The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
MG Gulcicek designed Hazz as a collision between two registers that rarely share space without one overwhelming the other. The brief was deceptively simple: keep the citrus honest, but let the gourmand win without fanfare. What emerged is a fragrance that starts sharp and ends soft, without ever feeling like it's contradicting itself. The 2019 launch placed it alongside Regalien's broader project, color-coded bottles, Ottoman trade-route references, the idea that scent can move between historic and modern without losing either identity. Hazz is where that idea gets literal: the top notes are the market, the base notes are what you bring home from it.
The licorice in the heart is the move that makes or breaks it, depending on your relationship with anise. For those who love it, it's the moment Hazz stops being a pleasant citrus fragrance and becomes something worth wearing repeatedly. For those who don't, it reads as an unexpected bitterness sitting beneath the sweetness. But there's a reason it's there: licorice acts as a bridge between the bright opening and the warm, edible base, pulling the fragrance from sharp to soft without a jarring transition. The mimosa amplifies the powdery, slightly honeyed quality that makes the heart feel less like a note and more like a texture.
The evolution
The first five minutes belong to the citrus, grapefruit and lemon, the kind of sharp that wakes you up. Orange lingers a beat longer, then hands off to the heart. The licorice announces itself quietly at first, a faint coolness beneath the sweetness, before the mimosa blooms and the tonka bean smooths everything into something powdery and warm. Twenty minutes in, you've left the citrus entirely. What follows is the slow reveal of the caramel-vanilla-praline base, dense, sweet, slightly nutty from the praline. The sandalwood keeps it from becoming cloying, a quiet woody anchor that prevents the whole thing from tipping into perfume-lotion territory. By hour three, it's skin-close and warm, the kind of scent someone notices when they're standing close enough to matter. The next morning, there's a faint sweetness on the wrist, vanilla and something vaguely edible, like the ghost of a dessert table.
Cultural impact
Hazz occupies a specific corner of the niche market, the citrus-gourmand hybrid that has gained traction among collectors who want something sweet without the usual signifiers. It draws comparisons to Casamorati's Lira and D&G Devotion, both of which use citrus openings to set up edible drydowns, but Regalien's version leans harder into the licorice heart, which makes it more polarizing and more memorable. Among the house's own lineup, Hazz reads as the entry point for someone who wants to ease into the brand's bolder identity, it's approachable without being safe.
