Slowdive Hiram Green 2017

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7.8 / 10 175 Ratings

According to EssenceVitae Research Team A popular perfume by Hiram Green for women and men, released in 2017. Furthermore The scent is sweet-resinous. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.

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Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Orange blossom

Neroli

Heart Notes

Base Notes

Resins

Perfumer

Hiram Green

Ratings

Scent

7.8175 Ratings

Longevity

8.5151 Ratings

Sillage

8.1153 Ratings

Bottle

8.4140 Ratings

Value for money

6.844 Ratings

Submitted by CPL, last update on 26.05.2024.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/25/2018

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Pepdal
238 Reviews

Pepdal

Helpful Review 6

Slowdive

My first scent discovery from Hiram Green, and it is safe to say that I probably haven't smelled anything quite like this. But the question is, is it any good?

04/18/2018

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Polyanthes
49 Reviews

Polyanthes

Helpful Review 7

Oh beeswax, lovely beeswax from beginning to end. ...

When I first spritzed Slowdive, I smiled a smug and deeply contented kind of smile because it is so wonderful, and because my first blind buy ever was such a ridiculous success :o)

This is not a furniture beeswax smell, and it’s not burning candles either, it is actual honeycomb, fresh out of the hive on a buzzing summer's day, still glistening with honey and powdered with pollen, there's a little bit of clean hay around the place too. Have you ever smelled and tasted the pollen granules that you can buy to boost your immune system and well being? Well, I get a load of that in here, not just the creamy sweet, softly clean, fuzzy little animal smell but also the super-fine, granular texture as the rich, tiny golden grains dissolve on your tongue.

The more I wear this, the more subtle nuances I notice. The resinous honey gently sticks to the beeswax all the way through and is very much like a delicious heather honey I love from Galicia; thick and semi-crystalized, dark amber, nectarous, dense, herbal aromatic, balmy and rich. There are some heady, creamy white flowers in here too.

It took me a few wearings to get on an intimate basis with the warm, deep, floral tobacco note, but I’m there now and I love it. It’s much rounder and more supple than other tobacco notes I’ve smelled, like rubbing fresh and ever so slightly dusty tobacco leaves between your hands leaving stains with a spicy, sweet, brownish green narcotic aroma.

Slowdive's dry down is long and lovely, a beautiful pastoral portrait of the perfect summer's day, where nature is friendly and life is always sweet.
Nectar of the gods.

06/06/2018

9
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

ScentFan
332 Reviews

ScentFan

Helpful Review 6

Stunning Crime

How I managed to miss a new creation by Hiram Green for even a second, I don’t know. First thing I did when I read the initial review was go to th HG site and put myself on their mailing list to make sure this never happens again. Next I bought Slowdive blind. As expected, a near faint ensued when I smelled it. Yet I’m in a quandary about how to describe it. Alone, a word like beautiful won’t do, though Slowdive is. It’s also a bold fragrance, an unabashed, passionate stab at greatness.

Okay, this is what I smell. Upset with his wife for some reason, a 1940’s moviestar takes her bottle of Chanel No 22 out to the beehives they keep so their cook can serve fresh honey to their celebrity guests. Angry, he unthinkingly slams the bottle into a hive. The bees go crazy of course so he runs off. The wife, watching from the window, shakes her head, waits a while, then finds a beekeeper’s hat. She goes and gets the bee smoker, which happens to be filled with resin, to smoke the hive and calm the bees. She finds her Chanel No 22 broken, but not empty, some of its contents replaced by honey and pollen and beeswax. Salvaging it is impossible but she finds the scent of neroli, orange blossom, tuberose mixed with resin and beehive so deeply luxurious that she lights a cigarette and sits down to enjoy it.

I sprayed Slowdive on my arms this morning and as I turn in it’s still intoxicating me. It’s a stunner. Even if it had really arisen from a minor crime as in my imagination, all charges would be dropped.

Niche designers are just walking on scented water, boggling my nose that such extreme gorgeousness should arrive back to back—the other being Patchouli Cloud.

01/04/2022

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Bubobubo17
13 Reviews

Bubobubo17

A sweet short pleasure

It is a clean honey with a toasted twist: I associate it with chestnut honey, sweet but with a bitter note. At the opening, a hint of dried fruit emerges, especially toasted hazelnuts, together with something that vaguely recalls the aroma of an english amber beer, just tapped. Very greedy for those who love these aromas and tastes. Then it fades in intensity settling on a more balanced background where some glow of light given by the flowers appears: a barely hinted tuberose (that I don't know if I feel it by suggestion or because it is so well integrated that it just fits wonderfully). The power of this perfume is its synaesthetic ability to suggest the consistency of honey and its amber transparency: you can see through it, but the lens deforms taking on spiralized contours due to the extreme fluidity. You would spend hours watching it spin, slowly, forming ephemeral balls. Exactly like the music of Slowdive, fluid, dreamy, "viscously sweet": it imprisons you in a kind of moving sand (the guitars distorted beyond belief / the fluidity of honey) surrounding you with a trail of hypnagogic stars of light (the angelic voice of the singer / floral notes). An experience worth doing is getting intoxicated by Slowdive listening to Slowdive! Persistence is very weak: it lasts two hours on my skin.

03/09/2023

8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Quailist
10 Reviews

Quailist

Mushroom cloud of honey

I initially wrote this one off – "Why would I want to smell like straight-up honey?" – relegating it to the hyper-realistic gourmand category of fragrance that usually meets with my disapproval.

Then, a few days following my initial test strip spray, I felt the strong urge to experience it again.

Yes, it was still straight-up honey – a mushroom cloud of the stuff, actually – but it was also oddly compelling. A side-by-side sniff test with a jar of honey from a local farm revealed that not only was Slowdive stronger and more dense, but that something else was at play here. After scanning the notes, a second side-by-side sniff test followed, this time with a bar of tobacco-scented soap. Indeed, there is some dusty tobacco underpinning the composition, although the turbo-honey tenor of Slowdive had initially rendered it undetectable to my nose.

Still, despite the tobacco I found lurking beneath the surface, I perceived Slowdive to be a highly linear scent, with other listed notes like tuberose and orange blossom nowhere to be found. On the longevity front, it was still chugging along when I went to bed eight hours after application.

In the end, I started to feel a bit trapped in the treacly world of Slowdive – an appealingly rustic scent, beguiling in its potency, but not something that I want to experience for hours on end. It is, however, nicely executed and certainly a must-try for gourmand enthusiasts, especially those with more opulent tastes.

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Statements

9 short views on the fragrance

JoaoMartins 3 years ago

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Beeswax and honey bomb. Nuclear longevity. Bold and mysterious

Itchynose 5 years ago

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7
Scent

A slow dive into a pool of thick dark honey and beeswax. It's resinous, heavy, bittersweet and unusual. Quite the experience.

Polischchuk 4 days ago

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Very interesting animalic honey. Pretty sweet and has good longevity as well.

Kimes 1 year ago

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 4
Scent

Pure realistic honey. It's too much, not very pleasant to wear.

JackofSpades 2 years ago

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Honey, resinous, dark, with floral nuances, dried fruit and a slight sweetness to blend,
full-bodied and warm scent.

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