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xxl11 – :
love it, perfect base for layering, a lovely woody smoky scent.
alik68 – :
I’m testing this from a decant sent by trabuquera (whose far more in depth review is immediately below).
Powerful and punchy on first spritz, I initially found this a very challenging and overwhelmingly smoked wood scent.
Hope dries down to a far more manageable level as the orange comes out to play – but it’s still rather too harsh and “butch” for me, unfortunately. I am rather disappointed as the notes really looked as if they’d ding my dong.
It’s been an unseasonably warm early autumn day and evening, so I’ll give Hope another chance when the weather’s cooled down and update my review if Hope changes for the better (for me).
Groplisnim – :
LOVE IT. Blind buy gone right, thanks to fragrantica’s list of notes, which looked like a short compilation of all the things I love most in scents – and let me jump on a discount FB of this. I’d never have gambled on it otherwise, but am so glad I did. Beautifully butch, gorgeously natural, intensely aromatic smell of the inside of a well-treated cypress box. This one really finds that harmonious sweet spot between sharp, conifer freshness and deep warm spicy hardwood. But it’s pretty uncompromising – I think the review below slightly understates how individual and assertive it is. These are some very moody resins indeed, tapped from a spiky, steep, hard-to-hike forest upland. It’s pretty ascetic in its way- there’s no honey or sugar-sweetness and no flowers to soften it up – and the cypriol is so bossy it’s almost bullying at times. However, the orange is dry-spicy-aromatic rather than wet-sour, which works beautifully (I smelled no candy sweetness there, though.) Overall it hangs together brilliantly – just deliciously rich and warm.
Yes, it’s unisex (I’m crazy for it, and am female) – but it does skew quite strongly masculine in my opinion. Performance is rock solid, though projection is discreet. Pretty linear, though growing a bit more mellow over time.
reduna – :
Another of my favorite “safe” scents which can be easily worn in any type of setting by anyone without offending anybody, this modern abstract offering by Agonist in collaboration with the Swedish design house “Hope”, combines wood, citrus and spice elements such as orange, pepper, juniper, cedar, incense, cypress, thyme, cypriol oil or nagarmotha, amber and vetiver to create a fresh woody spice scent that has a spare Nordic feel to it. A bit of a slow starter and with soft to moderate sillage, this is very sophisticated yet very subdued and spare. Much like Owari by Odin, the orange note predominates. I dont think this will be around for long because such scents can be a bit polarizing this is worth trying for adventurous perfume lovers who are looking for uncommon yet safe scents to wear in regular work settings.