Byzantium by Tesori d'Oriente
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7.5 / 10 558 Ratings
A perfume by Tesori d'Oriente for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is sweet-powdery. It is being marketed by Sodalis Group / Conter.
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Main accords

Sweet
Powdery
Oriental
Gourmand
Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
AlmondAlmond CinnamonCinnamon MimosaMimosa
Heart Notes Heart Notes
HeliotropeHeliotrope HoneyHoney Black roseBlack rose
Base Notes Base Notes
VanillaVanilla Cocoa beanCocoa bean LabdanumLabdanum OudOud Peru balsamPeru balsam White muskWhite musk
Ratings
Scent
7.5558 Ratings
Longevity
7.7501 Ratings
Sillage
7.4503 Ratings
Bottle
5.4495 Ratings
Value for money
9.2332 Ratings
Submitted by Michael, last update on 12/04/2024.

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Reviews

27 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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7
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8
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9.5
Scent
Terente

33 Reviews
Terente
Terente
Very helpful Review 4  
A real "tesoro"
Probably the longest lasting Tesori D'Oriente unisex. And it has a wonderful smell. A nice mix of almond, honey, vanilla and spices. So oriental. For me, the better smell from Tesori D'Oriente, together with Jasmin di Giava for women. Long lasting, that kind of smells who remain in your nostrils, like good old car freshners, made with sense of responsibility. Moderate sillage, but don't overspay it. Very good quality/price ratio. I found it here in ROU at less than 5 euros. :D
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Pricing
8
Scent
DogiCoco

501 Reviews
DogiCoco
DogiCoco
1  
Delicious lokum on a budget
Byzantinum is another lokum (Turkish delight) fragrance that in my opinion is the most similar to Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum, a bit less so to Serge Lutens' Rahät Loukoum. These scents always give me a very special kind of nostalgia because they were THE thing for me when I first found about niche perfumery almost 20 years ago.
So, this is a great budget scent.

It starts out cherry sweet, rosy and even juicy, but turns more powdery quickly. Almond and sweet musk prevail, vanilla mingles with them. This turns out to be the driest, most powdery of all the cherry-almond lokum scents i tried over the years. It's simple, sweet, cozy and feminine. Perfect for winter, snow and fluffy or chunky sweaters in light colors.

I still have a very old bottle of Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum, and if i ever run out, I might buy Serge Lutens' version. That one is really outstanding and has a lusher texture that I adore. So, I don't feel the need to have this, even though the price is unbeatable. To be completely honest, the Tesori d'Oriente bottle design is a bit offputting to me. But besides that, this cheapie can definitely keep up with more expensive scents. I had the shower gel of it and will surely repurchase it at one point, and maybe get some other body care, too.
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9
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9
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10
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Profuma

73 Reviews
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Profuma
Profuma
Top Review 18  
Oriental Candyshop
There are scents that immediately trigger stories in my head. From wild to sensual, cheerful to thoughtful and from short to long, everything is there.
Then there are scents, I just "see" the scent. Its notes, its molecules and its character "Byzantium" from "Tesori d'Oriente" is such a fragrance. No matter how hard I think about it, I could shake the one sleeve energetically first, then the other, no story will fall out.
For me, that means writing in a more relaxed way for the time being. Because when the stories go off in my head, I can hardly keep up with writing. Everything is fully automatic and put in a trance until the very end. Then... phew... what was that...?!
With this gem here, I can write down my scent impressions in a focused and relaxed way at the same time
After the first spray, you are greeted by a marzipan, somehow cinnamon-caramel cloud, which is so warm and dense that at first you cannot perceive anything else. The mimosa likes to dance along, holds itself back for my perception and fortunately so that neither my stomach nor my head sounds an alarm. Almost at the same time it becomes slightly rosier but more vanilla. A mixture that becomes even denser and takes over everything nearby. For me it's an absolute oh-experience with joy-shock, because the individual notes and finally combined, although very opulent, result in a wonderfully delicious and gourmand fragrance story. Now the fragrance becomes darker, more mystical and in the course of time still very balsamic and creamy. A kind of fragrance I can imagine that it can be (too) exhausting for some people. You have to be able to tolerate a certain sweetness, which is not sugar-watt sweet or syrupy sweet, but still goes in that direction. The balsamic notes add a little bittersweet twist that turns the final step to cotton candy or sugar cubes away. Somehow the fragrance also evokes an association with a caramel to medium chocolate sun cream, rather thick and without glittering particles, but which almost feels like a delicious sauce on the skin and increases in intensity with the warmth of the sun. So there really is a clearly perceptible cocoa note, which additionally confirms the brownish colour in my "nose cinema". A wonderful scent, studded with many small scent stones, which all together finally result in a dreamlike delicious scent. A picture with mosaic stones, assorted colours and perfectly laid out, as it can be found on the otherwise modest bottle. A composition that appears both very tasty and "edible", but at the same time is again simply "only" gourmand and fine. Your own skin chemistry will decide whether you become more or less of a biter.

It is undisputed, however, that with "Byzantium" a fragrance has succeeded that is able to sweeten cloudy hours and warm up cold days. Because of the sun cream wrap, I would even trust it to last through the summer, if you are modest. The thing that does not suit the scent and the environment the best is a too high dosage. This is of course true for almost all scented waters, but if one contains so many naturally sweet and sweetened elements, it can be really tedious.

Less is once again more.
If you take this to heart, then you will be rewarded with many, fantastically delicious and happy scent impulses, as if you were in the middle of an oriental candyshop.
3 Comments
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7
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7
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9
Scent
Melaniemel

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Melaniemel
Melaniemel
Top Review 23  
Heat
Oh my God, I love this warmth! Not this "in winter, by the fireplace, with cuddly socks, wrapped in blanket, with tea and biscuits " warmth. But a completely different warmth! It's this "I was on the beach all day in the heat and my body is charged with sun and I'm freshly showered but the heat still floods my body" warmth! That's exactly what I've been looking for! There I first had to kiss so many expensive frogs to then find in this price category ... unbelievable! I see him, in contrast to most others, primarily not in winter, but in warm summer evenings on tanned skin ... all in all a successful fragrance at a successful price. Blind buying is worth it!
7 Comments
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Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
10
Scent
Mantus

198 Reviews
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Mantus
Mantus
Top Review 15  
Almond~Cherry~Marzipan - Crème brûlée~Bodybutter
At first you can perceive a very strong and intensely sweet spicy note, which suggests something warming from within and is due to the Ceylon cinnamon.

At the same time, the cinnamon is wrapped in a light, sweet, slightly powdery, creamy almond note and provides the Jean-Baptiste Grenouille phenomenon ála Crème brûlée body butter!

"I've never felt such a strong need to pour perfume on my head, but at Byzantium, that would be great and fascinating!" :-)

A little later, the fragrance is enveloped in very creeping moves with the cinnamon and almond by a very dominant, slightly cherryy and subtly sweet marzipan note, which is enveloped by light, subtle nuances of blossom honey, which will make every*m gourmandy's heart beat faster and comes from the heliotrope and honey.

The heliotrope is accompanied by a fine deep sweet floral note, which I perceive as "floral", but I couldn't say exactly which floral note is in the composition, because it is really wonderfully interwoven and in my opinion, the 'black rose' ensures that the fragrance doesn't drift into the dull sweetness, but always has a pleasantly "billowing" profile.

And then you notice quite unconsciously that the fragrance appears to have been dipped into very fine powdery, sweet and balsamic Ladanum, that the light, creamy nuances of Bourbon vanilla are caressed by delicate, velvety nuances of Peruvian balsam and white musk, reminiscent of milk chocolate cake, and lead to a very beautiful, cuddly and caressing finish

Mimosa, 'black rose', oud and cocoa bean I unfortunately could not perceive and complement the fragrance picture.

In total the fragrance lasts 8.5 hours on my skin.

The Sillage is designed to be very clearly perceptible 2.5 meters in the 2 hours and 2 hours to a very clearly perceptible whole arm length before it is reduced in viscous steps until the fragrance is released.
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PedroCabralPedroCabral 3 months ago
6
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
A nice mix of almond, honey, vanilla and spices. So oriental. Very good quality/price ratio.
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TrippilippiTrippilippi 4 years ago
A nice and warm gourmand perfume, a sort of cheaper version of loukhoum from Keiko
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Jazzy76Jazzy76 7 years ago
5
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
8
Scent
It is funny...but here in Italy there's a candy called "Rossana" that smells exactly like this edt! Almond and honey are very noticeable
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