Dirty Hinoki Heretic 2021

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7.7 / 10 26 Ratings

A popular perfume by Heretic for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Citrus

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Pine

Thyme

Cedar

Nutmeg

Heart Notes

Hinoki wood Cypress

Cypress

Base Notes

Balsam

Fir absolute

Frankincense

Elemi resin

Absinthe wormwood

Ambrettolide

Perfumer

Douglas Little

Ratings

Scent

7.726 Ratings

Longevity

6.420 Ratings

Sillage

6.119 Ratings

Bottle

7.225 Ratings

Value for money

6.414 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 06/22/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/12/2025

8
Scent

celeblas
119 Reviews

celeblas

2

Cakes

I first thought that they must have filled my bottle with the wrong fragrance. Because at first I thought this has none of the listed notes, none of them. No cedar or hinoki or cypress, etc. This is a rich gourmand, a sweet cake, a baked good. This smells like rich, sweet desserts. There's nothing dirty, or foresty, about this. Nothing woody even. It's just a delicious cake.

As it dried down and with a later re-spray, I found it was actually a beautiful incense-rich hinoki composition. So my nose caught up with it, and now I can detect all the notes each time I use
it, though it always opens with that gourmand accord of delicious baked goods to me. I really love this, it competes very well with CdG Hinoki and CdG's incense series as well, but with cakes.

Who would say no to cakes?

12/11/2023

Pinene
3 Reviews

Pinene

3

respectable

enjoyed this frag but wish that it lasted longer. moderate sillage. but after drydown, polite enough to wear to work at the library. i really enjoy hinoki and curious how this will compare to other hinoki perfumes out there. juicyness is enjoyable and appreciate the relative transparency of ingredients used with this brand.

everything i've tried from heretic is a low to moderate projection and would not be likely to offend . i get headaches from a lot of air fresheners and other strong publicly unavoidable smells like industrial disinfectants and "deodorizers" and so i appreciate the less toxic options out here

02/23/2025

6
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

Sarinotsorry
26 Reviews

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Sarinotsorry

4

Teleported me to a fairytale forest

When I describe scents, I usually always associate them with something I've smelled in real life, or with a memory.

I don't think I'm a very imaginative person. Even when I read books, I prefer to read non-fiction. But when I smell Dirty Hinoki, somehow I can't think of any nature scenes to compare it to.
Unless I break the fragrance down into individual notes. But even then, it's very difficult.

Firstly, there is nothing "dirty" here. It's sweet, woody, resinous and yet slightly green. Like thick pine sap drizzled over a warm lemon cake and sprinkled with freshly picked pine leaves.

When I smell it, I imagine a pine forest in a fairy tale, with a little wooden hut in the middle. It's a winter evening, it's very cold, dark and I'm alone. The snow is smooth, thick and clean. I walk towards this wooden hut and as I get closer, I see that the fireplace is burning. And the hut is empty. I have a look, the door is unlocked! I enter the hut and immediately smell something sweet baking in the oven. It's a lemon cake! How cozy this little hut is!

It reminds me a lot of a scented candle. Especially Evergreen Mist from Yankee Candle, hahaha. One of my favorite scented candles. So if you've smelled this candle, then you know what this perfume smells like.

Otherwise, introduce Hwyl or Monocle Scent One: Hinoki, but without the smokiness, and add some sweetness.
The H/S could be better. I can smell it for about 4 hours, with moderate sillage. But it seems to be a trend with these types of pine/Hinoki-inspired fragrances that they tend not to last long.

I would wear it especially in the colder months. It really brings out the resin of the pine.

If you like Hwyl or Monocle Scent One: Hinoki, I'm pretty sure you'll at least find Dirty Hinoki interesting!