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Le Serval 2020 Eau de Parfum

8.0 / 10 21 Ratings
A popular perfume by DSH Perfumes for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is animal-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Animal
Floral
Spicy
Resinous
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
African bluegrassAfrican bluegrass Air accordAir accord AldehydesAldehydes BergamotBergamot Blackcurrant budBlackcurrant bud Tunisian neroliTunisian neroli
Heart Notes Heart Notes
African ginger CO2African ginger CO2 Egyptian geraniumEgyptian geranium French beeswaxFrench beeswax Hay absoluteHay absolute Honeybush CO2Honeybush CO2 Jasminum grandiflorumJasminum grandiflorum Karo KaroundeKaro Karounde SafflowerSafflower Moroccan rose absoluteMoroccan rose absolute Oak wood CO2Oak wood CO2 RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
CivetCivet Brown oakmossBrown oakmoss HyraceumHyraceum Vietnamese oudVietnamese oud African greenheart woodAfrican greenheart wood AmbergrisAmbergris Atlas cedarAtlas cedar Bushman's candleBushman's candle Frankincense CO2 absoluteFrankincense CO2 absolute MuhuhuMuhuhu MuskMusk OpoponaxOpoponax

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Ratings
Scent
8.021 Ratings
Longevity
8.213 Ratings
Sillage
7.513 Ratings
Bottle
6.414 Ratings
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8.5Scent
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Pay attention: this is wonderful :)
Superb creation of this independent American brand.

Slightly citrus and greenish opening with an addition of aldehydes, which immediately mix with animal and waxy notes.

The hay absolute gives a sweet and earthy part, which joins the more floral and woody part.

The civet and the oud, together with the muhuhu, tend to emerge more intensely after a few hours on the base, making it even deeper and slightly smoky and earthy and sometimes smooth and creamy.

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In the Sun of the Wide Savanna
Bright hay, driven by the wind, sepia grasses fly across the land, rubbing their musty ears against the Hesperian dew from the cool valleys. Follow the silver trail. The savanna stands briefly in full bloom. Then the flakes gleam sharp-spicy roots as a shimmering mirage over the meadows, where geraniums pour acidity onto jasmine blossoms and the grasses sway warmer now. Their traces seem clearer already, leading through sweet thickets and thistles, like the imprints of their paws in straw, dry moss, and brown spices in wax, the clay soil smokes from smoldering resins, to leather where serval cats rolled, to humid-warm barns made of dark woods and waves of hay, camels and goats lying in earthy-spicy puddles, in which misty ambers reflect, in the sun of the wide savanna.
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Dawn Spencer Hurwitz from North Boulder, Colorado, moves with her fragrances in the flowing border areas between perfumes, bespoke, aromatherapy, and collaborations with artists.
While Dawn's creations are usually rather moderate and reserved, "Le Serval" is an unusually expressive and animalistic scent that could also come from Prin Lomros. After a diffuse, floating bright, Hesperian fresh and at the same time hay-like-spicy opening, the leitmotif of luminous civet and animalistic hyrax emerges very quickly, which first traces its path through sharp-spicy ginger roots and sour rose geraniums before it becomes sweet-floral and warmer (especially thistle, beeswax, honeybush, jasmine, and karo-karounde). After about an hour, one arrives at a summer animal farm. Clay-leathery, smoky oud, dark moss, cedar and muhuhu wood, spicy hay, woody-balsamic amber, and the now omnipresent hyrax define the magnificent drydown for many hours.

(With thanks to Bloodxclat)
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From spicy green & floral haystacks
Civet emerges elegantly
Honey on a paw
Claw on mossy agarwood
Resin flows out
It purrs muhuhu
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Somehow the composition just doesn’t work for my nose. The floral accord has a gasoline vibe for me, which is clearly...
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Petal remnants hang in the fur
And pollen stuck with wax
The sun warms its leathery skin
Soft resins glisten on its paws
Like pearls
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“Ouhu-hu-houd” echoes wide-eyed in the blue branches of thin smoke tendrils
Hush! Hop into the golden fermentation basket, you plump little fruit kittens!
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Honey, increasingly strong cat-like animalic - bathed in Oud - moderate overall. Lightly floral intertwined, a bit green but only marginally.
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An elegant cat darts through spicy ginger forests, nibbling on creamy dark cedar honey. With airy, exotic floral notes in the air...
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Elite category, beautiful, vibrant rare exotic feline, strides through opulent airy flowers, a honey scent emerges.
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Herb at first with a hint of spice, but it quickly turns into an animalic-woody scent with distinct hyraceum, resins, and ...
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Honey badger. Absolutely not my thing, yet: adorned with exotic blooms, not the classic civet concoction. Strenuous stuff.
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This totally blows me away. DSH is usually known for the softer notes, but what’s offered here is truly (...)
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