10/15/2024
HelloFriend
8 Reviews
HelloFriend
1
Quiet, Understated, For Introverts
Opens up strongly with pine before quickly mingling with strong notes of lilac and maybe cashmere (slight powderyness, I think this is where it's coming from?). The lilac and cashmere pretty quickly overtake any top pine notes and turn this into a softer floral powder on my skin, accentuated just barely by a fresh conifer. Unfortunately I don't get any impressions of snow either theoretically or subjectively. To me, this is less of a dead-of-winter scent and more of a very early spring one, where the greenery is juuuuust beginning to poke through the snow.
Unfortunately, this doesn't last very long and is a very faint skin scent a little less than 2 hours in. The scent lost it's pine about halfway through and what was left was a soft, powdery floral - no bracing winter or glaciers to be had. Overall, the scent itself isn't bad per se. It's straightforward, safe, and as something advertised as a 'scent for introverts', I can see this being the case. It doesn't announce itself and doesn't project very far, smells somewhat intimate and has said its polite goodbyes before you get to the end of the conversation.
I don't dislike it, and I'll try it a few more times to see if I change my mind. The bottle and art itself is beautiful and I'd have loved to have it on my shelf had the scent not fallen short of both longevity and my expectations.
Update: 14/11/2024 - Turns out, I dislike this after putting on a full wear. I sprayed twice under my shirt and once over, and was immediately overcome by cloyingly floral powder with a strange sweetness. Where was the conifers, however faint, that I got before? Nowhere to be found. Instead it was all just powder and a sort of synthetic floral that reminded me somewhat of a freshly cleaned public washroom?
I was amazed by how different this was from the single spray on my shoulder I did to test it. How unfortunate.
Unfortunately, this doesn't last very long and is a very faint skin scent a little less than 2 hours in. The scent lost it's pine about halfway through and what was left was a soft, powdery floral - no bracing winter or glaciers to be had. Overall, the scent itself isn't bad per se. It's straightforward, safe, and as something advertised as a 'scent for introverts', I can see this being the case. It doesn't announce itself and doesn't project very far, smells somewhat intimate and has said its polite goodbyes before you get to the end of the conversation.
I don't dislike it, and I'll try it a few more times to see if I change my mind. The bottle and art itself is beautiful and I'd have loved to have it on my shelf had the scent not fallen short of both longevity and my expectations.
Update: 14/11/2024 - Turns out, I dislike this after putting on a full wear. I sprayed twice under my shirt and once over, and was immediately overcome by cloyingly floral powder with a strange sweetness. Where was the conifers, however faint, that I got before? Nowhere to be found. Instead it was all just powder and a sort of synthetic floral that reminded me somewhat of a freshly cleaned public washroom?
I was amazed by how different this was from the single spray on my shoulder I did to test it. How unfortunate.
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