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Howl Jardins d'Écrivains 2018

8.1 / 10 11 Ratings

A popular perfume by Jardins d'Écrivains for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is sweet-gourmand. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Gourmand

Spicy

Creamy

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Provençal lavender Thyme

Thyme

Heart Notes

Tonka bean

Cinnamon

Geranium

Base Notes

Amber

Musk

Patchouli

Perfumer

Anaïs Biguine

Ratings

Scent

8.111 Ratings

Longevity

7.911 Ratings

Sillage

6.910 Ratings

Bottle

7.99 Ratings

Submitted by Kovex, last update on 04/29/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/29/2025

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Ebichuunee
98 Reviews

Ebichuunee

2

Aromatic hug, perfection to my nose

I hadn’t read Ginsberg before trying Howl, and after liking the perfume so much, I gave his work a shot, and was honestly surprised, a bit like with this perfume !

The fragrance itself, though, is an instant favorite: a warm, aromatic hug perfect for colder months. It opens with a bold hit of lavender, thyme, and cinnamon, then shifts into something earthier as tonka and amber take over.

I’ll likely pick up a full bottle by next autumn. (Note : my mom also loved it so much that I gave her my sample bottle)

02/07/2022

8Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

BeJot
95 Reviews

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BeJot

Helpful Review 9

so beautiful it makes you cry

The little vial falls from my hand and shatters.
OH NO!!!
A beautiful scent fills the room.
I let the last drops glide onto my wrist - carefully, so I don’t hurt myself.
Beauty - vulnerability - transience - so closely intertwined.
I close my eyes, close to tears.
Don’t think! Just smell!
Oh! how beautiful it is! The whole room a cloud of lavender, tonka bean, cinnamon, and...
Wait - why sweet? Already? Isn’t that supposed to come later?
Doesn’t matter! Stay calm, mind! Just smell!
Time stands still for a moment. Too intense! Too beautiful!
Can it please stay like this?
No, work calls!
Can’t I just stay here and wait until the scent fades?
No, work calls!
Okay - scent, please stay on my skin until I’m off work, okay?
Okay!
Lunch break:
Are you still there?
Of course! Come closer!
Oh yes! There you are! Still so beautiful. Warm, soft, still lavender and ... oh a wonderfully even scent - just for me - I’d love to pull the blanket over my head right now, let you embrace me, and just enjoy.
End of work:
Hello scent! Are you still there? Is it you - or the memory? I don’t know.
Howl!?
No, I’m not crying. I’m happy to have experienced something so beautiful!

09/30/2020

7.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Yatagan
415 Reviews

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Yatagan

Top Review 63

Silent Howl

Uncommented Scents No. 158
Howl, in German "Das Geheul", is the most famous poem by Allen Ginsberg and shapes the dark, intoxicating tone of Beat Generation poetry in a drastic confrontation with drugs and addiction.
Knowing the background that the ambitious and highly regarded brand Jardins d'Écrivains explicitly invokes, one might expect the worst, only to be confused and yet pleasantly disappointed. Howl is not a wild rampage, not a shrill scream, and not an ambitious avant-garde, but a scent for the notorious gentleman who appreciates simple brush strokes, clear components, and a reduced composition. Sometimes brands manage to create something new with just a few, but newly combined components. Perhaps this is a bit grandiloquent, but Howl is at least on the way to something traditionally new or a new tradition.
Essentially, I smell lavender, which sets the stage but stubbornly lingers, cinnamon and tonka in the heart, which I often don't particularly like in fragrances because they can come off too spicy and too sweet in combination, but here they work very moderately with the lavender. That works. The base simply smells woody ambry, without me being able to specify it further, as the scent merges into a gentle unity. That's really all there is to it, but it doesn't need to be more, especially when a scent represents something that I would cautiously euphorically describe as having good style. It fits perfectly with a tailored jacket (not bespoke tailoring), perhaps with English check (Prince of Wales would be an option) or tweed (Harris wouldn't be necessary, but it wouldn't be a mistake either), preferably with leather patches on the sleeves, as the scent is housed in a leather casing - and if so, then why not.

Good footwear goes without saying.