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Everlasting 2016

8.2 / 10 37 Ratings
A popular perfume by The Zoo for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is resinous-woody. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous
Woody
Earthy
Spicy
Floral

Fragrance Notes

LabdanumLabdanum French narcissus absoluteFrench narcissus absolute WoodsWoods MossMoss MuskMusk

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Ratings
Scent
8.237 Ratings
Longevity
8.332 Ratings
Sillage
7.432 Ratings
Bottle
6.026 Ratings
Submitted by FRAgrANTIC, last update on 07/25/2024.

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What the fragrance is similar to
Au Coeur du Désert by Tauer Perfumes
Au Coeur du Désert
№ 02 - L'Air du Désert Marocain (Eau de Toilette Intense) by Tauer Perfumes
№ 02 - L'Air du Désert Marocain Eau de Toilette Intense
Led IV by Jazmin Saraϊ
Led IV

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
Supersegi

40 Reviews
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Supersegi
Supersegi
Helpful Review 7  
Everloving
Dry.
Comfortable.
Beauty that changes but remains true to itself.

It has been said here many times - L'air du désert Marocain without "annoying" or "scratchy", the dry, warm, and deep notes alone as a perfume. Dry, woody, light.

After sniffing the tester for weeks, half-empty in my bag, because I became addicted to this scent, I had to give Mr. Laudamiel my money again.

How one manages to combine niche/avant-garde with a mass-appealing compliment magnet in such a simple fragrance is absolutely beyond me.

It smells very unique without being off-putting (like Club Design/No perfume from the same house or sometimes even LADDM from Tauer, which was too "strange" for many).

I smell and smell, and it changes hardly at all, so there must be many aroma chemicals, yet they feel so natural that my nose is almost afraid of losing this scent.

Great art that is as simply designed as the music of Erik Satie. Understandable. A feeling is conveyed, but not overly questioned. You smile at each other and feel connected.

All from The Zoo are such that my scent memory could immediately identify this fragrance from thousands of others.

Unlike other houses whose scents can be confused within the same family (Creed often smells like designer fragrances, Malle smells too complex to evoke a clear "memory"), here most are such that my nose clearly knows, "today I want to smell like this."
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GuidoSch

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GuidoSch
GuidoSch
Very helpful Review 10  
Expect the unexpected...
... this advertising slogan from a shopping center in the Ruhr area fits very well with this extraordinary fragrance. First of all, "Thank you" once again to Yatagan, without whom I would not have discovered this scent!

The more often I wear this fragrance, the deeper the friendship grows. Especially now during the cool days, it is wonderfully wearable, thanks to this beautiful mossy-resinous blend that is very pleasantly noticeable throughout its duration, without becoming overwhelming, as I have experienced with other brands. It is likely that the daffodil gives the scent a touch of downsized elegance, which I personally really like! One should not expect a grand scent evolution, but that can be easily forgiven!

Actually, I am also a fan of an extensive sillage, which comes across as moderate here. In this case, I enjoy the fragrance almost in my quiet little chamber ;-)

It should be noted that the fragrances by Christophe Laudamiel are indeed extraordinary, which brings us back to the beginning of my comment.

The sources for purchasing are quite sparse. Besides New York, the fragrances are only available in Amsterdam and Berlin, where I bought a bottle at Breathe Cosmetics. In this context, I also had the pleasure of testing more zoos.

Conclusion: Don’t wait for the unexpected, try the unexpected ;-)
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Yatagan

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Yatagan
Yatagan
Top Review 52  
Côte d'Azur 1966
Uncommented Scents No. 128

After initial skepticism and much critical distance (see my blog), I am ultimately quite taken with Luca Turin's and Tania Sanchez's new blockbuster on scents and fragrances (Perfumes. The Guide. 2018). I can relate to much of it, but not everything; that would be strange.

Overall, however, the new direction (Neoclassicism - self-taught - distance from the oligarchs, former heroes, and the mainstream: thanks to DasguteLeben for the insightful explanation) seems understandable and coherent, even if the strong support for friends and companions (such as Calice Becker) may be unsettling. But that's what one's own nose is for.

Now to a perfumer and his brand, which I briefly introduced in my last comment: Christophe Laudamiel. I’ll quote myself: "Enfant Terrible of the fragrance scene (just take a look at his entire body of work), star at IFF Inc. and now the head and nose behind his own brand 'The Zoo'."
Luca Turin strongly advocates for this potential new star in the fragrance sky and rates his creations almost exclusively good to very good. This also applies to Everlasting, whose longevity, according to the great master, is as the name suggests. To start with: I do not find that to be true! The scent only seems to have a strong presence at first, but soon weakens and lasts hardly from evening to the next morning (as predicted), at best as a faint hint. Nevertheless, it is certainly not a light or fleeting fragrance (longevity and sillage: 8.0). So please do not press the spray head more than once or twice! This is a warning to all unsuspecting gentlemen who are used to emptying their Ambroxan waters by a quarter at the first use.

I find LT's assessment clever and mostly correct, that the scent is "Laudamiel's take on the classic 1950s masculine": it is, however, simultaneously more refined and raw than the originals of the time, smelling at first like the eccentric child of Je Reviers and Old Spice. Can it be phrased more beautifully? No, it cannot!

Despite all the enthusiasm for these references, I do not want to withhold my own perspective: Yes, it smells like a classic men's fragrance, yes, there is something of the old (!) Old Spice in it, but Everlasting also reminds me, or even more so as an idea (and not in the sense of a fragrance twin), of classics from the 60s, such as Russian Leather, the old Habit Rouge, Prestige, Grès pour Homme, or older, mostly discontinued Galimards (Monsieur, Seigneur) or fragrances from Grasse in general. Hence the association from the title line: A man in a perfectly tailored suit in a sports coupe or convertible, probably accompanied, glides over the streets of the Côte d'Azur, leaving a trail of spicy, smoky, resinous, woody, mossy, perhaps leathery aura.

The latter notes are actually enough to imagine the scent and understand it. With one exception regarding the overall impression: In fact, one would not easily mistake the scent for a true vintage representative. It is less discreet than a man in the 60s would have tolerated. It is less aromatic-masculine than a man in the 60s would have wanted.

The drive in the sports coupe continues over the roads of southern France: In the trunk, many references to the 50s and 60s, but in the paint, new signs are unfolding: less chrome and more plastic. But that does not disturb; it adds to the charm of the fragrance.
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18 short views on the fragrance
3 years ago
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Nice parfum for the Wonder. Gratis combinación here created by Laudamiel of the Narcisuss with the resinous part of the labdanum. Very cozy
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Captain Curzon
Lakes of Labdanum
Deep and warm
Daffodil fluff
Lighthouse green
Shimmers from afar
On mossy wood boats
In musky clouds
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Resin goats and daffodils
on evening labdanum fields
dry wood warm brown
green-golden spice shimmer in the sunlight
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What happens when you combine avant-garde and conservative elegance? Everlasting: spicy, resinous, woody, mossy: 007 Cote d'Azur 1966.
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Black-and-white photographs
of long-abandoned landscapes
evoke a dry-tasting nostalgia
Pale green moments
fade away into the cosmos
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Gently swaying meadow daffodils nod in the evening's warm breezes, shimmering with golden amber light droplets.
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Tauers "L'Air du.." after a fasting cure. Slim & lean, reduced to the essentials: labdanum, daffodil & hay, the rest is Chypre noise.
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Primarily earthy-resinous, with a background of spicy-floral notes and moderate sweetness. An unusual but easily wearable scent.
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Amber with a Chypre touch & a focus on a connecting element: a labdanum study, reminiscent of Tauer's #2, herb-floral, rough-creamy, gritty.
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Wonderful woody-fresh scent with radiant resins and a sunny-floral spirit. A masterpiece.
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