Description
Aziyade was presented in 2008 and named after the book known also as Constantinople by Pierre Loti, half-autobiographic novel based on a diary written by a French officer in Greece and Istanbul in autumn and winter 1876. The book tells a story of Loti’s forbidden love for 18 year old Aziyade, a girl from harem, as well as about his friendship with Spanish servant Solomon.
Perfume Aziyade was created to interpret love, passion and erotics, as a perfume of pure extasy. It opens with pomegranate, crystalized date fruit, almond, orange and dry plum with spicy accords of cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, Egyptian cumin, incense, vanilla, Madagascar vanilla absolute, patchouli, musk and labdanum. The perfume is available as 50ml and 100ml edp. Perfumer is Marc-Antoine Corticchiato.
wocypehypy – :
Good grief, this stuff is…carnal. Other reviews are not far off. The plum/cumin/incense/cardamom combo is wicked. It is thick and provocative without being overwhelming and heavy. I don’t know how the perfumer did it! I have a generous decant, but I can see this one getting a fair amount of use in fall and winter. At this point, I do view it as FBW. Sillage is decent; longevity is good. If you’re looking for something different and sensual, I’d say “look no further.”
ilyachka – :
یکی از دوستانی که من همیشه ریویوهاشو میخوندم و تقريبا تو فرگ از محدود ایرانیهایی بود که از ریویوهاش قطعا لذت و دانش درباب موضوع ریویو می گرفتم چیزی درباره ازیاد نوشته که به کلی گیج ام کرد و البته ناامید! من دوسال پیش پاییز ازیاد شیشه جدید از شقایق دو گرفتم و بعدها همین چندوقت پیش(بااینکه مدتها آقاى محسنی ازیاد جعبه فلزی رو با قيمت پونصدتومن برام نگه داشته بود اما به جاش همواره کارای دیگه ای بود بگیرم)یه جعبه قدیم اش رو با قیمت مقطوع یک میلیون از جایی گرفتم! تفاوت در پرفورمنسشون کاملا واضح بود اما ماهیت و کیفیت کار یکسان! حالا تعجب من چیه? اینکه آلو بیس بنیادی ازیاد است و شیرینی بابت خرماس و زیره نقش محوری نداره!هیچ بلکه به شامه من که زیره رو خوب می شناسه چندان نقشی نداره
اما نکته مهمتر اینکه واقعا تغییرات ای کار همچون تغييرات فوژق بنگال خیره کنندس برخلاف تصور دوستان! راستش این ماهیت کارای گرم امپایر است خواه فوژق بنگال باشه یا وازامبا و یا کویغ عثمان و امبر روس و همین ازیاد خانم عثماني(ازیاد اسم بانویی ترک در زمان عثماني ها بوده که مردکی فرانسوی از سفارت فرانسه عاشقش میشه و خوب عاقبت عشق کفار افرنگی به زن مسلمان در دارالخلافه تنها امپراتوري مدعی خلافت اسلامی معلوم چی میشه! ظاهرا قصد عطر شرح این افسانه ظاهرا تاریخی عاشقانه است! گفتم افسانه منظورم مایس یا اسطوره بود که کارکردش طبیعی نمایی امر تاریخی ست و همين که یک خوش خوشک قایم باشکی افرنگ و ترک در قلب امپراتوری عثماني که آن زمان بيمار اروپا می خواندنش،را شایسته ی زنده نگه داشتن و روایت می داند قطعا اسطوره بیش از تاریخ و امر تاریخی حضور دارد فلذا نوشتیم افسانه و شما هم اسطوره بخوانید یا همان ايدئولوژي در نقاب روایت!) که در پوشش های اولیه و نگاه نخست حتی اگر یکماه هر روز بپوشید متوجه تغییرات آنها نمی شوید و ظاهرا خطی هستن اما همانقدر خطی و راکد که ظاهر رودخانه کارون می نمايد یعنی فی الواقع هیچ عطری مثل امپایرها تغییراتشون شگفتزده ات نمیکنه!(کارون گاه به حدی راکد میشه که تصور می کنی سمت حرکتش معکوس شده و می حواهی با اردنگی بر ماتحت گشادش به سمت خلیج فارس روانه کنی اما ابله باشي اگر چنين کنی چه آن زیر در لوای آرامش جنوبی اش آتشفشان دل زنان عرب و خروش رنج مردان شوربخت هور و فلات نهفته! مثل پر کاهی چنان بچرخاندت که خسته از گردش دیرینه سال خورشید بی رحم بخواهد انتقام گرمای تموز از توی الدنگ بگیرد خاصه اگر مفتخوری پایتخت نشین باشی که رفته ای لب کارون پترودلارهارو پارو کنی! و کارون مثل گرگ سبلان غریبه و آشنا، مهمان و انگل و کارگر و کفتار رو خوب میشناسه چنان که ما دیدیم سی سال همراه دخترش اروند از هیجده پسر دست بسته اش تو ام الرصاص تا جزیره مینو پرستاری کرد! اما راست میگی فقط یه سیاستمدار انگل یا مدیر زالوصف شکمو یا آخوندک حیله گر بنداز توش ببین چطور سه سوت گربه ماهی ها و کوسه هاشو صدا میزنه که انگل زدایی اش کنن!?)
timon-bobon – :
Elaborate, contradictory, intriguing, baffling, bewitching stuff. So eclectic in the notes it’s hitting, all over the smellscape, that my brain fizzes trying to process it all. Is it warm? citrusy? woody? fresh? clean? dirty? sexy? indoor? outdoor? masculine? feminine? All of the above and more. Need to give it more time – I’m worried that its complexity might not survive on my skin – but I’m afraid this one might turn out to have conquered me completely. Riddle inside a mystery inside an enigma. WANT.
evelyn-p – :
9:15 – Opens with orange and BO. I’m lucky and don’t usually get that funk from cumin, so that was surprising. Strangely, not bad. Somehow minty.
The more I smell this, the more I’m into it. Doing that whole huffing my wrist thing.
It’s like if my natural underarm aroma was “Dr. Pepper” and orange peel.
11:15 – Dry down isn’t my favorite, too sweet. Souring just a bit on my skin. Def not a vanilla I could enjoy.
1:30 – Reapplying to use up the sample. It isn’t bad, just not me. Can’t deal with the end bits.
lan1560 – :
Strikingly sensual – I mean – HEAVY, heady, and frankly arousing. I get lost in Aziyade. It’s not work appropriate at all but I don’t care – it feels a little naughty to have a little on my wrist and feel stolen away from the dreary dullness of the office into somewhere soft and humid, just thick with sex. Sorry! I’m a bad girl! But I like it most on dates, if I’m feeling right or need to. Aziyade is generous, a total hedonist, completely assuming – feels like a smack in the face with how full-bodied it is, yet lasts hours. Soft and yet hard – and a little dark, a little illicit. I feel incredibly sexy when I wear this. It’s not for everyone (Tom Ford Plum Japonais feels similar, perhaps more accessible – and with a resinous oud drydown). But if you fall in love with it like I did, it’s the stuff of dreams. Totally transformative. Evocative to the extreme. Ripe and rich and juicy and oh so spicy. Just LOADED. So much so that it makes me feel abundant myself, overflowing, as if I could give all of myself, entirely, to another… of course, that feeling is what some of the best sex begins with. True story: On my boyfriend and I’s first date ever, we made out a little inappropriately at a cocktail lounge after he sniffed my wrist. What was I wearing? Obviously Aziyade.
lihodeev – :
I can see how this reminds of SL Arabie. But in place of the typical Lutens stewed fruit here you have a very prominent juicy sour-sweet pomegranate laced with cumin. These are the two main notes I get on my skin. Also I find it more lighthearted than Arabie if that makes sense.
I think this is the sexiest perfume I’ve ever smelled.
On a side note I truly miss the old bottles and the 50ml option.
marketing_vkontaktea – :
Oh my goodness—happiness!!! I have pretty much all the Serge Lutens, and Arabie gets hit about once a year or two, because it is so….strong, spicy just wow! It can also go a bit sickly sweet on me. This is like…Arabie but better (oh I can’t believe I said that). It’s strong on the plum and citrus, lifts up in a light lovely way with cardamom (which I ADORE!) along with light, tart ginger and pomegranate, is infused with sweet dates (doesn’t smell like cola to me—yay), and the whole is a swirl of incense (labdanum). This is the Marrakech to me!
My sizeable decant will go FB shortly. LOVE this.
Definitely try before you buy; it’s closest cousin, just similar DNA to me is SL Arabie, and if that one is a miss for you, this may be too, though I think this one is smoother and more balanced (I still love you Serge!).
Silage and Longevity are excellent! I’m in a cloud of delight for hours. I hope everyone around me is too. This may not be office appropriate but is sexy and sophisticated! I’m off to revel in my décolletage and nibble on my wrists…
replicaw19569 – :
Aziyade is modern and romantic scent. When I wore it, I remembered Femme Rochas original(I love it). Because both scents are included fruity Plum and bitter Cinnamon. Caraway as the main material is very spicy, and tightening the sweetness of Plum and Dates. This mixing is really dramatic, but amazingly, it’s so fresh. After dry-down, acrid thing gone from my skin and I felt a sweet oriental.
This fine perfume might gain the habit to me.
music-lev – :
It kicks off with a “fizzy” start, bringing you that soar, yet sweet coca-cola scent. Within minutes, the fizziness goes away and the perfume radiates the scent of plum and orange, wrapped up in tobacco sexiness.
This is a truly seductive, masculine, femme-fatale, sex-in-the-bottle kind of juice.
In my mind, it compliments the night-time the best. It is hard to tell whether I will be reaching out for Aziyade on autumn or spring, since it is a demi-seasonal blend to me. Aziyade is more of a ‘going out’ perfume.
I see myself wearing Aziyade with a red lip, all-black outfit and laces underneath.
daf – :
All I can say is, dangerous. I tried it in a small perfumery who holds the brand so I don’t have a sample but just tried in on a strip and then on my skin. Both open with an overdose of cumin and plums and cinnamon and muscade and…and….and. I never had so much an impression of a spice bazaar in hot summer in any other perfume. It’s like a plum and dates jam in which somebody has thrown all the cumin powder they could find and then all the other spices they could find. But it’s not sweet, nor just spicy. It’s everything together like the smells in an oriental kitchen in hot summer with plenty of spicy dishes simmering on the heat. And all that then mixed with the most dirtier animalic note that I smelled in a while outside of pure dark musc. Which is again the cumin with the dates but this time on hot skin. All this makes a bomb of a combination that evokes skin. When then afterwards I checked this perfume out on the site and saw it’s description about Constantinople and the harem, it all fit together. For the first time I think the description is exactly it. Usually they are mostly pretentious marketing scripts but for this one it’s exactly that. I kept smelling my wrist as it draws you in over and over but every time I was thinking if I would wear it. I am not shy of any fragrance or strength but this seems such a “personal” and skin smell and that it seems to me hard to just expose it out to everybody. Closest I find is Arabie of Lutens but that one now seems just a well behaved small kid compared to this one.
niknik – :
I have Arabie, and now I’ve got a sample of Aziyade. Don’t see any similar notes. Sory, perfum noses, but Aziyade smells like juicy chewing gum and horse stall, maybe because of much cumin and plum togerher?
Mencx346Negeltzex – :
Fragrantica Members please help! I am trying to decide on which Parfums d’Empire fragrance to purchase next. I own three already; two I love (Amber Russe and Wazamba) and one I have a hard time wearing (Yuzu Fou). I am debating between Aziyade, Fougere Bengal, and Musc Tonkin. My favorite scent of all time is Chaos by Donna Karan, so naturally I am drawn to Aziyade, but I am not sure about the cumin note. I hate cumin if it smells like body odor like in Eau d’Hermes.
I also like lavender, barbershop scents so I think I might like Fougere Bengal, but I don’t like Immortelle if it is done too strong and sweet smelling. Some members compare it to Etat Libre D’Orange The Afternoon of a Faun, which smells horrible to me.
Maybe I should just go with Musk Tonkin. It sounds intriguing.
Which is your favorite and why?
maier – :
When I put this on I feel like I just survived a night in the woods alone with only a campfire to keep me company. I can only the smell warm spices, and not any of the dates or plum, so for me this fragrance has a tough-as-nails quality to it.
jobCalligraphy – :
هشتاد درصد نت بویایی عطر زیره و ۱۸ درصد آلو هست. آلو یه کوچولو ترش و غنی شده هست.در واقع بستر کار زیره سیاه هست و آلو و به مقدار بسیار جزیی هل به غنی کردن و کامل کردن بوی نهایی عطر کار کمک میکنند. عطر اصلا تلخ نیست و یه مقدار جزیی شیرینه. شیرینی مربوطه هم به خاطر شیرینی هست که در خود زیره سیاه موجوده و خیلی کم مربوط به دارچین هست. پخش نسبتا متوسط و ماندگاری متوسط داره. خیلی عطر بخصوصی نیست. ممکنه که برای فرانسوی ها عطر خاصی باشه؛ ولی برای ایرانیها خیر. وقتی که آدم وارد بازار بزرگ کرمان میشه و به وسط اون میرسه؛ یکسری مغازه هستند که زیره کرمان رو عرضه میکنند. بوی این عطر تقریبا دقیق اون فضا رو به تصویر میکشه
نتهایش تغییری نمیکنه و از اول تا آخرش زیره سیاه داره. در واقع کامل خطی هست
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About 80% of whole notes is caraway and 18% is plum. Plum is a little sour and saturated. It can say that caraway is the base of perfume and plum and cardamom completed it.
This perfume isn’t bitter at all and is a little sweet. The sweetness is mostly for caraway in comparison with cinnamon.
This perfume can be special in Europe, but it isn’t so special in Middle east, because the people of these regions are used this spice in their usual usage.
Silage is under moderate and longevity is moderate.
Sweelcowkem – :
Very first impression: a fat holiday spice candle that you’ve just blown out. The cumin doesn’t come through as sweat or sex to me, but as waxy smoke. Plums are there in the background. Some woods, too, that smell like pencil shavings. It has a powerful throw. Not sure about longevity. I have sampled a few from this house and own a fb of Tabac Tabou, and I had high hopes for this, but my nose hasn’t gotten a taste for cumin yet, alas.
diablo1988 – :
First impression: man’s sweat, sex, lots and lots of spices, jungle at night, bubble gum, coca cola. Al Oudh with sticky and juicy fruits. I thought that Al Oudh is the sexiest scent there is, but now it seems that I was wrong. This is love at first sniff!
Kanonir93 – :
Lovely, the nearest I can describe it is: Kenzo Jungle with soft plums. Strong, lasting, spicy. Try before you buy! As it’s more than a fruity, and more than an oriental. What a find. I love it x
integras – :
I love love love this one! Fresh, juicy and spicy. I don’t see it as a winter scent, I’m wearing it at the beginning of summer and I find it very refreshing. I have no problem with cumin (it’s milk that smells like baby poo on me…) so I guess that’s the polarizing note. The coca-cola effect reminds me of a very different fragrance I also love, Serge Noire by Serge Lutens.
Anyways, for me Aziyade is a sexy fragrance for a cool summer night out, and I’m strongly tempted to buy a full bottle even though my collection has already passed the planned total :-p
amazingtltmen – :
WOW! this juice is gorgeous. My first thought was Tom Fords Plum Japonais. Its a pretty good dupe that possibly has a touch less plum. All deep spicey plummy deliciousness. The first notes to assail your nose have to be the cardomom, ginger, cinnamon, dates and plums. Its very intense spices with fruity sweetness. Over time you get some orange and other fruits. It makes me think of Christmas.
Moderate sillage and excellent longevity. A perfect unisex fragrance.
Ch_Artur – :
Cumin and cardamom are pungent here! If you can handle the loud opening, “Aziyadé” will take you on a trip to the mysterious marketplaces of North Africa, where the air is rife with cries of snake charmers, folk singers, and spice vendors popping out of alleys. You are bound to get lost but that is the fun of it. Not a safe perfume! Thick and addictive.
alex112.69 – :
A most interesting fragrance. I find it quite unique. I don’t get any similarities in feelings to Frapin 1270 nor Feminite De Bois – both on my fave top shelf. They are much sweeter. I get a burst of pomegranate citrus freshness and then the cumin/caraway notes barge in and go to war immediately and in your face. I didn’t pick up cardamom nor plum – two of my fave notes since the other spices drown it out for me . At least initially that’s my take. I will update if that changes.
There is a woodsy smoky quality blanketing all this that I think I find intriguing (it reminds me of camping)- but its alas too far out of my comfort zone and more of a oddity rather then a fume I would wear.
I laugh at the taco seasoning reference below. I can see that for sure and the bubblegum feelings (I think that’s actually the caraway? but who knows)
Kolu4ka – :
Aziyade opens with a fruity bubblegum scent with noticeable sweaty cumin. (I think the bubblegum note is pomegranate as others here have pointed out, which doesn’t smell like this in real life, but does in fruit drinks where I think grape or something is added).
The cedar/spicy part is reminiscent of Serge Luten’s Feminite du Bois but this bubblegum note is pretty strong till after 20 minutes, at which point this smells even more like FdB. So I’ve decided to try on FDB to compare.
FdB is more cedar woody with less spice, also quieter and less animalic – like Claret or Shiraz wine compared to Aziyade’s new-world ripe fruitiness. I like FdB’s dark damson plum more.
Aziyade’s spicy cumin is very naughty and noticable,sharpened slightly with cardomom, but I already find Feminite du Bois’ sweaty spicy/cedar/plum sensual and don’t feel I need to go any farther along that route, a bit boring of me maybe! Basically I find this a bit too earthy, possibly even reminiscent of nether regions,
I do love cumin though, in cooking and in perfume, but I prefer the way it’s handled in the Hermes classic Eau d’Hermes where it’s sweatiness is paired with sunny lemon and a hint of leather, which makes it less ‘smutty’!
I like Aziyade, because I like fruity spicy/woody perfumes, but FdB is still my favourite, personally. So Aziyade is well worth trying if you like fruity/woody/spicy/animalic perfumes (though it really is very similar to FdB so maybe don’t bother if you have that already)
Sillage moderate, longevity maybe better than FdB but the dry down is more earthy and obvious
SkakyGopGlazy – :
relative_perfection send me a sample of this (thank you again!) and I just dapped a little drop on the back of my hand.To me this smells like spice markets and Christmas. Will report back as soon as I know more about dry down etc. but so far I like! Unique smell that’s probably perfect for fall and winter 🙂
GornSingGob – :
The opening is truly magical– fresh fruits, dried fruits, sweet dates, pomegranate, ginger. All very gourmand notes. Then the spices turn up the volume. More ginger, caraway, cinnamon. The final blast is cumin, on a warm, smooth, smoky base.
Performance is good: sillage is moderate to heavy, longevity is long (about 6-7 hours).
The cumin, unfortunately, doesn’t work on me. It makes me smell like I had a good curry dish the day before, and haven’t had a shower yet. I can understand how this may be attractive to some (I love Musc Tonkin by the same house, speaking of BO), but this is not a very pleasant fragrance to me. It just makes me feel dirty– not sexy dirty, but in desperate need of an armpit wash!
However, this is a masterpiece perfume, very complex and daring. Give it a try and see if it works for you. I wish it worked for me!
mydoz79 – :
What a beauty this one can be if it matches your skin chemistry! I tried it plenty of times and I got mixed results from it.
This is an oriental dream. Dried fruits – and a lot of them, heavy spices, vanilla and woods and musks in the drydown. The one thing that differs heavily depending on when I try it is an amount of caraway/cumin I get. Sometimes I can feel it in a regular amount and then it’s in harmony with cinnamon and cardamom, making a great ‘coating’ for the dry sweet plums and dates of the opening. Sometimes, though, it gets overwhelming and its sweaty quality makes its presence known by smothering everything below. What you get depends on the season and weather, but mostly on your skin chemistry.
Like every PdE, Aziyade has great longevity, sillage, projection. It is unique, opulent and heavy. However, this is the one creation of Corticchiato I find so polarizing – none of his scents are safe by definition, but this one is the most unpredictable and as heavy on spices as anything I’ve tried. Like some fellow reviewers said, this is a definition of niche perfumery and, for me, a work of art, even if it gets out of control sometimes.
9/10
SoulBoom – :
Its a house , with walls made of a vanilla,tobaco & almonds. Inside this house theres a big christmas-baking going on. Comforting, relaxing.
daimvader – :
The first time I smelled Aziyade, it took my breath away. I literally had a “moment”, some “brain ecstasy”. It felt like the most beautiful thing I’ve ever smelled and it satisfied all of my senses.
This seldomly happens to me. I was so exited and ready to dump all of my fragrances just for this one:)
Anyway, after a little while the fragrance took a big turnaround on me and all I was left with: a very smelly armpit on my whist. I wasn’t ready for such a let down. I am not afraid of cumin and skanky fragrances, but this was way too much!
So, I am sad, but still not giving up, maybe one day my chemistry will change and work a little better with an amazing Aziyade.
lapencia – :
Dangerously intoxicating. I wore this for 2 days straight, I literally poured the sample vial on me. It was probably offensive for others around me but I was so excited to try this out. The opening is sweet, spicy, sticky honey plum and dates. As the liquid dries I sense the pomegranate, it gives the scent a little tang, giving it bite. The dry down is incense.
I adore the cumin here, don’t let it put you off of trying this scent out. The cumin here reminds me of the soft body odor of a lover coming back home to me after a long tough day at work. The use of the cumin lends to the sensuality of this scent.
It is a love it or hate it scent, so test it before you buy. Lovers of orientals will probably love this.
This is a heavy, heavy scent, the sillage is so good and the longevity was about 8 hours! This belongs in my collection!
preenturl – :
Does anyone else feel like this smells like a Yankee Candle store during the Christmas shopping season?
I don’t hate it, but it smells more like a scented candle than a perfume.
I think I am just not a fan of these syrupy-fruit + potpourri spice blends.
This is very reminiscent of several Lutens scents I have tried.
Bubblegummy pomegranate, orange, very sweet spices, sugary dates. I don’t really get incense, musk, patchouli or anything to put the sweetness in check.
potencii – :
Hot and spicy, sharp to almost pungent and sexy, sexy, sexy.
On my skin it’s mainly – cumin, cinnamon, plum, dates – placing it clearly into the genre of fragraces like Femme Rochas (reformulated version), Shiseido Feminite du Bois, SL Arabie and even Amouage Jubilation, except this is a rougher (raw even) unisex variant.
If you enjoy such notes, you will surely find Aziyade smelling interesting and provocative – like some exotic, carnal, oriental fairy tale.
But, if not into intoxicating spices and fruits, robust, loud fragrances in general and – most importantly – the biggest fan of cumin – this will be impossible to wear (big sillage, great longevity, too).
Drydown is a bit flat, though.
denis9505 – :
So intriguing. In the beginning I mostly smell strong fresh ginger root with a heavy hand of cumin. I love the blend of spices. Later on, I smell tobacco and perhaps some dried dates. This perfume makes me think of faraway places…distant lands. Oddly enough, it doesn’t make me think of a particular country or region. What comes to mind is an ancient fictional place, like on the show Game of Thrones.
When I first applied it, it smelled like cola. This is how fresh ginger root smells on me (when used in perfumery. Of course I don’t wear the actual root). I thought about where I had smelled this before, and I remembered Arunima by Strange Invisible perfumes. These two perfumes share similar notes. I like Aziyade better though, more complex and lasting on the skin–probably due to the fact that this perfume contains synthetics, whereas Arunima is 100% natural.
Hours into wearing it, I smell a lot of vanilla and hot cinnamon. The beautiful thing about this perfume is that the drydown does not become boring, like completely vanilla and cinnamon. It retains its beautiful complexity the entire time. This house has really impressed me with what I have sampled thus far.
Slepoi88 – :
Wo ho this seriously EPIC and it smells like… horny girl, this is just epic blend of plum cumin dates and oranges, dean i wish they made it in mans version
This Baby is serious Elixir of sensual Attraction
Dymnsueneigue – :
I’m an animal and I wear this perfume! A lusty explosion of sensuality, heady spices, waterfalls of cumin, cinnamon and fruity notes: sex is now!
A masterpiece.
10/10
Leonardazbv – :
this perfume is Inspired by the Bengal part of the Ancient Mongol Empire, as the perfumer said worm and animalic, i personally see it from the first spray top note as a smell of someone who is sweating from gym or any hard activity and sprayed some fruitti perfume on without having a bath specially when it dries, the fruit goes out and the sweat remains still but lighter.
and later, the base note, it smells like armpit.
not my type of perfumes.
Edit (27th Nov 2016) after 2+ Years i now just realized that i was completely wrong about what i said previously and i take everything i said back. This fragrance is just AMAZINGLY captivating and SUPERBLY alluring! it has that fruity sweat with a slight animalic that turns up the heat, it is quite sexual in my opinion and difficultly adoptive. Use with caution, it is amazing for cold weather. One of the best fragrances i have sniffed so far.
leon2307 – :
This is one of those perfumes that smells completely different up close than at a distance. Catching wafts of the trail, it smells like all the sweet fruit – dates, plums and a touch of smoky incense. It’s very beautiful and maybe a bit reminiscent of the drydown of Mitsouko. Coming in for a sniff though is an entirely different matter. Then it’s all about the spices of which cumin is the predominant one. The next morning the spices are gone and the fruits have settled into a gorgeous skin scent. This is my favourite part of Aziyade and I can’t help constant wrist sniffing. If this were all there was to it, I would buy a bottle without hesitation but catching whiffs, wanting more and sniffing only to get a bunch of cumin doesn’t work for me. Too bad!
mudilkoinogda – :
This is definitely one of the most impressive perfumes I have tried. It’s a heavy and glorious spicy oriental par excellence.
Complex and multifaceted, it’s like a hologram, showing all its exquisite and expensive smelling components throughout the time it lasts on the skin, which is 6 to 10 hours.
I was looking for a plum perfume, but AZIYADE is so much more than that. Do you see the composition pyramid of it? It’s spot on. All these notes are there, and your nose will get them all. The only thing I don’t sense here is almonds, but I might be anosmic to it.
The overall impression from AZIYADE is that its style calls up the orientals of Serge Lutens. Basically I just find these two houses very similar in their approach to perfumery. Anyway, AZIYADE to me is a better take on this genre. Whereas both ARABIE and FEMENITE DU BOIS (that I feel in AZIYADE from time to time) smell repulsive on my skin (ARABIE like a cheap and untidy restaurant, FdB like cats’ litter), AZIYADE just blooms with all its opulence on me.
I’m not saying that it’s a tribute to SL’s bestsellers, not at all. It just has a similar spirit. If you have ever smelled Arabie, Femenite du Bois, and Rousse, you might get a couple of already experienced whiffs from AZIYADE. But, to me, it is far more elaborated and deep, and complete.
The animalic note here is quite strong, reminds me a bit of a smoother Musc Koublai Khan, – musky and dirty, but not repelling. MKK is a big sweaty and hairy man, and AZIYADE is just a bad girl who has advisedly chosen not to shower before a date with her lover… There is a famous anecdote about Napoleon and his Josephine. This musky note is about that I think.
Well, anyways I don’t find it wearable for me personally, as it is a very “dressy”, serious and classic perfume. It does not resonate with my inner self, but I still appreciate the high level of this work. It’s a masterpiece. Try it. Even if you won’t wear it, for your nose that will be a great olfactory lesson.
Taumwhimi – :
the cumin note is too much for me , again I find this is more suitable for a guy. I would not buy it.
edt102speagoessenda – :
very precious perfume in the parfum d’empire collection ,this is a warm spicy and fruity concoction to bite sniff after sniff ,it really impressed me a lot and asap i’ll go for a full bottle
7,5/10
vova_bober – :
Incredibly warm and sexual. We french use an expression to tell someone we want him (or her) : “j’ai envie de te croquer”…
This fragrance is really oriental, gourmand and addictive.
Hot. Masterpiece.
swenwest – :
I was nervous about trying this because of the cumin note and how it might work on my skin. This is a fascinating and exotic fragrance which I really like.
The opening is a blast of oriental spices, mainly cinnamon, cardamon, some ginger and a subtle fruity sweetness. Unusually for me, in a fragrance with so many components I can still actually pick up on almost all of them within the accord. The cumin is there but in the background and is not unpleasant. At that stage it just adds depth and character.
The drydown seems to me just a toned down version of the opening with the cumin note in the background more noticable, but not in a bad way. Animalic sounds too strong a word to describe it, it’s ‘human’.
Marc-Antoine Corticchiato has achieved something remarkable. What is fascinating is that each time you sniff it on skin over the next few hours, even from one minute to the next, one or other of the notes seems slightly more noticable, and so it is always subtly changing.
Imagine being on holiday in the East and having spent some time in the heat walking, or perhaps at the beach. You walk to the bazaar where in the cool of some shade, you sit at a table outside and sip some cardamon flavoured chai and near you there are stalls selling various spices and fruit. There are people walking past and what you see is interesting and pleasing. You keep noticing a very attractive stranger.
It has good projection and reasonable longevity. It seems unisex to me, but is probably not a scent for work or formal.
The fragrance is exotic, oriental, somehow sensual and evocative. Always subtly changing. Definitely worth trying if only to appreciate how a perfumer can create a very complex accord that subtly changes all the time, but still retains its structure and conjures up the East
(((SHUHER))) – :
Aziyade is very well done but the strong association I get with fruit chutney prevents be from seeing it as something I can wear on my skin. A savoury gourmand!
terrinka999 – :
Aziyade is one of my favourite spicy perfumes.
I like my orientals sweet, rich and spicy and Aziyade definitely delivers.
I find this fragrance to be exotic and slightly elusive but if I was to describe I would say it smells like plum jam spiced up with some delicious Middle-Eastern goodies such as cumin, cinnamon and with candied orange peel thrown on top. Gourmandish and very complex.
I don`t think it`s a crowdpleaser though – cumin and heavy spices can be very polarizing so I mostly wear my Aziyade when I`m at home or applied with a light hand just to make sure no one around me will choke on it.
Sillage is geat and so is longevity. I think it`s a must try for oriental lovers.
Price is not cheap but compared to some niche lines it`s quite down-to-earth.
Also I don`t detect any similarities between Aziyade and Serge Lutens` Arabie. They are both spicy but while I dislike Arabie because to me it smells like Indian curry, Aziyade is a fascinating oriental beauty and a delight to my senses.
sasha133338 – :
This is a thermonuclear cumin bomb! I also get a bit of a celery smell and that somewhat ruins it. This stuff is very strong and I don’t recommend it as a scent to attract the female persuasion. Might do nothing but scare the living sh#* out of them. The BO scent is there but the cinnamon does seem to make it a bit more spicy. Not sure yet about this one.
shizumaru – :
Aziyade aka post-sexual intercourse scent.
– It’s impossible to take one’s opinion regarding this fragrance(including mine)
– Catered to a mature niche audience. Only for”niche noses”.
– It would be preposterous for me to recommend this to anyone.
– Educate your nose to cumin before trying.
– So complex that it’s quite possible that no two reviews will be alike.
– No matter how much you love this fragrance, it’s so daring in a way that you will always feel insecure when you wear this.
I like when a perfumer goes left…two thumbs way up!
Windessy – :
It’s the fruit that gets to me first, then the cumin. Hmm, it does to a certain extent convey what has been mentioned by others – a touch of the sweaty armpit. Maybe to convey passion? It is certainly very different from my other perfumes. I looked in vain for a trace of almonds,