Description
Bond No.9 is launching a new fragrance named Sag Harbor. “Bond No. 9’s Sag Harbor is a languid, flower-garden, ivy-coated, marine-scented ode to that quietly beguiling alternative South Fork town.’ – it is announced from the company.
Sag Harbor will be a favorite to all fans of herbal compositions, full of freshness, sea notes and flowers. The composition opens with citrusy drops of bergamot, adding fine, gentle notes of ivy leaves and accords of bay leaf from Sag Harbor. A floral heart blooms with peony petals, magnolia and honeysuckle, adding sweet and fresh fruity notes of Long Island grapes. A base of the composition incorporates precious oud, warm amber and creamy sandalwood.
The fragrance is available in white flacons with blue circles with characteristic logo of the brand, as 50ml and 100ml.
Sag Harbor was launched in 2012.
жопа мира – :
Starting to be a favorite of mine. My senses have been strong and my fragrances have been getting on my nerves. This one is calming to me; like reading a book in a dim-lit room, with big windows and it’s raining outside.
I think that describes my heaven lol
Alexisznl – :
My coworker just told me I smell “eat you alive” good 🙂
plast705 – :
Smells awesome.. perfect for warmer weather or walking on the beach. Smells a little bit like shampoo but not in a bad way. Worth a least getting a decant to check out.
BripseSteerne – :
What I feel when I smell this is being immersed in nippy (not overly-cold) Aloe Vera. It’s just refreshing as hell. Florals, yes. I believe good perfumery is truly unisex. This is perfect. Can’t wait until it warms up!!
VREDINKA9999 – :
This is the second testing of a Bond 9 scent for me. The first one was Chinatown…which is awesome !!
This one is a green floral…yes ivy makes an appearance too…toning down the sweety/fruity a little. I can’t say that it reminds me of “shampoo”…lol…but , could be true. I get a green/fruity/floral with wood-ish tones underneath. I find the scent calming and yet uplifting too. I like it. Probably not a full bottle purchase…I glad I got a sample.
gatiskatja – :
I’m not a big fan of this fragrance house but I LOVE THIS JUICE! I usually wear it with the color blue & it just makes me so happy. It hits hard & lasts all day, this is my favorite next to the Hamptons.
spectors – :
I’ve voted ‘Like’ on this one but frankly it’s just because it’s a pleasant smell not a truly great perfume.
If you can get past the overbearing fruity opening and the incredibly shampoo-like quality which dominates the whole experience, there’s some merit in there.
The opening is a berry concoction which is super feminine and smells EXACTLY like more than one of my girlfriends shampoo’s. Then that powdery minimal clean white peony/magnolia combo which is the heart of this fragrance.
I’d say its a warm synthetic base of amber when dried down but still the dominant fruity/floral powder. The kicker for me is the Ivy. Yes you can detect it and that is the honestly Sag Harbor’s saving grace (although it dies away after a hour or so) and keeps this scent from just being cheap or a total chickfest and actually reminds me of carthusia or another Italian house which use this herbal, green scent against the nagging powder of a modern base.
Unfortunately it will always win over and there’s no way I could were a scent like this. I’m glad after my missus washes her hair that the smell doesn’t last too long, let alone her then applying a fragrance which is much the same.
Some are going to love this and good luck to them, as I mentioned I think it has some merit as a high price fragrance…just not for me.
Update: This is very long lasting stuff, dies right down to the skin but very good longevity.
GUF21 – :
This fragrance turned out to be way more feminine and way more floral than I expected. I even gave it a few wears over several weeks. Still ended up giving my wife what was left of my samples.
Initially it smells like one of my wife’s foofy lotions; the scent is very strong up front. After some time, it does calm down and stays very clean, very “white” and floral to my nose.
Oddly, this is a “beachy” scent to me, but this is more the scent of the person wearing SPF 100 in the shade, and less the person out in the sun wearing coconutty suntan oil.
7/10 for me personally, it’s just not to my taste but it’s a pleasant, uplifting fragrance nonetheless.
elizabethespinozaou – :
This one is a very green floral on me—I wish I got more grape and oud in it, although the ivy is a nice bright note that I wasn’t expecting. Honestly, this smells better on my SO than it did on me—longevity was 3 hours, tops. There are so many other Bonds that I prefer and find more interesting, and I’m sad that the notes I was hunting for in this one never really made an appearance. Definitely try before you buy! The bottle is gorgeous, of course.
KapitanResha – :
1980ies shampoo. Not for me, thanks. I prefer the grapes in my wine 😉 Ivy is a pest in the garden.
I am sure some Ivy-League young student will love this, though it ain’t for me.
KOHAK2 – :
Actually not as bad as most of their fresh ones. But it reminds me of a fructis shampoo, and who wants to smell like a fructis shampoo for the price of 200$ for a bottle. Yes the Peony note outshines everything else, and the grapes are well behave modestly.
3 out of 10
nikitos336 – :
Well blended fragrance that last. Good job Bond!!!!! This is fresh and fruity with a touch of florals not bad.
filxxx – :
This fragrance is too floral and feminine to be worn by men. It reminds me of Cacharel’s Anais Anais and Lauren by Ralph Lauren. Hands down this one is aimed at the ladies.
Алексссс – :
The initial smell is a little too feminine, fruity, and floral. But the drydown is nice. Overall, Sag Harbor is nice if you want something different in your collection for the summer. It’s great for those muggy days.
Oblighblothax – :
I’ve sampled more than a dozen of the Bond no 9 perfumes, and I’ve smelled another 10 or so more in passing. There is a sameness to their mixed floral perfumes that concerns me. They smell the same, yes. That’s the subjective part. But I recognize that I dislike their sweetened-floral fragrances in general, and I must question how this colors my judgement. Dislike aside, to look at a prolific perfume line, patterns develop, and while Bond do make some traditional, innocuous mixed florals of no particular note (Chelsea Flowers, Park Avenue, Madison Soirée) they also have a stock style that they are apparently under a spell to release every third perfume or so. This style is the hazy, musky, boozy, lingering-sweet floral.
Examples: Fire Island, NY Musk, Bleecker St., Nuit de Noho, Lexington Ave, NY Amber,
Some of these perfumes are less ‘floral’ than others, but the floral screech is the seasoning that allows the pancake-syrupness to shine. These perfumes ride on an overwrought, thick, lingering sweetness that requires any other note to shriek at top-volume to be heard. Which brings us to the peony in Sad Harbor. The peony note in perfumery is famously uncouth and abrasive. When paired with a base that requires a shouting match in the first place, peony shows itself not to be a pleasant note.
The name works, though. Sad Harbor evokes the collapsed end of a Hamptoms-climber drinks party. Flotsam and wounded vanity strewn around cocktail tables scented with abandoned, spilt fruity cocktails. Hits of salt air and sick.
I take back everything I’ve said about perfume being a weak tool to evoke a complex narrative.
from scenthurdle.com
vlados412 – :
This is a really nice fragrance. At first, a blast of peony mixes with the grapes. Then comes the honeysuckle, and also a marine note mixing with a damp wood smell. There’s a spicy note in there too. It’s not sharp though, nice for a woman. It makes me wonder how this would develop on a man since there are a lot of florals in here. It’s a very intriguing fragrance, you keep getting the whiffs of the different notes and you want to keep smelling. Not sure that I’ll purchase it…but I’m enjoying the sample.
jkarter – :
A very green scent with a sweet kick. Reminds me of a spring rain.
illizitty – :
A very well done unisex sent leaning towards the Fem side of the fence at first, very fresh good for spring and summer. Dried down quickly on me to A light Floral. As time progressed took on a very nice sort of masculine tone.
I will retest when I have more time and follow up. This is Very well made!
Quick note took A shower and scrubbed it off, and when I got out it still smelled as strong as when I got in! I need more time to wrap my head around this one, very deceiving Fragrance.
10/10 Quality
Vottaided – :
دعوة عاجلة لكل وجميع عاشقات
جادور من ديور – و فيوري دي كابري من كارثوسيا
زهرة الفاوانيا الصينية التي كانت شعارهم الوطني ويسمونها زهرة الغنى والترف
مع زهرة الماجنوليا الرائعة
في حضور مميز ورائع للعنب الأوروبي
العطر نسائي زهري غورماندي
يصلح للنساء أكثر منه للفتيات والآنسات
مش عارف مين صنفه يوني سكس
والله ماينفع أبدا أن أي راجل يمسكه مش كمان يتعطر به
الرجال يمتنعون واللي بيشاور عقله
أقوله عييييييييييب
روح أشربلك برميلين بيريل وصدقني ده علشان مصلحتك
timoooooon – :
“Sag Harbor” is a delicate floral fragrance that seems to be more suitable for women since it’s completely focused on peonies.
I really wish I could feel more the grapes, but it seems that they are only there to give some kind of soft fruity support to the long lasting peony note. They never reach the limit of making “Sag Harbor” a “fruity-floral” fragrance.
The base is soft and woody and the oud note has a similar use as in Bond’s “NY Amber” (but not as strong), providing a somehow soapy contrast to the floral development.
Bond No. 9 has many interesting fragrances and covers a great variety of fragrance families but, differently from what the company tries to allude, “Sag Harbor” has absolutely nothing marine about it; it’s just another floral fragrance. Longevity and sillage are okay, but nothing spectacular as well.
melkovsv – :
this is your daily fresh femme scent…very spring, very lady fresh.
vladikavkaz – :
I have a sample of this.
I’m not impressed at all and certainly not for the price they want. If I were to get this in a swap, I’d try to trade it away.
Very floral. It smells like the air freshener in my Grandmother’s bathroom.
dolgoff.valery – :
For whoever it is, it’s a pretty nice fragrance with a peony flower at its maximum strength and juicy mouth-watering grape candy. Very feminine but lively and fun. It’s still have that really musky oud base like many other Bonds tho. I would really like it if the peony gets toned down just a bit. Not super unique, but it’s something different for Bond No.9 lovers, I guess.
winer0587 – :
I agree, a stretch to call this unisex, and I gladly wear a few ‘feminine’ frags- aggressively flowery (I purposefully don’t use the word ‘floral’); perhaps the oud and grapes come later, but I had to scrub it off before I got to the dry down, so I can’t say for sure. I really admire any nose that is both sensitive enough to pick out ivy and grape and tough enough to withstand the powerful peony onslaught while picking out the ivy and grape.
Ereba – :
Way too flowery! I cant see a manly man pulling this off.
stas1406 – :
Beautiful, Unisex, fresh and uplifting fragrance. I can’t say more than that.
Going to get a bottle ASAP.
cj79 – :
There was an episode in the show “Seinfeld” where they fought over a perfume called “The Beach”. I always wondered what such a perfume would smell like. Well, Sag Harbor – this is it. The Beach. I have spent time on Fire Island, or on Jones Beach, and this atmosphere of salt water, shrubs in dunes, sun shine and lotions, all combined, with some slight booze aroma thrown in, that is The Beach. I like it. Never big on describing individual notes, just feelings. This could be an unisex cologne, lavishly put on when the day is hot. Wear it with ease, a non-pretentious go-to bottle of summer.
DENISVIKA – :
I’m going to agree with Sherapop that this is a HUGE Peony fragrance at opening, but the other note that doesn’t get much recognition yet is noticeable…is honeysuckle. Go for a walk on a summer day, walk past a honeysuckle grove — as kids, we used to pull the stems to release the liquid at the end that was so fragrant, this really brought back memories — and you’ll immediately recognize that element.
I mentioned in a previous review that I felt they did a bang up job on this, and that opinion hasn’t changed much. What I appreciate more that I’ve smelled it in more detail by wearing it is the incorporation of unique elements. Ivy. Grapes. Honeysuckle. Bay leaf? Ok, maybe I could do without bay leaf, but it’s interesting albeit not very noticeable. Oud probably doesn’t lend much to the composition, other than the current popularity of Oud for its own sake; something more indigenous to Long Island might have been a better choice here or at least more authentic.
Nonetheless, this opens as a hugely floral scent, stays largely that way throughout, and dries down quite well. If you’re big fan of peony, this is one to try. If not, you should probably avoid it as Sherapop recommended. Also, my wife noticed a bit of similarity to Chelsea Flowers. Me? Not so much, though the Peony, Magnolia and Sandalwood do lend similar touches. For me, they were very different experiences. But if you really want a lively floral where you can get a strong sense of a warm summer afternoon amidst a flower garden in August, this can evoke the right vibes or bring back lost memories.
gahi – :
I suppose it was inevitable, since Bond no 9 releases something like ten new perfumes each year, many of which I do happen to like. But SAG HARBOR opens somewhat sweetly and then marches directly to a large-sillage peony drydown familiar to me from such fragrances as Ann Taylor POSSIBILITIES, which I coincidentally tried again only last week, having happened upon a purse spray of unknown provenance lying around my humble abode.
Peony, I repeat: peony. Maybe it’s just me, but this is a big peony frag, and the peony really drowns out all of the other alleged notes. This is good news for peony aficionados, but not such good news for me, someone with a long-confirmed peony problem. Fortunately, Bond no 9’s version is not so overwhelming that I feel the need to go soak in the tub. No, but it’s also not something that I’ll be reaching for again.
I may be hyperosmic to peony, so my idiosyncratic experience should not deter others from testing SAG HARBOR, but I do believe that this composition is far more feminine than masculine. Another big, bodacious floral perfume from Bond no 9 occupying the same general olfactory neighborhood as some of their other recent launches, including CENTRAL PARK WEST and I LOVE NY EARTH DAY. Very floral, again, but this time it’s nearly all peony nearly all of the time!
This analogy may be helpful:
Freesia: ASTOR PLACE:: Peony: SAG HARBOR
I definitely recommend this perfume for testing by women who love peony. If peony is your thing, you may have found your Bond no 9 at last!
konchagin – :
Is it unisex or leaning toward masculine?
alexey608 – :
I smelled this a couple weeks ago and they did a bang-up job with the fragrance. Really a great balance of florals mixed with the woods and grape (I suppose a nod to Long Island wine-making?). The ivy was a neat touch! Superbly done.
ClientInsence – :
a must have!!!! got to check this out in Vegas. Great stuff!