Four Vices is a porch perfume. The story is Saturday night sliding into Sunday morning: herbal hops and earthy hashish mixed with resinous tobacco, coffee, and agarwood. Something about moderation, yada yada yada. The table is a green open, a drink, leaf, and woods. Those are not the same list.
What Story Is Four Vices Telling?
The story is a porch that did not end on time. A drink still on the rail. Leaf in the air. Coffee for the hour that comes after. It is not a nightclub, and it is not a sermon.
Hops, hashish, tobacco, coffee, and agarwood stay in the story because that is the night. They tell you which porch. I wanted a bottle that felt like sitting there, not like walking into a shop that sells the idea of a vice.
What Does Four Vices Actually Smell Like?
The table is green hashish on the open. Tobacco, coffee, hops, spice, and violet in the heart. Oud, musk, patchouli, and agarwood on the floor.
The first breath is green. Then the drink and the leaf show up. Coffee next to hops. Tobacco next to spice. Then the floor comes up. Woods, musk, and the patchouli leaf.
When we describe a fragrance note as tobacco, we mean the leaf in the room, not the smoke. That lesson is in Does Tobacco in Perfume Smell Like Cigarettes?. Patchouli is named here so the table is honest. The smell of that leaf is in What Does Patchouli Smell Like in Perfume?.
This table lists both oud and agarwood. They are not the same thing. Agarwood is the wood. Oud is the aromatic resin in that wood. That difference is already in Oud vs Agarwood.
Green hashish is the door. It is the first air, not a joke and not a plant lecture. If you came looking for smoke-shop loud, you will go hunting for a note we did not write that way.
Why Do People Disagree About Four Vices?
Reviews already split, and that split is useful. Some people hear the night. Warm, earthy, the porch they were promised. Some people hear something powdery, sweeter, and quieter than Four Vices sounded on the page. Both can be true.
A name can sound like a punch. A porch can still sit close. Oil keeps a loud idea on you instead of throwing it down the hall. That is one reason the same bottle reads like Saturday to one person and like a soft green to another.
I am not going to sand it down so the reviews agree. If this night is not yours, that is a real answer. How you pick a room at all is already in How to Pick a Perfume.
How Does Four Vices Change on Skin?
It starts green. Hashish is the greeting. Then coffee, hops, tobacco, spice, and violet take the middle, and that is where a lot of people decide if they are in. The floor is slower. Oud, musk, patchouli, and agarwood.
Skin changes the mix. On one person the drink and the leaf stay. On another the powdery green hangs around and the woods take the day. That is why the reviews do not agree. Give it the middle, not just the first sniff.
The bottle itself is here.