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I mean the name would heavily imply that this is a cannabis perfume and I could've sworn hearing promotion and Cresp himself saying it (perhaps I imagined that?) but I'd say it's supposed to at least be evocative of cannabis rather than a 'cannabis fragrance' something which seemed to be all the rage a couple of years back. First my issue with cannabis fragrances is that they're has not been to date (at least not one I've tried) which portrays cannabis flowers accurately. They do accurately capture the spicy, green, vegetative state of young cannabis plants (mispent youth and trips to the dam is how I know) and this seems to be an accord that has either been arrived at independently by perfumers or has been shipped around/aka plagiarized. Either way I don't want to smell like it as a central theme of a perfume, nor do I feel it accurately accounts for the varied terpene and flavanoid profiles of the bewildering amount of strains of weed available these days. This is slightly off topic but I'd very much like to create a perfume based on cannabis which is truly reflective of this. More about that another time perhaps? Well I'm glad to say that Haze doesn't opt for that cheap option, make a vaguely green, herbal, spicy scent and just be done with it, I respect that Haze is a composition. Just on 'Haze' which is a sub variety of mainly sativa dominant cannabis, I thought Olivier may have been so specific to call it that as he had captured the haze smell. Haze does have a very distinctive smell and many cannabis connoisseurs will often use it as a descriptor ie; 'This bud smells/tastes very hazy.' for instance. ANYWAY this perfume has a very interesting take on creating a cannabis feel because it's soooo slight as to be almost subliminal and although I was bemoaning the 'accuracy' earlier I think be mildly evocative and still be perfume or smell interesting and faceted like the flowers, or kind don't bother, so this hits the former. I'd say it 's very sweet opening gives way to a more green, herbal effect and you get that sage or clary sage just countering the sweetness slightly. However, I find it a bit of an oddball, the opening sweetness is a touch icky, and some of that spicy, hashish accord does bleed through ever so slightly. I don't hate it like some of those other ones from Bois 1920 or whatever but I still wouldn't wear this either and it's nothing to do with cannabis, it's just not a perfume I found enjoyable. (although as a point of transparency I haven't worn it properly yet so an update to this review could say different but I doubt it)
Akro Haze is a cool, slithery scent of aromatic and bittersweet-camphoraceous herbs, the hissing sweetness of that unexpected and uncanny resinous maple syrup note that I associate with immortelle, and a quiet, stealthy base of leathery woods and patchouli. I can’t speak to the fragrance’s supposed inspiration because I do not partake, but it certainly does have a nocturnal, narcotic energy, all languid limbs, drowsing breaths, and being hypnotized by a gorgeous creature who is actually a snake spirit or a snake goddess, or a Medusa, or a half-woman, half-cobra monster created by a mad scientist, or whatever-- what I am getting here is that Haze is a monstrously beautiful snake lady of a scent.