Hindu Grass 2007 Extrait de Parfum

Hindu Grass (Extrait de Parfum) by Nasomatto
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7.2 / 10 193 Ratings
Hindu Grass (Extrait de Parfum) is a perfume by Nasomatto for women and men and was released in 2007. The scent is green-earthy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Green
Earthy
Spicy
Woody
Resinous

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7.2193 Ratings
Longevity
7.7152 Ratings
Sillage
6.9143 Ratings
Bottle
8.4152 Ratings
Value for money
6.812 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 16.11.2023.

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Meggi

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Top Review 35  
Tap-out
A married couple consisting of a prospective auditor and a woman from a middle-class family usually doesn't develop any sudden cravings to quickly convert to hippies at the end of their twenties just because that's what it's all about - and I wasn't an issue anyway. In this respect all this movement, like that of the 68ers, has left my family background more or less untouched.

And Hindu Grass doesn't really get me any closer emotionally. This is supposed to be an olfactory reminiscence of the hippie era? I don't believe that. I smell a rich layer of woody patchouli, the dusty Duro wood is not far. A chocolaty hint gets stuck in the base, a sour-leathery, probably tobacco-supported twist gets a little better, especially with more courageous use of the brew. That's still pretty dull, muffled, one-dimensional. Not free, to put it maliciously.

Grass, or hay - the more gentle the application, the earlier it arrives and smells relaxed, about as exciting as the sun-dried heaps in the garden behind the terraced house in Borstel-Hohenraden after mowing the lawn. But primarily wood-dominated patchouli rules. Strong sprinkles of our spicy-bitter-sour (pronounced: unsmoked) tobaccos are also heard in the progress.

That's it, that's it. The fragrance glides through the day unexcited and definitely on this side of the border to the unadjusted. In the afternoon, an idea becomes rounder, a hint of sweetness from the hay/tobacco-coumarin line can be guessed at on request; but can just as well be a nose web. After barely eight hours Hindu Grass says goodbye nasomatto-untypically early.

This is all quite neat, but in view of the claim I would have expected, for example, something more conscious or flower-powerful. Again: This is supposed to be a reminiscence of the hippie era? In its cautiousness rather a look into the today of yesterday perhaps. There is of course little to be said against a row house in Borstel-Hohenraden as the resting point of a once supposedly non-conformist. After all, old ideals sometimes undergo far stranger changes: I remember how, years ago, two thousand and one boss Lutz Kroth mocked the fact in his catalogue column that people with whom one had demonstrated in front of the Foreign Ministry at the time were sitting in it today. Of course, he spoke of the Green Gentleman who later even made the lobbyist for various "multinationals".

Another example: An occasional guest at general meetings was a certain Klaus Zapf (or one of his Adlaten), a late relocation entrepreneur from Berlin. An old linker - which had not prevented him from one day entering the business of lawsuits against corporations. Such lawsuits can be life-threatening if they deliberately delay remediations. For this reason, such approaches are often quickly settled by comparison. A rogue who then calls the amounts paid differently than "expense allowance" or "attorney's fees". The same applies to the...we say: "non-appearance bonuses", vaguely disguised as fees, which sometimes flow in advance.

Well, somewhere along the way, the old ideals must have shattered. Tapped-out. Disillusionment. I find a terraced house in Borstel-Hohenraden more sympathetic. Or Hindu Grass because of me. Peace.

I thank MisterE for the rehearsal.
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Mydarkflower

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Very helpful Review 19  
"Grandma, why are you throwing earth at Grandpa?"
"So that he can get used to the smell."

This joke, which caused a lot of laughter in my family a few years ago and which is now part of the internal news of the family analogs, is the first (and frankly the only) joke I can think of about Hindu Grass.

I know that the term "opa-/Omaduft" is frowned upon here, but that's exactly what it is for me - and I don't mean that in a positive sense.

It may be due to my age (born 1980) or my origin (GDR), but when I was a child/teenager, grandpa smelled like this.
It must have been a shaving lotion I didn't know, available everywhere, because perfume wasn't worn at that time and practically every older gentleman smelled so bitter, herbaceous, somehow animalistic and slightly soiled.

I can literally see "Present 20" suits and sliding caps in front of me, hear my grandpa and his garden neighbours argue loudly in the deepest Saxon and can smell how they sweat under this aftershave in midsummer.

Together with the here extraordinary gothic patchouli (and actually I love patchouli) the above mentioned joke with Hindu grass gets an additional olfactory dimension.

For God's sake I don't want to offend anyone here, but are there really people who want to smell like a half buried old man in a plastic suit from the deepest Saxony?
For me absolutely unimaginable and Hindu grass unwearable
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Supersegi

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Gualtieri Flat Rate
I could just wire Alessandro Gualtieri a couple hundred bucks in blank every month and he'd send me whatever new thing he created. That's how much I trust him by now.

Hindu Grass is clearly not a whacky perfume outrage like Fantomas or a one-off like Blamage, certainly not a classic of a generation like Black Afgano, which is certainly the building blocks of his success, but still a simple way to conjure a "thank you" from my lips.

He seems to have read my lips "do something with green, so light patchouli and rose, but rather the soapy, to round off".

My prayers have been answered. Who likes Diptyque Tempo, but finds too shallow, has here finally his fulfillment
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jtd

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extrait
Hindu Grass is designed perfectly for the extrait concentration. It's based on a camphorous, thick patchouli.  The patchouli is manipulated to have a very strong presence close to the skin but not leave much of a wake.  There's not a doubt in the world that this is a patchouli perfume, but it is very well edited.  Potent, but not overbearing.  Unmistakeable, but not without subtlety.  This is exactly where the extrait concentration is killer.  It’s a personal message and you must be close enough to look the wearer in the eye to understand her true intent. It's camphorous without smelling like mothballs. It's cool and soil-like without seeming dirty.  

A brilliant modulation of the classic hippie patch.  It reads like the hippie chick returning to the fold and going straight.  She's seen Paris, and the country club set knows it.

from scent hurdle.com
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7.5
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5
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7.5
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Sky

24 Reviews
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Dichotomous delight
If you want an "intellectual" scent, love patchouli & want a change of direction from the normal oriental & chypre blends in which it usually appears then it is worth tracking down Hindu Grass.

HG is both sun-warmed & slate-cold, sharp & cosy, luminous yet grounded. Intruiging, verdant, arid, elegant & totally unisex.

HG opens with an almost nutty dryness & a distinct lack of sugar - all parched terracotta tiles & dusty hay fields. It's a quirky opener that hooks you in from the start.

This lasts but a minute or two when a high, thin sweet note appears along with a naturalistic almost zesty greeness. Imagine crushing bitter-sweet leaves & in your hands - the dry & oily kind with a touch of lime peel....no sign of lush, wet greens here.

As it warms to the skin the bitter, fragrant leaves unfurl & the perfume develops into a two-tiered affair. It conjurs up an intimate olfactory trip around a plant's anatomy.

Rooted in at the base is an earthy & grounded patchouli with a touch of sweet, cosy tobacco - ochre in colour with the silky dryness of powdered terracotta clay.

Floating high above is the canopy of the scent - shimmering like a dry heat-haze. A luminous, thin floral mirage hovers above a lively, bitter-green. HG is deceptively bold in character & volume despite the natural feel & weightlessness. For such a delicate "plant" it has a lot of voice when it blooms.

The perfumey-character that develops threatens to take-over at times, but never reaches the anticipated headache-inducing, hi-jack phase. It is like meeting a very large tiger only to find its growl is more like a kitten's purr. Delightfully, relievingly unexpected.

HG is not a try-hard scent but it is an oddity which is just suprising enough to give your olfactorary system a work-out. It sharpens your senses without becoming insulting & troublesome - HG is a good-natured, naturalistic scent - and ultimately remains very wearable.

The lasting power is pretty good & the projection is suprisingly bold. A wonderful dichotomous scent. Maybe not best in show, but certainly worth a silver-gilt.
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