Comme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki vs Aesop Hwyl

Comme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki scores 91% against Aesop Hwyl overall — scored twice, once on the opening and once on the dry-down, because a scent rarely stays still on skin.

The two phases agree: Comme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki tracks Aesop Hwyl about as closely in the first minutes as it does hours later, so what you smell on the strip is a fair guide to what you get on skin.

Both are built on woody, aromatic, fresh spicy and amber. Aesop Hwyl adds earthy, warm spicy and mossy that Comme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki does not. Comme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki brings camphor, conifer and balsamic of its own.

Side by side

Aesop HwylComme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki
Price (estimate)about $135about $140
Longevity6h5h
Projection7/107/10
Sillage4/103/10
Released20172008
Main accordswoody, aromatic and fresh spicywoody, aromatic and fresh spicy

Comme des Garcons Scent One: Hinoki is not the cheaper bottle here: the estimates put it at about $140 against $135 for Aesop Hwyl. It is on this list because of how it smells, not what it costs.

Why these two are matched

Captures the meditative cypress and woody depth found in Aesop Hwyl with striking accuracy.

Scores are estimates built from note structure and community consensus, not laboratory measurements, and noses genuinely differ — treat a high match as a strong lead rather than a promise. AltScent is independent and is not affiliated with, authorized by or endorsed by any brand shown.

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