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Shooting Stars

Dhofar Xerjoff 2007

7.8 / 10 75 Ratings

A popular perfume by Xerjoff for women and men, released in 2007. The scent is spicy-woody. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Green

Floral

Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Basil

Bergamot

Litsea cubeba Sage

Sage

Coriander

Grapefruit Lemon

Lemon

Heart Notes

Bay leaf

Galbanum

Orange blossom

Lavender

Pine

Rose

Spikenard

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Carnation

Myroswelia balsam Vanilla

Vanilla

Ambergris

Labdanum

Patchouli

Perfumer

Jacques Flori

Ratings

Scent

7.875 Ratings

Longevity

8.164 Ratings

Sillage

7.757 Ratings

Bottle

8.777 Ratings

Value for money

5.723 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet · last update on 07/11/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Shooting Stars.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/07/2010

10Scent 7.5Longevity

FrauHolle
556 Reviews

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FrauHolle

Top Review 23

Thick, dense spruces nodding in the thick spruce thicket

First of all, many thanks to Kankuro's dad or grandpa, the sample surely comes from them, this is a "best-ager" scent.

Right after spraying, I am hit by a tree trunk filled with plenty of spruce needles in the branches, which, surprisingly, do not prick.

I’ve looked this up, just so you don’t tell your children something wrong:
>>The needles are usually one to two centimeters long and pointed or tapering, and in some species even sharp and piercing. The needles are separated from the bark-colored "needle stalk" by a separating layer. Here, the needle detaches after dying. Normally, the needles remain on the branches for six to 13 years, but they fall off more quickly under stress.

This spruce here had no stress at all.
Neither from loggers nor from wildfires. This spruce stood in the midst of a thicket, surrounded by rose beds and lavender fields. In its nursery, it was mothered around the clock.
Its bark was daily, at sunset, embalmed with cloves from southern France and then with the finest spices; and at dawn, the dew drops were meticulously collected with small pipettes, bottled in pretty, golden flacons, for eternity, thus perfume, and archived.

Yes, I believe that’s how it was... and I’ll go ahead and enter that in Wiki now.

07/04/2011

8Scent 7.5Longevity

Florblanca
1166 Reviews

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Top Review 16

A Surprise from Monsieur Flori for Rosenliesl Flori

Robinto was also significantly involved in this surprise, as he sent me this sample. Thank you again, Rob.

One thing upfront: Dhofar is a men's fragrance that I, as a woman, would not wear, even though I like it immensely. Certain notes in it do not suit the Rosenliesl, even if rose is supposed to be present.

The opening is fresh, not citrus-fresh, but green, and dark green at that.

I remember my grandfather, who always loved to go into the woods at the end of summer to collect mushrooms for the family. Occasionally, I would go along if I managed to get up at 4 a.m. It was still twilight in the woods and everything was covered in dew. My grandfather diligently found all the mushrooms that were anywhere within a 20-meter radius in front of us, to the left or right (even the ones I stumbled over in my blindness...).

At some point, the sun rose and evaporated the dew, warming the forest floor, and I could take off my jacket. That was my favorite moment. Because the forest floor smelled of warm earth, decaying leaves, green, juicy grasses, resin, pine needles, and tree foliage. Just like that hour in the woods, Dhofar smells. I love this scent of the forest.

Somewhere in that forest, there is also a wild beehive with beeswax and sweet forest honey, running down the tree, so full is the hive. As it gets warmer, the pine needles begin to scent and join the already existing fragrance mix - along with the honey.

No roses bloom in the forest anymore; they have all mutated into rose hips, and I don't perceive any roses in Dhofar, at most rose petals. Wild lavender still blooms at the edge of the forest, but only a few flowers; most are already forming seeds.

Something felt very familiar in Dhofar, but that is not from the forest. To my knowledge, there are no bay laurel trees in the forest... at least not in our latitudes. But I clearly perceive bay leaf. It is a sweet-green leaf scent, spicy and very pleasant. I have bay laurel on my balcony and occasionally crush a leaf just to smell it.

The scent becomes more beautiful, stronger, more complex, and warmer with each passing minute. Floral notes are so tightly woven in that I cannot identify them as such. Nor do I need to, because as it is, it fits 100%. I did not perceive it as having a top, heart, and base note progression, but rather as a very broad fragrance spectrum, in which everything, absolutely everything, is excellently coordinated. The scent revealed different facets throughout its entire duration, each one more beautiful than the last.

On my skin, Dhofar takes on a slightly sweet forest note that bothers me a bit about the overall scent. Therefore, I am sure that Dhofar was really composed only for men's skin. A wonderful fragrance, a masterpiece.

10/20/2014

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Leimbacher
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Very helpful Review 12

Dirty Hybrid-Italo-Arab

When you know that one of the perfumes tested today will be the 1500th comment here on Parfumo, you naturally reach for two hopefuls, high-flyers, legends, insider tips, luxury scents, crowd-pleasers. All of that and much more was promised (and delivered) by the two legendary Xerjoffs:

& Dhofar.

In the end, I didn't choose Dhofar because

was simply better, less ambiguous, although definitely a bit more boring. Dhofar is anything but boring, a true men's scent & macho. But it is not a clear 100% fragrance, so

will later become number 1500 in the evening. Nevertheless, Dhofar deserves an equally detailed, euphoric, and lengthy comment - so just see it as a kind of double feature for the anniversary.

Dhofar is a mix of an Arab luxury taxi driver at 50 degrees in the shade and an Italian up-and-coming mafioso in Sicily, just a few degrees cooler. Abundant chest hair, sweat, macho attitude, green moss old-school feeling, hot, dry desert sand, Amouages, saffron, basil, cumin - man in every cell of its bottle! Dirty, but still many flowers, especially roses with style. Everything dried out, parched, rough, dirty, sexy. Sweat, not fresh, but also not stinky old. Precisely balanced, bold, hard to wear, of the highest, highest quality. Like an Arab taxi made of gold, all windows down. Arab bazaars, 1000 days without rain. Drought, the perfume as the only hope. Bold, dirty, golden, expensive, sophisticated, masculine. Worth every penny, nowhere copied - Bravo Xerjoff!

Bottle: from the box, through the silk bag to the actual bottle - you can see every cent!
Sillage: aggressive bump, but not a thug.
Longevity: just shy of double digits - you can complain at 200€/50 ml, but you don't have to.

Conclusion: the Jules of Arabia and certainly one of the boldest and most controversial fragrances of the Italian high-end brand. It ranks right up there for me with, for example, a few Amouages. Only the rather clear linearity and its aggressive, musty-sexy character keep it from an even higher rating.

05/08/2021

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Serenissima
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Very helpful Review 8

A Spicy-Herbal Path to the Coast

Can777 has repeatedly filled me with his wonderful, very special fragrances. He knows very well that I cannot resist and that he can lure me onto mysterious paths.
Unfortunately, I had forgotten the little pouch with his flacons. Shame on me!

"Dhofar" from the Xerjoff Shooting Stars Collection is one of those fragrances that require a longer acclimatization period. But then they are there, spreading out - always lounging nicely on the skin - and spreading their aromas, scents, and stories in a relaxed atmosphere: come sit with me! At least that was the case with "Dhofar"!

We wanted to go to the coast, the steep cliffs that people here always talk about. There are supposedly smuggler paths and caves. Surprises dwell there!
But first, the path leads gently uphill through the typically overgrown maquis: underbrush, bushes, herbal healing and spice plants, and now and then a fruit tree or something prickly and needle-like reaching for the sky.
The worn path is accompanied by basil, herbaceous and fragrant with every touch, going against the grain; sage is just as sensitive and ready for a fight, only more intense in its herbal and spicy notes, flirting with coriander. The path is still long; up there I only see the pines standing as coastal guardians.
However, it also smells remarkably strong of uncultivated, natural herbs.
Nothing here is "pampered," nothing is shaped or trimmed; little twigs and thorns still hang with the hair of goats that recently roamed here.
The Hesperides trees with their ripe, fragrant fruits stand loosely scattered; no order dominates them; they probably once belonged to a small garden, a little cottage. The fully blooming orange trees still testify to that; while the first fruits are already changing color - round, light yellow, and later quite edible! Will we still harvest them?
Now they stand here, and they all try to explain to us that they are the Hesperides for a Chypre fragrance; we should just see; should give them the opportunity against ...
Ah, who would want to take away their illusion? Nothing here is!
Different aromatic laurel plants unfold, there is space, and so they enjoy light and sun. Not without a strong-spicy scent; a faint hint of ethereal, strong oil lingers in the summery warm air. Butterflies rest on them, their beautiful wings stretched out and spread towards the light.
Old gnarled lavender bushes with fragrant leaf and flower adornments announce an abandoned farmhouse garden. Not uncommon up here. What will we find here?
Overgrown with grass/weeds, everything is alive; it has learned to assert its place.
Roses and garden carnations live here, slightly tousled, but still beautiful in their naturalness. Their fine scent wafts over the overgrown green that has been accompanying our path for some time now. Thick bumblebees stumble along their way with their fully loaded "pollen bags." How do they manage to fly at all?
Almost at the top of the cliff, the pine umbrellas already fragrant in sight, we take the last meters of this path under our feet.
Such green, spicy, woody, and also balsamic scent notes have encountered us so far.
The pines along the cliff path exude the sun-soaked, slightly weary scent of their needles, as they have been busy during the day generously providing fragrant shade for the hikers up here. Below them runs the sandy path, covered with pine needles from several generations, mysteriously rustling along the coastal edge.
Here we are: above a small white beach, in whose background several small caves open up; under the shade-giving pine umbrellas and surrounded by the herbal, spicy scents of the maquis.
Herb scent and flower garden, pine needles and sea breeze - a scenario conceived by good gods! Conceived to delight us!
Here is the first and ideal spot for our picnic blanket: we share the bottle of wine, some cheese, tomatoes, and olives, breaking the fresh white bread. A small stream of fresh water is nearby.
The bay opens wide under our gaze; below us the rolling and foaming of the sea; further away, a blue-gray expanse on which small white crests dance.
Even in the pines, the cicadas sit and create their very own evening atmosphere.
Herb scent and flower garden, pine needles and sea breeze - an impression of particularly special charm. XerJoff is the scent painter here!
Unnoticed, the classic scent base package has accompanied us on our unconventional hike. It means: without its contribution, everything is nothing.
Balsamic and cream-white warm, the scent of vanilla develops; even Aphrodite has secretly joined us. She enjoyed that we did not notice her.
Brown-golden patchouli threads entwine the vanilla scent here: both have long waited for their sensually fragrant union.
Sandalwood and labdanum added slightly resinous-animalistic accords; this walk should not remain entirely passionless. After all, it is summer, the cicadas are playing music, the senses are awakened, and ... By now, the night and scent flow are too beautiful!
Surrounded by these sensually balsamic scent nuances, we encounter the coast before us again.
The bay is embraced widely, bright smoky-pleasing amber lights, like a glowing pearl necklace, form a rich golden conclusion.
Above a bay on the lively coast, amidst robust herbs, flowers, and fruits in the background, we enjoy in the distance an amber fire that beautifies the moment.
It is the moment to enjoy freedom in this wide embrace.

"Dhofar" lies in an area in the south of Oman; the view from there leads into the desert!
Therefore, I could not take this name literally; I had to depict wide coasts, spicy maquis, and pine-lined paths.
With all my love for the Orient, I still did not find the right access.
May Xerjoff forgive me: Shooting Stars "Dhofar" is so much more than just desert!

07/24/2011

8Scent 10Longevity

Ergoproxy
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Masculine to the End!

My first fragrance experience with the brand Xerjoff was rather disappointing. Therefore, I was all the more curious about the second sample that Flor sent me.

Wow, what an intensity! A drop was enough to completely envelop me in this woody-spicy scent.

Dhofar starts off quite harmlessly with a fresh-herbaceous top note.

This quickly fades away to make room for a whole army of woody, floral, and spicy notes. Everything is extremely masculine and very stylish.

The base then develops into a balsamic-earthy scent and maintains its masculine character despite the amber and vanilla until the very end.

However, I was a bit puzzled by the name of the perfume! Dhofar is a province in the south of Oman and is known for its incense. I expected to find this in the perfume, but it was nowhere to be found. I wasn't disappointed by this, on the contrary!

I would say that Mr. Flori has achieved something great here, and for that, one can certainly reach a little deeper into their wallet.