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Pentachord Verdant Tauer Perfumes 2011

5.7 / 10 42 Ratings

A perfume by Tauer Perfumes for women and men, released in 2011. The scent is green-earthy. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Green

Earthy

Sweet

Leathery

Synthetic

Fragrance Notes

Tobacco smoke Amber

Amber

Leather

Leaves

Soil

Perfumer

Andy Tauer

Ratings

Scent

5.742 Ratings

Longevity

8.928 Ratings

Sillage

7.323 Ratings

Bottle

7.235 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

The fragrances from the Pentachords line consist of only 5 scent molecules.

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7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/15/2012

Digindirt
47 Reviews

Digindirt

Helpful Review 5

Made especially for ME!

I love this fragrance. I simply described the types of notes I liked to my swap partner and he sent me a sample of this as an extra. I absolutely love it! I feel kind of on the fence about it because Tauer 2 was my hands down favorite fragrance but Verdant is giving it stiff competition. The sweet and minty notes of this fragrance are not something I tend to look for in a fragrance but it works for me with Verdant. The tobacco, dirt, earth, soil, wet leaves....ahhhh, just what I love. I can't get enough of it. I think this fragrance is exceptional and it was apparently made especially for me!

05/25/2012

6Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

4

Another Interesting Journey Through a Tauer Perfume

Tauer Perfumes Pentachord VERDANT is as eccentric as I have come to expect from this house. The perfume opens rather greenishly, reminding me a bit of CARILLON POUR UN ANGE, but then swiftly turns brown with lots of tobacco and, yes, dirt. The scent in the mid-stage (after the green opening but before the drydown) smelled vaguely familiar, but it took a few minutes for me to identify. Then I suddenly realized in a startling moment of recognition that I smelled like a smoker! There is no sweetness whatsoever in this perfume according to my nose.

VERDANT is very interesting, and I think that it is as good as some other masculine tobacco perfumes, but for myself, I prefer the rose perfumes from this house, which are simply exquisite and achieve new heights of perfumic art. This creation seems more like a novelty scent, although I suspect that it would work well for some men. It should definitely appeal to those who like and wear Hermès TERRE D'HERMES, given the marked soil note and, I presume, iso-E-super, which seems patent to me in the drydown.

As is usually the case with Tauer creations, VERDANT "eau de toilette" is nearly as strong as perfume, with great longevity and big sillage.

11/22/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review 1

Ready to mow some lawn?

Pentachords Verdant shares the same issue I personally detect in many fragrances by Andy Tauer. They’re intellectually very fascinating and thrilling, they’re exceedingly evocative and realistic, they succeed very well in keeping a decided, peculiar sort of artificial vein well combined with a truthful organic nature; but they don’t smell like something I would wear. Ever. Or that I think anyone would want to wear. Tauer hasn’t admittedly a formal training, and while that is surely a plus when it comes to creative freedom and composing “out of the box”, it sometimes turns into a disadvantage for him. And that is the case for Pentachords Verdant in my opinion.

Pentachords Verdant is basically a tremendously intriguing “smell” which brilliantly evokes the smell of damp grass, wet soil, freshly-cut branches, all with a sort of dark, cold, sharp feel, brilliantly combined with an artificial sort of quite heavy oily-gasoline greyish note that smells basically like someone pouring fuel on grass – you and your lawnmower, a romance by Andy Tauer. As usually with most of Tauer fragrances, the smell is quite sharp and almost harsh at first, stuffed with cold salty ambroxan and a thin, cutting layer of nondescript metallic spices giving the natural side of the fragrance that peculiar “artificial trim” which characterizes many scents by this nose. I don’t get any tobacco actually, to me it’s all a cascade of nose-tingling spicy sharp greenness seasoned with steamy gasoline. The evolution is just more about the volume decreasing, but I detect no particular transitions or movements – just the same identical thing losing strength and projection as hours pass (but that’s fine, and it actually gets almost pleasant after a while).

And, well... you may guess my conclusion (there’s not much else to say about the notes or the evolution, so we can skip to the end). I can’t help it, call me a tight-ass “classicist”, but this is too much on the very extreme fence between a perfume and a smell – not a stink, just an experimental smell which has little to do with perfumery. I mean, it’s not that any smell can automatically turn into a perfume just by a linguistic transition. It’s just too edgy, unstructured and crude to work as a fragrance in my opinion. It’s great to spray it and smell it, it’s amazingly realistic and it’s fantastic how it evokes the combined smell of wet grass, soil and gasoline, truly a hyperrealistic portrait of Mr. Smith’s Sunday morning mowing the lawn. But why on Earth shall I want to smell like that?

6/10

09/02/2013

10Scent

Allein
1 Review

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Allein

Top Review 15

Well, I always knew I was different :)

Honestly, it pains my soul to read that this masterpiece, which I love so much, perfectly crafted by Andy, is classified as highly toxic :(

Red alert - and for me)))
No, all jokes aside...

Not even Matin d'Orage has managed to convey the scent of rain as well as Verdant.
It is perfect! When I look at the "ingredients," in the form of 5 fragrance molecules, I don't even want to say what I imagine, but thank heaven! my (personal) master has worked on this piece.

It is so clear, so light, such a subtle scent of ivy, the balance of warm and cold, and by the way, damn it, yes - earthy! Never, ever would I have thought that earth could smell so beautiful!
It is indeed wearable everywhere, as it is rather quiet and transparent. Side effects for the surroundings are not known, only that "it's so different" and today I heard "so unique!" :) It is indeed. 100%.

Thank you, Mr. Tauer, for the feelings this fragrance evokes in me!

10/15/2011

2Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Esther19
151 Reviews

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Esther19

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Gift Spray

Lolita has described it in her unmistakably cheeky, straightforward, and around-the-corner way - I can only confirm it.
The first spray goes through marrow and bone and brings tears to the eyes. An earthy, toxic blast shoots up the nose, reminiscent of stored potatoes that have already sprouted vigorous white shoots of 10cm in length. Cough!
Also, some kind of coniferous bubble bath hits it again. If I were to step into the bathtub with this (thankfully, I prefer to shower anyway), I would emerge as a grass-green Ekke-Nekkepen, a Frisian relative of Neptune, slightly shriveled and in need of skin care.
Leather? But what a raucous leather, of the coarsest kind, with straps and little hearts as a bridge in the middle, you know, the kind that ruthlessly peels off already battered skin. Although I can breathe a bit better now, I am still struggling with this devilish stuff. Memories come flooding back of a neighbor, a dear old gentleman, who would wheeze while spooning some cough syrup. That was probably his only drink he ever indulged in.
Tobacco smoke - this must be some nasty post-war tobacco, homegrown and still damply rolled.
Six foot under - exactly. Nothing against experiments, new notes, the unusual. But I really can't imagine anyone on this earth wanting to wear this stuff.
Fairly, I must attest that after half an hour, the scent has calmed down in a somewhat more bearable way, possibly a hint of something citrusy could be there. But by then, all the flies and mosquitoes have fallen from the wall (good), causing damage to the earthly atmosphere (not so good). As a member of NABU, this goes on the prohibition list for me, because humans belong to nature too. For still, a chemical cloud drifts around me towards the sky. And should one consider using this liquid as an embalming agent, the poor earthworms would be sentenced to death.
Verdant! - Damn! No, I wouldn't just never buy it, one would have to pay the wearers to spray this poison, especially since, in the end, some sweetness emerges that is also not able to combat the horror, on the contrary.
This Tauer was probably a feat, unfortunately not a masterpiece!

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