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urish – :
Can a perfume hit someone? If you havent tried it yet, be ready, this one can! The first spray was a big punch into my face, the smell was somewhat familiar and strange. Like the other reviewers, I felt myself in a zoo, near the lion’s cage. I did not understand what was the point to create a perfume with these notes…who want to smell like a dirty tiger? I thought it was not unisex. After half an hour thanks God the fecalia smell goes away but it’s still not a women scent. It reminds me to Fahrenheit and it seems more and more like a wearable stuff and now I already know there WAS a point to create this! I would not recommend it for women but strongly recommend for men who wanna be like a testosteron-bomb, wild animal. I warn you, women will just jump onto you like crazy, hungry female leopard craving for sex. After one hour: More humble, more unisex, fresher. And of course, without stages this wouldnt be such complex: At the beginning the sweet note pops up and dies quickly giving place to the apple note, then apple fades and flowery notes start to live their very short life. Like an orchestra (circus-orchestra!) when different instruments play at different moments! I am happy to meet you, Dzing!
treyrg – :
Funny! And really cool.
It’s true what I’ve read. First sniff I thought: I know this feeling!
An old cosy emotion was kept in the bottle and jumps out like a jeannie. Then, another one I know: Glue. But animalic. As if art studio and stable are combined in a progressive hip new form of a coworking space.
Then there’s this elephant! And sweet notes in the very background like audience noise. And if now the background of sweets and treats is blurred out, the next moment it’s focused and coming forth.
I love the idea. It’s just a little to much of sweets for me. Otherwise a big yes, and big masterpiece and I love the illustration on the bottle, it says it all.
Edit: While this one has glue, Bvlgari Black has rubber, so don’t mix up while comparing.
egorka0609 – :
Very mych similar to Bulgari black. It has that rubbery note which is by no meams unpleasent no matter how weird it sounds. Friends dint want to let go when they hug me and neither would I them if the wore this.
This is a very much of a high quality frag, a bottle could easily last you a year as you dont want to be vulgar. There is a masculine perfume but by no means should women avoid it.
boristrocenko – :
I admit the notes may put some people off and they do perhaps look intimidating but this is so comforting and cozy, it never fails to cheer me up!
I’m with the bibliophile camp on this one, there is no elephant dung or cotton candy covered clowns in this for me, more the old dusty smell of books, sweet leather and a general cozy feel.
It’s not the strongest or most lasting but it does well enough, although I’d love an extreme version!
777maloy777 – :
I feel so sorry for all of the people whose noses and/or body chemistry cause them to register this fragrance as “fecal”!
For me, this is a quite literal roll in the hay, wearing nothing but a leather harness and a few spritzes of Kerosene Black Vines layered with Maison Margiela Funfair Evening.
Sexy-weird, and I love it! Only downside is, it’s a quickie – all but gone within a couple of hours, and I’m left wanting more.
rfsf – :
For me, best perfume in this world ever.
I blind bought it few years ago, and fell in love with rightaway. Such a different approach to leather!
Today, i smelled Passage d’Enfer by L’artisan, also created by Olivia Giacobetti and i thought they were in a sense similar to each other; maybe it is how the materials combined together in a total balance. But I still find Dzing! so much more complex and different.
I will add my further notes on this one soon.
mozg2000 – :
The crazy reviews alone have convinced me to get a sample of this! I love how extensively expressive you people are. In an era of illiteracy and sorry text speak, the vociferous vocabulary of fragranticans gives me great pleasure and hope! If it’s awful, is all your fault.
EDIT: I wore this at a festival this weekend and I can confirm that it IS circus and all things dirty beautiful. Wow, it was almost like the smell of the festival wrapped in a very soft bit of leather that I found hidden at the back of some amazing tat stall, after wending my way through crowds of drunk, happy people.
I need to try this in a different environment but I think this may have just become my new favourite night time smell. It is pure hedonism and it’s a sexy little minx and she knows it.
It seemed to become a skin scent quite soon but in all it just seemed to mingle perfectly with the bazaar around me and all became one. This is a debaucherous little beauty.
DanilovArt – :
Dzing! went the strings of my heart. Ba-dum-bum.
Seriously, this is really good. Cardboard smells lovely, and as we’ve all heard, this one smells like cardboard. It’s different and very very pleasant.
I am always on the hunt for scents that allude to books or libraries and despite many overt, failed attempts to develop fragrances on this theme, Dzing! right now is the only one that I think succeeds. I get the paper, and the leather of the book cover… a nostalgic, evocative smell for anyone who is or has ever been a bookworm.
It’s only missing resin/glue, and then anything about the library itself (dusty, stone, smoky, etc.). But until there’s a perfect library fragrance, I am so happy that we have Dzing!, which is as artfully composed as some of the other wonderful perfumes in this line. Buy it for the bibliophile in your life, or yourself: you’ll be pleased.
p.s. I also love love that this perfume “reads” as both library and circus at the same time.
irh530speagoessenda – :
One of the strangest perfumes in the world is also one of the most fun. Inspired by smells of the circus, this leather composition starts off with a leathery blast surrounded by caramel, toffee, candy apple and cotton candy. It moves to a somewhat spicy woody middle consisting of saffron, ginger and woody notes before settling into a musky powdery base of tonka bean, musk, and leather. This is a nonstop carnival ride from start to finish and very evocative of the sights and smells of circuses and carnivals. Beautifully blended, unisex with moderate sillage/projection and longevity. Recommended only to those who can enjoy a bit of the animalic side of perfumery. A surreal and astonishing delight. Enjoy!
komogorov62 – :
Glue – barnyard – unwashed skin
Color impression: beige
Confession: the carnality level of Dzing! holds me tighter than a pair of handcuffs. It’s sexy by all means. Smells like arising skin odor during intimacy and it emerges from a peculiar smell of glue and paper, plus a dirty musk that pushes alarm button, without actually make disgust. Dzing! is realistic, faintly powdery, fluently animalic, smoothly leathery and teasingly woody. Love-time perfume for women!
★★★★★
andruha141 – :
Maybe I’d have been a little repulsed if I didn’t read so many reviews of this fragrance beforehand, but I knew what was coming. Dzing is a gentle beast but beast is still the keyword given its animalic nature. Like being held in the arms of a 1930s hooker in the middle of a circus, this one is as creative as they come. It’s not nearly as fecal as I thought it would be, more like the smell of cow patties in the distance, but heavily doctored by sweet notes of tonka and cotton candy. I expected county fairs but this is more of a vintage like circus/carnival complete with a bearded lady and sword swallower. To me it’s very feminine and it could settle quite naturally on the right woman. I could see this working well on someone with a slight rockabilly or burlesque style, and amidst the humor and weirdness, there’s plenty of class. Unique, daring, and perhaps the most bizarre offering from a house that already embraces the bizarre. I sprayed this on the hairy side of my arm and as I nuzzled my nose in the resemblance to fur was uncanny. Dzing sort of freaked me out at first, but now I think I’m falling in love.
xxx333 – :
No. Just no. If there ever was candy apple, caramel and cotton candy, it was trampled into the dirt by the elephants at the fairgrounds. No sweetness whatsoever, just a sickly pseudo leather.
LoveSex50 – :
Dzing! smells like a bunch of hippies had a love fest in the rare and out-of-print section of the library.
hinc – :
Turin and Sanchez describe Dzing! to be a 5 star “vanilla/cardboard” – reminiscent of the gum on an envelope and the smell of an old bookshelf. I love that description as Dzing! to me is very familiar and homely.
The circus story that Olivia Giacobetti has created – fur, talc, smoke, caramel apple can be seen through a soft blur lens. A memory opened and closed between the sweet familiar scent of the pages from a childhood book. Sublime!
pavlin67 – :
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Liliana – :
Another masterpiece from Olivia Giacobetti Absolutely fabulous, sublime, elegant,flamboyant,luxurious.One of a kind and one of the best perfumes and leather scents ever made. A night walk by the fairground attraction: flashing lights,roller coaster hysteria,indecipherable words, sounds and smells invading and assaulting your 5 senses;cotton candy,caramelized apples, steamy hot dogs, leather accords coming from jackets, animals and purses; red sexy lipstick ,fur neck scarves dressing women from black and white pictures and suddenly you are inside the circus and the whole place becomes an olfactory accord.Oh Lord! the leather smells so good and so sexy! An imaginary journey to the Circus and its surroundings.
561102 – :
Really a treasure, this one. I am a firm believer in wearing a scent before deciding whether or not you like it. Don’t just spray it on your hand and smell it all day. One, you will fatigue your nose and give yourself a headache, and two a fragrance is meant to be smelled in the air through it’s sillage. This is a soft leather, with the tiniest hint of sweetness. Such a beautiful scent.
homimaster – :
oh what a game changer this is! 50 years on from now people will look at dzing! in the same way as chanels or guerlains.
it has a skank of old school perfumes like jicky, yet it is so sophisticated, surprisingly wearable and so close to the skin. it falls into same group as papillon’s naughty salome, but more softer, buttery and intimate.
dzing! will have a lot of offspring too, just take a look at byredo’s rodeo, a mere copycat of this work of art by magnificent olivia giacobetti.
if you like your leather to be as soft as bottega venetta & cuir d’ange, then this is your guy.
schizzo – :
I am not sure where anyone is getting sweet. I blind bought a bottle and regret it. Ugh. My first thought was PLASTIC. It is a fake synthetic ugly plastic smell that could be liberally called leather. That’s it. Soft skin scent. Someone told me it is civet. I think his nose is broken. On future wearings, the top still is plastic with tonka but I now get the prominent musk in the base (worn in summer). It isn’t civet but a normal musk fragrance with leather.
olena-boyko – :
I bought this blind, and it’s much sweeter than I’d expected. The leather is present, but it certainly isn’t the dominant note. I’m a bit disappointed by that. It doesn’t really remind me of a circus, as many have said. It’s less exciting on the whole – more of a standard, nice fall/winter frag. I like it, and it’s very well blended, but it’s not so insanely different from anything I’ve smelled before.
Mebsa995elipseskism – :
Leathery and musky, not as outrageous as i expected but a beautiful scent. Its unisex but in saying that I would rather smell it on a man than myself.
Quite animalic, like the smell of a wild animals fur.
I smell a little of the candy sweetness which is an interesting touch.
I think its sexy and unique.
kuchurin – :
surprised by all the compliments I’ve got…tried it yesterday after having it bought several months ago, delicate animalic musky leather, has to be oversprayed to get some serious performance, great also in hot weather!
Dausefpeabe – :
Provato per curiosita’….
La prima ora letteralmente ripugnante.
Penso ad un paio di stivali camperos che hanno pestato escrementi in una stalla dopo una giornata di equitazione.
Purtroppo rimane cosi sulla mia pelle e fava tonka e calvados non riescono a salvare la situazione.
Per vie traverse caldo e confortevole.
maschile,notturno,invernale e un po troppo old style.
Per mia fortuna non progetta lontano.
Passo.
..sto terminando questo campione mescolandolo con pierre de lune ed il risultato e’ ..stupefacente!
Bah!
Vai a capire la chimica.
ScuchFulPShet – :
I love this fragrance and just bought a full bottle after ekeing out my 10ml sample for a few years. I get a warm, soft leather from Dzing! – pale-coloured and matte finished, like sniffing the inside of a new pair of nubuck shoes. It also gives me a strong recollection of being at school and being asked to clean out the book cupboard in my Classics department. There were several of us teenagers in there, one very hot June day: the smell of old books, many of them Victorian, some in leather bindings, others in book-binding cloth; old, browning pages and dried-out glue; sour cardboard binders, dust; and the smell of ourselves, hot, hormonal and a bit sweaty in the crowded space. The milkiness of saffron adds a comforting quality, like hot milk on a cold day, and castoreum gives it a warm, soft, furry quality. A beautiful and quite unusual fragrance.
Safron – :
I get sweaty leather when I wear this one. I really enjoy this oddball scent. It’s like a futuristic leather scent, IMO.
skandalloffuck – :
I am wearing Dzing from a decant, and to me, it’s all about the incense and smoke, it’s lovely. I’ve been wearing it for more than 3 hours, and now it’s a very close-to-the-skin scent, but quite detectable still. L’Artisan Parfumeur have absolutely gorgeous scents that are quite affordable too, I love them.
Drogenko.Oleg – :
Sampling this one and BANG, first impression: fecal, fecal, fecal. Gross!!!! Fifteen minutes later the leather shows up, but that fecal note is in the background. If you like weird leather scents, and I know they come in all shape and forms, this might be for you. Sample first like I did. No love from me.
scale20 – :
I have to admit, i disliked it when i tried it first a year ago. I was looking for a perfect leather scent then. This smelled so strange and weird to me, I had to wash it immediately, the scent that was so bad it annoyed me and i had no words to describe it.
Fast forward one year, I am suddenly looking for something animalic, read on the topic and see Dzing! mentioned quite a lot. I find my sample, test it, think again as repulsive, want to wash it, but let it be and wait. Think of it as very strange and not my type of scent. Sometime later, I don’t know what happened, I just gradually started to like the development more and more until I felt in love.
I have to admit, the opening is my least favorite part. 10 minutes into development, I like everything about this scent and the drydown is gorgeous.
I still don’t smell all the strange things people smell here. I do not get circus part either. To me it is slightly animalic musky leather that is very comforting. The opening smells herbal and wet hay-like. The middle part is wet musky leather. The drydown gets a bit sweeter on me, but I still don’t smell all those sweet things that you could imagine from the notes.
That scent is very strange, I do agree with many. not in a weird way but rather in a quirky and unexpected way. i quess i just like strange things then. It is not for everyone to wear, but every perfumista shout try this, for experience sake.
I’ve been on a successful no-buy for almost five months now, but I want get myself a bottle of this strange beauty.
UPD about 6 months later. i bought a bottle, used it and loved it. then it came summer and i put it away for a while. when i took it back, i started to smell something “elephantic” there. i don’t think i can wear it as perfume anymore.
volkhv63 – :
No dung at all for me, but wet wood (wood as in timber not forest), sawdust, toffee apples.
Great fun.
denLayera – :
I could bathe in this. This is the scent of every county fair I’ve ever been to. Essentially, late American summer in a bottle. Hats off
kolun_221 – :
Well, despite the strangeness of this little scent I do find this one to be quite wearable! Leather is the most dominant note, and the type of leather used here is a bit sharp, rather like the interior of a new car. I don’t find it to be a soft, well-worn, “horsey” or animalic sort of leather, which is what I was expecting, and thus, this does not evoke images of circuses to me. I find that the leather takes on a rather rubbery chemical smell, one that is reminiscent of petroleum fuel. I have no idea if there is a couple of notes that create this accord to my nose, but it is there nonetheless. Then there is a faint sweetness swimming in the background, that is mostly cotton candy and sweet apples, before it settles into a soft mishmash of indistinguishable sweetness, with the leather always remaining the strongest smell throughout the duration of the scent.
It’s a very unusual smell, and one that I would encourage men to seek out, as I think it could work very well for both sexes. I give this scent kudos for originality, but I’m doubtful that I would want to smell like this often, as for myself, I would prefer less leather and more sweetness for a more balanced scent overall. I did enjoy the experience, though. Sillage was soft to moderate, lasting power was for about 5-6 hours 🙂
mifannn – :
Leather and wet cardboard; smells better than it sounds, lol. There’s a faint sweetness but it’s far in the background. I don’t really pick up all the sugary things listed in the notes, though. Strangely animalic/indolic (i.e. poopy) but in a damp, humid way. It’s like you’re in a circus in the rain, with all the animals and cotton candy in the background. Even though it *is* weird, it’s not as weird as I thought it was going to be. I was prepared for something far more off putting than this. Dzing! is odd but still fairly wearable. It’s more quirky and offbeat than freakish. Definitely not suitable for a blind buy but I’d encourage everyone to check it out.
Appackcoory – :
This fragrance is so strange. It opens somewhat medicinal, a little barnyardish…because it smells kind of like hay (no poo, just hay), with a very strong leather note. The leather stays throughout, but changes. The hay scent turns to wood. The medicinal quality turns soapy. The soapiness later becomes sweet and faintly powdery. It’s clean and dirty all at the same time. I have a hunch I would like this more with no saffron, I don’t care much for that note…it tends to take over. In this it is rather subdued, but still noticeable. I have not decided if I like it or not…though I think it will grow on me. It’s mind boggling. I’m thinking that for me, this may be better as a summer fragrance. This is definitely a work of art…love it or hate it, it won’t be denied.
Rhinuelimen – :
This is my go-to perfume for autumn and winter. Lets just say I never loved cold weather and rain as much as I do now. Everything that is awesome about the cold seasons is jam-packed into this fragrance, it’s got that vanilla softness, the sweet cinnamon of Pumpkin Spice Lattes/Gingerbread Cookies/etc., grounded in the cozy sandalwood that reminds you of the lovely smell of wood and trees when you’re wrapped up by a fire on a cold day.
vitvit3 – :
I didn’t order this for a long time because some of the reviews made me nervous. I finally bit the bullet and bought a full bottle at a price I couldn’t pass up, and let me just say this: If Dzing smells like elephant dung, then I want a big pile in my yard so I can roll around in it every morning. This stuff smells GOOD. Hard to describe, for sure. It DOES remind me of a circus. I would reapply all day just to get my dry down fix. I have only one complaint. I wish it were stronger. Four sprays and it’s practically a skin scent within an hour. Worth buying at a discount due to strength and longevity. It’s beautiful. Well done, Olivia Giacobetti.
Samson87 – :
This is a lovely fragrance! I get none of the animalic notes, on me its soft leather, woods, fruits and musk. I have to admit a bias, Olivia Giacobetti can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned! This beauty is in the vein of Tea for Two and Safran Troublant – sophisticated, softly sweet, intimate and romantic.
hu_go – :
Sawdust! This reminds me a little bit, of a cleaned hamster cage, plus the caramel sugar. You’ve got your basic indolic musk first, then sawdust, then wisps of leather, jammy fruit, sugar, dough. It’s real niche stuff, a perfect recreation of the circus, artistically superb, although not likely to be a signature scent. This isn’t perfume as a tool in seduction, or expression of one’s personality, but rather a playful creation of a wonderful, layered odour symphony, masterfully done, very amusing and surprisingly long lasting on the skin. I have a bottle and treasure it, like a Faberge egg, as a jewel to marvel at, but rarely. Must be tested for your nose’s amusement xx
luchshiycementuk – :
I actually don’t know what exactly I’m smelling when I take a sniff of Dzing!, but it smells pretty good! I certainly don’t get any poop… It’s a slightly animalic musk with some burnt caramel tones and a soft whisper of leather. It’s been about 25 years since the last time I attended a circus, so I really can’t recall what it smells like, but I suppose this could resemble it.
By the way, I’m baffled by the Bvlgari Black-comparisons because to me they have practically nothing in common. BB has a darker vibe and its leathery smokiness is much more pronounced. Black dries down to a cozy and sweet vanilla, but I don’t get any vanilla from Dzing!. It didn’t even cross my mind that those two would be similar until I read about the comparisons. That’s just my perception, though; people experience scents in variable ways. 🙂
The performance of Dzing! is mediocre at best. It doesn’t project much after the first hour and I’d say the longevity is approx. 4 hours (I can get faint whiffs of it much longer, but only if I shove my nose into my arm, so it really doesn’t count in my books). Dzing! is a comfy fragrance and I quite enjoy wearing it every now and then, but it’s not FBW to me (especially considering the price point and poor performance). Simply not special enough to be replaced when my decant runs out.
HarDFFliP – :
This smells exactly like going to the circus!! Sawdust, animal shit and pee, coca cola, cherry, cotton candy… Circus in a bottle.
den bke – :
That is so interesting, as it is so sweet on me, that it is literally sticky on my skin. It is medicinal, caramel apple, and slightly leather. Then all but the caramel apple fades after an hour or so.
Nice scent, but no sillage.
The performance is so strange, that I rarely wear this, even though I like it pretty well. It just acts weird for me.
Edit: Sometime between when I wrote this review, and the last time I wore this, I discovered I do not care for tonka bean note. The last time I wore Dzing, a couple of weeks ago, I could smell almost nothing but tonka. I was at work, and was annoyed by the note all day long. Maybe it won’t be so prominent again this summer, but in colder weather, the tonka totally eclipsed the other notes. It did not smell as I’d remembered it when I purchased it last summer.
evgerib – :
Maybe it’s just me but I can’t get any, not even a single hint of sweetness coming out form Dzing!
To me this is dirty, spicy leather, with a little animalic twist.
And what is most amazing, when I smelled Dzing! for the very first time, I already knew I’m familiar with this scent.
This, I dare to say, is a predecessor, an ancestor of Rance L’Aigle de la Victoire. The same type of leather, the same type of musk in the same spicy-animalic “sauce”. The only difference is that Dzing! is a little more subtle and less bold. Beautiful however.
Longevity is 9hours, sillage is small to moderate.
Beautiful, unisex leather.
ideoporne – :
on spraying I get a wonderful, clean, sweet, powdery, playful scent. I really love that first sniff. And then after only a second one part of it starts to transform itself.Parallel to the sweet fun smell, I smell of earth I won’t say dung, it doesn’t really get to that on my skin or I don’t want to admit it.But that part its not pleasant, nooo. Today at work I felt unsure about it and I had to spray something fruity over it just in case the borders of dung were crossed. Now the fruity camouflage is long gone and I really enjoy the dry down, it is earthy, in a good way, and became powdery again and bright. I feel very comfortable with the dry down,it gives me a cosy feeling, the smell of familiarity. Its really great.
Edit
I now wear for almost a week, every day. It seems I can’t reach for any other fragrance. the weather is a little bit cooler. For the moment I am hooked, nothing else seems interesting enough. The first animalic notes are still there but that part I spend it away for other peoples noses. I will finish my decant and decide if I can go without it.
svencoop – :
I found similarities between Dzing and Traversee du Bosphore. With the caveat that if Traversee is a stroll around Istambul, Dzing is going to the whorehouse. This is an absolute, in your face, musk, saffron, tonka, and what at times feels like rose. I may have confused the apple with rose, and heck, I’m no pro nose. And, let’s not forget that your dominatrix is cracking the whip if you are starting to suffocate. The leather is there at the start, and then it peeks, and peeks, and then peeks some more.
Brilliant composition.Must smell wonderful in bitingly cold weather. I live in very hot and humid weather, so the musk becomes truly skanky.
This is musk for truly perverted fumes. Love it.
Smell great, my friends!!!
Dimarik081187 – :
Bizarre. It indeed opens with leather and dung. Very animalic. Then at some point it goes DZING! and it goes candyland and hay. Huh.
399824450 – :
horrible, I had huge expectations from my favourite house but this was unwearable.
slesar007 – :
Hello all, I recently bought a bottle of this blind and whilst I thought I should like it, it’s not really for me!
If you are interested in buying the 100ml bottle (only a couple of sprays to test) then please private message me.
UK only please due to postage restrictions.
Aliwka_-_123 – :
After reading reveiws, I recently picked up a bottle of DZing! I get an Animalistic, BO, leather and musk vibe from it with a little bit of sweetness thrown in. I understand the circus references by other reviewers and can almost picture the big top as I sniff it.
This is marketed as a female scent, but I can easily see this as unisex. I got moderate projection and longevity on my skin.
Overall not a bad scent, but very much a casual scent. I found out pretty quickly that it does not pair well with a sports coat. Next time I wear it I will be casual.
val31 – :
La famille des parfums cuirés est celle que j’ai apprivoisé en dernier. J’étais intriguée par ce type de parfum peut commun dans le merveilleux monde de la parfumerie. Je me suis toujours demandé ce que senttait un parfum cuiré. Lorsque j’ai appris que l’Artisan parfumeur produisait un cuiré, je me suis empressée d’aller le sentir. A ma grande surprise j’ai toute de suite aimé et été étonnée de la douceur de cette composition très originale. Je ne me lasse jamais de le sentir. Un autre grand parfum de cette maison incomparable.
Wheelers – :
Very novel, interesting. I blind bought Dzongkha and my sample arrived befor my bottle, so I was able to return it, didn’t care for Dzongkha.
I just got my sample of Dzing, and still undecided if bottle worthy. It is similar to two frags I already have, Knize Ten, a leather classic, with amamalic castor oil. Dzing is leathery, and it has a peppery, musc, amamalic smell that reminds me of animals in the zoo, or circus, but not the dung nessiserily, but in general way. Someone said it smells like, “Rien” frag, true but not as much as Knize Ten.
There is kind of a sharp acrid, synthetic petrol, leathery smell, and ginger, balanced with candy apple sweetness.
I like the smell, its very unique and well crafted after the circus theme. But I don’t think it’s pleasant enough to wear, although it does warm up and smooth out after the opening, you get the Tonka and some warm base notes.
I think it would be nice for a young teenage girl, who loves animals and or the circus.
I don’t think I will be purchasing soon, but I’m so glad I tried it, and it may be worth having as a very fun and novel fragrance in a colection. High marks for originality.
Rating: 7/10
God bless. John 3:16
chiga1795 – :
When first tried, this took me back to my childhood, sitting in the stands of the Circus, the animalic odors of the elephants heavy in the air. Really turned off (good memory but not “good” odors), I felt this was a strong miss for me.
Still, I like “challenging” scents and this one fit the bill. I was able to get a sample and after several wears, I can say, unequivocally, this also reminds me of how my brother’s brand new Saab (with the leather interior) smelled, all animalic leather. In the later stages, the animalic note gets tamed and out comes a refined, and gentle, leather and cedar (or at least some woody note).
The longer I wear this the more it endears itself to me and the less the opening elephantine stink seems to bother me and this becomes less of an animalic fragrance and more of a leather one.
Not sure at this time, but I think this is slowly making its way onto my buy list.
bot30russ – :
I feel ambivalent about this perfume.
On certain fabrics it smells wonderful at the beginning but stinks in the dry down the next day.
On other fabrics it fascinates me in the dry down when it lingers after a day passes.
It’s the first time I have a love/hate relationship with a perfume !
PaRa3uT – :
This is a very fun animalic leather fragrance. I personally find leathers like Knize 10 and Cuir de Russe to be either too austere, manly, or animalic. I find this one to be perfectly balanced and more feminine IMHO than the aforementioned. This was not love at first sniff. I had to let this one grow on me. At first, it was hard to get over the overbearing animalic/barnyard smell but give it a few tries. Of all the people I forced to sniff this perfume it turns out I was the only person smelling the crazy barnyard smell. Once I got past this complication I could only smell amazing leather with sweetness in the background. The smell lingers all day on your skin and keeps you in a soft cloud of sexy sweet feminine animalic leather.
kocheika28 – :
I had this one long ago, mainly because if people for once decide to give me a perfume they never care to ask first or just imagine my tastes while they know my perfumes. “Something different and original” they said. For sure, it is different and original. I’m quite sure that it was something given to them.
I just wanted it to be also lovable and enjoyable. No way.
It smells sugary feral. A dirty horned animal rolled up in strawberry candyfloss.
I perfectly get the Circus imagery, especially the people there not smelling good. I was a kid and while I was curious about circus I also got the suffocating tent feeling.
Of course, for most lovers it’s me not getting the beauty here. No, I don’t. It gave me the nerves, really provoking a physiological response of anxiety. I’m annoyed, because it’s not a badly made perfume. Just not for me, not now, maybe never.
The funny thing that among all the short-living L’Artisans this is one of the few that stay on skin for a good while.
sam0777 – :
Oh yeah… This is why I love niche. You come across one of these type of scents that are just totally original. Now I have to admit, smelling this at first right off the plastic stick from my sample decant, I was like…uhhhj.. But after I applied it on my wrist and waited a little bit I was able to connect with all the positive comments everyone has made on he