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Eleventh Hour Byredo 2018 Eau de Parfum

7.2 / 10 258 Ratings

A perfume by Byredo for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is spicy-fruity. It is being marketed by Manzanita Capital.
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Main accords

Spicy

Fruity

Woody

Sweet

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Nepalese sichuan pepper

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Rum

Wild fig

Carrot seed

Base Notes

Cashmere wood

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Jérôme Epinette

Ratings

Scent

7.2258 Ratings

Longevity

7.2220 Ratings

Sillage

6.8227 Ratings

Bottle

7.7216 Ratings

Value for money

6.2115 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 10/28/2025.

Interesting Facts

This fragrance was awarded the "Indie Fragrance of the Year" prize by the Fragrance Foundation in 2019.

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/05/2018

Esz
1 Review

Esz

2

Doesn't match the marketing

Don't let the marketing graphics fool you. This isn't some bleak end of the world outdoorsy fragrance. It is a sweet soft woody fig with a ton of cashmeran. It's more along the lines of Gyspy Water or Velvet Haze than say Super Cedar.
The fig in it isn't the green fig you get in something like Philosykos - its sweet and ripe like a fig candy.
Usually Byredo is on point with their marketing but I think they missed the mark this time. If they had've gone for a youthful, fun and delicate campaign, it would have fit better.
Overall its quite nice, but not challenging or exceptional. Regardless, the people who love to post monochromatic shelfies on instagram will lap this up.

06/03/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

3

Peppery smoker's cough

Sichuan pepper always smells ashen, like the face of a lifetime smoker (see Journey Man for reference), but in Eleventh Hour it gains a Vicks Vapor Rub dimension that gives it a jaunty flourish of something minty-fresh. Cigarettes and mouthwash, feathered out at the edges by the musky, vegetal warmth of carrot seeds. There is not much - to my nose, at least - of the advertized 'mulled wine' effect and it doesn't smell like Christmas at all, unless Christmas smells like cheap men's cologne, wood pulp, and the silver foil inside an empty pack of mentholated cigarettes.

07/01/2023

3Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Hartsy3
99 Reviews

Hartsy3

1

Danielle Brooks must love cloves!

I added this to my sample list because I've been watching "The Home Edit" on Netflix and I noticed this on Danielle Brooks perfume shelf. I loved her in "Orange is the New Black" and I just think she's so gorgeous, talented and humble. She also seems to have great taste, so I thought "what could go wrong?"

Well I'm sure this fragrance must smell amazing on Miss Taystee herself, but it's not my cup of tea. Honestly, I am shocked to see so many notes listed on this fragrance because all I smell is a BIG blast of cloves. It is a very linear aroma from beginning to end. Cloves, cloves, and more cloves!

It's not a bad smell per se. In fact clove is one of my favorite spice smells, especially around the holidays. I like to stick cloves into an orange to make a homemade potpourri around the holidays. Maybe this perfume could benefit from a hint of orange. Or maybe you could layer it with something orangey? Either way, it smells like an ingredient for Christmas potpourri. It also smells medicinal or like an all natural cleaning product like "Thieves" oil from Young Living. Not a bad smell, just not interesting to me.

03/10/2025

4Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Elina2150
20 Reviews

Elina2150

1

Not what I thought

I was on a hunt for a spicy but cool and clarifying perfume. I bought this as a blind buy and thought the description of the notes were what I was looking for. It is definitely something else what I was looking for or what I had read from most of the reviews.
It has this burned plastic vibe at first and then turns really minty. I don’t get anything that reminds me of christmas it’s just minty for me. No one seems to like it either, the comments are mainly just polite or no comments at all. I’ve been trying to use this all winter this and last year but is hardly a dent on my bottle. This bottle which I’m not too fond of seems to last forever.

01/21/2019

4.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Leimbacher
2869 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 15

Cowardice is punished with the apocalypse

One of my recurring nightmares, not too often, but now and then, involves images of giant tidal waves racing towards the shore and burying us without a chance. "Eleventh Hour" taps into similar myths, (primal) fears, and premonitions; or at least its name is oriented in that direction. That it is almost too late and that we have been violently destroying our unique planet for decades should be known even to the biggest dimwit (Trump excluded for now), and that it might already be too late to change anything is also clear.

However, this still quite fresh Byredo is anything but a pessimistic apocalypse scent that screams "after me the flood." It is a very green, spicy fig-rum cocktail that does not suit me at all. It solidly captures the hopelessness and fear, the alcohol consumption, and the escape to higher green mountain ranges. One should stick to that thought. But there are definitely more fun and pleasant associations that a fragrance can evoke and should...

On a purely olfactory level, this Byredo also appeals to me less. As always, it is made with high quality, a fine "blend" so to speak, but I still do not like figs in my perfume. In "Eleventh Hour," a triumvirate of pepper, fig, and rum sets the tone. And it does not hold back... Cinnamon associations also spread among me, though rather green and spring-fresh tinted. A very textured, enticing paradise scent, surely a hit for many, but in ME it only creates a migraine paradise that I can hardly wear. And fragrance reviews are, after all, highly subjective and personal. Those who like tangible figs must test it. And even face the apocalypse... ;-)

Bottle: nordic by nature
Sillage: breathtaking at first, then quickly subdued
Longevity: 7 hours but very comfortably

Conclusion: if the world ends, then one can get drunk on rum and smell like figs. Or something like that. But even if the sky falls to the earth, I will not become a friend of "cowardly" scents anymore... sorry.

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