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gomeobjelveb – :
Light orange honey musk.
This reminds me allot the Disney kids fragrances, mostly the “Superman” one with it’s bright honey citrus fresh blends. I believe the calycanthus that added the bright to mimosa.
Quite soft and very normal, i don’t know why other reviewers are over praising this fragrance that much!
WooDzy – :
Everyone here has done such an excellent job waxing lyrical for this gem. You all deserve awards. I’m proud to be a perfume nerd among you.
unf381Negeltzex – :
Hanbury has the power to put me in a good mood, it’s such an uplifting, optymistic fragrance. It’s Reminiscence of the summer heat, lazy, beautiful afternoon in the villa garden. You can inhale the scent of flowers growing in the garden and enjoy the luxury of taking it slowly. Love the bitter orange openining, the light sweetness of honey and linden blossom and the sea breeze. Adorable and the most feminine creation of MCG I discovered so far.
alyaskavov – :
I’m pretty susceptible to perfume marketing – paint me a picture of a mediterranean villa with a garden full of mimosa and citrus trees, and I’ll probably have added your fragrance to my test list before you’re done talking. Add the image of a lady of leisure who dwells in this wonderful place, and the suggestion that by using this fragrance I can momentarily escape into her life, or at least a scented fantasy of it, and it’s a done deal: I’m buying it right away! Or at least a sample, since I’m a lady of leisure in perfumed dreams only. So Hanbury gets high marks for marketing, at the very least.
Unfortunately, once I did get the sample, I promptly proceeded to neglect it for months and months, like an idiot. When I finally remembered to use it, there was very little left, and I think the top notes had disappeared with it: I didn’t get any citrus at all at first spray, just a kind of condensed version of the later development, strong mimosa with lots of musk. This missed opportunity (I’m sure that’s what it is) is the first reason I’m going to put this on my want list: I want to experience that bitter orange in combination with that lovely mimosa!
And that brings us to the second, most important reason: the part I did get to test out properly, the heart of the fragrance, really is great, and in a way that makes the marketing ring true: hours of creamy mimosa, honeyed and a little heady. Wonderful! With some imagination, it really can transport you to that villa, on an ideal day in spring: warm but not too hot.
I’m not entirely sure about the drydown yet – all in all it’s just a gradual softening of the main attraction, and so pretty nice as well. But for some reason resinous notes can sometimes turn a little sour on my skin, ever so slightly reminiscent of mayonnaise when sniffed closely, and unfortunately that’s what happened with this one as well. It’s not a big deal, though – it doesn’t always happen, and if it does, I can just avoid sniffing my wrists too closely at that point.
It’s certainly not enough to keep me away from that villa – in fact, I want to visit it again soon, and often. Luckily, and appropriately, this is available in quite an affordable travel size, so I think I might!
Slot22 – :
This is a beautiful fragrance….it is captivating without even trying. It is beauty in so simple a form it stays both profoundly innocent (but not in a little girl way), and nostalgic all at once.
When I first sprayed it on, it reminded me of childhood….a sudden sweetness I remember….wait…is it the grape Otter Pop from the freezer or the grape Pixie stick or grape SweetTart I opened and smelled back then? Honestly, this memory hit me and it was really nice! Suddenly the mix of florals, honey and incredible fruit take me to a garden by the ocean. Hence, Hanbury is all around me.
I am not a big ‘musky’ perfume lover, but no worries because this fragrance does not over do the musk, and is fairly neutral on me.
Good, erotic, musical and refined. It fools one to think it will be too sweet, but the incredible citrus and benzoin pull in back, and it stays smooth and lyrical for hours. Definitely a scent that makes a lasting impression. So glad I purchased it!
centner2 – :
Genuinely beautiful, naive and fragile, yellow version of Apres l’Ondee. An abstract floral – I am smelling something resembling orange blossom and musk and that’s it – the rest I cannot decipher precisely, so I rather leave it to my senses and my mind to enjoy it as it is – a heavenly compound of dreamy candy dew, watercolor freshness, pastel crayons waxy aroma, classicist beauty ideal, transparent veil of fairy dust…
Such a shame it’s so soft and ephemeral!
zema1169 – :
This perfume put me over the edge. It’s so beautiful. I brings to mind a quote from the movie American Beauty, “Sometimes, there’s so much beauty in the world – I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart is just going to cave in.”
This is the 4th fragrance I have tried from this line and this one sealed my fate. I am not just smitten, not just infatuated, I am in love. All of the ones I’ve tried have a sensual breezy quality to them that is like walking through a field of flowers at dusk. This one is inspired by Villa Hanbury on the coast of Italy.
It has the essence of a flower that grows in Italy in the winter called Calycanthus Proxus. I’ve never smelled it, but other reviews compare it to Une Fleur de Cassie by FM, which I agree. This is primarily a mimosa scent, but an evening mimosa scent with so much more!
This is the perfect combination of the mimosa note in Oscar de la Renta Volupte, the honey in Ellie Saab le parfum, and the cassie/calycanthus note in Une Fleur de Cassie all over a warm, windblown, in-the-meadow note of bitter citrus. The effect is like staying at an Italian villa, and opening the shutters to smell the flowers in the evening. If anyone has seen the movie Under the Tuscan sun with Diane Lane, the final scene where she has everything she wants – the baby, the house, the friends – that is what this perfume reminds me of – finally finding beauty and happiness.
I should mention that on me, this is like a version of Ellie Saab with mimosa – kind of perfumey, but on E. my male perfume buddy with warmer skin, it has a LOT more honey and is more balmy.
Osia3000 – :
Honey + jasmine bush.
musae – :
I was interested to test Hanbury since both my husband and I enjoy citrus scents. My husband was also willing to be a guinea pig and test it as well.
On me, Hanbury opened with a bright citrus note that rounded out with that slightly sour bitter orange. The honey and benzoin notes seem to amplify the floral aspect in a warm, vaguely sweet way. It almost has a powdery feel to it as it dries down, which I think is due to the musk. I can see the comparison to a sort of bubblegum scent, and it does have a little spice to it. Hanbury is a very cheerful, sunny sort of scent that stays close to the body. It does have a great unisex sort of appeal on the right chemistry.
On my husband, within a short time after spraying on Hanbury, it smelled very strongly of the lime and bitter orange. I think his body chemistry amplified the notes and made it very unappealing. The best description I could give the scent on him was warm, rancid baby wipes or orange cleaning wipes. It wasn’t pleasant at all, and he washed it off very quickly.
This is one I would definitely test before buying to find out if it works on your chemistry.
vernyk – :
@leathermountain…
Being from the south eastern US, I am very familiar with calycanthus as it is a plant that grows here naturally. (The plant was originally exported to England from South Carolina) My grandmother had a garden surrounded by the plant also known as “spice bush” or “sweet bush.” My cousin and I always called it the bubblegum bush because that is about as close as I could describe it. It smells edible sweet but not in a vanilla type fashion. Think sugary sweet like honey, pink bubble gum or even cotton candy. Sadly, I have become more accustomed to seeing the plant in pot purr more so than frags as the flowers lend themselves very well to drying and smell wonderful. With that being said I am curious to get my nose on this frag purely because of the note associated with my childhood. Hope this helped.
Xeroxxxoov – :
I experience Hanbury as a tea-inflected orange blossom scent. I don’t know what calycanthus smells like, but the other listed notes don’t seem obviously to account for my perception. It feels like a Big White Floral with herbal inflections instead of indoles. Is this just me?
Anyone else familiar with calycanthus? Mia von Trost describes it as a little herbal and almost leathery with a twist of dried apple. The only part I can smell is the little herbal. The link to the note above puts it in a green category and says it can smell like burgundy wine (not here!) or strawberry (not here!) or grapefruit (it’s a stretch).
I agree about the English name, but it is the name of a garden in Italy….
I adore Hanbury. It is rich but joyous, sweet but lyrical, luxuriant and a little nostalgic. I think the nostalgia is for that garden I’ve never seen. In Hanbury, I wish I lived there. With eyes closed and the light summer breeze just right, I can, at least for a beautiful moment.
And this is one of my favorite things about excellent perfumes in general: like mediation, they pull your awareness deep into the present moment. Hanbury succeeds brilliantly by this criterion.
Professor77 – :
I was a little bit angry with my wife, when I came back home. But when I opened the door, and saw her I felt instantly reasonable, comprensive and lovely. I found the trick! This perfume give you a real positive mood, something sparkling and propositive.
When the citrus and mimosa are gone, you are able to relax whit honey and musk.. A real trap!
Only I don’t understand the english name, cause for me, it’s very very italic.
I felt like to be in a summer center-italy garden, nearby the buxus maze, out of a villa and ready to leave for a journey on a little town feast.