Organics - Pomegranate & Vanilla by The Healing Garden

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Organics - Pomegranate & Vanilla The Healing Garden

6.8 / 10 12 Ratings

A perfume by The Healing Garden for men. The release year is unknown. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Gourmand

Fresh

Fragrance Notes

Bergamot

Cinnamon

Oakmoss

Clove

Labdanum

Nutmeg

Black pepper Lime

Lime

Parallel Patchouli

Perfumer

Howard Jarvis

Ratings

Scent

6.812 Ratings

Longevity

7.610 Ratings

Sillage

6.710 Ratings

Bottle

6.48 Ratings

Submitted by Apicius · last update on 06/12/2018.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/10/2012

9Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

DeGe53
559 Reviews

DeGe53

2

This little devil just wants to play

El Diablo! The devil made the booze….. exactly! And this little bugger is one mischievous, tipsy hellion. Not a mean, cloven-hoofed, tail wagging Horned One with a trident to drag bad sinners into the redhot hells gorge.
He’s more like an elegant, mischievous guy, sparkling eyes, pointed hairline, canny smile, with a tiny sulfuric cloud rising from underneath his red lined, velvetblack cape. He wants “aaaaaaction”, he wants to have fun, he’s still so young!

He is sharp and at the same time fresh. How on earth Howard Jarvis has accomplished that remains a secret, as always. And there is definitely cinnamon included. Fresh, clear cinnamon, no sugar added. And pepper, very clear, also fresh and not biting sharp, but with a slight nutmeg note to it. And the Budiade that is so hard to describe lingers on as well. A certain creaminess comes out at the base, and also a soft, almost powdery woodiness, sawdust powder.

I can’t find it as loud as Apicius does, but we know that already. On the contrary, after the initial abundance of cinnamon-pepper-nutmeg (or whichever hot spices are included here), which comes rushing on like the devil, the horned creature calms down some, doesn’t become cosy but slightly tame with a fresh-rough bearing. He’s behaving, stays close to the wearer and Ms. Devil can wear it as well. She doesn’t even need to have red hair!

At the cooler seasons this is nice for people who do not want to smell gourmandy but still appreciate a certain spiciness.

12/27/2011

7Scent 7.5Longevity

Apicius
1328 Reviews

Apicius

1

Mean and Hot

This develish perfume is all about pepper! With this new release Howard Jarvis aims at those perfume lovers who prefer piquant spiciness in a very straightforward way. What I smell is pepper, maybe also things like paprika, clove and a little bit of cinnamon oil - but as always; I might go wrong when I try to spot out some parts of the unknown scent pyramid.

El Diablo is hot stuff that maybe not everybody will be able to cope with. It is not refined, it is loud and intense and especially of interest for those who enjoy peppery notes. Maybe friends of Lorenzo Villoresi's Piper Nigrum or maybe the noble Poivre Samarcande by Hermès might feel attracted to it. In this trio, El Diablo would be the roughneck. Whereas the Hermès fragrance presents itself refined enough to escort the fine leather goods of this brand, Piper Nigrum can almost be called experimental with its twist to a chocolate-like note. But El Diablo attracts with its special straightforwardness.

El Diablo roughly shares the same style as traditional bay rum after shaves that you still can get from several rather traditional brands. (D.R.Harris, Royall and others.) In opposite to those, El Diablo is more complex and also more respectable. Surely, peppery notes are the focus of El Diablo, but there are other notes that rather accompany the pepper than contrasting it. Woody notes only appear in the background, they do not imprint the fragrance. But there must be something else – at times, I sense a certain calming aspect in it – is it some musk? That reminds me a bit of shaving soap – or is it only in my mind?

Whatever, El Diablo may not be among the greatest perfumes of all time, but it is definitely fun to wear. The quality is good, and a fragrance like this will surely attract people. However, I do not suppose these people are the “noses” who want to enjoy highly complex chypres and fougères, but rather people who prefer simpler, more straightforward Barber Shop style colognes.

04/12/2016

7.5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 27

A Well-Seasoned Meal Must Burn Twice

According to this principle, I tend to spice up my dishes - except for vanilla pudding & co. At the Chinese restaurant, I sometimes have to reorder Sambal Oelek, and sushi is only good when the wasabi makes my eyes water. Farih G., the owner of my regular döner shop just around the corner during my student days in Kiel, always said while generously sprinkling each layer of ingredients with Pul Biber (the technical term for the spice mix that is called "Mit Scharf!" in German), "That's too spicy!" It wasn't. Most of the time, I would add more spice at home.

I was particularly curious about the expected, decent portion of pepper given the comments. Hm. Well. I had occasionally suspected that my skin (numbing drift?) simply absorbs pepper spiciness. El Diablo is certainly spicy. But hot?

But let's start from the beginning: A gentle citrus opening greets me, bergamot and lime go perfectly together. Very fresh and rounded off with... eucalyptus? Something from that direction is playing in here - and after all, the botanical connection to Australia is close with this manufacturer.

After a few minutes, a prickling of eugenol breaks through. Three sources are pyramidal: cinnamon, nutmeg, clove - they really want to make a statement! With such reinforcement, cinnamon can focus on spreading sweetness. After ten minutes, something green appears underneath, which soon turns soapy. Surely, the moss is already involved in that.

Within half an hour, a swimming pool note emerges, which I recognize similarly from Uomo and Piper Nigrum by Villoresi, only here it is sweeter, probably mixed from lime and eugenol prickling along with cinnamon sweetness. I certainly don't find it hot or possibly hellishly hot, although a wonderfully smoky-honeyed note (labdanum?) nudges me, which character-wise - certainly not in terms of volume! - reminds me from afar of the incense supernova "03.Apr.1968" by Rundholz.

I also sense little black pepper as it develops. But that doesn't matter. The scent is lovely: spicy, fresh, a touch Mediterranean, a dash cologne-like, a scoop classic-soapy-bitter. By the way, El Diablo is supposed to be a cologne. It wears, by the way, more like an oil.

From noon onwards, El Diablo becomes decidedly more classically traditional in its own way. Residual acidity, moss, spices, and now a more subtle sweetness give it a long-lasting clean elegance, perhaps like from an extravagant, trendy hair salon. In the evening, I am briefly irritated by a strong citrus echo that reminds me of fresh cheese feet and causes a hint of quirkiness, which, considering the internet self-presentation of the fragrance's creators (and my experiences with their "Satyr"), can hardly be surprising. However, this little surprise does not disguise the fact that we are already in the final phase. After ten hours, El Diablo is practically done, holding on until the end with a soapy-clean-eugenolic residual citrus.

Conclusion: El Diablo cannot compete with a well-seasoned meal that burns twice (in the nose and in the mouth - what did you think?). Nevertheless, it brings me joy. If you are looking for a scent that is structurally classic yet extravagantly executed, feel free to grab it.

I thank Turandot for the sample.