta and synthesized flute-toots, like the dreamy incidental music played by Johnny Costa on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. It's the deepest neural pathways preserved in my middle-aged mind recalling memories from age 4 to 8. It's what I am grateful to remember, set to an olfactory soundtrack of soft talc tonka, Play-Doh heliotrope, hints of olive oil, and gentle wooden blocks caressing the nose. It is tender and bittersweet. It is wheat paste for craft time (do not eat it!), Tempera paint, "ta-ta-TEE-TEE-ta,' the Peter Pan logo that appeared on those flexi 45s that would play songs like "I Know an Old Lady" and "Incy Wincy Spider." It is trying to swing higher than an elephant's eye and imagining a city made of sand and pails, smelling a bit rosy, like rosy cheeks. It's Popcicles and icicles, Levi's and brown eyes. It's a scent sanctum of slow, gauzy green patchouli, sweetgrass, paperback lignin vanilla, Osh-Kosh overall corduroy wales. There are doll's heads and Matchbox cars and pencil sharpeners (cedar!). Arbolé eventually slows down into a lane of pale, musky sandalwood—such comfort every second of it is to me.

Enveloping, dense, deeply comforting and enchanting, a perfume for introverted pleasure. It has a soft, peach skin suede like texture. There are floury woods; velvety sandalwood and some sharp cedar. A couple of fresh olives have dropped off the tree, the balmy wind rolling them around on the parched earth, bruising them and coaxing out their creaminess. The slightly rugged, green and gorgeous patchouli is central and gives it a bit of an edge amongst lots of rich tonka and some smooth vanilla adding a little sweetness. Sometimes I think I catch a glimpse of gentle, powdery flowers (violets, heliotrope?) whispering on warm skin. This perfume is friendly, rounded, soothing and has a lot of depth. It has an ample, long and lovely dry down. This is one of my most loved and frequently worn perfumes. Arbolé Arbolé. ... She’s not bothered about what’s going on around her, she’s perfectly content in her own warm, bucolic bubble.

Now, this is a puzzle of a fragrance. Although it smells of patchouli, it's patchouli in a lush green way that I've never experienced before in a fragrance and didn't actually recognise initially. It blends with the tonka notes and sandalwood and vanilla in an incredibly nuanced harmony that's so finely blended that you can hardly recognise each individual note; it smells utterly unusual and more like descriptive words (moist, lush, green, herbal, bittersweet, dewy, etc). There's perhaps a little powdery menthol creeping in, a slight anise hint to the patchouli, a slightly medicinal counterbalance to the lingering, hard-to-place sweetness of the tonka, which remains as a key note playing off the other scents that appear as the eau de parfum dries down. It is wearable in quite an intimate way, the sillage stays close to the skin and the scent is natural and weirdly a little erotic for something so herbal.

Arbolé Arbolé is a surprisingly delicate tonka bean fragrance. From beginning to end, tonka bean is the dominant note, but it takes on Oriental nuances of cinnamon and pipe tobacco. It takes some effort to notice wood and patchouli. To me the drydown smells more like velvety amber, the kind of amber that gives off that Play-Do effect, which I personally adore. I say "velvety" because there is a powder-like effect, but it is not powdery like talcum powder, it's more of a texture. It is a warm and inviting perfume. Not too sweet, either. One spritz on each wrist lasted all day with good projection, yet the perfume never overwhelms. Arbolé Arbolé is the perfect addition to Hiram Green's incredible line. I am eager to see what he does next. Disclosure: I now stock Hiram Green at aveparfum.com, but my opinions of perfumes are always my own.

One of my most reached-for and thought-about perfumes. It shimmers off my skin and into my olfactory space in a powdery botanical mist I can't get enough of. There's a waxy, vanilla-sandalwood drydown which forms the spine on which heliotrope-lavender-patchouli spin and gyrate in fabulous harmony (heliotrope & lavender aren't in the notes but I smell them anyway). I get an edible honeyed-doll-like vibe throughout which feels innocent and light-hearted, and yet there's character and daring which unfolds for the 9+ hours it holds my attention. It does remind me of Habanita, but it's different enough to have a bottle of each. Impressive, unusual and loved. Distillation: a dreamy perfume powdered botanical mist like honeyed doll's skin

I don't know how this perfume works, but it just does. It opens up quite sweet and dry, it's definitely powdery. But it contains one of the most unique patchouli notes I've ever smelled in my short experience. A bit sour, mentholated, with a medicinal liquorice vibe under that veil of vanillic powder which some people interpret as play-doh. I would not recognize it as a patchouli at all, to be honest. The powder gets less dense, but the patch remains safely underneath. It is green only in the abstract sense and it does not remind me of trees. I feel it should smell irritating as hell, but it does not, on my skin. It just gets softer and better as it goes. Longevity is enormous. Projection is great.

I was scared of that one because I am cautious with patchouli but also vanilla (often gives me headaches) but lured by the chartreuse color. At first, I was getting every other notes people mention (olive, play doh, rose, baby oil...) and was pretty confused with Arbolé. It's not an easy one but it's growing on me. Of all the unlisted notes, the olive is the most predominant on my skin. It's not a perfume to seduce or impress, it's a personal scent. I like it. Edit Jan 28th : Now I love it! The patchouli is gorgeous, I would never have thought that I could love a patchouli scent this much!

Such luxe comfort, like a thick cashmere hoody. A powdery patchouli (which maybe shouldn't work but oh, it does) that slow dissolves over hours into a creamy sandalwood tonka. The powder keeps the patchouli from going full dirt, which keeps everything bouyant (I adore the dark end of the patchouli spectrum, but that's not what this is). Agree with the comparison below with Habanita - what the Habanita drydown does to vetiver this does to patchouli. Both easy & complex. A laid-back delicacy. Yum. Do not be fooled by the color, this is not a green scent. Soft woods, not sharp leaves.

The opening is green, crisp, and to my nose, quite masculine. Within 30 minutes, it had transformed into a soft, powdery sandalwood. I think this would be absolutely alluring on a man. It's clearly comprised of high-quality naturals, has good projection, and longevity. There's something unique about it. It reminds me of vintage men's fragrances from the mid century. I can see this on a very distinguished man who has a traditional style, a la Cary Grant or Ray Milland.

It smells like play-doh on me yet somehow manages feel luxurious at the same time, I find it very soothing. The scent is completely different on my best friend, on her it smells more woodsy, deep and complex, which at first made me a bit jealous, but I can't help but love how homely and cosy the comforting play-doh scent makes me feel. I saw someone else compare it to doll heads and I love that comparison as well.

It reminded me of some oriental chypres and perfumed deodorants from the 80s and 90s. I was given a little transparent light start, followed by two blocks: red sweet-spicy oriental and dark blue patchouli. Like a red and blue pencil, only not as ostentatious as it once was. It's a more subdued, ghostly version of the past, as if you were looking at the past through a keyhole.

My 3rd favorite from this house. My favorite is Slow Drive and 2nd favorite is Dilettante. This is good, tonka and patchouli dominant, and like all his offerings very natural smelling. I've smelled one like this before, one of my Profumum Roma fragrances. I would recommend sampling this one first before buying as it is unique and different, not suited for the mainstream.

First thought was aniseed which is not an ingredient. Then becomes the vanilla-cedar, what a beautiful duet! Powdery insense vibes but still fresh. I wouldn’t call it romantic. But summer evening strolls through a Mediterranean countryside - yes. Ah, so lovely! Another very different, pure and surprising quality scent from perfume artist Hiram Green.

This is a first impression. I realize that I'm actually smelling patchouli, tonka, and vanilla, but to me it smells like olive juice poured over play-doh. I actually love it and find it addictive and unusual in a very good way; like taking a brisk walk in the morning through a park, carrying play-doh in my hands lol.

Took me a minute to recognize this but it smells like DS & Durga Pistachio. It’s a fuller version, it’s fluffier and more powdery but it’s very similar. This is the better version in terms of quality ingredients and what I wanted Pistachio to be.

Utmost powder. The sour or green dimensions noted by other reviewers are only minimally detectable to me, at the opening. I get a nice long dry down on a vanilla-patchouli frequency. It grew on me.

I love this! It is warm and dark and soft; definitely a winter scent. It is quite strong also; I use it very sparingly and only on my more courageous days. A scent for special occasions, for me.

Not a heavy patch scent. A fresh green powdery scent, with a fantastic drydown of warm vanilla

I love love love this!! I even love the colour :) And so proud that it's a Dutch perfumer!

So excited was I by Hiram Green's new perfume that I was tempted to blind buy a FB on the day it was launched. Vainly I searched for reviews but no one has had a chance to sample this before the official launch it seems. Being disciplined, I decided to get a sample instead. Evocative name, lovely group of olfactory notes. I even looked up the poem it was named after. I really want to love this perfume. The opening is a very strong vetiver accord. I double checked the perfume profile. Unlisted ingredient? Wonky skin chemistry? This is like badass Sycomore stuff. Green sweet grass vibe. The drydown is more my style with the tonka, vanilla coming to the foreground amidst a vague sandalwood sweetness. I Guess I won't be ordering a full bottle. The notes look so good though...

Arbolé Arbolé is an especially complex fragrance, and its note pyramid doesn't fully describe what it smells like. (This is absolutely not one to buy blindly.) It starts off with a very powdery--and to my nose, slightly minty--heliotrope smell that's very much infused with strong vanilla. Then during the drydown it becomes much more woody, with the sandalwood dominating as the vanilla recedes. A great deal of intelligence went into crafting this, and it takes you through more of a journey through different stages than so many other contemporary fragrances do. Even so, to me this is more to be admired than desired--I don't know where I would want to wear this. The powderiness of the opening leans slightly feminine, but afterwards it's pretty unisex.

Very interesting patchouli with many faces; hippy and earthy, sweet tonka/vanilla, soft woody... Changes are subtle and seamless, but patchouli is always present as the main theme of the fragrance. What blew me away is a gorgeous, powdery drydown that surprised me late in the evening when I wasn’t paying attention to the notes and the development... a goodnight kiss by an angel. Earlier I read comparisons with Unum Ennui-Noir and can confirm only that those two are similar, yet very different; EN is dark, powdery and linear, with patch hidden under those soft, fluffy notes, where the patchouli in Arbole Arbole is a star - a shapeshifter and in that sense very much like LM Patchouli Boheme. An unusual, pretty patchouli.

Tangy, grassy tonka. Very distinctive and uncommon smelling. The notes seem to pull in all different directions, counterbalancing each other—mellow and sharp, clean and dirty, airy and earthy—for an end result that feels deliberately, pleasingly muddled. As someone who is a hard sell on patchouli, Arbole feels like an out-of-key version of Tauer's PHI Une Rose de Kandahar to me. It's in a distinctly similar vein, but funkier and more thoroughly unisex; tangy grass in place of Rose de Kandahar's marshmallowy rose. That said, I appreciate Arbole's distinctive and uncommon composition, and I like it more than I would ever expect to like a patchouli-dominant fragrance.

Love the opening—a bright, fresh green powdery opening— and less so with the more pronounced powdery dry down. This scent matches the color of the juice; a green, wet bog. The atmosphere is still and quiet. The scent feels meditative and exotic, quietly dramatic. For some reason I feel like I’m in a Asian forest. I can’t point to one ingredient causing that sensation but I think I need to spend more time with Arbolé. Unfortunately I’m only going to be wearing this one time as the lucky scent vial is drained. I’ll be back when I form a more solid opinion. For now it’s a strong like.

Each of the Hiram Green fragrances smell extremely high quality and have a sense of luxury. When reading the description for Arbole, I was expecting a creamy chprye scent, something akin to walking in the forest on a cool day with a blanket. What I got was very different. To put it plainly: this fragrance smells like baby-wipes. The most high-end, freshest, abundantly-fragrant baby wipes, but baby wipes none the less. I actually really like it, but somehow it just doesn't fit my vibe. I could see this for someone that is playful and feminine, but somewhat traditional.

Lightly sweet vanilla and a little earthy patchouli in the open, very very nice here. Later it becomes a bit powdery with the sandalwood coming through but then tonka comes in after that to give it more starchiness and substance. Further down the line the vanilla starts to die to just leave patchouli and a dusty sandalwood prominently, where the patchouli reminds me a bit of Xerjoff Richwood here but I prefer this as it doesn't have that annoying powdery rose that Xerjoff overused in that frag. Great opening and good overall.

It's a very nostalgic scent for me, reminding me of vintage deodorant and aftershaves. I had a few of those Avon chess piece aftershave bottles and from what I remember, the smell is very similar - definitely that sort of musky, patchouli note. The only thing that differentiates it would be the amount of vanilla I can smell, which I really like here. Overall, the scent is quite warm, inviting, and very inoffensive, so I could see myself wearing this a lot more than I'm willing to admit.

Impressive; nutty and oily vanilla tree sap mingling with the dry woodiness of the trunk. Facets of greenness are consistent throughout the scent's life, and it oscillates between creamy, lightly sweet, and vegetal throughout its duration. Can be worn all year-round, I think this would be rather beautiful and bright in the warmth of spring and summer. My little sample lasted for around 8 hrs on the skin, moderate arms' length projection. Most worthy of a try.

Took me a second to make the connection, but this is reminiscent of Shalimar in its vintage feeling. I gave this to my wife blind and she also came up with the same connection (Shalimar is one of her favourites). Must be the patchouli combination with sandalwood and some amber. It’s not as potent and polarizing as Shalimar and not as incense like. It’s also easier to wear but there is a baby powder/vintage deodorant aspect that might not appeal to everyone.

this opens with a powdery vanilla and something woody underneath. the patchouli comes through slowly adding some greenness, it's not a sweet patchouli. something in here goes quite sour on me, maybe the cedar? it takes quite awhile, but it becomes much better over time. the sour baby powder thing finally dies down, then it becomes a powdery patchouli, heavy on the tonka.

It's nice enough. Someone else's review, mentioning "play-doh," planted that thought in my head, and now I can't think of anything else. It's not an unpleasant smell, but I'm not sure I want to smell like gourmet play-doh.

This was an unexpected like for me - a natural vanilla-tonka-patchouli with huge staying power. Based on the name and color of the perfume, I was expecting something else, something green or arborous.

Gorgeous, an organic (and less naugthy) sibling of Ambre Muscadin, it's almost as good as this masterpiece.

there is something about it that makes me feel mentally stable. green sour dry baby powder

Green vanilla, if it would be slightly more vanillic it would be perfect

The Lorca poem as I understand it doesn’t have any fantastical aspects to it, but Arbole Arbole certainly does in the opening. It glistens and sparkles as unfathomably brilliant and colorful light bounces off of patchouli and a sweetened tonka. There is pixie dust in the air, clinging ever so gently to browns of the trees’ bark and the green of their leaves. It was a moment of catching my breath. Simply stunning. The first dry down happens immediately with the pixie dust falling away to leave us with loamy patchouli, and the sweetened tonka pushing more vanillics. You can smell and feel the lactone heavy sandalwood blooming. Here’s where things get weird.... The further Arbole Arbole evolves the more the tonka and sandalwood seems to take over, though not employing more vanillics or sweetness but rather something sweetly grassy and hay like, and glossy/chemically like a decent dose of heliotrope was added. Many reviewers say they smell that classic children’s play thing of which they mold into their own fantastical imagery: Play-Doh. That’s a bit reductive, but they are also quite correct. As a kid who was fond of this moldable clay, I certainly see the resemblance. That’s fine. It really is. Why shouldn’t it be evocative to bring back those specific memories of childhood where our little imaginations were spurred? That is what this art of perfumery is about after all, right? Pulling at our memories, heart strings, and our imaginations? The thing is that Arbole Arbole does it with too much lackluster. There isn’t enough whimsy, happiness, or anything of the sort to make you think of that specific childhood memory - little alone a forest of a Lorca poem.

This one sent me way back; it smells like some long-lost vintage perfume I’ll never be able to place. To my nose, it leans heavily on tobacco and a cinnamon-like warmth, so checking the listed notes was a shock; it simply can’t be just that! As it dries down, this strange creature turns into a kind of vintage baby powder, sweet and slightly drugstore-ish. Uncanny, intriguing, and confusing all at once. I adore powdery patchoulis, but this one veers a bit too sweet and too bargain-bin for my taste. Still, I have to give it credit for tricking my nose; impressive, but ultimately a pass. Tag(s): vintage, tobacco-y, sweet, drugstore-ish

Patchoulie all the way .and a slight touch of honey and tonka . This does remind me slightly of oldstyle Dioressence .Not the same Dioressence has much more going on . Arbole is dark green , not grass green more herbal with some sweetnes almost like playdoughy waxy. a bit baby poudery mixed in here to. A bit damp and moist almost . Very comfortable to wear and smell .But not sure when and where to wear this .I dont find much vanilla in here but almost like there is an waxy heliotrop almond note . Good but not all that for me .

I’m glad others found this so enchanting, but for me, this is the weakest that I’ve sampled from HG. Very powdery, light patchouli, fairly strong vanilla—definitely reminds me of a scented candle or all-natural household cleaner. It’s pleasant, sure, but not wearable in the way in the way I like fragrances to be. Also, this reads totally femme to me; even the woody notes after dry down are soft and overshadowed by a Glade-like vanilla. As another reviewer mentioned, an old church lady’s piano is a perfect description. Pass.

Powdered Patchouli? With a touch of incense as the 3 times I have worn my sample I sense a light burning note. This is dirty and sweet and playful and serious at the same time. Such an odd scent that has a vintage vibe. From a dab on vial the longevity and sillage is nearing beast mode. This is not for the Taylor Swift crowd at all IMHO, more for a mature woman with a satisfying career who is established. This house never gets mentioned on any male platforms and I can see this being more on the female than male side.

Although patchouli is not what I crave like I used to But this one was very good and pleasant to wear Tonka and patchouli is a better combination than pure vanilla and patchouli out my experience It gives both notes nice contrast throughout the day Performance was good My only problem is the fragrance is hard to find in the Middle East Not that I want the fragrance just stating one of the problems we face for this brand Nice experience .... into the other one

Beyond Slowdive and Moon Bloom, I’m respecting the Hiram Green frangrances more than I’m actually enjoying them. This one has a green patchouli that goes medicinal on me (same problem I had with Nicolai’s Patchouli Intense), and a powder that leans into a touch of formaldehyde (reminding me of Cockatiel). So it may not be for me, but I recognize the quality.

I was expecting a creamy-powdery scent but I wasn’t expecting how green and acidic it also is. It smells like chlorophyll sap from flower stems which makes it too sour-green for me.

Initial spritz: omg baby oil apocalypse, baby bottles, cabbage patch kids, this is so sweet, yuck. Then patchouli, ok, I like patchouli, but so much tonka tonka tonka. Doll heads and powder, this is weird. Finally settling down into a nice patchouli vanilla oats accord. Very well blended, but for me, so at odds with my expectations of a 'green' or 'tree' scent I may have to revisit on another day.

on paper I wasn't crazy about this and waited a long time to test on my skin. I finally did today and on first spray it was so gorgeous with the patchouli and the tonka bean and vanilla... I proceeded to spray it in a few more pulse points and then it hit me... the playdoh!!! why??? i was so excited about such a beautiful scent. I thought I could overlook it but it's a tragedy I can't look past.

Powderbomb. Just a cloud of playdoh baby powder, immediate and everlasting. It's devastating how un-green this smells given how stunning the bottle is. I did try to layer this over Soft Woods by Libertine to mellow out the sharpness from the fir and juniper. Unfortunately the powder in this is overwhelming, and completely suffocates everything else.

I can get the notes If I try hard enough, though on me this just comes off a very salty home made play-doh. I get it, I want to see past it but on me that's all that's developed. Safe scent for the kindergarten classroom I suppose. Edit: hours and hours later this smoothed out and though I still get the play-doh, it's not as salty lol

Smells like PLAY DOH with smidge Lemon and Kale juice. Tonka appears with slightly wooden base after 20 min. Exaggerated reviews here... slightly left of field scent.. totally unremarkable... Playdoh... thats all. NEXANGELUS sums it up powdery bitter modern chypre...