Wild Hunt by CB I Hate Perfume bottle
CB I Hate Perfume

Wild Hunt

4.1/5 · 138 votes Unisex 2007
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Fragrance notes

Notes
Boletus edulis

Character

Longevity2.5/5
Sillage2.7/5
Day94
Night38
Fall100
Spring53
Summer47
Winter47
Our take

The opening of Wild Hunt is a plunge into damp soil, a spore cloud of Boletus edulis mushroom rising alongside pine needles and crushed grass. It smells like you pressed your nose into the forest floor after a spring rain, the green bite of fir cutting through the earthy mire. Christopher Brosius captures a moment of decomposition and renewal, the oakmoss and woody notes eventually pulling the composition into a softer, mossier hum that clings to the skin like wet bark. The overall character is a single vivid image: a decaying log in a shaded gully, tiny mushrooms threading through lichen, the air still and cool.

This is not sweet, not synthetic, not concerned with being likable. It feels unabashedly natural, almost feral, and entirely niche in its refusal to flatter. The numbers tell a honest story: longevity is a wisp at 2.45, sillage barely above a whisper at 2.67. You will need to reapply if you want anyone else to experience it. Who should wear it? The person who wants to smell like a specific place, not a perfume. Skip it if you crave compliments or projection, because this fragrance is for you alone, a private communion with the earth.

Wear it in the cooler halves of spring and fall, on a solitary daytime walk through a forest or a misty park. It is not for parties, dates, or performance. It is for the moment you want to disappear into the wild and let the world forget you. And that, honestly, is a rare and quiet magic.

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