Halston Z-14 Halston 1976 Cologne

Bottle Design:
Elsa Peretti

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7.7 / 10 362 Ratings

A popular perfume by Halston for men, released in 1976. The scent is spicy-woody. The production was apparently discontinued.

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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Citrus

Green

Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Basil

Bergamot

Cypress

Gardenia

Heart Notes

Cinnamon

Cedarwood

Coriander

Patchouli

Geranium

Jasmine

Vetiver

Base Notes

Moss

Amber

Benzoin

Musk

Frankincense Leather

Leather

Tonka bean

Perfumers

Vincent Marcello, Max Gavarry

Ratings

Scent

7.7362 Ratings

Longevity

7.3287 Ratings

Sillage

7.1285 Ratings

Bottle

7.4304 Ratings

Value for money

8.8142 Ratings

Submitted by TVC15, last update on 08/12/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Halston Z-14 After Shave Lotion

Italian Cypress

Vendetta pour Homme Eau de Toilette

Italian Forest

Léonard pour Homme Eau de Toilette

Sung Homme Eau de Toilette

Reviews

17 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/27/2012

Krmarich
139 Reviews

Krmarich

Very helpful Review 9

Time capsule...

This was the first fragrance I remember wearing in 1977. I was only 13 and surprisingly fragrance saavy. This was so urban. Growing up in the 70s let ones character develope freely. Halston ideal for me. I had no clue what was in it. I only knew it was perfect on my young body. I am shocked when others call this "old mens". It was "Teenage Wasteland"! I recognized herbs, spices and woods. Little did I know that oakmoss would be my companion for life, even after the ban in 2000.

I wore it to the roller skating rink, leaving behind my incredible wake, my feathered hair blowing in the breeze! Then I would hang out with friends at the mall. I wore it to see Star Wars. Indeed, wearing it now brings back vivid memories of that age of innocence. I was inspired and empowered. One thing led to another and soon my allowance money was shared between the record store and perfume counter. My botttle lasted until 1984 and I moved on to bigger things.

The vintage I discovered this summer was a splash and everything I remember. EA Fragrance is no friend of mine. The reformulation is peculiar. Its like a ghost of itself. Most of the ingredients are replaced by aromachemicals and the most obvious substitute is the lack of oakmoss, jasmine and sandalwood. Its sort of like Star Wars remastered. I am a purist and refuse changes of this sort. Its tricky but there are some bottles left floating around on e-bay, even cheaper than the imposter.

08/09/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

ChicoRoch1
163 Reviews

ChicoRoch1

8

Cinnamon oakmoss 80s masterpiece

Whatever you do, if you plan on buying a bottle of Halston Z-14 please make sure it's a vintage bottle. The current version is nothing short of embarrassing. Thank you IFRA. I hope your building burns to the ground for what you people are doing to perfumery. Anywho i just picked up a vintage bottle of Z-14 and it's simply a masterpiece with that sharp cinnamony spicy opening. Lots of notes in this one and they all compliment each other beautifully. The sillage and longevity are fabulous. I swear i could rock this every day. I fondly remember my dad splashing this on back in the late 1970s and i fell in love right there. I really can not say enough about it except that the price for the vintage juice is well under $50!! Definitely a steal. If you are interested in anything made in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s, ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS go the vintage route. IFRA be damned!!

02/10/2025

10
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Smirky
452 Reviews

Smirky

Helpful Review 5

No cinnamon to my nose

I purchased my bottle of Z14 through a discounter about a year ago. This was my first wear. I found it interesting that Tom Ford's discontinued Italian Cypress is suggested as similar. Side story - I already sampled Alexandria Fragrances' Italian Forest which is a dupe of Italian Cypress. (I've never smelled Italian Cypress.) I liked the dupe a lot and was planning on buying a bottle, but am glad I haven't yet. IMO Z14 is the superior fragrance. What I specifically liked about Z14 is the very strong citrusy opening along with the cypress. These two notes hang on for quite some time, with the citrus especially adding a very fresh feel to the fragrance. It's a lot brighter and fresher than Italian Forest. In the far dry down - after about 4 hours - Z14 and Italian Forest are about 95% identical. Although Z14 is fresher, it's strong enough to be used anytime of the year, even in cold weather. I think it will really shine in summer though.

Z14's longevity is very good. I got about 10 hours out of it and it was still a good skin scent at that time. Sillage is more moderate after the first half hour. You won't fumigate a room with Z14.

Regarding the cinnamon note. I've read reviews at different perfume sites and seen some YouTube videos. From what I gather, the original Z14 did not have a strong cinnamon note. AF's Italian Forest does not have that either. Apparently, there was a reformulation of Z14 at some point which added strong cinnamon but then a more recent batch has removed the strong cinnamon and brought it back to be more like its original scent. I must have the most recent batch because I do not pick up strong cinnamon at all. In fact, I hardly detect any cinnamon.

I really like Z14 now and will not be getting that bottle of Italian Forest. It's also a bargain - $19.00 at discounters for 125ml.

12/27/2012

5
Bottle 2.5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Drseid
821 Reviews

Drseid

Helpful Review 5

Cinnamon, Spice And All Things Nice (Including The Price)...

Major thumbs up on vintage version of Z-14 from me. This is an excellent scent that belongs right beside the greats out of the mid 70s through the 80s. I get a very nice citrus and cinnamon opening, then the heart is a sublime herbal blend including basil and coriander (among others), mixing with jasmine, patchouli and more cinnamon (albeit a very subtle presentation of the cinnamon at this point), ending with a nice oak moss and leather base. Great stuff that is potent but quite smooth at the same time. I find Z-14 to have earned its superior reputation and it is an absolute classic. The other positive about vintage Z-14 is it is oh so inexpensive at about $20 for a large bottle... To me, this is blind buy worthy for sure (as long as you get vintage version that contains oak moss in its ingredients list on the box). I give this amazing smelling classic a strong 4 to 4.5 star rating out of 5.

07/15/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 2

Fetching, but not a raving beauty. Could you live with said beauty every day? Very coherent for an inexpensive fragrance.

Another in the field of high-quality, dirt-cheap fragrances.

Z-14 is a classic example of hybrid vigor. It is a thunderously harmonious chypre/oriental that shows its dual heritage more as Janus than Jekyll and Hyde. The spicy, ambery ground common to the two genres ties the top and bottom notes, and Z-14 has a church pipe-organ range of harmonies, rumbling lows to keen highs. While it doesn’t smell like Guerlain’s Heritage, Z-14 has a similar feel of a musical chord made up of dozens of notes rather than 4 or 5. (To be fair, if Z-14 plays a church organ, Heritage plays one sized for a cathedral.)

Z-14 starts with a bone-dry citrus/cinnamon/herbal quality. The herbal tone in the top notes feels like dried culinary herbs, as much dusty as savory. As the citrus and herbs recede a hint of wood, particularly cedar, comes to the fore. What’s left by drydown is arguably better than the pipe-organ opening. A harmonious albeit more compact, accord remains: wood, moss, amber. The lemon is gone. The herbs are gone. What’s left, a woody, sweet chypre? A dry oriental? Whatever you call it, it is simultaneously conventionally pretty and handsome. My box of Z-14 lists both oakmoss and treemoss. Maybe the vintage version, with its hybrid chypre/oriental heritage simply never held as large a dose of oakmoss as the grim, green, lovely chypres from the 70s and 80s we mourn. Z-14 smells to me today just as I remember it (though I didn’t wear it) in the 80s and 90s.

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