Slowdive Hiram Green 2017
3
Helpful Review
Not what I expected
Pleasantly surprised with the outcome - completely different smell, totally not what I expected it to be.
At first upon glancing at the notes I thought it’s going to be a boring, straightforward tobacco and honey syrup, something similar to Tobacco Honey that I hate. This one however blew me away!
I don’t think I smell something other commenters have mentioned - wild honey/neroli/orange blossoms. To my nose it opens up with something similar to dry wheat, it has this distinct hay-ish wheaty/flour-y smell, paired with beeswax. I don’t smell conventional honey, at least the one we have in Europe. Honey has a very multi-faceted flavor that is highly dependent on the flowers bees were feeding on. I think it smells more like a buckwheat honey, it definitely has these buckwheat flavor profiles in it. Perhaps the combination of beeswax and tobacco makes me smell buckwheat here.
Nevertheless beautifully crafted perfume, very unconventional, no sickening smell of pseudo-honey a lot of brands like to use in their fragrances. Will have to try wearing it during colder months but even now in August it’s not cloying at all.
At first upon glancing at the notes I thought it’s going to be a boring, straightforward tobacco and honey syrup, something similar to Tobacco Honey that I hate. This one however blew me away!
I don’t think I smell something other commenters have mentioned - wild honey/neroli/orange blossoms. To my nose it opens up with something similar to dry wheat, it has this distinct hay-ish wheaty/flour-y smell, paired with beeswax. I don’t smell conventional honey, at least the one we have in Europe. Honey has a very multi-faceted flavor that is highly dependent on the flowers bees were feeding on. I think it smells more like a buckwheat honey, it definitely has these buckwheat flavor profiles in it. Perhaps the combination of beeswax and tobacco makes me smell buckwheat here.
Nevertheless beautifully crafted perfume, very unconventional, no sickening smell of pseudo-honey a lot of brands like to use in their fragrances. Will have to try wearing it during colder months but even now in August it’s not cloying at all.