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Collection Privée

Jeruk of Kintamani Bali Surfer's 2009

7.1 / 10 15 Ratings

A perfume by Bali Surfer's for women and men, released in 2009. The scent is woody-earthy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Earthy

Spicy

Resinous

Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cumin

Honey

Klempzordivan

Heart Notes

Sumatran patchouli Violet

Violet

Base Notes

Bourbon vanilla

Gaiac wood

Sandalwood Amber

Amber

Cedarwood

White musk

Zempfrixdolam

Ratings

Scent

7.115 Ratings

Longevity

7.713 Ratings

Sillage

6.913 Ratings

Bottle

7.416 Ratings

Submitted by Taamii · last update on 12/07/2024.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Privée collection.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Al Fareed

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/07/2024

7Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Strandluft
8 Reviews

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Strandluft

1

Oriental Honey Shower Gel

Elegant dark synthetic shower gel accord with strong parallels to "Al Fareed / الفريد | Arabian Oud / العربية للعود". The Gaïac Précieux feels much more complex due to the addition of honey and does not drift as strongly into woodiness in the drydown. The test sniffers perceived the honey and this dark deodorant noise right away without knowing the pyramid. An interesting balancing act of yellow gold and anthracite.

Updated on 12/07/2024

04/19/2024

8.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

BunteHexe27
34 Reviews

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BunteHexe27

3

A Wooden Treasure Chest from the Sacred Forest

On the wooden dresser stands a box made of wood, gray medium brown, unpatterned, finely oiled. What might it contain? Memories? Notes with poems? Pearls? Yet the pleasant scent it unfolds makes me wait before opening it. I take it in my hands and hold my nose to the oiled surface. Earthy patchouli oil, a hint of freshly ground cumin, honey balm, a half drop of violet oil. I see a young woman before me, measuring the oils and spices carefully, gently stirring and swirling, then lovingly admiring the finely polished wood and dipping a cloth into her self-prepared wax oil, first rubbing a little onto the wood and then repeatedly applying a bit of the balm.

What might the box contain now, for there is more wood in the scent and something fine and herbal. The lid swings lightly on its hinge. The hinted fragrance reveals itself in a gentle cloud. A treasure chest full of noble incense. There is warm brown cedar next to reddish-brown sandalwood shavings, and there are also the gray-brown shavings of the wood that envelops them. There lie two kinds of unimaginably precious resins, white and inconspicuous gray little lumps. A vanilla pod gives off a little dust of fine sweetness. I set the box down on the dresser and linger for minutes, as images of an ancient forest, a sacred fire, fine smoke, and deep silence fill me. Then I close it again, lay my cheek against the wood. Then I put it back and leave, carrying the silence within me.

"Collection Privée - Gaïac Précieux | Galimard" is the fourth fragrance in the series dedicated to precious essences. And this scent is also carefully composed, initially presenting warm, bright, and slightly sweet notes of cumin and honey, then unfolding an earthy tone with just a hint of bloom, patchouli, and violet, before revealing a treasure of noble woods, guaiac, cedar, sandalwood, and resins - amber and musk I have not yet mentioned - which is well balanced between the warm woody note and a fine hint of smoke. A bright, but not citrusy or floral, rather oily warm comforting scent that does not impose itself but lingers on the skin and soothes.

Guaiac wood, which is the centerpiece here, is a gray-brown light tropical wood from Latin America that is very hard and used in industry, while also having anti-inflammatory effects and having been smoked since ancient times. It is said to have a smoky note. I cannot distinguish it from the accord with sandalwood and cedarwood, but this wood accord is very harmonious, even with the resins. An extremely successful composition.

The bottle now has the same light brown design as the others in the Collection privée and no longer the one depicted.

Updated on 04/19/2024

11/05/2019

8.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Ttfortwo
92 Reviews

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Ttfortwo

Top Review 14

Look, a perfume without a top note…

… at least without the usual, cheerful and buoyant notes, those citrusy-bergamot airy floral nose catchers that push their way directly into the limbic system to inevitably trigger a cascade of purchase reflexes fueled by happiness hormones.

This one starts with a delicately sweetened cumin, a bit sweaty, a bit grumbly and muffled - as if the scent had slept poorly, somewhat disagreeable, not exactly in a bad mood, but close to it. Nevertheless - surprise! - it is wearable. Just unusual and requires some getting used to, and very, very peculiar.

The cumin cheerfully and grumpily retreats to the background after about half an hour, making way for a milky herbaceous scent of unripe nuts and a bitter-earthy, very dry patchouli.

After about an hour and a half on the skin, a strange heart note has almost completely established itself, dust-dry ambrette and very woody. A pleasant wood, old, aromatic, darkly shimmering, polished, oiled, brightened up by a hint of elder stem herbaceousness. The suggestion of vanilla is conciliatory, grumbling and taciturn in a good-natured way, but the scent remains throughout.

It will hardly change over the next few hours: dark wood, very faint vanilla, and dry amber spice will simply become a bit quieter and bid farewell from my skin after four or five hours. My clothing smells noticeably good for about six hours, with delicate lingering hints remaining until the next day.

Gaïac Précieux comes completely without flowers. The violet, well... I smelled it once, but in my recent attempts, I mostly couldn’t detect it anymore. It certainly doesn’t play an independent role, integrating very indirectly into the overall impression.

It is not a particularly pleasing scent, dark, peculiar, a bit bitter, a bit grumbly, and with a defiant “Come-ON-you” attitude. Nevertheless, I like it - in contrast to “Bois” from the same collection, which approaches the theme of “wood” from the silvery-bright side - and with its extreme, almost plastic-like synthetic quality, it will not find love with me.

The sillage remains - typical for extrait - in a comfortable range, softly perceptible at a good arm's length. The longevity is acceptable.

Updated on 11/06/2019

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ricericebaby

2 months ago

1

Not a polite smell. The cumin is stark and sweaty, but the honey rounds it out. Guaiac brings campfire smokiness, Violet makes it beautifully strange.