Supernova Aaron Terence Hughes 2023

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A popular perfume by Aaron Terence Hughes for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is citrusy-fresh. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
Pronunciation

Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Fruity

Aquatic

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Grapefruit

Italian bergamot

Mandarin orange Orange

Orange

Heart Notes

Apple

Marine notes

Pineapple

Base Notes

Ambergris

Ginger

Oakmoss

Patchouli

White musk

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Aaron Terence Hughes Brand owner, Perfume maker

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Ratings

Scent

8.599 Ratings

Longevity

8.594 Ratings

Sillage

8.294 Ratings

Bottle

8.293 Ratings

Value for money

7.584 Ratings

Submitted by Jazzbob, last update on 05/07/2025.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/02/2024

8
Pricing 6
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Giles
85 Reviews

Giles

1

OK! The DNA of this fragrance is similar, but...

I do not claim to have an immaculate nose, nor am I an accomplished reviewer. I only write reviews when I honestly feel I have something useful to say and try and be as accurate as I can.

Reviews on Parfumo have been very influential in helping me choose fragrances I might enjoy. I always take peoples reviews with a pinch of salt, but I have noticed that many people on here know what they are talking about, and have the same passion as I do.

Aaron Terence Hughes is a character, whether you like him or dislike him, he has created some very interesting perfumes. I'm mainly talking about his earlier days around 2019. Slut, Dirty Slut, Boss Bastard, Filth etc. I have been collecting his work since the beginning and have tried pretty much every perfume he's ever made. Some I like and some I dislike, but that would be the same for any perfume house I try. I don't buy full bottles of his perfumes just 10ml miniatures.

So, Supernova 10ml, I just bought direct from ATH during his Black Friday sale for £15.40 (a bargain). This included a 3ml sample of Unicorn one of his most expensive perfumes. I also bought Belle de Nuit, Boss Bitch, Midnight Fever, Blue Fever and Amazonia, they also came with free samples. Unfortunately, most of the samples were of perfumes I already have in my collection, but he is generous with handing out free samples.

Supernova is a very safe, commercial and people friendly fragrance. Reading the reviews of this fragrance on this site and others. It is being compared to Cedrat Boise, Hacivat, Aventus and Elysium. Ok, I have and have had all of these and they are all unique in their own way. Aventus, was good but is now just over-priced scented water. Hacivat, I still love. Cedrat Boise, especially the intense version is great in the summer and cheap. Elysium Parfum is still my all time favourite but is eye watering in price. Supernova shares some DNA to all of these yes. But it is still unique in it's own way.

I'm not going to bang on about what notes I can smell or how the top, middle and base notes blend together etc. I will leave that to people who know what they are talking about.

Supernova smells great for the majority of it's life. It lasted on me a good 10+ hours but I will say the last few hours of the fragrance are not particularly nice. It smells a little off and rather synthetic. ATH does use a lot of high quality ingredients but he is a chemist after all, so his perfumes use a lot of aroma chemicals too.

The sillage and projection are great too. especially in the first few hours of it's development on my skin. It's not one of ATH's mad chemist concoctions which drew me to him.

I totally recommend Supernova but I do worry that ATH is going down the safe, copycat, commercial and people friendly route like so many houses today. I hope to see more of his challenging and charismatic fragrances in the near future.

10/30/2023

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Ramanshah
1 Review

Ramanshah

1

Vivid take on citrus and pineapple

Supernova is very juicy and fruity, backed up with a base that's relatively multidimensional but still ambroxan-forward. It's a vivid take on citrus and pineapple somewhere in the continuum between the sweet-musky Creed Aventus and cedary Nishane Hacivat, but looser, louder, and juicier. I find Supernova marginally too loud to consider wearing in a white-collar environment. Perhaps it's the dose of ambroxan or a great atomizer on the 50 mL packaging that makes it easy to spray a lot of material, but I find myself going intermittently anosmic to it in early stages.

Performance is quite massive on Supernova. Of potential interest is that I did a little test-strip showdown between Supernova, Aventus, and Hacivat, especially to evaluate the drydowns head-to-head. At ~13 hours on paper, it's even stronger than Hacivat, which is startling. Supernova dries down sweet-musky - not completely dissimilar to Aventus, but still big at a point where Aventus has faded to a whisper. At this late point, Supernova also has a lot of fruit, but in a way that subjectively smells synthetic.

I like Supernova well enough, but not quite enough to maintain at full scale. Hacivat remains my fragrance of choice in the citrus-pineapple top-note category.

07/19/2023

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

RockyMtnSpy
6 Reviews

RockyMtnSpy

2

Runaway Fusion with Peak Luminosity

The previous review I think captures this well. Upon initial spray you’re greeted with with a barrage of juicy sweet citrus notes. Fresh sliced oranges and bursting grapefruit juice blended with the tang of bergamot. As it dries the pineapple, aided by apple, seemingly appear out of nowhere. All of this screams summer at the top of it lungs.
Then slowly over the next few hours the earthier base notes of oakmoss and ambergris, patchouli and musk slowly evolve with a touch of ginger to lift them off the skin.
One could consider this a brighter, juicer Hacivat with the caveat that it’s far more playful than it’s Turkish brethren.
I’m curious what Aaron will choose to do with this formula. Supernova was initially planned solely as a limited edition summer fragrance. However, as indicated by its frequent sell-outs and restocking it’s clear Aaron might have struck upon his first real commercial hit. All of this this despite the fact the Aventus craze seems to have already passed. His classics like Onyx, Hard Candy and Daddy will always have a cult-like following among sweet Oud aficionados but they’re hardly running up the sales charts.

So we will see. The commercial gods are fickle and Aaron rarely plays by their rules.

06/18/2023

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Manadeus
4 Reviews

Manadeus

2

Fresh Opus Master

This is what a fresh fragrance should aspire to be. This is from the very well known Aventus, Tygar, Hacivat, Elysium DNA. That said, it comes much better than any of those…

This has maybe the very best opening, slightly better than Aventus and Elysium in my opinion, of any fragrance in this DNA. It’s very citrusy juicy, rounded, there is no metallic/scratchy feel, it smells very natural, fruity, deliciously fresh.

As it dries down, it starts to get a little greener because of the pineapple and apple, a little bit tarty but still fruity and very fresh, aquatic notes come forward for a few hours. Truly refreshing.

After a while the ginger in the base comes forward to that juicy freshness it had previously, and after a while more it starts turning to the base notes, which are pretty fancy, pachouli, oak moss and ambergris come forward, it gets very deep, a little dark, even a hint of animalic darkness here, it’s amazing. It is really a worth buy, specially at the excellent price point. This is a worth buy and I’ll put effort in buying the most I can before it is gone. Good luck finding this masterpiece.