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Telegrama Imaginary Authors 2019

6.6 / 10 127 Ratings

A perfume by Imaginary Authors for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is powdery-spicy. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Powdery

Spicy

Woody

Sweet

Floral

Fragrance Notes

Talcum

Black pepper

Lavender absolute Linen

Linen

Vanilla

Amyris

Teak

Perfumer

Josh Meyer

Ratings

Scent

6.6127 Ratings

Longevity

6.998 Ratings

Sillage

6.4100 Ratings

Bottle

7.5103 Ratings

Value for money

6.552 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20 · last update on 12/26/2025.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/12/2024

10Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

parfumpixie
358 Reviews

parfumpixie

4

powdery and soft

This scent is so interesting its almost hard to describe it. The opening was initially very masculine leaning and metallic but wow the dry down is beautiful! You get a powdery and dry talc at the opening that softens after dying down. The black pepper is apparent all throughout but it's soft and aromatic rather than spicy. The vanilla powder and lavender absolute pick up as this dries down and they blend to create a softly sweet, earthy and woody scent. The fresh linen adds an almost citrusy airiness to the whole thing. This scent is strong but it's soft, clean, sweet, and grounded. It's woody, dry and powdery. This scent is a lot of things while still feeling so simple? It just works. I would say this is dead ringer unisex as I can't put my finger on whether this leans on either side of the spectrum. This is definitely something different but done very well.

01/17/2025

10Scent 10Longevity 7Sillage

Banjeekundt
103 Reviews

Banjeekundt

3

Hotel love affair

I really loved this perfume.

At first spray, it's floral, fresh, sweet, spicy, a bit woodsy and a little dry—not powdery per se, but definitely dry. The lavender, linen, pepper, talcum, teak and vanilla are all apparent in the open. It smells like hotel sheets that your lover's scent clings to long after they've gone. Very comforting, sweet and nostalgic.

The journey of this scent is relatively linear, as I'm discovering most Imaginary Author scents are; but that's okay because this smelled lovely. The only notable change for me was the loss of the black pepper note about three hours into it—leaving behind a dry sweetness for the remainder of the wear. This lasted for over ten hours on my skin and the sillage was moderate.

This scent reminds me a lot of other sweet lavender scents like Goddess by Burberry and New Haarlem by Bond No. 9. However, this one stands out by being a bit spicier than Goddess with the pepper and softer and less syrupy than New Haarlem with the talcum note. And, though this has an undeniable sweetness, it's not cloying at all. That being said, you probably would not enjoy this if you dislike vanilla fragrances as the vanilla and lavender are the stars of this fragrance.

Overall, this is another beautifully crafted perfume by Imaginary Authors. While this is not the most revolutionary scent profile, it is expertly executed and the smell is divine. I cannot recommend this enough for those who enjoy sweet florals.

04/11/2025

gobtholemew
37 Reviews

gobtholemew

1

02.03.21

I was disappointed at first because I had high hopes for this perfume, but I ordered it along with A City On Fire (which I hated) and I could for some reason pick up a similar smokiness in this. After it dries down it’s a nice, warm, and gentle scent. No smokiness.

I don’t really pick up lavender in it, and I also don’t see it as a masculine scent. It’s just like warm laundry with a bit of musk.

04/08/2025

1Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

rotasha
242 Reviews

rotasha

1

Lavender-scented dryer sheets

Not the sort of fragrance I ever would have sought out, but I received a free sample of it with an order. I was 100% right about this not being "my type" of fragrance. I get primarily lavender, talc, and black pepper. The result is reminiscent of lavender-scented dryer sheets, a "clean" scent but not in the fresh, soapy way. Clean like fresh laundry. The dry down is a slight improvement on the opening, with a subtle dose of vanilla—not the sweet kind, which isn't necessarily a requirement for me, I love all vanilla notes equally. Still not something I would ever wear out into the world.

I've had some success layering it with the very lemon-forward L'Occitane Verveine. The result smells surprisingly like Fruit Loops. I was able to get through the rest of my sample of Telegrama this way.

10/06/2023

ScentStudio
156 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

Was mesmerised by it, but now, I don't love it anymore

Telegrama sets you off to a distant place where words from your loved ones can only reach you by paper. The fragrance has a cologne, masculine and herbal opening, which turns into a field of lavender with powdery talc. There is a tingling accord of white pepper and after dry down, vanilla and amyris sweeten up the fragrance turning it rather androgynous.

Telegrama is perhaps the most masculine fragrance in my collection, it is very herbal and I had to revisit it, to truly fall in love with it. On my skin, Telegrama sweetens up after dry down quite a bit as fragrances usually do and it has an amazing transition from start to finish. Once again, Imaginary Authors manage to make a remarkable blend and put a story into a fragrance.

Closing my eyes, I imagine myself walking in a wooden summer house cabin, looking through dusty books on the shelf, one has a bouquet of dried flowers in between the pages. A love story, long forgotten.

Telegrama remains very light despite strong notes of woodyness, lavender, talc and pepper, almost like stepping into an old apothecary. On paper it remains much the same, quite masculine, but on my skin it becomes more gourmand and the warm vanilla is the closing act of the fragrance.

Telegrama is a gem, it is nothing like the other fragrances that I have.
Herbal, strong yet light, masculine yet feminine, it is a perfect late summer fragrance and it invites you to reach for a pen and paper yourself.

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