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Борёк – :
This smells like pure, dense honey to me. Too sweet for me personally. It’s also too literal for my taste;I prefer more abstraction in a gourmand. But I guess if you adore honey or sweet gourmands scents, this is a great option. Definitely smells like quality raw materials.
ebx135speagoessenda – :
This perfume is definitely unique. Most women in my age group are into airy, white florals or sticky sweet ambers.
I feel like I’ve graduated to more complex and dark fragrances with Slowdive.
It’s deep honey. Not the kind of honey that you’d smell from a bottle of clover honey. But the kind of deep honey that comes straight from the hive. Very fresh and very raw. The honey is tempered with what’s supposed to be tobacco but seems more like hay to me. But I love it either way. I love to smell my clothes the next day as it really sticks around. Not too much sillage, which I love because I hate being suffocated by other people’s perfume. It’s unisex but it has a more feminine slant but not in a girly way. It’s very womanly but that of a woman that has lived a full life and never settled for what she didn’t want.
This is a great perfume if you’re around people that complain about “too much perfume”. It doesn’t burn the nose the way a floral does when you’re too liberal. Literally one spritz of this on the bottom of the sternum and you’re set.
ed48rus – :
Slowdrive is a rich, sweet, neroli spiked tobacco scent with stellar performace. A tiny dab goes a long way. Impressive first run from the house of Hiram Green, thanks to the lovely and generous reviewer directly below this one, who kindly included a sample in a recent swap.
timewritter – :
SUBLIME. Picture a tidy little hobbit house with sun streaming through the open windows. Whiffs of heady flowers are carried by a warm breeze. Fresh honeycomb is dripping into a mason jar just waiting to be slathered on biscuits or drizzled into tea. I have fallen in love…no doubt this will be my next purchase.
JannKill – :
This is astounding! The reviews have it right. Completely original, striking and very, very beautiful. It has all the thickness and depth of honey. I almost expected it to pour out the bottle and stick to my skin. Weirdly, since it is so much about the honey and beeswax, I can’t help thinking of this as a tobacco scent. How to put it? It’s like the texture is honey but the scent is tobacco. Maybe honey made from the pollen of tobacco flowers? Honey is sort of a blank canvas of sweetness and here it’s painted with tobacco.
As a tobacco fiend, I love this. I was testing it in 100 degree heat and high humidity and honestly the honey did get a bit overwhelming at times. One minute I’d be huffing my wrist and swooning and the next that urinous note that honey can have would hit and I’d be like “maybe this is a bit too much.”
This an absolute beast of a fragrance. I swiped just a few times from my sample vial and it was overwhelming for about four hours. By the next morning, all that was left was straight up honey barely detectable with close sniffing.
Generally I don’t bother about the weather appropriateness of fragrances but I think I’m going to leave this one til the weather is a bit less oppressive. This time of year (monsoon season) is hard on fragrances.
nalivaiko79 – :
What a stunningly beautiful, smoothly blended, natural-smelling honey/beeswax!
Deep, rounded and coloured warm gold.
Don’t even try if you don’t like honey or beeswax, because that’s what Slowdive is ALL about. Sweet, naturally. Very much so, though not that intense and sometimes sharp candyfloss present in so many other perfumes…
Longevity: very good! Sillage: good!
davidoff1002 – :
Upon (blind) purchase this was initially a meh for me. Btw, I love that Hiram Greens offers his perfumes in 10ml; It makes his line so accesible. So, where was I.. Right, meh. For the first 3 or 4 wearings I thought it was okay-ish, pleasant sweet honey, but it didn’t wow me. Around the same time of purchasing Slowdive I also got my hands on Goodsirs Or du Serail. And that honey loaded gorgeousness blew me right off my socks.
Some time later – I’m luckily quite persistent, so was still testing Slowdive – it suddenly clicked. Out of nowhere I picked out a buttery note that I have been consistenty picking up on ever since. And it is heavenly. Warmed up, honeyed butter, yummm!
Kvant888 – :
I didn’t know the existence of this brand. I was at a store the other day and was speaking to an assistant, general talks on fragrances, when we touched the “what are the brands that really deserve to talk about and to try their fragrances” subject
When we were on Vero Profumo, I blurted “she puts honey everywhere” . The assistant ginned, without knowing if I was being positive or negative with the word “honey”, so she went over at the shelf and took Slowdive, spritzing some on a paper strip and handing it to me adding “do you like the Tobacco note?”
In that very moment I smelled the strip and I went like “cazzo!” (Derogative Italian exclamation used for many purposes, in this case it meant “how the hell do I like this “?)
A burst of deep rich thick animalic honey and “green” unburnt aromatic tobacco hit my nose and really knocked me off.
I learned that all naturals were used here, this is the philosophy of the brand. One must agree that what is being smelled here is really good quality, top quality, whether you like it or not.
It is hard to tell if Tuberose is in. I detect some “flowery” notes that I can’t break down.
If you are a tobacco fan and you like honey/beeswax, you’ll fall in love with this creation, even if you’re not a gourmand type (I am not, at all).
I tried also the other from the brand: thumbs up, might be reviewing them soon
Good longevity. Moderate/good projection
vet323323 – :
So weird! Not the scent, but I was drinking a cup of kava tea (the Yogi brand stress relief one) when I opened my sample, and this smells just like it! I sniffed them at separate times and together to make sure it wasn’t just the actual tea I was smelling. Nope, this is that scent exactly! If you’re unfamiliar with Yogi kava tea, it’s a very difficult scent to describe. Nothing like green tea, or black tea, etc. It’s very warm, sweet, spicy, and a touch camphorous, maybe even a tiny bit musky? You really have to try it to know, and you should anyway, it’s great for stress (and no I’m not affiliated, just stressed). No, the notes don’t make any sense to me at all. It smells NOTHING like what I expected, which was maybe something in between Slumberhouse Kiste and Amouage Sunshine? It really doesn’t even smell like perfume to me, just sweet herbal tea! But, I’ve always been looking for something that smells like kava tea, it’s a unique, lovely, and intoxicating smell. I wouldn’t purchase a full bottle, it’s too expensive for something I want to smell rather than something I want to smell *like*, but maybe a decant. It’s definitely a really cool perfume and I’ve never smelled another perfume like it. Thumbs up, but with a very surprised face. I don’t know if it’s just because I associate this so strongly with kava but I get NONE of the listed notes, except maybe some tobacco. Very interesting how they accomplished that.
galacheris – :
If 90s babies remember “Smelly Bellys” toys from the early 2000s, there was a limited edition called “Bumble B. Wax” that smells almost identical to Slowdive. After receiving my decant and spritzing it on, I was hit with a wave of nostalgia and subconscious childhood memories rushed straight back to me.
Slowdive is intense and simultaneously sticky and balmy. I get an abundance of beeswax and honeyed tobacco blossom with hints of raisin and date.
bars1995 – :
The Master creator has done it again! Another Beautiful natural perfume for his line.
On me it is very powdery, and I get Beeswax, Honey and honeycomb in equal amounts, and yet it is not really sweet.
I do not really notice the fruits, neroli or tobacco flower (never sniffed that flower in real life), but i do get hints of pollen/nectar fillled fruit tree blossoms.
This stays fairly linear and powdery throughout, longlasting and decent siliage. It is not an everyday scent for me, would have to be in the mood for it and it would be HG if you are a fan of Honey and powdery style perfumes. I look forward to future creations.
yurik1313 – :
Neroli beeswax.
This is like a contrast of their other fragrances, like a color shade (except for “Arbolé Arbolé”). This is a sweet yet sour blend with doses of beeswax, & neroli, while the orange blossoms are dominant but hazy. The dried fruit isn’t really huge in here as much as the neroli, and the orange blossoms.
An interesting take on citrus, as it gives a slight hint of vintage chypre kind of fragrance. very well.
uggbootssales – :
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.
traivilla – :
So much tobacco in the top, I nearly choked. Once that dissipated, however, the remainder was a sweet resinous, warm and very pleasing scent. One of the best drydowns of anything I own. Unfortunately for me, I cannot get past the tobacco. This is a hate/love for me.
Bamble-Bee – :
This is just pure honey on me, with a faint sort of dry, grassy note, which I’m guessing is the tobacco blossom and that funny sort of musty, waxy, sweet note you get from beeswax candles. I like the smell of honey, but after a while, I found the solid honey note a but much. It’s nice, but doesn’t blow me away. Longevity wasn’t brilliant – around four hours. Glad I got to try it though.
dva57 – :
Do you ever have that sensation when you’re hearing a song for the first time, by a very good singer, and they hit some particular note and it strikes you just right, and you get goosebumps?
this is the feeling i got when i sprayed Slowdive on for the first time. complete with real goosebumps and I don’t know if a fragrance has ever done that to me before!
Sniffing it from the sprayer I got this heavy intense sweetness, almost reminiscent of tree sap. Thick and syrupy, but still natural.
Then I spray it on and it opens up like a gas flame catching alight! foomph.
I first noticed the neroli, very apparent to me in the beginning stages, and the thick sap smell gives way to what is a heavy, languid, gorgeous beeswax note, I can’t say I’ve tried any other fragrance that has this particular note playing out in this way, and I love it. I think that’s what gave me the goosebumps.
Now I’m getting tuberose (but it’s not dominant/overpowering) and certainly the dried fruits, like someone poured honey over figs.
I’m sniffing this almost obsessively. I’d ordered a sample and wasn’t expecting to like it so much. I might be in love.
*eta: I bought it! And let me tell you one more thing I like about this brand: They offer 10ml travel sizes at a reasonable price… I SO wish more niche brands would do this!
Membz814InsuffBooni – :
I get large dose of honey with tuberose and myrhh in the background. I love it, it is a great combo and smells so natural. Unique, unlike any other I’ve smelled.
antyhryst – :
As with all the others offerings from this brand, It’s wasn’t love at first sniff. And it’s more than fine to me, it’s expected. I mean, we are not exactly in the ”easy listening” corner of the Fragrantica website here… The first few minutes of Slowdive are thick and heavy and I thought the little backstory about Indian summer wasn’t very appropriate… But then the tobacco blossom and the fruits join the beeswax and everything feel lighter. I swear, I felt a little breeze! I chose to disregard the presence of my nemesis the orange blossom and fortunately for me, I did not detect it (same for the tuberose alas). To me Slowdive is a little bit smoky and not sweet at all. Very unisex and hauntingly beautiful.
It saddens me to have no more Hiram Green perfumes to try and hope for more very soon!
I did try Dilettante but I will not review it. I loathe neroli and orange blossom so much It would not be fair to write anything about it.
ольга222 – :
I’ve been looked for a scent like the raw honey which is warm and a little bitter. Slowdive might match it. It’s rich, but isn’t greasy. It’s fruity, but isn’t too sweet. It’s modern, casual and soft. Beeswax complements spicy Tobacco flower, so you can wear it naturally and elegantly. As Hiram saying, softly exotic Indian Summer is here.
Dimarin – :
At first, there’s a punch of booze which turns into tobacco, mixed with beeswax and something delicately floral yet also a bit herbal – neroli and tobacco blossom. The neroli and orange blossom are not the “fruity” type. There’s something in it that reminds me a bit of honey cough drops or medicine (maybe a touch of camphor from the tuberose?). The beeswax absolute is gloriously strong! I love beeswax in scents. It’s worth noting, this is not a sweet fragrance on me – there’s a touch of sweetness but no where near the sugar levels of a tobacco gourmand like Tobacco Vanille. The tobacco in this is strong as well, and it’s a wet tobacco rather than dried. I may need to test it more but I think this may be my holy grail beeswax scent! Beautiful.
kolyanich – :
This is heady stuff! I don’t think I’ve ever smelled so much honey in a commercial fragrance before. Initial impact is sweet and rich, like sticky honey mixed with dried/candied fruits.
The scent is not cloying to me, but it definitely struck me as unusual at first. However, I’m always keen on “unusual” fragrances; I love the exploration, even if I’m not a huge fan of the scent at the end of the journey.
I’m a fan of this, though! As it dries down, that initial stickiness lifts away and you’re left with something much creamier. Full-bodied but still very sweet. I was worried about the tuberose heart — tuberose is so tricky! — but it’s woven very nicely (and faintly) into this scent. The resin-y base is somehow just right.
Lasts for several hours on the skin, and the sillage is great. If you like sweet scents, honey sweetness in particular, try this one out!
One last thing, for my fellow music nerds out there — “Slowdive” is also the name of a band that I love very much (my screen name is the title of one of their tunes, in fact). The perfumer has been vague about whether or not it’s a reference to the band (which is probably for the best), but I’m going to pretend that it definitely is. I’m about to put on a Slowdive record, douse myself in this scent, and bliss out.
virka33 – :
Honey punches you in the face, but in a good way! VERY sweet but a beautiful perfume. If you like Botrytis you may like this, but there’s even more of a honey smell in this than Botrytis. Great sillage also.
popan200 – :
“….you revel in the dips as your backbone slips,
take honeysuckle sips from my rolling hips,
it shifts…it shifts
It’s a SLOWDIVE when you come alive,
boy it’s a long drive to the SLOWDIVE…”
-Siouxsie & The Banshees “Slowdive”
(from 1982 album “A Kiss in the Dreamhouse”)
Being such a rabid Banshees/Creatures/Sioux fan that I am; I am really curious as to what the perfumer’s inspiration for this scent actually was AND am just wondering (since Siouxsie is ALSO British) is “slowdive” just perhaps a slang term, perhaps afigure of speech or some concept that I don’t quite grok yet…? To me it always seemed like a song about oral sex; especially considering the delightful sound that Siouxsie makes after the bridge, as the music crescendos!! 😉
ANYWAY if this is even half as good as MOONBLOOM was, (it contains one of the most gorgeous natural accords I have ever smelled and this is by far the BEST white floral to grace my skin from a post-2000 release!) it will no doubt be a must-own and completely FB worthy. Hiram is one of those perfumers I already feel comfortable BLIND-BUYING from him. He takes his time with each creation and has six perfumes in the five years since his stunning 2012 debut, which I reviewed while an editor at a worldwide perfume blog before anyone else had, and love the way he coaxes such depth and beauty from his creations. I felt I had found something truly amazing: a perfume that changed my opinion of white floral perfumes in general (even Fracas: it impressed me, was obviously brilliant and intricate in its formulation and though *I* loved it madly, it never loved me back-not the way Moonbloom does.
SO a tobacco themed perfume (check) with rich floral notes of orange blossom and neroli, perfectly balanced no doubt to meet midway between sweet and bitter/musky (check) more white florals in the heart: tuberose and tobacco blossom, enmesh with dried fruits and beeswax (check check check) with all of it swathed in warm balmy resin (CHECK!)…
Slowdive may just end up being my first full bottle purchase of 2018 (that and the Banshees 4-CD Box Set “Downside Up”!!)
smell swell & be well…
GP xox