Slowdive Hiram Green 2017
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Great for Layering
My first encounter with Slowdive was on paper, and it did not do very well on paper alone. The heavy sweetness of the opening and the dry down was sickening, it smelled like the concentration of some honey wheat cereal (Similar to Commodity Velvet+). I felt smothered and my head ached. However, knowing this one is a cult classic, and that paper is not always a reliable judge, I continued.
For the skin test, the opening was still a bit disagreeable to me, with the strange cereal scent. This could be the scent of the alcohol clashing with the actual aroma, but who cares, it fades quickly. The dry down mellows into delicious pure honey! And, on myself at least, a mild honey at that. On my second wearing I went beast mode and wore it during a workout, I wanted to know what my skin would do to it at maximum capacity. And, it was lovely experience. The scent did not become annoying nor reduced to anything disgusting. It simply faded into a baby shampoo-like skin scent.
In summary, Slowdive is honey, a cosmetic honey such like Johnson's Baby Shampoo. I enjoy that it is cosmetic and (thankfully!) NOT the animalic "butthole" or "throat sneeze" honey that actual organic honey smells like. To me there are no other notes detectable in this one besides the strange sugared wheat-like aroma during the opening.
Because this one is so linear Slowdive warrants experiments with layering. In fact, I plan to keep this one in my arsenal for that purpose. I fathom that any compatible scent would become a honey version of itself when combined with Slowdive as a base. So far I have layered it with Shalimar Eau de Parfum, and the resulting effect was amazing.
For the skin test, the opening was still a bit disagreeable to me, with the strange cereal scent. This could be the scent of the alcohol clashing with the actual aroma, but who cares, it fades quickly. The dry down mellows into delicious pure honey! And, on myself at least, a mild honey at that. On my second wearing I went beast mode and wore it during a workout, I wanted to know what my skin would do to it at maximum capacity. And, it was lovely experience. The scent did not become annoying nor reduced to anything disgusting. It simply faded into a baby shampoo-like skin scent.
In summary, Slowdive is honey, a cosmetic honey such like Johnson's Baby Shampoo. I enjoy that it is cosmetic and (thankfully!) NOT the animalic "butthole" or "throat sneeze" honey that actual organic honey smells like. To me there are no other notes detectable in this one besides the strange sugared wheat-like aroma during the opening.
Because this one is so linear Slowdive warrants experiments with layering. In fact, I plan to keep this one in my arsenal for that purpose. I fathom that any compatible scent would become a honey version of itself when combined with Slowdive as a base. So far I have layered it with Shalimar Eau de Parfum, and the resulting effect was amazing.
IrinaSpalko
