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American Pharaoh II Folkwinds 2024

8.7 / 10 10 Ratings

A new and limited perfume by Folkwinds for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is woody-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Animal

Fruity

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Cherry wine absolute

Virginia tobacco absolute

Abelmoschus

Black ambergris absolute

Damask rose absolute

Mongolian deer musk Muskrat

Muskrat

Chili

Chocolate

Mexican vanilla

Sandalwood absolute

Virginia cedar absolute

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Jono Bornstein Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

8.710 Ratings

Longevity

8.39 Ratings

Sillage

8.09 Ratings

Bottle

8.312 Ratings

Submitted by Chizza · last update on 12/14/2025.

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3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/14/2025

9Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

Antro
35 Reviews

Antro

Musky cigar dipped in cherry wine.

The first thing you get from this is that it has lots of animalics on it. Its very prominent but it has been blended very well not to be fecal or unpleasent rather its very enjoyable atleast to me. it has very nice cherrywine smell on it juicy cherry that give fruityness but its wine so its also boozy. The tobacco on this one is really good its usually not my cup of tea or glass of wine in this case, but in this scent its not the main player in my opinion. Yes its noticable but to me the animalics and cherry wine are much more noticable. I feel like the vanilla and chocolate make this smoother scent they are really not noticable but if they were not in there this would be much more pungend and not as smooth scent.
It also has woody nuance to it from the sandalwood but would not personally say its super noticable maybe more on the end of its life.

This for sure is love or hate scent. If you dont like animalics just stay away from this you will have bad time with it. but if you dont and the other notes are not something you dislike mainly cherrywine and tobacco id say its perfect to atleast try if you get chance for that.

11/22/2024

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

JimmyZ
11 Reviews

JimmyZ

2

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American Pharaoh was certainly a case...a polarizing creation that really did very well for Folkwinds, being the best seller and the most iconic of the house, considering the cold welcome received by the perfumery community.
In fact, I understand the criticism; modern American perfumery, more than others, has this peculiarity to use exceptional quality ingredients with a tremendous lack of technique, and that's clearly recognizable in the poor structure that the perfume seems to have..well, in this specific case I should say "to had". The second chapter actually has something more to say, bringing a severe quantity of precious materials: lot of deer musk and muskrat, a good value in ambergris, not counting the true protagonist that is the fabulous Bright Virginia tobacco, the one descending from the plantations in Pensylvania , very aromatic and sweet.
Are you familiar with the smell of natural tobacco leaf? Cigar or pipe smoker, maybe? Then that's the kind of independent creation you are looking for...fantastic tobacco scent, raw, manly and western.
It's also musky, very musky with this chili opening and a full evolution.
You want a warm, chocolatey, leathery tobacco scent? Go for a cohiban coffee or whatever, but if you want the plain stuff, I mean the natural and fragrant Aroma of pure tobacco you must go with this one.

03/18/2025

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Floyd
582 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 51

In the Thrall of the Prairie

Life is sometimes lonely out here. The sun runs red like dead cherries before the entrance to the tent into the night, staggering day-drunk like port wine over the steppes, flowing down from the rocks like from pyramids, shimmering like ghosts in the smoke over distant fires, which wilt cool like roses on the horizon. They soon whisper sweet animal trails that still crawl warmly over the floors over thin cocoa-dusty layers. There are salt edges of long-dried lakes, endless weavings of cedar fibers that smolder gently like peat into the vastness, where Virginia tobacco leaves wither, the spicy-archaic, raw, rotten, still soaked with fermented fruits, intoxicated by the scent of the prairie.
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The label Folkwinds, founded by Jono Bornstein in 2022, primarily uses natural raw materials from America to capture the scent landscapes of North America. This seems to be succeeding better and better. While the first version of "American Pharao" appeared less refined and rounded despite high-quality materials, I perceive the second version as much more delicate and balanced.
A red thread runs through the fragrance from beginning to end, the cherry wine, subtly sweet and boozy like a slightly less sweet port wine, lightly smoky with spicy Virginia tobacco leaf in the background at the start. The Damask rose initially emphasizes the acidity of the wine, before the various types of musk (Abelmoschus, deer musk, musk) become noticeable beneath it, sweetly animalistic, warm, and bitter, providing depth. The sweetness of the musk notes is accentuated by a hint of chocolate and vanilla. As time goes on, the Virginia tobacco becomes more pronounced, raw, spicy, and hay-like dry, initially still connected with the slightly salty but clearly tobacco-like amber, before it is replaced by the woody-warm notes of Virginia cedar, creating a slightly peaty-smoky impression with the other notes. Gradually, the cherry wine note becomes more present again, as if it were releasing the tobacco leaf in the end. The thrall of the prairie is rather moderate but persistent in nature.

(With thanks to Schoebksr)