Hindu Grass Nasomatto for women and men

Fantastic scent! I think sky76sky's review below does a stupendous job of outlining the juice.

There's something about the grass note that SLOWLY evolves out of the scent that bowls me over.

It's a crazy-creative perfume without any florals - which is super-whack!

In the US, Barney's carries the Nasomatto line, FYI/FWIW. I had acquired a decant sample previously, but stumbled into a Barney's where I picked up my bottle.

Just know that this is NOT your hippy parents' patch...

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.

my classification would be dry green for this (if there was such haha)

as other reviewers before me, I can also smell something like vetiver. To me it is a bold combination of vetiver and patchouli with a touch of smokiness, especially on the opening. Later it smoothens a little and becomes sweeter (though not sweet) with a more grassy feel.

A must try for green frag lovers imho

P.S. only downside is sillage/longevity, despite the fact being a perfume extrait it would only linger for a few hours.

Green, somewhat dry, with a clear patchouli presence. I'd guess there's some vetiver in here as well. It's a bit too simple for me, so after a while it starts to irritate. These kinds of fragrances seem to be even worse when you sit in one spot for long periods of time, because then you just keep getting wafts of it. If you move around a lot, it might work out better, though I've got so many fragrances I'd rather wear that I can't ever imagine wanting to wear this. Of course, if you really like these notes, you might want to smell it for hours on end.

I am going to be more than happy to pay out the big bucks necessary to get this indescribably different scent into my hot little mitts. I put a drop on each wrist in the middle of the day, and one at the base of my throat which really I needn't have done, just the two would have been enough. I can still smell it clearly at 9 p.m., without having to stick my nose on my wrist & perfumes don't generally last very long at all on me. This is a massive olfactory experience, so strong, sharp & and so green; the greens are so high-pitched they might almost pass for citrus. The classic patchouli scent is not here for me, maybe they have pounded up the roots or something but it isn't that moth repellent smell that also repels some humans.

When I smelled this in the vial I knew it was not going to be your run-of-the-mill fragrance, in the same vein as Diptyque Philosophykos is what I would call avant-garde, not a "safe" perfume, an unexpected and unfamiliar combination of notes. I am not saying that Hindu Grass smells anything remotely like Philosykos; it certainly doesn't, but I'm trying to convey that your mind immediately thinks "Mmmm...this is brilliant" while you are delighted with finding something out of the ordinary. Yes, I reckon you would have to be quite brave to wear this, and I will be...but just not in confined spaces.

This gets 10/10 from me.

A gentle, grassy blend...that is what the package says on Blue Pearl's Majmua incense. I used to wear this oil in college while all the 'hippy' types around me were dousing themselves in patchouli. This scent is the closest I have found to the heavenly oil I used to wear, unfortunately the perfumed oil is no longer available, but the joss sticks are...

Hindu Grass is the opposite of most patchouli type scents in that it is green & aromatic with a dry floral aura and sweet rich tobacco with a well balanced patchouli note that lingers in the drydown but is not all you smell. It is a perfume extract, so it is even more concentrated than pure parfum, a little dab'll do ya!

Never dirty or heavy, this reminds me of pure incense powder and flowers offered on an altar, set in an outdoor temple with grasses and woods all about. It has an earthy green feel along with an airy incense aroma and sublte woody-spicy nuances. A sublime marriage of Earth and Sky...well worth the hefty price.

Who can put a price on pure beauty or a dollar sign on memories??

Sillage: great
Longevity: 12+ hours
Overall: 4.75/5

Thanks to the kindness of Naheed, I now am the proud owner of a very ornate rollerball of MAJMUA ATTAR from Pakistan! Thank you so much my dear friend! Namaste...

When I first opened the sample vial, I thought I smelled geranium as well as the patchouli and green notes. Of course, geranium leaves are green, so I suppose they qualify as a green top note. For a while the scent keeps growing, with the geranium staying close to the skin and a crisp, green patchouli taking over in the sillage, along with some other aromatic things that I couldn’t identify individually. I’ve never smelled fresh patchouli leaves (gotta get a live plant!), but this is how I imagine they would smell. After an hour or so the individual notes blend into a classic perfume-y scent, sharp, spicy, and woody. It reminds me of the original Fendi perfume. The scent lasts all day until, in the end, it dries down to a woody, earthy patchouli that lingers on the skin and clothing. In Hindu Grass I was expecting something along the lines of head-shop patchouli and “hemp”, but this is more like a high-quality vintage perfume. I’m enjoying it because it has immense strength without being overpowering; it’s aromatic without any floral notes; it’s classic without having an “old-lady” feel. What a surprise. Now I want to try the other perfumes from Nasomatto. Crazy nose indeed!

When I tried this I was pleasantly surprised. It's a really lovely super dry patchouli with dusty earth and grasses as a backdrop. It's extremely sensual without using the usual suspects of a vanilla or sandalwood cloak. It leans more to the masculine side than feminine for patchoulis, but it's by no means an overpowering scent. It remains a light aura of a scent on my skin as opposed to a powerhouse patchouli scent. I sampled a number of scents of its type and decided to get this one. I'm certainly glad I did. The bottle is really nice as well... the raw wooden cap is a really nice touch. The bottle/cap size was much bigger than I'd expected (to my pleasant surprise).

It's a parfum extrait, but either I get olfactory fatigue very quickly (which rarely happens to me) with this, or it has poor longevity. Either way, I really enjoy it! Thumbs up from me.

Another interesting fragrance by Nasomatto. This perfume merges together the freshness of grass and the pungent and smokey tobacco scent. It is sharp, extremely green and fresh at the same time. I think, it smells better on men than on women. Strange fragrance,try it if you dare!