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Bacca Black Oriental Style 2011

6.7 / 10 56 Ratings

A perfume by Oriental Style for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is fresh-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fresh

Floral

Aquatic

Synthetic

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Marine notes

Bergamot

Ivy

Heart Notes

Honeysuckle Peony

Peony

Grape

Judicial Sandpaper

Base Notes

Sandalwood Amber

Amber

Oud

Industrial Marshmallow

Perfumer

Laurent Le Guernec

Ratings

Scent

6.756 Ratings

Longevity

8.144 Ratings

Sillage

7.244 Ratings

Bottle

7.657 Ratings

Submitted by Beautycase, last update on 09/25/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/17/2012

5Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Sherapop
1240 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 3

Peony, I repeat: Peony

I suppose it was inevitable, since Bond no 9 releases something like ten new perfumes each year, many of which I do happen to like. But SAG HARBOR opens somewhat sweetly and then marches directly to a large-sillage peony drydown familiar to me from such fragrances as Ann Taylor POSSIBILITIES, which I coincidentally tried again only last week, having happened upon a purse spray of unknown provenance lying around my humble abode.

Peony, I repeat: peony. Maybe it's just me, but this is a big peony frag, and the peony really drowns out all of the other alleged notes. This is good news for peony aficionados, but not such good news for me, someone with a long-confirmed peony problem. Fortunately, Bond no 9's version is not so overwhelming that I feel the need to go soak in the tub. No, but it's also not something that I'll be reaching for again.

I may be hyperosmic to peony, so my idiosyncratic experience should not deter others from testing SAG HARBOR, but I do believe that this composition is far more feminine than masculine. Another big, bodacious floral perfume from Bond no 9 occupying the same general olfactory neighborhood as some of their other recent launches, including CENTRAL PARK WEST and I LOVE NY EARTH DAY. Very floral, again, but this time it's nearly all peony nearly all of the time!

This analogy may be helpful:
Freesia: ASTOR PLACE:: Peony: SAG HARBOR

I definitely recommend this perfume for testing by women who love peony. If peony is your thing, you may have found your Bond no 9 at last!

06/19/2014

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 2

lingering

I’ve sampled more than a dozen of the Bond no 9 perfumes, and I’ve smelled another 10 or so more in passing. There is a sameness to their mixed floral perfumes that concerns me. They smell the same, yes. That’s the subjective part. But I recognize that I dislike their sweetened-floral fragrances in general, and I must question how this colors my judgement. Dislike aside, to look at a prolific perfume line, patterns develop, and while Bond do make some traditional, innocuous mixed florals of no particular note (Chelsea Flowers, Park Avenue, Madison Soirée) they also have a stock style that they are apparently under a spell to release every third perfume or so. This style is the hazy, musky, boozy, lingering-sweet floral.

Examples: Fire Island, NY Musk, Bleecker St., Nuit de Noho, Lexington Ave, NY Amber,

Some of these perfumes are less ‘floral’ than others, but the floral screech is the seasoning that allows the pancake-syrupness to shine. These perfumes ride on an overwrought, thick, lingering sweetness that requires any other note to shriek at top-volume to be heard. Which brings us to the peony in Sad Harbor. The peony note in perfumery is famously uncouth and abrasive. When paired with a base that requires a shouting match in the first place, peony shows itself not to be a pleasant note.

The name works, though. Sad Harbor evokes the collapsed end of a Hamptoms-climber drinks party. Flotsam and wounded vanity strewn around cocktail tables scented with abandoned, spilt fruity cocktails. Hits of salt air and sick.

I take back everything I’ve said about perfume being a weak tool to evoke a complex narrative.

from scenthurdle.com

01/17/2013

6Scent 10Longevity 5Sillage

Pipette
122 Reviews

Pipette

Helpful Review 2

Do you remember the episode in the "Seinfeld" TV Show - "The Beach"?

There was an episode in the show "Seinfeld" where the four characters fought over a perfume called "The Beach". I have often wondered what such a perfume would smell like. Well, "Sag Harbor" this is it: "The Beach". I have spent time on Fire Island and on Jones Beach, and this atmosphere of salt water, shrubs in dunes, sunshine and lotions all combined, with some booze aroma thrown in, that is "Sag Harbor" - "The Beach".

Now to the notes: Bergamot and ivy lead to the heart of honeysuckle, magnolia and grape, yes, very nice, but which note is potent and does not let go is peony. And more peony. The well rounded base notes of amber and a quite noticeable oud add even more persistence to this cologne. I say "cologne" and not "perfume" because this is meant as an unisex scent.

This scent is best worn in outdoor activities because in close proximity - although it has an invigorating character - it could be a bit overwhelming because it does not let go.

Comes to mind a similar but much sweeter perfume and that is Gucci "Flora". "Flora" is most definitely designed for women, whereas "Sag Harbor" is unisex but most suitable for a man.

09/29/2015

7Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

loewenherz
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loewenherz

Very helpful Review 6

High by the beach

This is the name of the first single released from 'Honeymoon', the third studio album by Lana Del Rey. She remains true to the style that made her famous - a morbid high-gloss aesthetic, always accompanied by a hint of something damaged or fallen.

High-gloss - and I don’t mean pricing policy and marketing - is also a hallmark of Bond No. 9, that peculiar fragrance house from New York City, which has dedicated all its products to places or locations in or at least near New York. Shelter Island was the first among them that reached me, and Sag Harbor - named after a coastal town in the northern part of Long Island, on the opposite, 'inner' island side of the legendary Hamptons - has that glow that appears both American and a bit artificial - and yet draws its charm and beauty from precisely that heightened artificiality.

Despite its name, Sag Harbor is not an aquatic in the true sense, not a fresh blue water scent and devoid of any shower gel associations. It still possesses the bright, sparkling quality of sunlight on white masonry or the sea surface early in the morning, a damp shine like pebbles close to the beach. Flowers and leaves (the bitterness of ivy) contribute few to no green accords to its glow - they are too abstract, almost olfactorily disembodied in their interpretation - like hyper-realistic artworks that elevate reality to such an extent that it paradoxically seems almost artificial. The essence of Sag Harbor is based on a base accord that cannot be called oud, yet quotes the brilliance of ouds and brings it to the forefront, adding something sluggishly morbid, something almost tragically graceful - much like in Lana Del Rey's music.

Conclusion: a scent of transcendent artificiality in minor. Hardly any summery cheerfulness, but rather damaged beach beauty and melancholy beyond the shine of Amagansett, Bridgehampton, and Montauk.

05/16/2016

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

pudelbonzo
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pudelbonzo

Helpful Review 5

Rain on the Skylights

Today, I was searching in my adventurous handbag for a tissue when I accidentally came across a pleasantly scented cloth with the inscription Sag Harbor.

This fresh aquatic fragrance also wafted from the open handbag, reminding me of a brisk sea breeze mixed with soft rainwater.

It triggered memories of my time in Hamburg, where I lived in a cozy studio apartment, separated from the Elbe and the harbor only by the Elbchaussee.

The rain is generous in the Hanseatic city - a fact that never bothered me.
The Hanseatic person dryly states: There is no bad weather - only inappropriate clothing.

And in my apartment, I only felt truly cozy when the wind was whistling outside, raindrops were rolling down the large windows, and gray-blue pigeons were cooing in the gutter against a gray sky.
From the sound system, Handel's Water Music was bubbling - and the pigeons curiously looked through the window.
I would have loved to invite them in.

This combination of fresh distance and homely closeness is also embodied by the fragrance for me.
The sea accords reach out - awaken longings - and amber and oud convey warmth and homeliness - making one want to stay.
The floral accents of honeysuckle and magnolia waft a piece of nature into the room.

Sometimes, despite the rain, I would stick my head out of the window, inhale the salty air, and feel joy when, at that moment, a "big ship" would sound its horn sonorously.

Interestingly, one of my predecessors had a similar association - but for me, the memories that Sag Harbor evokes are entirely pleasant.

The fragrance aligns with Goethe: Do you want to wander on forever? Look - the good lies so close!

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