Hawas Viper

Viper is probably the most misleading position in the entire Hawas family, because there's no mass-appealing freshness here, no club-friendly ease, and no compliment-getting aura. The first thing that jumps out is thyme: dry, herbal, a little pharmaceutical. It's pushed into a smoky, burnt-wood, church-incense mixture with heavy Asian spices. In the drydown, there's this oil-soaked tobacco, like from a packet of rolling tobacco. Not cigarette smoke — I hate cigarettes. When I focus on it, I can also smell a bit of coffee, like in Asad. People don't write about this much, but to me it's very nutty, a little like roasted nuts. I'd put 'nutty' almost at the very top of the pyramid. Despite all this dirty, aggressive, burnt surrounding character, Viper has a balsamic softness and resinous sweetness that round the composition out a little. The problem is that this softness sits underneath an extremely unapproachable profile. I can imagine what people mean when they write that it smells like saliva. As a medical cannabis user, I can say there's absolutely none of that here, although it is quite green. There is no hashish either. I even smelled my vaporized AVB, and that's not it either. You have my guarantee that everyone writing that Viper is very similar to Black Afgano has only smelled both through their phone screen on TikTok. Typical Fragrantica bullshit, just to write some pseudo-review. What it IS very similar to, however, is Maahir Black — not so similar that you should not own both, and I will even say that I recommend owning both if you liked either one of them. Performance is nuclear. Projection is intense, and longevity on fabric is at least a week. It leaves a cloud behind you. I gave my friend a bag with decants and samples, and I also gave him sprayed blotters. Everything got taken over by Viper and nothing else could be smelled. Even the plastic bag was taken over by just one spray of Viper. Viper is genuinely hostile in the best possible way. It's dirty, green, smoky, nutty, resinous, and nuclear. If regular Hawas is the guy at the club, Viper is his weird creepy cousin burning gas station RC 'weed' in his garage. I love GameSpitta's review, but this ain't it — he reviewed it so harshly. It's the funniest post on Fragrantica though, I love it. Opening note: 8+ Sillage/Projection: 8+ Drydown: 9- Longevity: 10 Blend/Composition: 8+ Versatility: 3 Uniqueness: 9 Value for money: 7+ Bottle design/Aesthetics: 8+ Overall experience: 9- Blind-buy rating: 2+

A ACTUALLY GOOD REVIEW I smelled the originals and can tell you its smells like both terroni and black afgano both a bit lighter and a tiny bit more synthetic The start is definitely terroni with more sweet raspberry then after id say 5-10 minutes it turns into both black afgano and terroni like literally if you sprayed both of them 1-2 hours its just the dry down of lighter black afgano 8-9/10 if you love both of them for anyone else not blind buy safe very niche everyone here who just buys for the hype then gets confused why it smells different ive actually tried what its cloning and rasasi did a pretty good job if you want to wear them both everyday and not spend thousands it’s definitely good bang for your buck also can be a entry for niche fragrances It may be my signature smell tbh

My mom hated it = It's a good, high-quality niche perfume! Definitely not a mass-appealing perfume, but if this appeals to your nose, there is no going back! The combination of tobacco, cannabis, and chestnut is out of this world. I once layered it with Hawas Elixir; it projected like a beast! The longevity of this perfume on clothes is eternal if you spray it 10-15 times. It stays on the clothes for days. But projection is not beast-mode; it projects well for the first 3-4 hours. You may not get compliments but people will notice you for sure!

I think this gets way too much undeserved hate. I have a feeling it's because the Hawas line is known to dupe popular mass-appealers, and this release was kinda out of left field as it dupes something that's quite niche. I smelled Nasomatto Black Afgano in a niche shop one time and from my memory this gets super close to that. It's this dark, oriental, with fruity undertones kind of scent that I would imagine only a certain person could pull off, and I just so happen to like this kind of scent.

So this is different in such a way I love it. I wore it to bed and my wife couldn't stop sniffing me. It smells like green but also woody and is also fun smell. I am actually buying another bottle. I was scared to get this one based on ratings glad I did.