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assushimb – :
Opens with an explosion of dry stewed fruits – not warm – but dry and linear. This wanders away within 20 minutes or so; leaving a stunning cedar bomb on my wrist. Iso+Cedar+Crystallized Fruits create a stunning combination. Still detectable after 12 hours – a comforting, gorgeous scent.
Настя 34 – :
This reminds me of Christmas in a bottle! Perfect juice for the winter and/or fall season and a somewhat unique peppery dried fig and fruit bomb which I totally enjoy and love the house of byredo and I have hundreds of fragrances!
tlx507Negeltzex – :
Funny thing, the opening immediately reminded me of Tabasco (chili + vinegar?) lol
I was going to dismiss it as novelty, but on the skin it turns into a rather wearable semi-fruity woody rum(tobacco?) “men’s cologne” with quintessential tonka.
heq79 – :
I have a smile on my face as I’m recalling the cheerful opening of Eleventh Hour: pepper, cloves, stewed fruits in booze. This smells like a high end potpourri, or as the Byredo Sales associate said “the inside of a crafts store”. I would not have thought that but upon reflection he is correct.
Eleventh Hour also makes me think of Halloween so it is a perfectly suited Fall scent. Something about the mix that feels very young, I can imagine Gen Z really digging it (if they could only afford it).
This is also genderless. Much to my surprise, I’m not having any performance issues and my skin eats perfume, so test before purchase as the reviews vary in this regard. Kudos to Byredo for creating a fun scent for Fall.
sergey 986 – :
Eleventh Hour’s advertised notes are usually notes I associate with dramatic longevity and projection, so I found myself disappointed when after half an hour, I had to press my nose up to my wrist to remind myself that I was wearing it at all. That’s a painful downside considering the price point.
The scent itself is lovely. So lovely that I’m genuinely sad that it’s so fleeting.
Once the very peppery pepper settles a bit and you’ve gotten past the point where all you can think about is clove oil, Eleventh Hour is wonderfully comforting. There’s a faint creamy fruitiness underneath a spicy tobacco cloud that just soothes the nerves, I feel.
I’m a rum fan, and I can’t detect it in this composition, but I feel like Eleventh Hour is definitely a perfume to wear while sipping on a nice, dark, decently aged Jamaican rum.
Sadly, the longevity is just so disappointing that I can’t see myself buying this. I will be checking the reviews to see if spraying it on fabric or perhaps applying it far more liberally than a sample vial allows does fix the longevity issues.
I really want Eleventh Hour to magically gain a bit of lasting power overnight. Gosh, the potential!
Masster – :
I received this sample yesterday. I get a soft powdery spearmint on my skin. Very light and really quite nice! Fresh and uplifting.
life – :
I am not a specialist in perfumes, but I enjoy trying different fragrances. Lucky Scent sent me a sample of this with my purchase. All I get from this scent is CLOVES. Since this is what I associate with help for a toothache, I think I will pass on this one note fragrance.
ganzhyk – :
This does not smell like a lot of perfumes out there, I can assure you of that. Once the opening dries down (about a half an hour) it resembles Eau d’Italie’s Bois d’Ombrie. I have a lot of perfumes and it’s the only one that comes close. Could be the carrot and boozy rum theme that are in both. Eleventh Hour is almost chaotic in the beginning, it really keeps your attention. I definitely like it, but it probably wouldn’t be an every day scent for me but I would wear it more than a few times a year. Great for fall and winter.
cheap soma – :
Had the opportunity of trying it a day before launch. I took home some samples with me, which I’ve really enjoyed.
The opening is marvelous. I’ve never tried anything like it: very plummy – must say I never thought I’d like that, but it’s really good. Enough spice and some woods (not much) to make it more balanced and perfectly unisex. Unfortunately, that’s where the good ends. Literally. This scent is almost entirely gone and becomes a skin scent in about 60-90 minutes… not that it projects much at all before that either.
A shame.
meseOritteMut – :
I get lime and cigarette tobacco–freshly lit.
Maybe baked apples with cloves, but possibly dried figs and sweet pepper, and a quick finish to what I can only call “expensive coat closet”–slight animal, cedar and rum.
The liquid bites at the skin a bit, and it doesn’t last long.
I could almost compare it to Tank Battle, with the spicy bubblegum notes, except this has more Y chromosome at the bottom.
I like it.
Nickolas – :
Immediately Eleventh Hour became my favourite Byredo to the date. Moreover, this is one of the most unique Jerome Epinette creations ever.
Carnation! At start I smelled only carnation, a full bodied and so intoxicated. Carnation itself is a very complex and difficult accord to use due to its brightness. Here carnation links to a milky fig and juicy fruitiness of a cinnamon in the dry down that smoothen the composition.
This will become the big thing for Byredo, believe me.
vitus1963 – :
Very pretty plum spiced cake scent with a bit of an unusual menthol-y drydown.
Very unlike anything else I smelled recently.
phadiaagidO – :
I was very eager to test Eleventh Hour, since the list of notes looks so enticing and so much up my alley. And sniffed from its sample container, it seemed to fulfill all of that promise: I was instantly reminded of the best parts of Dolcesir or Brecourt’s Farah – a delicious apple pie kind of vibe, boozy and syrupy and altogether irresistible, with some woods thrown in to keep it from becoming too edible to be wearable. Not groundbreaking, true, and certainly very far from “apocalyptic” as the marketing suggests, but wonderful anyway, and perfect for fall.
So imagine my disappointment when on my skin all of this loveliness was overtaken almost instantly by an over-dominant pepper accord. It’s not a note I’m fond of anyway – it can bring something extra to a scent when it keeps to the background, sure, but otherwise I like to avoid it. And in this case it barely leaves room for anything else! Or at least it does for the first couple of hours, which is really all that matters, because on top of everything else I have to agree with Bbjr: longlasting this is not. The drydown is pretty nice, a subdued version of how it smells from the bottle, but by the time it gets to that stage I have to sniff my wrist pretty closely to smell anything at all.
Too bad, but on the other hand I have to be glad that I haven’t fallen in love with this expensive limited-edition…
aleksandr1996 – :
Nothing new here! This Fragrance reminds me another 3.000 thousands Scents already made. Byredo,my distant overpriced love.
aaawe140 – :
Not bad but drydown is nothing unusual. Starts interesting though
jff202Diobtetty – :
clove oil stirred with a cinnamon stick…
Some may like this, I am going to wash it off now.
Julia_Dragon – :
I sprayed this on the back of my hand and got mulled apple cider with cinnamon and cloves. Very nice for fall.
Viluch – :
I have sampled this on two occasions. Out of the bottle, it is heaven. The rum note is second to none and the combination with fig make this scent divine and unique. Woods in the background. Love it on first whiff. Problem comes when it settles on skin. On both wearings I was beyond disappointed; the dry down was sour, off-putting – nothing like the smell out of the bottle. Perhaps it would be different if I prepped my skin with Canvas and Concrete, or a similar product. Maybe it was just my particular chemistry, In any regard, I am satisfied that I tested this enough to convince myself it is not worth buying. I love Byredo- its one of my favourite houses and I own and wear a number of the scents but this one is a pass unfortunately.
freeki – :
I read about this and the idea of fig and peppercorn intrigued me. I’m wearing my sample now, and I like it. It really reminds me of Hermes’ Un Jardin en Mediterranee, however. I may just go back to that scent since it’s available again.
Remoseentee – :
Had the opportunity to be in Stockholm this August so I decided that stalking the sales assistants at their store in the city center and at Arlanda for a sample of 11th Hour was a valid option 🙂 Came back to Italy with 6 samples, no chances to purchase a full bottle even if they had it in the store.
As much as I loved the vivid and natural feel of Pulp, it is too sweet for me, so I never had the opportunity to really rock it. When the notes breakdown of 11th Hour came out I was atuomatically attracted to the presence of figue and sichuan pepper. Was not disappointed.
That’s exactly what dominates the opening. The figue is way less sweet compared to Pulp, definitely greener and fresher, almost like figue leaves at times. Yet the dominant note is the Sichuan pepper. Very bright, very very very spicy.
It stays almost the same until it drops into a warmer base made of light, almost faint tonka and wood.
I do get the carrots seeds, while can’t notice very much bergamot or rum. Maybe some boozy hints in the opening, but, as said, bam timmur and figue are the key players.
Performance are not stellar at all. I previously said “drop” because it really drops from present to skin scent in about 3-4 hours. During this time you don’t project massively, but it creates a quite solid spicy/warm bubble.
Probably not the best moment to test it (around 25-30 °C here in Northern Italy) but in the office with A/C it worked decently, I think I’ll save some of the samples for this Autumn for further tests. Despite figue being generally a summer oriented note, the twist given by the Sichuan pepper makes it fit for slightly colder days.
All in all, I do appreciate the creativity and I love the “spicy figue” effect of the opening. It’s quite a unique creation. On the other side it could probably be more complex and it could develope a little bit more during its path (the base seems sometimes weak compared to the opening). Maybe not a first go-to in Byredo’s range if you are approaching it. But if you are familiar with their other frags, it is a must-try. Personally in my favourite 5 of their porfolio now, together with (of course) Bal d’Afrique, Le Gant, Velvet Haze (more on women than on me actually) and Oud Immortel.
kirik1980 – :
…..Bbjr, thats EXACTLY what they said about Another13 …as I mentioned below. Now its LeLabo’s Top 3 seller. So I disagreee and it remains to be seen. Soooooo, wheres your review on YouTube?
liniPorcern – :
Nice but nothing groundbreaking here. And, unfortunately, by the eleventh hour, 10 hours have passed since the scent disappeared. I like Byredo and have had more than a few of their offerings, it just seems lately they’ve been putting out very uninspired stuff. Just my opinion.
urpeta – :
Let me say this!!! Thank You Cat from my favorite fragrance store for letting me get my nose on this juixe. Check out my first impressions on YouTube RaJuR real deep kool.
Now, Goes on like bubblegum and dries down to some exotic Fun!! I cant get enough of this suaxe. I cant wait yo get my bottle!! The Quick Sweet Blast of bubblegum to the start of the crazy drydown to a boozy, nutty, grainy adult sniff. This is NOT the Byredo, you may be used to. For me, 1996 was groundbreaking for Byredo. I have 7 redo’s and had 9. There are a few on my radar, well, Was on my radar til the juixe hit my nose. I cant get enough, and my sample is running short, so Ill be returning to get some more, til the bottle releases. Thats it. Like LeLabo’s Another 13, via “A2daDeuce”, that I hyped to the states from A closing Colette store in France? Time for MORE hype. Ive been grooving with my NewesT CD project “20Twenty” towards completion, so I’ve been outta the game…..except for Sarah McCarthy’s 4160 Tuesdays offerings, I haven’t purchase any juixe for a moment nor presented many YouTube reviews…..Til NOW!! Thank You Byredo for putting my music project on a brief pause!! LOL Its worth it.