Hamsa by Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes
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7.6 / 10 66 Ratings
A popular perfume by Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is resinous-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous
Woody
Citrus
Spicy
Smoky

Fragrance Notes

LemonLemon FrankincenseFrankincense MasticMastic MyrrhMyrrh Palo SantoPalo Santo LiquidambarLiquidambar ApricotApricot CognacCognac OudOud SandalwoodSandalwood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.666 Ratings
Longevity
7.854 Ratings
Sillage
7.256 Ratings
Bottle
6.739 Ratings
Value for money
7.519 Ratings
Submitted by MB25, last update on 08/29/2025.
Interesting Facts
This fragrance is part of ÇaFleureBon's "Project Talisman".

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Scent
Smellavision

205 Reviews
Smellavision
Smellavision
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In short: a tree sap and myrrh scent...
The opening is very heavy on the mastic, personally I enjoy it more a couple of hours into the drydown where I actually get a hint of fruit in the shape of citrus and apricot as well. The cognac is lost on me.

If you're a fan of mastic fragrances, such as Sisley's Eau d'Ikar you should check this out.
If not, definitely try before you buy.
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8.5
Scent
Ergreifend

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Very helpful Review 9  
The scent of Hippocrates
Hamsa leaves me with an invigorating yet relaxed impression. A fragrance to think about, relax and unwind. Not at all intrusive and so delicate, clean and cool, as if the wind were embracing me and gradually plunging me into the waters of the Aegean. The water is still warm from the scorching summer. Autumn is particularly good for those seeking peace and quiet on Kos.

Hamsa certainly fits in just as well.
A cool lemon envelops you here, allowing resinous/earthy facets to vibrate. The sound of the sea permeates the mind, leaves dance in the wind and the sun hangs its warm cloak over the landscape. Shallow incense flows through the structure, making it seem even cooler. It only seems cool and distant for a moment. Because a sweet, spicy sea quickly overtakes the senses, plunging the warmed body into the water. The fragrance appears clean. But over time it becomes warmer and warmer, although it is not a hot passion that is ignited here. It is all moderate, with manner. Cognac, used discreetly and skillfully, puts the icing on the cake. Slightly woody, permeated by sunlight, the fragrance then breathes. Lemon and resin are always restrained in the background, invigorating the senses again and again.

Longevity & sillage quite lengthy. It is close to the skin, gliding on the skin like a delicate silk veil.

"In the clothes
the doctor should look for purity
lichkeit and on
a clean garment
keep to pleasant-
smelling ointments with
unobtrusive fragrance!"

Hippocrates is said to have once said.

Perhaps it was something like Hamsa, albeit with a subtle, sweet kiss.
6 Comments
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Scent
Floyd

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Top Review 33  
The tree of life after Dr. Ellen Covey
Cool is the small temple you guard. Here you squat and meditate to your Manasarova through a window in the rock, singing Swami's mantra out onto the sacred lake of your plateau. There the swan Hamsa swims, bright and clear under the Hamsa of the sun, the lemon that is devoted to you, shining alive in the early frost. There you rise, Hamsa, as a free bird above the first orange colours of the fleshy sparkling apricot in the still lake You'll see through the hand-shaped hamsa that keeps dark djinn at a distance, through the magical defensive spell of the eye that reflects the evil eye. Like through a kaleidoscope of your power you look and close your eyelids. Soon the fruit of the earth has disappeared, the aromatically cool lemon, soon the earthy smoke of myrrh found as Sefirot's counterpart. If ethereal Palo Santo mists the ceremonies with sweetish cognac, bitter mastic resin grows like grass over amber tree avenues where tobacco you believe in its branches, which lean sweetly towards the earth. There bright incense envelops your small temple, dips it in thousands of drops of balm, which you direct against your inner devils, in meditation quite calmly. Now everything is in tense harmony, Jin and Jang, wood and resin, cool and warm, tart and sweet, fruit and smoke, ethereal and soft like the tree of life, before Hamsa, the path to the highest liberation, extends as a slightly creamy path of sandalwood and light fruity eagle resins into an almost invisible mist of incense.
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"Hamsa" is Dr. Ellen Covey's contribution to the "Çafleurebon Talisman Project", for which she also created fragrances like "Antimony" (Christie Meshell, House of Matriarch), "Become the Shaman" (Dawn Spencer-Hurwitz, DSH Perfumes), "Guardian" (Angela St. John, Solstice Scents), "Figa" (Shelley Waddington, En Voyage Perfumes) or "Touchstone" (Amber Jobin, Aether Arts Perfumes), and which thematizes the fragrance as a magical talisman. Covey arranged the individual fragrances in it as contrasting pairs, in the style of Sefirot, the tree of life in the Kabbalah. The fragrance is not intended to act as protection in itself, but rather to remind us of our own powers against evil. After the clarifying freshness at the beginning, the grassy-green, balsamic-smoky, fruity resinous heart, "Hamsa" has a very meditative and calming effect on me, not only in the above described basis. "Hamsa" envelops me for about five to six hours moderately to skin-tight.
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TheDunkPapaTheDunkPapa 2 days ago
5
Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
7
Scent
Quite linear and simplistic citrusy vetiver with copious amounts of smooth, resinous nuances that reads almost oily.
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HolscentbarHolscentbar 2 years ago
8
Scent
Beautiful frag: smoky zest and resinous! Unisex
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