Top Notes 
Marijuana
Bergamot
Nutmeg
Heart Notes 
Cedarwood
Elemi resin
Frankincense
Labdanum
Amber
ISO-E-Super
Base Notes 
Oud
Atlas cedar
Musk03/07/2025
ScentNebula
52 Reviews
ScentNebula
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No cannabis and no oomph
Lately, I’ve tried to be very conscious and intentional with my fragrance sample purchases, usually spending months researching what I want to try before placing an order. I slipped up with this one, though - it was a last-minute add-on to an order, prompted only by seeing that it contained frankincense (a note I’m currently exploring in depth) and cannabis, which intrigued me.
Unfortunately, Hierba Nera misses the mark for me.
For starters, this fragrance is barely detectable. The projection is actually shockingly terrible given the price. I have a very sensitive nose, yet even after spraying 4 times as much as I would normally use when testing a fragrance, I still have to put my nose right up to my arm, or wave my arm around within 10cm of my face, to smell anything. Yet, it overstayed its welcome as a skin scent, still detectable after 10 hours.
In the opening there’s a burst of fresh vegetal greenness alongside lemony citrus and a slightly black-peppery aroma. Maybe the green note is supposed to be cannabis, but this smells more like fennel or celery to me. I know cannabis aroma comes in many forms but as someone familiar with the plant, this didn’t resemble any of them, rather falling into the category of “soup ingredients”.
A pleasant but weak frankincense develops over a woody base as the scent warms up. Unfortunately, natural cedarwood oil, which smells like what is being used here, can disagree with my nostrils, and here it has a bit of that dill pickle-ish quality I get from sandalwood.
Ultimately, the only part of this I really enjoy is the late drydown, which is just a faint musky woody amber that is nice, but too little, too late, too weak.
If you enjoy this kind of woody-citrus-incense scent profile, you might like At Night We Dance. I don’t love that fragrance either, so I think this scent profile just doesn’t work on me, but ANWD has some similarities while being, IMO, more interesting and probably better performing.
Unfortunately, Hierba Nera misses the mark for me.
For starters, this fragrance is barely detectable. The projection is actually shockingly terrible given the price. I have a very sensitive nose, yet even after spraying 4 times as much as I would normally use when testing a fragrance, I still have to put my nose right up to my arm, or wave my arm around within 10cm of my face, to smell anything. Yet, it overstayed its welcome as a skin scent, still detectable after 10 hours.
In the opening there’s a burst of fresh vegetal greenness alongside lemony citrus and a slightly black-peppery aroma. Maybe the green note is supposed to be cannabis, but this smells more like fennel or celery to me. I know cannabis aroma comes in many forms but as someone familiar with the plant, this didn’t resemble any of them, rather falling into the category of “soup ingredients”.
A pleasant but weak frankincense develops over a woody base as the scent warms up. Unfortunately, natural cedarwood oil, which smells like what is being used here, can disagree with my nostrils, and here it has a bit of that dill pickle-ish quality I get from sandalwood.
Ultimately, the only part of this I really enjoy is the late drydown, which is just a faint musky woody amber that is nice, but too little, too late, too weak.
If you enjoy this kind of woody-citrus-incense scent profile, you might like At Night We Dance. I don’t love that fragrance either, so I think this scent profile just doesn’t work on me, but ANWD has some similarities while being, IMO, more interesting and probably better performing.
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