Hascish Homme

4 reseñas

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• jerry drake

  December 20, 2018

  

  There are houses that continue to propose unknown things, and personally, I appreciate that they still exist. I was gifted this fragrance in the 80s, and analysing it now, after 30 years, is exciting. The base is the same: deep, green, spicy, and long-lasting, very different from what others had. The current version is less potent but very perceptible at first and extremely persistent on clothes. The aroma is practically identical, with acceptable longevity and a soft sillage that transforms when over-applied. You can feel the quality of the ingredients: it’s complex, severe yet oriental, but unmistakably Italian in its fresh and spicy approach. It’s a vanguard, balsamic, and powdery perfume where incense fused with jasmine, musk, and patchouli predominates. There’s no trace of hashish in the composition; it’s a strange and eccentric aroma with an evident vegetal quality that lasts a lifetime, with a floral and smoky touch. At Veejaga, rarity goes hand in hand with goodness. If you’re a lover of 80s proposals, you should try it.

• Bofifa

  December 22, 2018

  

  Thanks to Jerry Drake for letting me discover this Hascish. Italian perfumery goes beyond its classics. This perfume, launched in 1984, is remarkably original. It seems like a fresh fern with spicy and fruity traits that bring it closer to an oriental. It’s a beautiful Italian perfume with a luminous, herbal, dry, woody, clean, and soapy base, where geranium and rose play a key role. It has great style. The name makes sense: it’s an abstract recreation of the narcotic aroma of the drug, but transformed into a men’s fragrance to smell good. Perhaps its resinous and green base has something to do with it. It smells splendid and its performance is more than acceptable. A resounding applause for this creation.

• Josesan

  November 29, 2019

  

  Finding information about VEEJAGA MILANO is impossible: an Italian brand from the mid-80s, right when chypres and fougères were at their peak. HASCISH HOMME is a magical carpet ride into the past. The sample by Jerry Drake smells vintage, with animalic, green, and sensually rough notes. It’s bottle green, dark, loden, hunting… Is it barber-shop perfumery? No, it’s too wild, untamed, and abrupt. The initial floral notes don’t seem floral; they’re Jupiterian punches of carnation and geranium. Then comes the boiling base: leathers, mosses, opoponax, smoky notes, and animalics. It doesn’t smell like hashish or marijuana, which are softer. Its power recalls JACOMO’s SILENCES, but cruder. Imagine a witch in a cauldron with sticks, greenish bubbles, and animal tails. It’s dizzying, but in a good way, if you’re not scared of blood extraction. Essential for Sierra Morena bandits searching for manuscripts in labyrinths.

• monsieurleather

  January 11, 2021

  

  Hashish is said to be the origin of the word ‘assassin’ in Arabic, stemming from an esoteric sect that lived in the Eagle’s Nest and used the drug to turn their followers into mortal fanatics. Veejaga, with plenty of guts, released a perfume called Hascish during a time when heroin zombies were all the rage. It wasn’t a massive hit, but it left a groundbreaking scent. Does it smell like hashish? Yes and no. To me, it offers a fruity, sweet incense that evolves into a spicy, strong blend with a hint of pepper, perhaps from castoreum and musks. That dense, nose-tinging smoke scent reminds me of consumption dens. It’s an incense, fruity and spicy fragrance, far removed from the commercial. It’s not for me, but if you love incenses, it’s an astonishing experience. Plus, it has longevity and sillage to spare.