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Dirty Hinoki Heretic 2021

7.8 / 10 47 Ratings

A popular perfume by Heretic for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Green

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Pine

Nutmeg

Thyme

Cedar

Heart Notes

Hinoki wood Cypress

Cypress

Base Notes

Balsam

Fir absolute

Ambrettolide

Absinthe wormwood

Frankincense

Elemi resin

Perfumer

Douglas Little

Ratings

Scent

7.847 Ratings

Longevity

6.336 Ratings

Sillage

6.034 Ratings

Bottle

7.234 Ratings

Value for money

6.424 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 11/06/2025.

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5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/11/2023

Pinene
3 Reviews

Pinene

3

respectable

enjoyed this frag but wish that it lasted longer. moderate sillage. but after drydown, polite enough to wear to work at the library. i really enjoy hinoki and curious how this will compare to other hinoki perfumes out there. juicyness is enjoyable and appreciate the relative transparency of ingredients used with this brand.

everything i've tried from heretic is a low to moderate projection and would not be likely to offend . i get headaches from a lot of air fresheners and other strong publicly unavoidable smells like industrial disinfectants and "deodorizers" and so i appreciate the less toxic options out here

02/12/2025

8Scent

celeblas
119 Reviews

celeblas

2

Cakes

I first thought that they must have filled my bottle with the wrong fragrance. Because at first I thought this has none of the listed notes, none of them. No cedar or hinoki or cypress, etc. This is a rich gourmand, a sweet cake, a baked good. This smells like rich, sweet desserts. There's nothing dirty, or foresty, about this. Nothing woody even. It's just a delicious cake.

As it dried down and with a later re-spray, I found it was actually a beautiful incense-rich hinoki composition. So my nose caught up with it, and now I can detect all the notes each time I use it, though it always opens with that gourmand accord of delicious baked goods to me. I really love this, it competes very well with CdG Hinoki and CdG's incense series as well, but with cakes.

Who would say no to cakes?

10/14/2025

6.5Scent 5Longevity 4Sillage

itscoraline
172 Reviews

itscoraline

1

Incense and Mild Disappointment

An opening of lemon and pine (uncomfortably cleaning product adjacent) is joined by cypress after about 30 min. Eventually this fades to a slightly sweet woody incense and that’s where the fragrance sits for the rest of the 4-5 hour wear time.

I wanted so much to love this — it’s highly recommended, Heretic is one of my favourite houses, and the pyramid seemed right up my alley. But I was left just feeling a little…blah. It’s pleasant but utterly unremarkable on my skin, forgettable to the point where I had to repeatedly sniff my wrists throughout the day just to remind myself what I was wearing.

Admittedly, I’m not an incense superfan (with the exception of the chilly gothic Craft ) but it feels a little hollow and like something is missing, even though I can’t quite put my finger on what that might be.

Projection is very mild, longevity is on the shorter side of moderate, and gender is unisex.

02/23/2025

10Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Sarinotsorry
28 Reviews

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Sarinotsorry

4

Teleported me to a fairy tale forest

When I describe scents, I usually connect them with something I have smelled in real life or with a memory.

I don't think I'm a very imaginative person. Even when I read books, I prefer non-fiction. But when I smell "Dirty Hinoki | Heretic," I somehow can't think of any natural scenes to compare it to.
Unless I break the scent down into individual notes. But even then, it is very difficult.

Firstly, there is nothing "dirty" here. It is sweet, woody, resinous, and yet slightly green. Like thick pine sap drizzled over a warm lemon cake and sprinkled with freshly picked pine needles.

When I smell it, I imagine a pine forest in a fairy tale, and in the middle stands a small wooden cabin. It is a winter evening, very cold, dark, and I am alone. The snow is smooth, thick, clean. I walk towards this wooden cabin, and as I get closer, I see that the chimney is smoking. And the cabin is empty. I checked, the door is unlocked! I enter the cabin, and immediately I smell something sweet baking in the oven. It is a lemon cake! How cozy this little cabin is!

It reminds me a lot of a scented candle. Specifically, Evergreen Mist by Yankee Candle, hahaha. One of my favorite scented candles. So if you have smelled this candle, then you know how this perfume smells.

Otherwise, I would suggest Hwyl or "Monocle Scent One: Hinoki | Comme des Garçons," but without the smokiness, and adding a bit of sweetness.

The H/S could be better. I can smell it for about 4 hours, with moderate sillage. But it seems to be a trend with these types of pine/Hinoki-inspired scents that they don't last very long.

I would particularly wear it in the colder months. It really brings out the resin of the pine.

If you like Hwyl or "Monocle Scent One: Hinoki | Comme des Garçons," I am quite sure that you will at least find Dirty Hinoki interesting!

09/12/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Dandelion2
14 Reviews

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Dandelion2

Winter / Japan / Sauna for 2 Minutes (EDIT: or maybe longer!)

Transported to a Japanese forest, or in a Finnish sauna; you feel like you’re in front of a fireplace at Christmas in the middle of the woods, it’s dim and everything is quiet. Extremely pleasant, slightly smoky scent.

BUT: it disappears after 2 minutes. I can really only smell it when I press my nose to my arm. As a comparison, I have Tam Dao on the other arm and it smells like a fresher, cleaner version of Dirty Hinoki with much more projection. I was very indecisive between the two scents, as Dirty Hinoki smells much better to me (a bit sweeter, almost vanilla-like with smoke) but Tam Dao is much more long-lasting.

I will probably layer it with something else and then see if it lasts longer. By the way, I would love a room spray with this scent :')

EDIT after a few weeks: I bought the bottle and I’m changing my review about the longevity. I can still smell the scent after hours. Sure, it’s not a Zara men’s fragrance where you can still perceive it the next day, but it’s not that below average either! I will gradually repurchase it, currently my favorite scent, especially for sauna days :-)