Hot Road (Eau de Toilette) by Harley-Davidson

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Hot Road Harley-Davidson 1998 Eau de Toilette

6.7 / 10 11 Ratings

A perfume by Harley-Davidson for men, released in 1998. The scent is spicy-sweet. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Spicy

Sweet

Leathery

Woody

Resinous

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6.711 Ratings

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7.310 Ratings

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12/08/2025

Harbelser
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Drugstore fragrance from the 90s - But what a fragrance it is

Bought as a teenager at Schlecker - a typical drugstore scent that was special to me back then: sweet, spicy, leathery, and warm - And spicy like the Harley Davidson original. It also bears a certain resemblance to Joop! Homme EdT.

Many years later, I recognized this sweetness in a Naxos dupe from Loris Parfums. I didn't know the original as a beginner back then - only later did I understand the hype. For me, Hot Road had already anticipated this direction back in the 90s.

Unfortunately, the Harley fragrances were discontinued at the end of the 90s, and today you can only find tilted old bottles at an overpriced price.

03/15/2021

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Pollita
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More than twenty years ago

That something could happen between us? I would have never believed it back then when you stood in front of me for the first time at university. I was still in a relationship, and you weren't really my type. But there was sympathy. And trust. From the very beginning.

We often celebrated together. Had a lot of fun and enjoyment. And when I was sad, I could let the tears flow. Quite naturally. Suddenly, there was more. So unexpectedly. And it felt damn right. And all of a sudden, you had a new fragrance that completely enchanted me.

It was warm, a bit sweet, and wonderfully colored by green tones. Yet it had a very classic background. I remember spicy tobacco notes, paired with a fine resinous quality. Perhaps myrrh? With green notes also from moss and herbs. There was also something slightly bitter. Was that oakmoss or perhaps labdanum that I caught a whiff of? A bit of absinthe could have been in play here too. In the base, the fragrance became sweeter with a delicate vanilla touch. At the same time, a subtle hint of leather emerged, joining the tobacco. Of course, there was also a bit of soapiness like in the classics, but not in a way that could have bothered me. So beautiful! How I loved to snuggle up to you and enjoy that wonderful scent.

It's a pity that there are no more detailed information about the fragrance notes, but this predominantly green scent with aromas of tobacco and leather on a woody-vanilla and subtly soapy base has captured my heart just like you did. It's nice that we own a bottle of it again. Not just to indulge in the past.

With many tobacco fragrances today, I wish they had a bit more edge, just like this one did back then. It still had a lot of the great classics in it, even though the scent was very modern for the nineties. For me personally, the most beautiful of the series. You liked them all. Unfortunately, most fragrances around this theme today are just very sweet and somewhat monotonous.

Even though this little treasure was available in the drugstore back then. You had taste when it came to fragrances. Even back then. I have to give you that. I didn't have to teach you anything.

05/03/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 10Sillage

Scheeheratze
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4

Legends Never Die!

There isn't much to say about Harley-Davidson, except:
! ADMIRATION - RESPECT - LONGING - FREEDOM !
Much copied, but never matched by anyone else.
A legend, indeed.

There isn't much to say about the film Easy Rider either, except:
Must-see - whether you like it or not, that doesn't matter with this film.

There isn't really much more to say about the fragrance Hot Road, except:
It fits the name, the cliché, the eternal dream on 2 wheels, asphalt, dust, burn-out, smoke, rubber, and tar, worn jeans, and a greasy leather jacket.

A fragrance without frills, without designer clothes, without designer scents, without creepy models, where you can't quite tell if it's a man or a woman, babbling something about "säää nju fräijgränz for tschuuuuuuu," without musk, without any other desperate erotic concoction in a bottle, no sweetness, no charm, no refinement, no must-have.

The bottle is not a sensually elegant black, but a clear aggressive RED.
Not a phallic, handy, smooth bottle, but a square block. Take me or leave me.

A fragrance that is just as it is:
Hard - Dirty - Pure.
For individualists who NEVER bark with the pack, who look down with grim disdain on everything and everyone.
Simply cool and just plain cool.
A legend, indeed.

Hot Road Harley-Davidson 1998 Eau de Toilette

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