I have something of a Hai Karate fixation. Ever since I was a teenager in the 90s i have been after this elusive relic. Somehow I got it in my mind that it was the most pimp-tastic fragrance around, something everyone from John Shaft to Elvis would have doused themselves with and strutted around in a cloud if self-assuredness careless of whether anyone liked it or not. However, in 2018, I just can't bring myself to pay $75 for it.
Why? Because I know myself. I would hoard it and only wear it on special occasions, depressed in spite of myself at the dwindling levels of juice left in the bottle.
So I came up with a solution. I got a sample vial from ebay for $12.00, and put all of my brainpower into decoding its secrets. It wasn't difficult, because the scent itself is extremely derivative of two other fragrances. In essence, Hai Karate is a cheap knockoff of two other fragrances: Canoe and Jade East.
So I followed my nose and mixed these two colognes. I put 2/3rds modern Canoe into a bottle and 1/3 modern Jade East, both available on the internet. Then I smelled the mixture side by side with Vintage HK. I had matched the scent somewhere in the neighborhood of 90%, the only difference being a slightly less potent drydown.
That's it. Very simple.
I also bought the imitation roll on oil sold on ebay as well as Masters "focus" aftershave, itself a knockoff of HK. All of those in combination makes a fragrance even more potent than the original vintage HK.
So now I have an almost unlimited source for Hai Karate and can wear as much as I want whenever I want. It's amazing!
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Why? Because I know myself. I would hoard it and only wear it on special occasions, depressed in spite of myself at the dwindling levels of juice left in the bottle.
So I came up with a solution. I got a sample vial from ebay for $12.00, and put all of my brainpower into decoding its secrets. It wasn't difficult, because the scent itself is extremely derivative of two other fragrances. In essence, Hai Karate is a cheap knockoff of two other fragrances: Canoe and Jade East.
So I followed my nose and mixed these two colognes. I put 2/3rds modern Canoe into a bottle and 1/3 modern Jade East, both available on the internet. Then I smelled the mixture side by side with Vintage HK. I had matched the scent somewhere in the neighborhood of 90%, the only difference being a slightly less potent drydown.
That's it. Very simple.
I also bought the imitation roll on oil sold on ebay as well as Masters "focus" aftershave, itself a knockoff of HK. All of those in combination makes a fragrance even more potent than the original vintage HK.
So now I have an almost unlimited source for Hai Karate and can wear as much as I want whenever I want. It's amazing!
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