1828 (2001)
by Histoire de Parfums

1828 opens green and minty, a little astringent even. Lurking behind the eucalyptus and mint are the citrus notes. It's funny how the entire top ensemble produces a ginger-like accord, so why didn't they just use 'ginger'? Perhaps they could but wouldn't, not when this scent draws inspiration from an explorer as renowned as Jules Verne. Fruits, spices, resins, woods, animalics are all represented here in a symbolic nod to the myriad landscapes discovered. As much as I love the vibrantly fresh greenery, I find myself in agreement with odysseusm - the pine and cedar notes are so lacking in weight they leave 1828 looking lean when it could have been fuller bodied. Still it is a classy and unique take on the fresh genre.

Reading the (top) notes of 1828 I expected a fresh summer scent. On the test strip it works by and large.
The fruity top notes are there, but as well as a heavy, annoying, almost ambery note. I noticed this tang in
Un Parfum des Sens et Bois for the first time. I'm not sure what it is, because both
fragrances hardly have any ingredient in common. But it's off-putting for me. All the more when I applied 1828 to the
skin: The freshness is blown away. Normally, vetiver-cedar-incense are ingredients I greatly appreciate, but here
they doesn't work well together. It might be the combination with clove, which give them a heavy sweetness.
I recommend to apply 1828 not on a really hot summer day like I did.
(3/10)

I would have expected the listed eucalyptus top note to jump out at me, but its familiar camphoraceous blast is nowhere to be sensed. In fact, this scent is oddly elusive when it’s first applied. Only after an hour or more of wear does 1828’s shy, irresolute citrus/floral nebula coalesce into a tangible accord of spiced wood and rose. Even then, 1828 is a staid and taciturn fragrance, all discretion and propriety. It strikes me as the most “historical” in mood of the Histoires de Parfums scents I’ve tried; so resolutely Edwardian that I can practically hear an Elgar march if I hold the sample vial to my ear.

In keeping with its overall reserve, 1828 offers little by way of sillage or projection. Instead, it’s the kind of scent you have to seek out on the skin. I might consider the search worth making were 1828 possessed of more obvious flair, but I think it lacks the character to make up for its reticence. Insufficiently distinctive or assertive for its high price, 1828 leaves me disappointed.

It's interesting... I developed all my impressions of this fragrance before looking at the note list, so what I read definitely conflicts with what I smell. I'd describe this fragrance as a rounded, creamy vetiver, cedar and pine. All this about eucalyptus, cloves and citrus is vaguely baffling, but maybe I don't have the most educated nose...

This fragrance goes on very fresh, green and slightly bitter, but quickly changes into a mellow, woody vetiver surrounded by the green, coniferous notes of cedar and pine. In the base the cedar begins to dominate, but not uncomfortably so - this is Atlas cedar, not the pencil-wood Virginia cedar note. It occupies an olfactory space somewhere between CdG Vettiveru and Diptyque's Tam Dao.

The sillage is good and the longevity is about average.

I quite like this, despite it being from a genre I don't usually get along with.

accords are so darn familiar. it made me snap my fingers endlessly to a jazz number. the closest reference however, is french lover by Malle (or niche version of Quorom silver). lovely, dense accord of green notes (not as juicy as French lover). vetiver & cedre with the right mix of resinous incense adds to the overall beauty from mids to base. An interesting green scent which is quite easy and mesmerising to wear. i'd give it a neutral coz it doesnt seem original..there are similar (better) scents out there...however, if i had the extra money, i wouldnt hesitate to buy this one

I failed to enjoy both "Casanova" and this perfume from the HdP brand. They seemed nice enough in the top but the base of both was uncomfortably cloying and in fact headache-inducing even on light application. Thus they conveyed a sense of history indeed - as stuffy, stultifying bunk. Perhaps Henry Ford was the nose. I enjoyed the topnotes of 1828, though I find there are more interesting greens, but it's all academic anyway. I gave Casanova to my father-in-law who wears it well and sold off my Jules Verne. He had no future in my wardrobe.