Sweet Hope

The resemblance is pretty much complete in my opinion, I can hardly tell a difference in the scents. Except sillage and lasting power are decreased, from (my HP is from 01.22) high-medium to low to low-medium. Actually, this works very well as it makes the scent the soft, intimate perfume that it actually is. While HP's strength was/is excellent for memorability, thus popularity, and, if people didn't overspray, bang-for-the-buck, to me a less obtrusive nature goes so much better with the notes. I bought it on a whim, having avoided Hypnotic Poison like the plague before for reasons just mentioned. This dupe made me love it, and subsequently obsessed, for the very first time. The bottle is nice, very nice considering other dupes. My only pet peeve is the slightly sharper upper edge of the cap, which cheapens the feel. I fixed the edge with heat over a flame and now it's perfectly smooth and glossy. Which comes with a risk of ruining the cap though and most people will just not mind that detail tbh. ^^ Now, if you've come to love this scent, you do notice its low strength, and it's sad it gets quite close to the skin so quickly. If you can and don't mind the very different packaging, do give Spirit of Cashmere Musk a try, it is the same rather spot-on dupe but with an intensity almost matching my current original. Which isn't so lethally overwhelming anyway in my opinion, but, both could be suffocating, whereas with La Rive you will have a hard time getting nauseous, and may just enjoy this amazingly beautiful sweet comfort scent.

I have a love hate relationship with this fragnance. I'm not the biggest fan of coconut and white florals in General. That's way I've never bothered to buy the original HP. But sometimes I get the hinch for smelling like it. Sweet hope opens up with lots of white florals and coconut. In the beginning I get a somewhat alcoholic smell from it. Though I'm not sure if those are the white florals. However I'm Not the biggest fan of the beginning. The drydown however is absolutely beautyful. I get a mix Out of coconut vanilla and sandalwood with a hint of white floral in the Background. I dont get any almond notes tbh but I dont get them with the original either. Projection is okay I could smell myself throughout the day with my mask on. Projection from the original HP ist not great either. Longevity is about 5-6 hours when I Spray around 7 sprays. Longevity from the original is extremely bad on me 10 minutes and its a skin scent 4 hours max and I cant smell anything. The pricepoint for sweet hope is phenomal 90 ml for 5 Euro. Not even a VS Body spray is that cheap. Edit: The last week the temperature has dropped massively where I live. I wore this perfume almost everyday and it perfoms way better in the winter cold. I definetly get the play doo almond note now. The perfume smells like powdery marshmallows for me now. I think this might go to my favorite shelf.

This behaves so interestingly on me. At first I thought I was going to be disappointed that the fragrance SEEMED to disappear so quickly, but it lingers around - like litterally - around me, for a long time after I've sprayed it. The funny thing is that after a few minutes, I can't obviously smell the fragrance on me, but I catch whiffs of it in the air, close to me. I only vaguely remember Hypnotic Poison which I loved and tested many times, but never owned. This is certainly a much lighter dupe. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm not an American and I don't live in the U.S. anymore, so if like me you're in a country where people are unfamiliar with Root Beer, obviously no one's going to think you smell like Root Beer, not that, that would put me off the fragrance. I've tried other fragrances with a dark soda note/scent and I sometimes like that just fine. What I'm getting is roasted caramelized almonds and I really like that smell. Update 25.01.2021: No Root beer note develops on me. Whatever smells like Root Beer on some others, smells like caramel on me. It's a good thing that there's 90ml in the bottle, because we're not allowed to travel to Germany right now where I bought this fragrance last Summer, and I haven't been able to find many La Rive fragrances in Denmark -they aren't stored routinely in shops, like they are in dm and Mueller.

It is absolutely bonkers how much this smells like the original hypnotic poison (including the strength and longevity)!! I added a bottle of this to make free shipping and this at 3 euro was the cheapest article in the store. Serendipitous, because hp used to be my baby back in the day, I was floored when I received it. I went through at least four bottles of the stuff when it first came out then sadly it got reformulated once to many and I stopped liking it and it stopped liking me. I went in store to check the original because I was so ready to get it again but alas the Dior one available now still gives me a certain acridness and an unpleasant herbal dry down that wasn't there when it first came out. If you miss the old version, get this.

very comforting scent. I cannot bring myself to comprehend why one would compare this to the original hypnotic poison, in performance and otherwise, however this is the best adjacent perfume it has far less spicy notes and the vanilla is more noticeable, it's a scent of its own, a great one at that btw! it's quite long lasting, though the sillage is more intimate. I think it's great for going somewhere you know strong perfume won't be welcome, but you'll smell good to those near you. or for going on a date. I'm not sure though because I kind of got stood up. but it made me think, hey, it would have been worse if I were not wearing sweet hope by la rive. lol. it's truly very comforting and feels like a red velvet embrace.