Halston 1-12 (1976)
by Halston

Absolutely awful. I was enthusiastic about sampling this one, considering I always liked its counterpart, Halston Z-14. So I was shocked when I smelled a sour, heady, green floral that reminded me of some awful Avon perfume my grandmother wore back in the 1970s. I can't imagine anyone wanting to smell like this. Atrocious.

This is a beautiful fragrance, a green sweet without being sharp at any point. It is one of the few shower fresh greens out there (most shower fresh scents are 'blue'). I see a connection to Cacharel's signature PH and ever so slightly Armani's first, also PH. 1-12 to my nose is very rounded, alomst like there is no alcohol in it. The seetness is not cloying at all, and it is kinda addictive. It is worth the purchase especially since it is quite inexpensive. The juice is worth waaaaaay more than the price IMO. A great, anytime-something-totally-different-from-most-anyone-else frag. Buy it if you like old school (70s) and green.

This was a blind purchase, as it was VERY inexpensive. I had purchased the brother fragrance Z-14 about a year ago on a similar blind buy, and was severely disappointed in that one -- Z-14 is a strong, smoky, 70's fragrance -- so I may have been temporarily loony to think that this fragrance, released at the same time, might be palatable. I will agree with Sir Slarty, that this does not seem as much like a dated 70's fragrance. It is lemony citrus and vanilla to my nose (that is, in drydown), such that I liken it to the scent of a lemon poppyseed muffin. I happen to like lemon poppyseed muffins, so I was am not disappointed in this one. This will not be for everyone, and since it was annoying until the drydown, I will give it a Neutral Plus!

This particular cologne is very strongly green, and not in a good "rainy day" moss kind of smell, or even fresh green along the lines of Cool Water and the such. No, 1-12 smells of musty old moss ala Grey Flannel. I happen to be one of the people that thinks Flannel can only be worn by 90 year olds and and could be more aptly named " Essential Oil of Oakmoss". At least 1-12 has a little more to it then Flannel, that said I still find this to be an utterly repulsive frag. I had high expectations for this fragrance considering I adore its counterpart Z-14. The only good thing about this is that now that its discontinued it can be found on the racks of Marshalls for 10 bucks.

Halston a great american designer launches in the seventies two scents that are both unique and very special.Z-12 has a great opening- fresh, crispy, aromatic, developping right from the beginning a great flavour-it´s an intense,bright and loud perfume-not decent,not quiet-this is Halston as it´s best-a special masculine cologne- but a typical man´s scent of the seventies and to my mind not timeless.Pure oppulence, powerful,warm.musk, amber, vanilla-evrything put togetherbetter said thrown together and waiting for the explosion- this is studio 54 ,a heavy, intense and dark EdT-I loved the opening because it´s very interesting but the more you experience this scent the more you want to get rid of because this is not mozart -this is strawinsky , bartok and schoenberg at the same time....I felt thrown back into the 70ties- I didn´t have the feeling to experience a timeless and eternal perfume like eau sauvage, azarro por homme, pour monsieur by chanel or the original vetiver by guerlain-This was not cuir de russie, a really luxurious scent and monument of classical perfumery-Z1-12 is crazy, freaky and from a different time.I personally prefer more decent, quiet scents -the classical icons of the perfume history.Halston is definitely interesting but too much -and Halston was the same: a great designer but living on the edge, very intensively, loud,crazy, risky....- unique and very special! I would love if we would have more of these people today!

This is delightful! I love green scents, yet this one had flown under my radar until now. It has a great dusky-herbal green opening: basil and galbanum are doing their wonderful work. The other notes are smoothly blended into the presentation. The drydown sits close to the skin; and it has comforting, somewhat soapy character. I really like this scent, I’m surprised at how much I do. It is low-key but completely satisfying. Not sweet, but smooth and substantial. It wears very well throughout the day.