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olegav1986 – :
I am still trying to figure out how people are saying this has no projection or sillage. The scent itself is not loud but, it performs and the sillage is quite good. It’s not meant to be Tuscan Leather. Many of the newer Leathers are nt. They have Leather in them but, not all over them. I wore this on one occasion, sent my shirt to the cleaners and I could still smell it on my shirt. As with all things, everything isn’t for everybody. This is a 9.5 in my book.
Rapid987 – :
This is quite an elegant fragrance. It starts strong but swiftly retreats, and is gone in about 3 hours. I would probably buy a bottle if the longevity was better.
jeniy – :
Cuir Garamante is disturbing my sleeping nights… I have myself a sample and every single night I crave to put my hands on this wonderful and gorgeous juice whenever I take a sniff on! I’m on a frantic quest for a bottle without the resin bust cause I’m more interested in the juice itself, but if I could I would definitely go for the whole package. Since I’m not rich, I’ll be pretty satisfied with the simple bottle.
Now about the juice: Cuir Garamante is an aphrodisiac one, that gives me goosebumps. It opens balsamic and spicy, maybe for the subtle nutmeg in concoction to saffron and a tad spices touch. Half an hour later it comes to the heart with an amazing and noticeable rose along with the leather (more suede tipe of leather). The incense and sandalwood comes to party in order to develop the fragrance to a beautiful woody/smoky voluptuous background and for me it’s when the magic happens!!!
Cuir Garamante is a MASTERPIECE, with capital letters!
phylia2010 – :
Parfums MDCI Cuir Garamante is a sophisticated, sweet, woody fragrance involving leather but not dominated by it.
I don’t get many of the top notes (pink pepper, saffron, nutmeg) at all, really, as this starts out a pretty sweet leather for me for me with vanilla and rose in the mix. I cannot liken it to a leather/vanilla/rose intersection I’ve encountered elsewhere except perhaps in Dua Fragrances Hypnotic Santalum, which has amber in place of the vanilla that’s in Cuir Garamonte.
Performance is decent, but definitely not as strong as Invasion Barbare, which provided a bit of a tease for the brand as Ambre Topkapi was so-so.
As with other Parfums MDCI offerings, the price is a bit difficult to swallow, at $250 for 75ml for juice alone and $375 when including the resin bust top that is so iconic for the brand. I give this high marks for the scent but not for performance or price.
8 out of 10
Nivycooxy – :
Wow, wow and wow! I love this stuff. Finally a leather fragrance that doesn’t smell skanky or like a leather wallet. It’s creamy smoothe affect is mind blowing! It’s unisex but starts to lean a little femme but i don’t care about that stuff, if it smells good I wear it and this is one of the best smelling scents I have ever worn.
The leather and suede is there, is more in the background though. I think this is one of the best offerings from the house, invasion barbare is ok, but there are other frags in the same nature for less. This is wonderful guys and you really got to try it out!
9.5/10 overall
I really can’t get over how good this smells guys, I want the world to know how good it smells, but at the same time I want nobody to know about it…I’ve never smelled anything so captivating that was able to get leather and rose just the way I like and bond them together in such a perfect balance with supporting high quality notes. This is niche. This is why I only collect niche now. This is art. This is perfection.
andre6299 – :
More than a hard leather Cuir Garamante is a soft, soothing suede.
Stresses the rose note, emphasized by aldehyde notes made more complex by the contribution of spices especially saffron going qualifying the set and balances with all this, slightly creamy vanilla sandalwood incense strengthens the end result.
For me, the most interesting is only the opening, since drying is somewhat linear and hardly evolves.
The whole is very well balanced, has personality and has great quality. However, it lacks projection, so I see a very good fragrance for daytime use.
I see very wearable and a nice unisex.
In this house I’m still staying with fougere of Invasion Barbare.
Rating: 6
cvjkby-lbvf – :
This sits somewhere between an aldehydic rose and an eastern-inspired saffron and sandalwood affair. It’s plenty competent, but it’s a road so well travelled that there’s little that can be said about it. The aldehydes are what you’d expect — fizzy, rosy, a little bitter. The saffron is indivisible from the synthy sandalwood; it’s hard to tell where one stops and the other begins. There’s very, very little in the way of leather — so little, in fact, that I google-translated “garamante” to see if it meant “hardly any” or “just kidding.” (It doesn’t; it means “city” or “sacred people.”) I mean, everything is in proportion and it’s perfectly pleasant, but smelling it feels like checking boxes for the genre. Furthermore, it really doesn’t smell that far removed from Arabic cheapies which can be had for around $15. If Cuir Garamante had been released a decade ago, I would have been more forgiving, but for a 2013 release it offers nothing new. A serviceable, but blindingly unoriginal rose/oud/saffron/ebanol cocktail that’s not worth the money when you can get very similar scents for much less.
antonl2007 – :
Surprisingly light for a men’s leather fragrance, with powdery incense notes and a very discreet leather. I can also smell the rose quite clearly, which I think is
quite interesting for a men’s scent. After a while it smells like your grandmother’s attic, which I say as a person with a deep-seated love of attics and other dessicated places.
It’s a nice perfume, but it is very short-lived, at least on me, with zero sillage.
toka0520 – :
No projection??? This shit projects and has monster sillage lol think maybe you need to wear it
mishakch – :
Bleh, tried it today both on paper and skin. Don’t like it at all! It’s closed (as in none-projecting), dark, sour and bitter. Not natural at all. Could something be wrong with the sample I tried? i can’t imagine anyone wanting to smell like this.
4/10
42424242 – :
Take Montale Aoud Musk, add a good soft rose note, and make it less nuclear/more wearable = Cuir Garamante.
Not a very challenging scent for those looking for something dark and different but very happy to have it in my collection. Bought a full bottle.
Don’t get me wrong, some of my favorite scents are the more challenging ones. However, at times, I prefer a nice smooth comforting scent.
Originally I thought longevity was poor but after a few wearings (some on clothing), the scent does linger and has above average longevity.
Along with Chypre Palatin and my favorite Invasion Barbare, MDCI makes some great well blended scents.
skabrus – :
I’ve read the perfumer explanation about this perfume that made me REALLY REALLY wanna have it or even smell it, so i ordered the sample, and the result was….. it’s a very very very typical Arabic perfume where i can get it 1/4 the price of this, i barely can smell or even sense the leather in it, all i get was saffron with a hint of nutmeg. sorry but i won’t buy this perfume of 75ml for 250$, sorry but i won’t pay more than 20$ for this cause i can find it on this scale anywhere here.
but still you might be the one who would pay 500$+ for this perfume cause honestly i rarely can find a similar in Europe or the US, but if you love this then pass by the Arabian Peninsula 😉
Edit (4th Aug 2015): after having a wide range of essences and exposed to the world’s finest inspirations, surprisingly, i found this captivating! i really sense some Arabian essence that made me really quite interested to know more about it, it’s again today on my wrest and i am enjoying the fun it brings! it has that sweaty note that makes it kind of and hintly stinky as it drives it’s concept to the masculine part. this is by far a masculine erotic essence that triggers sensual instincts! although i still think it’s quite expensive somehow but now i realize why 🙂 it’s not for everyone definitely.
Edit (3rd Oct 2015) It is an adventurous fragrance that resembles Indiana Johns’s leather jacket.
According to that, i thought it lacked something, most probably the strength as i saw it kind of weak in away that it vanishes within few hours (max 3) and turns into skin close scent. In my opinion, it doesn’t require an enormous strength! while an intermediate is quite perfect to be specific as this fragrance stimulates a mysterious action which by itself resembles an imagination of a slight sweat that accompanies any adventure.
It remains one of the best fragrances I’ve ever witnessed by far & deserves every single cent paid for.
sashamixai – :
This scent takes me to Morocco – the markets, the hidden verandas, the food. OMG, It is absolutely divine. Spicy yet soft. Love it.