Hay absolute
Tobacco
Ambrette
Chamomile
Dried fruits
Moss
Orris butter
Champaca flower
06/20/2025
ClaireV
969 Reviews
ClaireV
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Earthy aromas of a golden harvest
I like Hans Hendley perfumes because they are artistic without being pretentious or inaccessible to a more general public taste. I would describe his style as Slumberhouse-esque, inspired by rugged, outdoorsy smells such as pine, cedar, oak, forest floor, daffodil flowers (narcissus), honeysuckle, sage, tomato leaf, fresh bread, sawdust, smoke and the secretly amazing smell of gasoline, but much lighter than Slumberhouse and with a use of 'radiant' woody-ambery basenotes.
Mown encapsulates both facets of the Hans Hendley style well. It features a damp, nutty hay accord interspersed with the dried fruit and bitter cocoa notes of curing tobacco, with a result that is syrupy, rich, and almost edible. However, layered over a radiant woody amber that smells like shards of wood impregnated with resin, smeared with honey, and left outside in the sun to dry, there is enough 'burnt' in the scent's structure to keep it buoyant. Powdery orris helps tilt the scent towards the dry, bitter, grassyaspects of the harvest line. There's even a toasted note in there that calls to mind cereals laid out on hay to dry out in the sun.
Before the woody amber sets itself on fire in the base, we have time for a whistle-stop tour of the tobacco curing shed. The dried fruit richness of the start mimics the chocolatey dampness of un-cured tobacco leaves, which smell like they've been dipped in fruitcake soaking liquor, before becoming green and waxy, similar to the smell of beeswax absolute. But as the scent dries out, so too do the sheaves of tobacco, honeycomb transitioning into the crackling nuttiness of 100% cured tobacco leaf, red-gold at the edges and barely sweet. The base is what marks Mown out as related to other powerfully dry, woody perfumes such as Woodcut by Olympic Orchids, Eau My Soul by 4160 Tuesdays, and Hendley's own Bourbon. At $28 for a 9ml travel spray (if you're in the US), Mown has to be one of the best deals on the market if you love the earthy smells of the harvest.
Mown encapsulates both facets of the Hans Hendley style well. It features a damp, nutty hay accord interspersed with the dried fruit and bitter cocoa notes of curing tobacco, with a result that is syrupy, rich, and almost edible. However, layered over a radiant woody amber that smells like shards of wood impregnated with resin, smeared with honey, and left outside in the sun to dry, there is enough 'burnt' in the scent's structure to keep it buoyant. Powdery orris helps tilt the scent towards the dry, bitter, grassyaspects of the harvest line. There's even a toasted note in there that calls to mind cereals laid out on hay to dry out in the sun.
Before the woody amber sets itself on fire in the base, we have time for a whistle-stop tour of the tobacco curing shed. The dried fruit richness of the start mimics the chocolatey dampness of un-cured tobacco leaves, which smell like they've been dipped in fruitcake soaking liquor, before becoming green and waxy, similar to the smell of beeswax absolute. But as the scent dries out, so too do the sheaves of tobacco, honeycomb transitioning into the crackling nuttiness of 100% cured tobacco leaf, red-gold at the edges and barely sweet. The base is what marks Mown out as related to other powerfully dry, woody perfumes such as Woodcut by Olympic Orchids, Eau My Soul by 4160 Tuesdays, and Hendley's own Bourbon. At $28 for a 9ml travel spray (if you're in the US), Mown has to be one of the best deals on the market if you love the earthy smells of the harvest.
