What does it smell like?
Main smell: violet and green. It opens with violet leaf, moves to jasmine and lilac and dries down to amber and benzoin.
- Lasts
- 3 to 6 hours
- Best in
- spring
Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire notes
Top notes
What you smell first
Heart notes
The main smell
Base notes
What stays on your skin
Smell profile
Main accords
How strong each part of the smell is
Best seasons and time of day
About Shiseido Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire EDP
Shiseido is the house behind Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire EDP. It comes as Eau de Parfum.
Is Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire your kind of scent?
The strongest accord is violet (100%), followed by green and powdery. You will probably like it if you enjoy violet and green smells and notes like jasmine and amber. Less obvious notes include muguet and honey.
Best season for Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire
It is at its best in spring and summer. It is less suited to winter. From best to least suited, the seasons are spring, summer, fall and winter.
Day or night?
This is more of a daytime scent that suits the office and everyday wear. Its green side keeps it clean and easy.
How long it lasts
Expect about 3 to 6 hours on skin, which is about average for a perfume. As an Eau de Parfum, it has more perfume oil than an Eau de Toilette, which helps it last. Nino Cerruti 1881 and Parfums Gres Cabotine Variety last longer, if that matters to you. Base notes like amber and benzoin are the part that stays longest on the skin.
Other Shiseido perfumes
This house has 29 perfumes on iPerfume. The most popular ones are Zen, Zen Gold Elixir and Rising Sun.
Perfumes that smell like Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire
These perfumes have a close smell: Nino Cerruti 1881 (7 shared notes), Parfums Gres Cabotine Variety (6 shared notes), Houbigant Quelques Fleurs (8 shared notes) and Imaginary Authors Fox In The Flowerbed (8 shared notes).
More questions
Can men wear Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire?
It is made for women, but anyone who likes the smell can wear it.
How strong is Hanatsubaki Kai Sumire?
Medium: people near you can smell it.