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Byzantium Tesori d'Oriente 2016

7.5 / 10 652 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

Almond

Cinnamon

Mimosa

Heart Notes

Heliotrope Honey

Honey

Black rose

Base Notes

Vanilla

Cocoa bean

Labdanum

Peru balsam

White musk Oud

Oud

Ratings

Scent

7.5652 Ratings

Longevity

7.6583 Ratings

Sillage

7.3584 Ratings

Bottle

5.3578 Ratings

Value for money

9.3414 Ratings

Submitted by Michael · last update on 12/06/2025.

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Reviews

51 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/05/2018

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Terente
33 Reviews

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

11/02/2024

8Scent

DogiCoco
637 Reviews

DogiCoco

Helpful Review 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.

08/11/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Peachyessss
18 Reviews

Peachyessss

1

Like you're in the real Byzantium Kindom

My idea for advertising this fragrance:

"Here you are, a time traveler, in an unknown place. Where stone temples with round domes rise, where the bright sun shines and orange trees grow, where black-haired men and women walk the streets, speaking a language you don't understand. Until suddenly the crowd parts, and you see how the same black-haired men carry a palanquin on their strong shoulders. The men lower the palanquin, the curtain moves aside, and before you appears the king, in luxurious brocade and a crown with precious stones framing his head. You understand that the king invites you somewhere, as a guest. You go to him in the palanquin, and you are brought to one of the temples, to a gazebo for rest. The king ordered to treat you with nuts, wine and the best honey that could only be collected in the country. The king gives you a beautiful bottle of perfume. Then you are invited to look at the recently built temple. The temple is cool and quiet at first, but this silence is broken by the prayers that echo from every wall. Entering the center of the temple, you are in amazement. You can smell the scent of labdanum and myrrh, the space is lit by candles, and on the ceiling in the dome there is a beautiful mosaic with sacred images. With the sounds of the prayers, it seems to you as if these sacred images have come to life and are already reaching out to you, all that remains is for you to take them and ...

You are awakened by the shouts of a Turkish guard. "You can't sleep on the stones here!" he scolds you. When you wake up, you see tourists from all over the world walking around everywhere. All this time you slept on a fragment of the ruins of a city that became a museum complex. You get up and remember that you have a scheduled guided group tour of the temple complex. When you get there, you are surprised - this temple is exactly like from your dream! Inside, everything is just as cool, only it is not the prayers that are making noise, but the conversations of tourists like you. Inside the dome, there is the same mosaic. And then you feel something cold in your pocket. It turned out to be a bottle of familiar perfume. When you spray it, you feel the same familiar sweet scent that you had in your dream.
Maybe it wasn't a dream at all?"

If we leave aside fantasies, this fragrance is really pleasant, for me personally it's not stuffy, although it makes a statement. Despite the fact that Tesori is a company of household goods, the fragrance is like that of some unrecognized, but high-quality perfume. And the durability is quite good, for its low price. So, you want to walk around and smell of viscous honey, almonds and labdanum, the main thing is not to get addicted to it XD

11/28/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

blackstones
22 Reviews

blackstones

1

Amazing

It's like smelling oriental honeyed desserts. I only perceive, of all the notes listed, a VERY STRONG honey and almond, along with a sweet vanilla at the base. For 6€ it's really worth the blind buy.
Sickly sweet, truly gourmand and unisex. One of those perfumes that you reach when the weather is cold and don't know what perfume to use.
a hidden gem

11/13/2016

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

DonJuanDeCat
2047 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 21

Delicious, Eastern Roman Empire

Here we have Tesori d’Oriente, the budget fragrance brand from Italy. Hmm, that sounds more negative than I mean. Because the fragrances are only cheap in terms of price (well, and maybe the deodorant-like bottles, which sometimes have really great designs). But in terms of scent, like with all fragrance brands, there are both worse and really good ones.

And today I'm testing Byzantium. Hmm,… I wonder if Byzantium refers to the ancient Greek city or if the term actually stands for the Byzantine Empire, which was the Eastern Roman Empire after the division of Rome.

But anyway, Byzantium is one of the examples that cheap fragrances can smell really good.

The scent:
At first, you smell a very sweet almond-cinnamon note, with the almonds being the stronger scent notes. The fragrance is also beautifully powdery and has a strong vanilla that already smells quite intense despite the fragrance pyramid (vanilla is in the base).
In the heart note, I detect slight spicy notes in the background, but also something herbal.
Hmm, cinnamon, almond, a bit of honey… the combination also somewhat reminds me of delicious chocolate, well, at least it reminds me of that.
And I see it now… I really should get into the habit of reading the fragrance pyramid immediately, because I just read cocoa bean, so no wonder the scent seemed chocolaty to me. And together with the balsam, the fragrance is already nice and soft and powdery from the start, with the latter being enhanced by the already mentioned vanilla.

The sillage and longevity:
The sillage is, as is usually the case with winter fragrances, strong and projects well. As you can imagine, it can be quite noticeable on someone for a while.
The longevity is also impressive, lasting over eight to ten hours.

The bottle:
Well, the bottle actually looks like a deodorant can made of aluminum. It looks cheap, and it actually is, but it has, like most Tesori bottles, a label that covers almost the entire bottle. And usually, the choice of motifs is well chosen. Here you see a mosaic (presumably made in Roman style). The dark brown tones of the image match well with the creamy bottle and the also brown cap.

Byzantium has become a beautiful fragrance that fits very well into autumn and winter. With its cinnamon-sweet scent, it reminds one of delicious baked goods like cinnamon rolls, cookies, and whatever else one indulges in during the colder days, especially around Christmas time, when the mind has long stopped counting the calories consumed (only to start crying again in spring… :D).

And yes, I’m probably gaining weight too,… but come on, isn’t it cozy to sit at your desk in the evening with a cup of tea (without milk!), munching on cookies and reading the latest witty outpourings (from me :D) here on Parfumo? Normally, I would say that you need a hangover to make the whole thing perfect, but mine would never leave me alone if I had anything to eat on my table, no matter what. Even in soup, he would stick his furry paw just to shake it off in shock afterward and spread soup everywhere… good thing soup is only eaten at the dining table and the fur monster isn’t allowed on it… :D

But back to the fragrance. As initially mentioned, there are good and less good Tesori fragrances, and this one belongs to the really good-smelling ones and is unbeatable at this price. I would try to test it somehow.

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240 short views on the fragrance

Jazzy76

8 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

5

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

Trippilippi

5 years ago

3

A nice and warm gourmand perfume, a sort of cheaper version of loukhoum from Keiko

PedroCabral

1 year ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

1

A nice mix of almond, honey, vanilla and spices. So oriental. Very good quality/price ratio.

FrauKirsche

2 years ago

6.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

34

31

Almond cookies
explode
into powder
On dark roses
shine honeycombs
Under the
labdanum blanket
fluffy sweet
vanilla kisses...

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Guerlinchen

2 years ago

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33

41

What's going on HERE?! A half-sister of Shalimar Millésime Tonka arrives in such a simple outfit. Cozy-sweet. Try it! Great.

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SchatzSucher

5 years ago

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31

18

Delicate, powdery almond fluff, mildly spiced, lightly sweetened. Nothing clings, nothing pushes forward. Such unobtrusive gourmands are lovely.

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CoraKirsch

3 years ago

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32

19

Is it embarrassing or delightful?
When a fragrance under €10 is genuinely liked?
Because of creaminess, soft spice & fluffiness?
I like it. Oops.

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Yatagan

9 years ago

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30

8

Synthetic orgy: radically sweet, dusty-powdery-vanilla. Like candy from the 70s, when no one cared about health standards.

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Puschek95

4 years ago

28

7

One demands €100 & up for this perfume. Bam. It would be an amazing niche scent. ;) & yet it unjustly has to bear the cheap reputation.

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Aukai

4 years ago

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Delicate blossoms, gently candied,
on stems of marzipan,
leaves of cinnamon and vanilla.
Fertilized with cocoa
they stand in the bed
in warm Harz soil.

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