Coasterdude

I adore this fragrance. Beautiful strong amber that lasts all day, and has a brilliant photorealistic dryness, a sandpaper rub, that never stops sitting. The fragrance is strong but wearable year round in my opinion as long as you're a bit interesting and not a clone. Au coeur de desert may not be as deserty as some extremely niche offerings (I would love some civet or birch tar for example) but outside of Ensars and PRINs and other multimillionaire fragrances, this is among the best 165 USD can buy.


One knock against it is the atomizer sucks... it needs to be manually put back up after each spray making 3-10 spray applications near impossible. Also it has a very bad sillage prob 6 or 4. not sure where you guys get the longevity from.. it is weak for me. Not 2# Nota di Viaggio (Shukran…) or Baie 19 Eau de Parfum or Room Service weak but certainly no Musc Ravageur Eau de Parfum or The Lover's Tale or Unutamam or Mandodari either. It's mainstream niche but it's good.

With all due respect, you're wrong-- this beauteous vanila-animalic surpasses all even loose comparisons from Absolute Aphrodisiac to Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum to Oud Satin Mood Extrait de Parfum to "AddictiveArts - Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic | Clive Christian" to Slowdive. It's warm, rustic, swell, svelte, intense, sweet, sensual, romantic, erotic, and inoffensive all at once. it's a perfect fragrance surpassed for me in love only by Salome and Stercus and maybe Horizon and Unutamam and Oud Satin Mood Extrait de Parfum and The Lover's Tale yet is distinctly more pure than any of those-- with no challenge and perfect blending it feels even more natural and 3D than the already very natural Salome or Hyde for example. a true love-- haven't tried vintage but the current issue is a 10 anyways

The title might surprise you— but fear not

This feels so classy!

With its big aldehydic peach note up against leather— it feels like the guerlain family could have accidented into this fragrance

Yet it’s utterly modern

I’m proud of this world that this fragrance exists

It’s almost a Ombre Nomade or "Sapphire Collection - London | Widian / AJ Arabia" or Tuscan Leather Eau de Parfum or type fragrance but with a distinct more patron and melancholic feel

It’s truly beautiful— a fruity-leathery-bitter-smoke chypre that might be seen on Rick Owens’ or Boris Bidjan Saberi’s person.

Thus it is a love!!

This is an Allen Ginsberg/T.S. Eliott/ William Blake/Anne Carson/Charles Bukowski/Anne Sexton/Adrienne Rich poem as a fragrance. Let me explain: this perfume has as many bloody and sexual scenes as anything I could think of— but that same sensual hyraceum is also somehow an alternate frakinscence and myrrh. I’ve always found hyraveum, despite its reputation for extreme challenge to be an easier animalic than civet or castoreum to take. In fact try this if you like Series 3: Incense - Kyoto or Series 2: Red - Sequoia type resin or even Jubilation XXV Man or even in a weird way "AddictiveArts - Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic | Clive Christian" or even Unutamam or Horizon

This is basically the title of this review with a ton of Laphraoig 10 thrown in. But that’s great!! I’m a mezcal drinker and this a like a Vieux Carré with Tobàla Mezcal, Laphroaig 25, and George T stagg rye all at once. It’s probably the only cocktail or booze perfume I’ll ever need cause it’s so unique.

This is for people who order Aviations, Torontos, Last Words, Corpse Reviver #2 and Vieux Carré.

But I also want to push back— 13-30 year olds can wear this fragrance no problem- you are prob just an emo or theater kid.

This is a fave for sure