Hasu-no-Hana 1888 Eau de Parfum

Hasu-no-Hana (Eau de Parfum) by Grossmith
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8.6 / 10 227 Ratings
A popular perfume by Grossmith for women, released in 1888. The scent is chypreartig-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Chypre
Floral
Spicy
Woody
Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Bitter orangeBitter orange BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
IrisIris Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang JasmineJasmine RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
PatchouliPatchouli OakmossOakmoss Tonka beanTonka bean CedarwoodCedarwood VetiverVetiver SandalwoodSandalwood
Ratings
Scent
8.6227 Ratings
Longevity
8.6186 Ratings
Sillage
7.7190 Ratings
Bottle
8.2174 Ratings
Value for money
6.627 Ratings
Submitted by Feylamia, last update on 23.04.2024.

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Can777

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Can777
Top Review 72  
The Pearl Diver-The Tragedy of Hasu-no-Hana
Hear the story of the Hasu-no-Hana. The story of infinite love, longing and pain!

She was born on the shore of Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. Wrapped in a lotus leaf, she was handed to her mother in her arms. Quick and sudden was her birth. Her mother, too far away from the protective home, gave birth in the water of the lake. Hence her name, Lotus Blossom. She was beautiful, very beautiful even! She was engaged to Toshyo. He too was a pearl diver like herself. Deepest intimate love connected them to each other until the day he never came back with his boat. All she had left was the largest and most valuable freshwater pearl Toshyo ever found at the bottom of the lake. Your engagement present!
Exactly to the day one year had passed...............................................................................................................
Haus-no-Hana pushed the door open and stepped outside. She looked down the path that led to the lake. Bitter and stabbing was the pain in her heart like the peel of orange in her mouth and on her tongue. Bitter and bitter as her soul now. The damp morning mist lay low on the garden in front of her house and the surroundings. On the noble roses in front of their house lay the dew and it seemed as if they were weeping. The white jasmine and the ylang-ylang were barely visible under the dense fog. But you could smell them, every single nuance. She took in the wonderful scent with a deep breath. A moment of endlessness...then she walked down the path to the lake.

She walked through the delicate mist that was as white as the iris powder on her blossom-white skin. The air in the forest was humid and earthy. With bare feet she walked over the cedar needle which lined the way like carpets, but she felt no pain. She hasn't felt a thing for a long time! The oak moss on the trees impregnated the air. The scent intensified the closer she came to the lake. Not long, then she was there!

She stood on the shore where she was once born. There she was loved and kissed. It was beautiful where it all began. There they promised each other eternal love. The wind carried the gently spicy warmth of the patchouli and vetiver grasses across the lake to her. So indescribably soft and spicy,...beautiful! Slowly she opened her fist in which the pearl lay. Like a tonka bean she lay on the palm of her hand and shimmered in the softest and most pastel colours of the sky. Then she opened her mouth and swallowed the pearl courageously. Now he was back with her and close to her heart, but still not close enough! She slowly opened her artfully tucked hair and slid step by step into the water.

The deeper she went into the water, the more the white silk kimono faned out around her. The delicate, mother-of-pearl-coloured fabric swam around them like the petals of a lotus flower in full splendour. For minutes she stood there still in the water at the edge of Lake Biwa. She waited until the sun rose and the first orange-golden rays kissed the surface of the water. One last time she whispered his name quietly... Toshyo! Then she dived softly-gliding into the darkness of the lake....

Hasu-no-Hana was never found,but it remained the memory of her.
The memory of the most beautiful pearl diver in Japan.
We always carry love close to our hearts!

Today I only recommend a song to accompany the story and the perfume with music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBzUfjkdPq4

Hasu-no-Hana is truly beautiful, to die for!

Can
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Marieposa

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Marieposa
Top Review 43  
Tess Durbeyfield
Of course he wouldn't dance with her.
She stood a little away from the hustle and bustle, her eyes fixed on the light of the low sun, although she could only make out his fading silhouette. Shimmering like gold dust, tiny insects tumbled in the light. He must have flushed them out on his way through the tall grass of the meadow, while cheerful music was still playing on the dance floor and the girls in their white dresses were giggling as they spun in circles.
Her dress was also bright white and the delicate flowers in the bouquet in her hand had been picked with just as much care as the others. She was also the only one who had braided a ribbon into her brown hair that was as red as her lips - and yet she would always be the girl whose bawling father on the carriage had disturbed the dance, even if she had defended him from the others as a matter of course.
Of course he hadn't danced with her.
She would not notice that the hem of her dress had turned a damp greenish color from the moss and the wet earth at the edge of the meadow until the next morning. And she didn't see him turn around again in the backlight.

Was there a very slight expression of reproach in her serious gaze? In the sunlight, her face, framed by warm brown hair, shimmered almost like mother-of-pearl, while the other white figures were already whirling obliviously across the green square and no longer seemed to be thinking about the strange dancer. With this one exception.
It gave him a little pang to see her standing there, apart from the others in her thin white dress, full of gentleness and modesty and yet ... hurt? He wished he hadn't overlooked her in the hustle and bustle, that he hadn't blushed embarrassedly and asked her to dance, spoken to her, asked her name. He could no longer shake off the nagging feeling that he had behaved stupidly, but there was nothing he could do about it now. He turned to the gravel country road and walked on quickly.

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"A mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience." This is how Thomas Hardy describes his young protagonist at the beginning of his novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", which was published in 1891 and is only three years younger than Hasu-No-Hana. I don't want to judge whether the scent is "free of any experience", but for me it is definitely a "vessel that contains nothing but feelings".
Around a base of bitter orange and iris over a base of amber, patchouli and oakmoss, which a few decades after its release would probably have been described as chypre with an oriental twist, the fragrance shimmers pearlescent in all the bright facets that colors can take on before they cease to be colors and turn white. Iris is hardly powdery here, but as velvety as the flowers of Iris Florentina, which shimmer in the same white-pearl-light blue as the fragrance. There are other floral notes that I can't name, a touchingly old-fashioned garden carnation (not listed - it was clear that my nose would do what it wants again) and citric notes that lay on the delicate petals like the finest gold dust. As the fragrance progresses, it retains its filigree delicacy and brightness, but becomes spicier due to the (imaginary) garden carnation, takes on a subliminal fruity note (perhaps from ylang-ylang?) and is finally framed by light woods, rather greenish patchouli and gently smoky vetiver and gently cushioned by oodles of oakmoss.

How groundbreaking this fragrance, which seems so nostalgic today, must have been in its day! Or was it even ahead of its time? Like Thomas Hardy's novel?

I don't really want to dwell on the thought, I don't want to philosophize about what Hasu-No-Hana could be or have been for others, I just want to enjoy the heartbreaking beauty of this fragrance. Next to the majestic power and perfection of her sisters Phũl-Nãnã and Shem-el-Nessim from Grossmith's Classic Collection, Hasu-No-Hana may seem almost a little unassuming. It is not a fragrance that feels the need to push itself to the fore, and yet it strikes a chord in me that the other, reverently but distantly admired beauties were unable to touch.
Hasu-No-Hana's bright lightness seems as innocent to me as the young Tess Durbeyfield, who does not yet suspect the sad fate with which the future will punish her beauty and her tender, loyal nature. And yet a melancholy full of longing resonates from the very beginning. Almost like the scene at the very beginning of the novel, which I read again and again, in which Tess Durbeyfields and Angel Clare come within a hair's breadth of not meeting and in which this bitter-sweet what-if resonates.

Many thanks for the sample, dear Floyd. You've started something again ;-)
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Drseid

819 Reviews
Drseid
Drseid
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One Of The Most Beautiful Scents I Have Encountered To Date...
Hasu-no-Hana is so well blended, individual notes are difficult to identify... It opens with an intoxicating mix of natural bergamot and slightly bitter orange before moving to its heart of what I believe to be a jasmine, ylang-ylang and rose combo, with slight patchouli and tonka bean support to sweeten things a tad further and iris adding a very minimal powdery quality. I know I am not doing the scent justice in that descriptor as it is truly a captivating combination of a number of well-blended notes, but the overall heart accord is not easy to describe, except in one word, "beautiful". The base is made up of the remnants of the heart notes with the tonka bean support growing in strength, coupling with a non-smokey vetiver and just the faintest trace of sandalwood. While I personally find this absolutely intoxicating on a lady, it is very unisex, IMO. Projection and longevity are both superb.

While Hasu-no-Hana is not the kind of scent I usually look for, I am definitely happy to have found it. It is one of those compositions that you just have to experience yourself to understand just how enticing it is. This, to me, is a "special occasion" kind of scent. It speaks class, beauty and sophistication to the extreme whenever I smell it. Hasu-no-Hana is expensive, and IMO deservingly so. 4.5 out of 5 stars, and highly recommended to all.
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DorothyGrace

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DorothyGrace
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Elegant and High Class
Of the four Grossmith perfumes I have tried (decant samples) only one performed well on my skin. That one was Phul Nana. Shem el Nesim smelt like a very expensive talcumn powder, Amelia was lovely but had hardly any strength; and then there was Hasu no Hana.

Hasu no Hana started out with a slightly bitter bergamot and orange which died down in a few minutes allowing a lovely sherberty jasmine to come through. Nicely powdery but not too dusty, with some nice woody notes and a little sweet like vanilla but not quite. Elegant and high class. Wonderful.

Half an hour in and it started to remind me of something, a scent memory drifting in and out of my mind over the next couple of hours until a little lightbulb lit up and a word popped ino my head. Tabu.

'Really', I thought, 'Tabu? Grossmith compared to modern Tabu?'

So I did a side by side comparison and of course they smell nothing alike; but the dry down, aye there's the rub.

On my skin they are remarkably similar. Tabu much more bitter and far more spicey, brighter, more orangey. Tabu definitely could not be mixed up with the Grossmith and yet there is something.

The concensus of opinion (family) was that the Tabu was far nicer on my skin. The Hasu faded quicker that the Tabu, being almost gone by the five hour mark.

I can enjoy modern Tabu for what it is (a beastly watered down version of the original) and do. That on my skin it performs better than the Grossmith is an utter shock and, truth will out, not something I like to admit as I do rather like expensive perfume and particularly like the idea of Grossmith recreations of the past.

Which just goes to show something but I am not sure what it is.
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Shushkin

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Shushkin
Shushkin
Helpful Review 5  
Bewitching
Gosh! What a beautiful timeless beauty. I have only recently warmed to chypres and this is a stunner if there ever was one. The oakmoss, iris and tonka bean are very evident on the opening. The citrus notes add their usual freshness along with a bit of kick from the vetiver.
It is first and foremost a warm aromatic, earthy fragrance on my skin. I think it is very unisex and I would love to smell it on my fella.
I can see what folk mean about the tranquility and peace this fragrance evokes. Moderate sillage and longevity.
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MichaelPDXMichaelPDX 3 months ago
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Such A Delicate fragrance for a Chypre. The oak moss is in there, but it's not sharp, so the blend is just heavenly! TIMELESS
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Ka3nKa3n 2 years ago
Been a while since I was wowed by complexity of fragrance on 1st sniff. This one has layers on layers of it, real masterpiece floral chypre
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