On The Road by Timothy Han Edition Perfumes

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On The Road Timothy Han Edition Perfumes 2015

7.6 / 10 123 Ratings

A popular perfume by Timothy Han Edition Perfumes for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is smoky-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Bergamot

Galbanum

Provençal lavender

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Cedarwood

Amyris

Base Notes

Birch

Labdanum

Benzoin

Gaiac wood Oakmoss

Oakmoss

Peru balsam

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumer

Timothy Han

Ratings

Scent

7.6123 Ratings

Longevity

7.8107 Ratings

Sillage

7.3108 Ratings

Bottle

7.597 Ratings

Value for money

6.837 Ratings

Submitted by Tinctureall · last update on 12/05/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/23/2015

7Scent

Tinctureall
94 Reviews

Tinctureall

Helpful Review 5

Steaming tarmac and scorched grasses

The uncompromising car journey in the searing heat of the day. The searingly hot asphalt hits the nose, mingling with the warm, suffocating, scorched floral shrubs of the highway. Vague hints of smoky frankfurters cooking in the far, far distance, mingle gently with the bruised and grimy oil laden roadside shrubbery. The driver stops to ask the way in the garage. A gnarled face leans into the already laden atmosphere and adds a gust of smoky breath to the steaming plasticised car interior. The driver starts the car again and the smoky, tarry heaviness is lightened by the new lighter air of dried flowers and grasses with a citrus nuance. As the open road is approached, the smokiness recedes and the grasses and flowers linger with an almost ginger, citrus nuance like the last warm rays of sunset on the dusty fields.

An interesting car journey and even more interesting that the order of ingredients seems to be in reverse with the citrus's showing at the end and not the introduction. I like the fact the Mr Han makes his perfume really tell a story and are miles away from the generic productions currently called perfumes. These are short olfactory tales being told like a novelette. They may not be necessarily in the norm for perfumes but the tale is a good accurate one.

01/13/2020

8Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

UniNoUta
17 Reviews

UniNoUta

Helpful Review 1

Unique and artistic, yet easy to wear

It's like a big bruiser pulling up outside a bar on a motorcycle, and you think maybe he's there for a Budweiser and a fight but then he orders a hipster microbrew and chats you up and it turns out he's a professor of English Literature, and he and his wife run a Bed & Breakfast on the weekends.

Quite original without being alienating (as Han's "Against Nature" can be) - Beautiful work. Love it.

As many have noted, it literally smells like a highway at first... hot tar, rubber tire friction on asphalt, a little exhaust...

Then there's citrus going on - I get bergamot more than lemon, and there's a hint of vanilla rounding it out, taking the sharper acidic edge off. Really well-balanced stuff. The pointed lack of any floral notes gives it a stoic, masculine quality, but that citrus and wee hint of lavender keeps it from being too self-serious.

03/25/2018

8.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 47

Gone

It was dusk. He stood on the grimy, soot-blackened pavement and watched the departing carriage. Now and then, powerful clouds from the chimneys of the nearby factory obscured his view, but even in those moments, the clattering of hooves, like a merciless clockwork, steadily pierced through the sudden silence and gradually faded.

She was gone. Her father had come in person to 'bring her to reason' and she had obeyed. Perhaps she had truly been too refined for this narrow and stuffy area, mostly shrouded in dense, heavy, greasy smoke. The smoke that testified to the dominance of industrial rhythm, to which life here was subjected, and which now reluctantly receded as the night shift came to an end. Only on Sundays did the hustle and bustle of the factory rest, granting a few hours of reflection.

The unusual silence of the machines roared in his head, numbing his senses. In a corner of his consciousness, he noticed that the silence smelled different today than usual. Spicier. Sometimes, towards the end of the last shift of the week, firewood was thrown into the insatiable chimneys to avoid having to extinguish the embers of expensive coal at the appointed time in the morning.

He must have stood almost motionless for a long time, kneading the coarse fabric of his cap in his hand, for now the sun sent its first rays through the dissipating haze. He turned around and walked away. Not back into the confines of her…his shack. No, a solitary walk would be better. As if by itself, his steps carried him toward the small forest. There, only a smoky hint would be felt, and the scent of the trees might do him good.

10/27/2020

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Chizza
362 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 31

On the spicy lavender road

On the Road by Timothy Han immediately appealed to me because I associate road tar with something I enjoy olfactorily. However, it was clear that something else had to come into play, as I already own a formidable tar scent in Black Tar, and I am reluctant to purchase identical products unless they are leather perfumes. Good old Timothy designs about one fragrance per year, aiming in very different directions, and I was curious. Honestly, only half-curious, as I was familiar with the scent; it was about considering a purchase or whether reality isn't as beautiful as the past that floats in my mind.

In fact, Timothy opens with green tar for a few seconds, with patches of grass visible beside the asphalt in the scorching heat. These quickly wither under the relentless temperatures. The heat accumulates on the road, the air is still and shimmers. It smells mercilessly of quite fresh tar. This tar is gradually mixed with something else.

It's the overturned lemon truck on the road, which fell onto its load and squashed it. It smells... somehow refreshing and a shade richer. It is easy to compare it to Poltergeist by Heretic here, but the latter is spicier, less of a black mass than On the Road. Essentially, lavender plays a role here, giving the scent that spicy-herbaceous note that accompanies the tar.

At some point, the birch tar cools down; it smells brittle and woody, somewhat like cold ash. Unfortunately - and this is the major flaw of this creation - On the Road rapidly loses its expressive strength after a strong start. The element that enhances the birch tar completely disappears, leaving only a background hum. Nothing more. Like a delicate whisper, the faded fire still lingers in the air; far too quickly.

I still don't know if this scent is worth purchasing for me. It smells different from Black Tar, even if outsiders won't perceive the subtle nuances. On the Road is, for me, a blend of Black Tar and Poltergeist, in a way a pleasing compromise. Pleasing is relative. So, if one was too spicy and the other too dark, one should test this. Additionally, you have to be more of a friend of understated perfumes of this kind due to the rapidly declining intensity.

03/05/2016

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

RoMi58
29 Reviews

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RoMi58

Top Review 19

Roadmovie!

Rrroooaarrrrr….. Cloud of smoke, tar, lemon: the start of the fragrance journey on a cool, breezy summer morning in the big city. Gasoline and asphalt fumes from the summer night and the memory of the evening in the jazz cellar still linger in the air, fruit crates filled with citrus from the street vendor who has just set up contribute a zesty freshness, the cool morning wind already carries a hint of the scents of the countryside (fields, forests...) into the city. From afar, the opening reminds me of Knize Ten, but I can't compare anymore, the sample was long ago: probably the smoke and the urban vibe.

The journey takes us through suburbs to the countryside. We visit a sawmill - it smells of freshly sawn wood, slightly burnt from the heat of the saw blade. We have plenty of leisure and admire next door a painter's studio filled with swirls of turpentine. The strong colors: gray, brown, green, ochre - just like the scent that accompanies us!

Later, around noon, we stroll through a very open coniferous forest, the warmth of the strong sun rays makes the scent of pine and fir cones rise from the forest floor. We are not entirely sure, but we think we occasionally catch faintly sweet wafts from a sunlit lavender field that must be nearby.

In the afternoon of this warm, sunny August day, the grain fields are already harvested, and somewhere straw fires are probably burning, the narrow road leads us to the place where we will arrive. The wind has stopped, it is quiet, in the afternoon sun the scent impressions become subdued, hay, straw, dry herbs, dry moss, dead wood from the nearby field hedge exude a crackling-quiet, restrained aroma, almost creamy (that must be the tonka bean). Wrapped in the fading woody-mild scent tapestry, we still sense a bit of asphalt, smoke, and turpentine, letting the memories of the day pass by…..

On The Road is indeed a fragrance journey, a road movie. Similar in its dominant smoky note are Mississippi Medicine and Burning Barbershop by D.S. & Durga. Mississippi Medicine is more citrusy and bright, Burning Barbershop sweeter and more lavender-like. As colors, I would assign Mississippi Medicine light yellow-sulfur yellow-gray, Burning Barbershop purple-gray, and On The Road gray-light brown-green ochre. The two Durga fragrances are somewhat more pastel, while On The Road is more vividly drawn, like an expressive yet harmonious color woodcut.

Objective, aesthetically proportioned bottle. Beautiful outer box designed with photographic art, the title photo can be freely selected when ordering. Inspiring scent, inspired design (this also applies to Timothy Han's website). The fragrance name refers to the novel by Jack Kerouac, 1957: the content is characterized in Wikipedia as "Sex, Drugs 'n' Jazz," a wild journey of two men across the North American continent to Mexico. I should probably read it!

(Personal P.S.: Fragrances with birch tar notes had previously deterred me, I quickly dismissed Knize Ten back then, and I initially had a spontaneous aversion to the two mentioned D.S. & Durga fragrances, which later turned into affection. Why the decision for a bottle of "On The Road" now? Perhaps I was simply ready for a smoky scent, for THIS scent. Perhaps because I wore the fragrance for the first time just before Christmas, at a time that matched the name of the fragrance: the completely surprising transformation of my neighbor's house (single-family home, rural-suburban southern German outskirts) into a shelter for refugee families from Syria and Iraq: the new, impressive, and even friendly contacts that arise with the families, their moving stories, make one experience how "To Be On The Road" is a fundamental human condition. It's good if there is also an "arrival" in the meantime!)

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