Djinn by House of Orpheus
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8.7 / 10 14 Ratings
A popular perfume by House of Orpheus for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is smoky-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Woody
Spicy
Green
Resinous

Fragrance Notes

OudOud OakmossOakmoss Canary Islands juniperCanary Islands juniper Haitian vetiverHaitian vetiver

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Scent
8.714 Ratings
Longevity
6.913 Ratings
Sillage
6.513 Ratings
Bottle
7.213 Ratings
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Bottle
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9.5
Scent
Medianus76

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Time is the fire
"Time is the fire in which you all burn," said the shadowy figure from somewhere in the semi-darkness between the gates. It was a mystery to me when and how I had managed to reach this enchanted place on the edge of darkness in the first place.
"How much time do you need?" the apparition breathed with a whispering echo into the infinity surrounding me. Overwhelmed by the events, I was barely able to form a few words. This djinn or spirit or whatever was present placed a casket of precious wood on the table in front of me. The bizarrely shaped, mossy, gnarled legs of the table seemed to be connected to the figure. The apparition's rooty fingers, reminiscent of dark, creaky grasses, pulsed in the darkness of the night and pushed the casket over the table's silvery metal plate, which was deeply furrowed. Many tiny sparks flew into the silence of the surrounding darkness. The scent of glowing star throwers emerged, drawing sparkling, fiery magic in slow motion into the firmament and bathing the casket, with its leathery fittings and dark, steamy ornaments, in the lights of an aurora borealis.
My breath caught, the future revealed itself! What was waiting in the casket? Time...?

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Time, what is it actually? We can all use time, but mostly we all have too little of it and nobody knows how much time we actually have. Ultimately, time is something created by human hands. In philosophical terms, time describes the progression of the present coming from the past and leading to the future.
This is where I think this incredibly wonderfully composed fragrance comes in. It makes me forget time for a moment. The progression comes to a standstill for a moment. Again, that's going too far for a fragrance. But I know of hardly any other fragrance that is able to create such a magical and mysterious aura outside of time. Pure magic!

This brings us to another important point for me. I don't know of any other fragrance that reminds me of Djinn. All too often you have associations with other fragrances. Smells similar to fragrance XY, reminds me of fragrance XY! There is no suitable comparison or twin for me here. Pure magic!

Marcus R. McCoy creates all this with just 4 ingredients. The initial aromas, which are indeed reminiscent of the scent of stargazers, are somewhat harsh, but gradually give way to an arrangement of dark woody, mossy, leathery, earthy and slightly resinous components. And the mysticism that Marcus certainly breathes into the fragrances separately...

Finally, I would like to thank the devil Chizza again. He organized this olfactory soul oath for me from the USA. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to get hold of these works. Unless you have time...

Oh yes, suitable background music would come from Pink Floyd - Time
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Sillage
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Longevity
9.5
Scent
Floyd

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Top Review 55  
The ghosts in the garden at night
Was there the breeze of a fleeing cloud, the dying smoke of a sulphur wood? Did it loosen the light at the secretary's desk, move across the ancient dark timbers and out through a crack in the leaded-glass window into the night garden? There, greenish glowing trails unraveled like smoldering nests in the misty grasses, toasty crackles in the earthy roots, withering tracks in the lichens and mosses that led into the distant darkness. Did you follow them?
To where the smoking remains of the tracks lead even deeper into the clay soils, the spicy roasted green earths becoming landscapes of leathery tobacco.
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Marcus R. McCoy, perfumer and operator of House of Orpheus, claims to have acquired the language of plants from shamans and the craft of distillation from the origins of alchemy. His creations moved beyond the physical, transcending liminal boundaries. He wrote hymns to Greek gods and burned incense to go with them. Sometimes cigars, too, I suppose.
"Djinn", according to Islamic conception a spirit being made of smokeless fire, is at no time smokeless in this fragrance, yet the cedar juniper at the beginning in combination with the Haitian vetiver reminds me of a match, the smell of the sulphurous smoke, before the sweet grass reveals more of its earthy-rooted and smoky aromas, which are embedded in lichen-like green-brown oak moss. Then the spicy, slightly leathery loam of the oud emerges more and more and the scent, as aptly described by Caligari below, is increasingly reminiscent of dark cigar tobacco. The spirits are quiet and remain in the garden for about seven hours.
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