Hapyang 15.1

Sheer happiness in a bottle. This is all yellow florals to me, with beautiful ylang-ylang at the centre, a note I deeply appreciate when it is done this well. It makes the perfume feel cheerful, radiant and alive. For me, this is a great way to start any weekday. I love wearing it in spring and summer, when its soft, smooth and subtly sexy character really comes through. It is not overly powdery, nor heavy on the vanilla, which keeps it light and joyful. What I love most is the sparkling sense of joy it gives: vivid, sunny and full of movement. Which is btw rather welcome in these stressed times. Sometimes you don’t need another complex 'perfume journey' full of deep, intense, complicated smells. Sometimes a perfume can simply be bright, kind and joyful. And that is exactly what makes this one so appealing to me. Just a very happy perfume :)

Hapyang is a bright and joyful perfume, a colored powder, and everything around becomes magical. It is an evocative perfume, it gives serenity and tranquility, it is delicate and with a French imprint. Beautiful! Sillage: 6.5/10 Longevity: 7.5/10 Scent: 8.5/10 Overall: 8.5/10

I find this surprisingly easy to wear on a very hot day, It becomes even lighter with less powder and more yellow in the heat. There is no heavier base like sandalwood or muscle that makes it too heavy or woody to wear on summer day.

A creamy yellow powdery floral

Originally, I opened this sample and smelt nothing. I had to get rather close to my sample bottle to get any scent, to which unraveled as the following: The scent can be described as yellow. It is as though a bottle of sunshine was released, but without the citrus that people typically tie to these photorealistic scents. It’s essentially spring in a bottle. I primarily smelt ylang ylang on the opening, and during the dry down process. But it was soften by what I assumed was hedonia. However, all of that disappears into a warm skinlike vanilla. it’s not intimidating or overbearing, especially since it has a close range sillage. the scent may just come across as ylang-ylang and vanilla to the untrained, due to how simple and airy it is. I’d rank it a 7/10 for smell, but a 4/10 due to the lack of projection and how it disappears unless you’re actively smelling your skin.