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гамадриллл – :
Some of these reviews described everything I wanted in a tobacco perfume. Yes, I do want to smell like smoke and velvet jackets and tweed and wood-paneled libraries! I do!
But yikes, that honey. One of the pipe-smoking gentlemen in that wood-paneled library has peed a little bit on his leather club chair. I gritted my teeth through the opening hoping it would fade, but nope. Still a wet stain on that chair.
arrinoaript – :
RARE OFFERING!!!
I have a BELL JAR in the PALAIS ROYALE release of this perfume with about 10ml or so left.
Australian shipping only due to our customs restrictions. (Sorry)
I feel someone else could really appreciate this as its not a fragrance I can wear sadly.
The bottle/jar is stunning and in perfect condition with box.
Will consider trade.
FITCHER – :
Love it! Wonderful smokiness and not so much tobacco. Fumerie Turque is the perfect name.
You can almost hear the gurgling of the Turkish water pipe. Patch very evident and then the suede. You gradually get that herbal aspect. The honey adds the perfect amount of sweetness. It keeps unisex.
I love it all the way along the timeline. Reasonable longevity and sillage. I find it quite addictive. One of my favourite smokey scents.
Thorgadi – :
The negative comments are referring to the first hour, whereas the positive comments are probably referring to the drydown after that first hour.
That first hour is hard to get past. Honey and tobacco both have urinous facets, and Serge Lutens has made no effort to hide these. It is like a public bathroom where the bin is full cigarette butts.
After that it become a truely elegant Turkish Tobacco scent aimed at a mature wearer and I begin to understand the love.
Жора95 – :
the best sweet pipe tobacco ever sniffed !!!!!! I can distinctly feel all the notes. 9/10
Sanja271 – :
Soft sweet henna
I get the exact henna note! with that blood like sharpness and sweetness (not cloying). It’s not the usual honey tobacco, it’s tobacco patchouli honey blend with some myrrh & dust note. I kind of sense some suede but not sure, styrax, red roses, and tonka beans are there.
I liked it as i thought that i’ll be the usual tobacco sweet fragrance like “Tabacca” by Costamor or maybe “Tobacco Vanille” by Tom Ford but it’s not, this is quite interesting
treadstone71 – :
Version: Palais Royale (not the newer one with “SL” icon).
My nose was overwhelmed with honeyed baby powder, upon first exposure, making me feel ready to cast this off and chalk it up as another SL fragrance that does not appeal to me. But thankfully I gave it time. Valuable time it needed into the dry down, where the powdery note fades off to reveal the honeyed tobacco & vanilla with floral accompaniment. There’s just the slightest animalic quality for me, which seems to be an accord (not a literal animalic note), so I can’t understand why it would be perceived as a civet bomb by some people.. Patchouli is nearly silent in its support of this composition. I can sort of pick up on the juniper berries, but wouldn’t have known they were there without seeing them in the list. It’s deceptively simplistic, until you let it macerate in your nostrils. For me, it’s the best and truest “fresh dried tobacco” scent I’ve ever experienced.
This is a wonderful fragrance that I’d say feels like it deserves a spot near two other phenomenal SL fragrances: Chêne and Muscs Koublai Khan.
Rating: 9.3/10
snoker73 – :
Oh my! Although there’s no civet listed, this perfume is FULL ON CIVET and the other BEAUTIFUL NOTES don’t get a chance to shine through.
I struggle to pick them, I get faint berries but unfortunately, I strongly agree with another reviewer that this smells like urine! Cat pee in fact!
What a shame as I really thought this would be beautiful and it took me over a year to source a bottle. Glad it was a partial bottle and not a several hundred dollar mistake. I actually HAD TO SCRUBB IT OFF!
Reminds me of the vintage version of Bal a Versailles by Jean Dezpres.
The bell jar on the other hand is stunning.
Serega9474 – :
How does this compare to Chergui?
qwerfasd – :
First impressions only:
I’ve been looking for a scent of hookah and I think this is the one. And it’s the smokey hookah that lingers in the air after you’ve smoked it. How do they replicate that burning charcoal and tobacco impression? Magic.
The cherry/honey note on top is a cross between Herod and Pure Havane (or more accurately, Insurrection Wild 2).
The whiff test: what’s the impression someone would get if they only got a quick whiff as you walked by? I’d say a fruity playful note, very similar to Insurrection Wild 2 on first impression. If they hung around longer and dug their nose in, that’s when they’d get the tobacco/charcoal.
The only question now is do I need a full bottle? Hmm, well life is short…
ftm853elipseskism – :
Whoof. Starts off as an alcoholic blast punch in the face, then mellows out to something much sweeter – like a sweating horse, or freshly peed-on grass.
I can’t get over the urine smell, sorry all you lovers on here!
kalina54749 – :
IMO Fumerie Turque it’s the ”niche version” of many fragrances of eighties such as Kouros and Ted Lapidus. Also, it reminds me to Tobacco Vanille but something less sweet. Then, it has a remarkable tobacco aura. So, IMO it’s rather masculine. Mainly, I perceive honey, patchouli, tobacco and tonka bean.
In summary, an other fragrance with personality by Serge Lutens. Very exotic and warm. More appropriate for Autumn and Winter.
Scent: 9
Longevity: 8
Projection: 6
Sillage: 5
Uniqueness: 9
Versatility: 6
Overall: 7.16
Oxic – :
This is a strange one. Starts off with a smoky, ashy blast reminiscent of Asian inscense from childhood. It then goes through a stage that scents like an oil sample I picked up of something called Ruthvah but without Ambergris.
It gently changes into a base of tea and a hard to place, perfumed ash.
Synesthetic. Cool,Lavender in hew, Gray Smoke.
Hard to place until I read anothers review. Black and Gold Sobranie’s from my youth.
The Honey and Styrax combine to give it a Sweet winey, urinous background similar to the old Ho Hang Club.
The other reviewer didn’t mention the Turk Coffee that has spilled into O’Toole’s lap to add colour to his urine soaked trousers.
My sample is very quiet by today’s standards of Eau de Parfum.
Nice!
My perfume supplier has tried to stock this and has been unsuccessful.
I don’t smoke any more, but I’m off to find some Sobranie’s to burn together with a spritz of the Balenciaga and I’m of the age that bladder control is failing.
An ancient 50ml arrived. Richer than the sample.
That’s all I’ll need to stir the memories and complete the scene.
zyevsanya – :
Another very, very right shot from Lutens. Not for everyone, though.
timoshka – :
I seriously don’t get sweetness in this.
I can only imagine this on an old Turkish man smoking pipe all day long.
It had every note I love on paper but, well, disgusting on my skin 🙁
fliybe – :
equilibrato e complesso, questo profumo, ormai pressochè introvabile se non nella boutique parigina di SL, a ragione è considerato una pietra miliare nella profumeria di nicchia. per me è IL profumo al tabacco, e di tabacco al miele sa. le prime note dolci, ma non vanigliate, sono sotenute da un bouquet legnoso/aromatico ancorchè resinoso (probabilmente per la giustapposizione tra storace, ginepro e fave di tonka). timidi si fanno strada sentori leggermente floreali accompagnati da impressioni di cuoio che scompaiono rapidamente. la nota predominante di tabacco al miele rimane comunque ben distinguibile per tutta l’evoluzione, senza che sia in alcun modo edulcorata dal resto ma essendo, piuttosto,lo sfondo su cui spuntano e spariscono altre essenze accessorie. ottimo.
Xeroxdosdt – :
Oh, I do enjoy this! Smoky heaven with the honey sweetness and the patch note lingering heavily throughout while red currant and vanilla assume supporting roles at the back and tobacco and leather working beautifully and adding a rather masculine vibe to the whole mixture! This is an intoxicating scent, whether you like it or not you are compelled to sniff your wrist and enjoy the sexy, uncompromising beauty of this juice. The more this scent settles the better and softer it becomes, more feminine. Pure, unadulterated love! The irony is that I tried this fume years ago at Selfridges and found it too strong and heavy! A must for a smoke/patch/leather lover!
step72rus – :
Smells exactly like talcum powder to me. Not unpleasant, but not appealing either.
Toki.Doki. – :
Honeyed smoke, beautiful, very wearable, original.
If you are wary of honey’s sometimes urine-like note, fear not: in Fumerie Turque it evoques honey’s tactile and visual qualities more than it’s smell or taste. Golden, beautiful, luxurious.
DRONSKM73 – :
This was a blind buy for me when I saw a good deal on a bell jar. I was not expecting to love it because of the varying reviews, but it is absolutely amazing. Super complex, and, like smoke, deep and rich yet airy. The perfect balance of honey-tobacco-vanilla. I honestly think this blows Tobacco Vanille out of the water (and I own TV and love it). Also, it is perfectly unisex- I could see both men and women pulling this off. As a fan of feminine sweet scents, I do not feel this is too manly for me. But my boyfriend also loves it and he doesn’t care for girly fumes.
This seriously has had me glued to my wrist all day…. HIGHLY recommended.
Funny thing is though, I could swear I’ve smelled something extremely similar to it. And I have– Andy Tauer’s new Vanilla Flash is VERY close to it, at least as far as my perception goes. Worth checking out if you like this fume.
BasykBlack – :
Happy to have bought the bell bottle from the Lutens’ boutique at Printemps, but I remain mystified why Lutens has made this one so difficult to acquire. By a wide margin, Fumerie Turque is the best honey and tobacco scent anyone is ever likely to find: wear this for a day and watch all the nice things you’ve thought about Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille drain away—compared to Fumerie Turque, Tobacco Vanille is child’s play, almost as though Tobacco Vanille ought to come with training wheels.
If you’ve got a spare $600 buy L’Incendiare—the Lutens’ masterwork, bar none. If, like most of us, you don’t, or won’t spend that much on a single bottle, Fumerie Turque is the best of Lutens: sweet smoke, sticky with honey. Stays on your skin for days.
LEOns93 – :
I REALLY liked this fragrance when I first sampled it several years back. I enjoy many Serge Lutens fragrances, although some turn too “powdery” on me during the dry down. When I first sampled Fumerie Turque, the fragrance remained long & steady, no powdery middle or end notes…I liked the whole development from opening to dry-down a whole lot.
Upon initially sampling this fragrance, it landed nicely on my skin with its initial opening notes of tobacco, leather and smoke. Yes, once the original notes settled down and the mid-notes or heart came through, the scent was reminiscent of spiced amber and honey but not in a harsh way (the amber) or syrupy way (the honey). As another reviewer stated “the honey & amber notes are there but you do not feel like you are drowning in the stuff…honey and amber.” So true, I thought…initially.
Oh…what a difference a few years make! Having re-sampled this in anticipation of purchasing a full bottle, the only thing I can smell from opening to end is a dirty urinal smell…urine. Sorry to offend but I cannot get the image out of my mind. Perhaps it is because after sampling this fragrance again and pondering “what was I thinking,” I (hesitantly) re-read many negative & neutral reviews. Much to my chagrin, this fragrance conjured up similar images and thoughts experienced by others…uggggghhhh. What was I thinking? Urine? Really?
After two hours, Fumerie Turque did lose some of its initial animalic, civet, pungent & sour smell but…no, no and no. No floral, no smoke, no balsamic…nothing.
Perhaps it is the decant; however the only note I get from this is what Jim Morrison’s rear-end must have smelled like when he refused to wash his body for months and he refused to change his leather pants. Just awful!!!! Horrid!
lukus – :
This fragrance evokes a sweet and sour tobacco note, not so much ashtray in my opinion. The sweetness is rather overwhelming and the sourness is a bit stale, so it is not my favorite tobacco fragrance. Long lasting.
24oleg84 – :
I imagine an older gentleman, with a moustache, wearing an old dusty leather jacket and opening a bag of tobacco to make himself a cigar while drinking a chamomile tea heavily sweetened with honey.
A very sweet scent from the beginning to the end. Upon first spray, it’s honey/tonka/vanilla with leather and tobacco. The leather in the opening reminds me of Habit Rouge. Also getting a dated, old fashioned feeling from the leather-tobacco combo.
Fumerie Turque is basically a realistic tobacco note mashed with honey, linear especially after the 2 hours mark. The scent lasts 12+ hours on my skin with medium to good projection in the first hours. Not my kind of perfume, it’s too heavy, too sweet and dated.
Scent: 6.5/10
Longevity: 10/10
Projection: 8/10
Дюс – :
This is one of those “dark” smoke fragrances like Miller Harris’ Fumee Arabie, except this would be the pipe tobacco version of a dark smoke fragrance whereas Fumee Arabie is the incense version of a dark smoke fragrance. By dark smoke I mean the presence of a really particular ashy deep-earthy smoke accord, which makes Fumerie Turque a lot more aggressive than other tobacco centered ‘fumes like, say, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. No disrespect to Tobacco Vanille, Both of these are great tobacco scents for the Fall and Winter, but Fumerie Turque’s got way sharper teeth to it if you get what I mean.
mishawap – :
This is another perfume that I love because it reminds me of a person, in this case a specific person: my father. I remember sitting in his lap when I was little and watching him fill his pipe, a ritual he performed with only slightly less solemnity and precision than one ordinarily sees in the chanoyu.
Fumerie Turque opens with the smell of pipe tobacco in a leather pouch, with a faint smell of brown sugar melting. It turns very leathery before turning very smoky, and then there’s a smell of sawdust before the dry down, which is a lovely incense.
The best tobacco scent I’ve ever encountered. I miss you, Daddy.
zephs – :
This review is based on decant. On my skin and to my nose, it opens up with ashy tobacco with a suede undertone, which then dries down to animalic honey, which at this stage immediately reminds me of APlS by MFK. It has moderate projection and good longevity on my skin.
genaalina2011 – :
Picture this. Golden beaches, beautiful blue sea, bright yellow sun in a clear blue sky, that slowly turns into a wonderful cool night with a cooling breeze. Imagine yourself lying on this beach under this blue sky and later star filled night, relaxed and at peace. This is what Fumerie Turque reminds ds me of. Days spent lounging without a care in the world, smoking shisha pipe and eating pancakes. This is what this scent smells of, the beautiful odour of the honeyed tobacco across the hot coals, and the pancakes dripping with syrup and spice.
Thank you to the fragantician below me , Deefit. For enabling me to relive these memories.
Triellarbidly – :
It was not at all the tobacco scent that I had imagined it to be. Some people had compared it to Odori Tabacco, but this is much more dry. And less sweet. It does last an incredibly long time. I believe it lasted over 20 hours on my skin. I have tried the current formulation bell jar on one hand and the rectangular bottle on the other hand, I found that the perfume from the rectangular bottle projected longer and a little better than the perfume from the bell jar. They were also slightly different, although I’d attribute that to a batch difference, rather than reformulation.
yeskindima – :
I’m soooo dismayed
50ml bottle discontinued!!!! WHY?
soooo Where will I be able to get my fix ????
Fumerie Turque…
Is nothing but Pure Pleasure…pure, Rich pleasure in a bottle.
Sweet, Intoxicating Exotic Tobacco laced with Tonka Bean and Honey and Leather.
Avail at BARNEYS NY
SERGE LUTENS
Fumerie Turque Cloche – 75 Ml
$300
This product is only available for purchase at the Madison Avenue Store
yuriew.iur – :
I liked this scent when I tried it but liked vintage Lapidus Pour Homme (1987) a bit more and didn’t see the need for both.
okasmaeo – :
I get honey, and a tiny whiff of cigarette smoke. I’m disappointed by this scent. For smoke, I’ll get my Declaration Essence out.
pmidnight – :
I don’t have anything really new to add regarding the notes. I get the honeyed pipe tobacco, I’m just not sure I can love Fumerie Turque due to the strong vanilla that comes into play during the drydown. Same deal I have with Ambre Sultan, I really wish the vanilla was toned down a level or two. That being said, I have a bottle from the mid 2000s, so I’m very hesitant to put it up for sale. And I do like it, I just don’t love it. Good projection, very good longevity. My rating 8.0
Bodom2011 – :
This opens with a clean sterile like honeyed smoke and suede accord. This is closely followed by a pipe tobacco note.
On the opening the smoky honey accord does smell like it has gone through a hookah pipe. As it has that clean watery smoky aspect to it nature.
Very well done but just not to my taste.
Xeroxbpnql – :
Yummy. Smokey, sweet soft fudgy pipe tobacco. I took delivery today and I LOVE it. I also received a wodge of wax samples of the entire collection by the looks of it but that aside, this perfume is lovely. It’s akin to Ambre Sultan (I am a slave to AS) but with a Shalimar powdery quality that makes this a really REALLY delicious concoction. On my skin it sings.
sai352speagoessenda – :
** this review is for the original formula**
FT opens with smoke, smoke, and more smoke. The smoke is very dry and thick, almost tangible. I hate cigarettes and cigarette smoke, but this is a lovely smelling smoke. I compare it with the smoke from incense sticks: thick, dry, tangible, almost stifling and choking, but deliciously sweet and fragrant, and I can’t get enough of it. Sometimes after I burn incense and I come back into the room, the air still feels dry and smokey: that’s what I get in the top of FT. I can also detect a bit of hay.
The dry smokey smell lingers, and gradually the sweet notes come forward. There is also something earthy, which is probably the patchouli . This is the good kind of patchouli, maybe a bit similar to the patch in Coromandel, but less fresh and bitter, much softer. Still the smoke remains the most prominent note to me.
As I get to the drydown, the scent is still dry and a little smokey, but it is no longer stifling, it has settled to something rather dusty or powdery and with a sweet fragrance, which reminds me a bit of sugar almonds (maybe the tonka bean?), and chamomile tea with honey. In many perfumes honey is animalic and sometimes reminds people of a urine note, but in FT the honey is soft, gentle, sweet, a mere teaspoonful in chamomile tea, nothing dirty or sour. I can also detect a bit of a dusty rose, just enough for me (I’m not a big fan of big roses in perfume). I can’t smell the leather note though.
The general “feel” of the drydown is the same I get in Keiko Mecheri’s Loukhoum: the powdery dry smokey sweetness that is so addictive. I’m not saying FT is similar to Loukhoum, Loukhoum is 100 times sweeter than FT, it’s just that feeling I get.
Fumerie Turque is a big LOVE for me.
игорь0123 – :
It does definitely smell like hookah but in a nice way. Or a heavy sweet honey scent with pipe tobacco. There are some other subtleties but this is the driving force of it.
I think a gourmand, vanilla or amber lover who likes tobacco and honey would love this. There is a touch of cashmeran-like woods but not enough woods to satisfy someone looking for a woodsy tobacco scent.
Vladimir170769 – :
This is the most glorious honeyed smoke I have ever smelled. Is it true that it’s discontinued?? No!!!
rahmat – :
one of the best from the house of Lutens, honey tobacco and really syrupy.. polarizing scent… a masterpiece!
hig220elipseskism – :
Does this really smell like hookah? Because I loooooove hookah.
MomaHedymossy – :
Realistic!
A tobacco velvety and also really smoky, seems to be on a pipe, it seems that was lit on fire and then extinguished, so this is very original touch of smoke.
Chamomile with honey give a balanced and calm so accurate, a masterpiece!
ттт – :
Serge Lutens’ Fumerie Turque rivals Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille in lots of ways. They’re not altogether similar, but they both share that sweet tobacco vibe that is so addictive and sensual on the skin.
You could call this fragrance a ‘love at first sniff’. As a former smoker, having quit years ago, I do still adore that rich, smoky aroma of tobacco. I’m talking raw tobacco, in its most potent form. Fumerie Turque represents this note well, having it further complimented by sweet, gooey honey, dusty patchouli and luscious vanilla.
Fumerie Turque is definitely unisex. It would smell equally as sexy on either gender. I love it with all its complexity and boldness. It would make an excellent night-time fragrance during Winter and Autumn.
Seeing that this is a rather potent scent, a light application is rather important. Skin chemistry also plays a part, so I would definitely recommend thoroughly testing this fragrance before making a purchase.
Very rarely do I come across a fragrance I instantly fall in love with. Fumerie Turque stands out a mile in comparison to other scents I’ve tried in the last few months. It has been the highlight of my week finding this little gem. Alongside Sarrasins, Fumerie Turque is by far my favourite from Serge Lutens. To say I need it in my life would be an understatement.
Contr – :
I enjoy tobacco as much as the next man but this scent smelled like an old ashtray. LITERALLY! Take an ashtray full of cigarette ashes and a little bit of honey and you have this fragrance.
I think there are fragrance connoisseurs who appreciate a fragrance for being unique, but unique and smelling good are two different things. Anyone that says that this smells good to the average person is lying to you!
sulsogessitly – :
People approach fragrances in different manners which shapes their expectations and reviews. I don’t only approach fragrances from the stand point of smelling the best I can afford and pleasing others. Many people, myself included, measure a fragrance by the extend other people rate it. But when it comes to niche fragrances, however, I seek something more. I seek for those rare compositions that hit something special in my psyche. Very rarely do I find one that remounts my mind and memories to places, evoke emotions, and basically transport myself to a different state of being.
This is what SL’s FT does for me. Like SL’s Santal de Mysore, Fumerie Turque brings out a very selfish feeling in me. FT is all for me and my liking it without caring for its likeability or approval by others because the composition calls me uniquely. FT takes me into a journey to the orient and the middle east and evokes sentiments of being in a trip to far away places. This one is so beautiful and transforming that I can wear it easily all day long at home without any desire to show it off, impress others, or seek their complements. One should be so lucky to find a fragrance every now and then that uniquely identifies with one’s self in this way.
For men seeking a tobacco composition, FT will draw complements and the attention of others. This is a regal tobacco composition imbued with a dosage of exotic spices and fragrant middle eastern notes Hypnotic, beguiling and captivating.
dronann – :
Dirty Tobacco, some honey, a bit of leather, smoke and maybe a spit or two…that’s what I feel Fumerie Turque is.
I like the scenes that this smell makes me think of.
I agree with those who think of jazz clubs at 4 a.m., when musicians are getting drunk on the tables with their leather suitcases at their feet.
Waiters are cleaning glasses, hookers looking for their last client and a writer watching the whole scene with a bottle of bourbon on the table, a shortened pencil and a dirty moleskine notebook in his hands.
I think this is a scent for enjoy by yourself while reading a book at home or writing something in a Starbucks imagining some kind of dirty story.
One of the best Lutens’ I’ve tried.
yubard – :
Positively narcotic. Nothing but deliciously honeyed smoke and oiled leather, grounded by a throaty masculine patchouli. In a perfect world, this is what still warm, cast-off clothing would smell like after a few rounds of lovemaking in front of the fireplace.
Want to play the sexy, mysterious stranger in black, but found Tobacco Vanille too sweet and the multitude of aoud/incense fragrances too unapproachable? This is the one you want.
(So of course it had to be discontinued.)
makado – :
This doesn’t smell exotic or like sweet pipe tobacco to me at all. It smells like the house of someone who smokes cigars and chews tobacco all day long while splashing Aquavelva every ten minutes, like they have OCD.
It smells like a wealthy older man who has maybe lost a marble or two. He keeps splashing that Aquavelva on both himself and the cocoa-brown leather recliner and putting his cigars out against the wood-paneled wall. It smells completely gorgeous on one of my friends, but on me, it is “eau de eccentric uncle”.
Dubboaksassex – :
This scent of juniper berries & chamomile are dancing with the tobacco and roses…not heady roses just a light rose that blends beautifully with the honey. The scent while strong and a little overbearing at first mellows rather quickly and becomes quite sexy. I know that is a strange way to describe this but I love the dry down. Comforting and a little naughty without going to the extreme of raunchy.
agv037elipseskism – :
I don’t know if it’s my sense of smell or that it’s because, Fumerie Turque, as I’ve read, has gone through a slight change since it’s creation because my view of this scent is totally different than what many have described.
To me, FT starts off innocent enough, a sweet and inviting smell of berries and a touch of rose, which quickly moves into a carnal and almost garish smell of something musky, as if Chanel No. 5 in Parfum strength was injected with steroids. I imagine it might be castoreum or something in the animalic musk category. There’s also powdery notes and of tobacco, not the green type, but of the dried type left in a dusty storage room.
To me, FT is not smoky at all, but an unabashed bottle of raunchy sex. I admire its vulgarity, but I cringe at how the animalic notes are so unrelenting. It’s an “I love you, but I’m scared of you” type of scent for me.
3970 – :
Honeyed pipe tobacco and leather joined by slight floral patterns. This is what I get during the opening. After that, a smoky ambery vanilla base breaks in and drives the fragrance towards an endless yet quite linear drydown. Smells good and very well balanced but it’s way too far from being a standout in such an imponent and influential line-up of fragrances.
Rating: 6.5-7/10
obc681intitytek – :
Dark and mysterious truly oriental smoked tobacco fragrance!
Most of all I feel the tobacco, smoked leather and vanilla notes in this fragrance. Actually, this combination of the smoked leather note with the tobacco note brings me not pleasant associations. I like sometimes a tobacco scent, but, frankly speaking, I don’t want to smell like an inveterate smoker, because this fragrance really brings exactly such kind of associations. That is why I decided that I will not use this fragrance. Besides, the vanilla note makes this combination more unpleasant by its yummy sweetness.
I can only say that in general this fragrance is complex and interesting enough, deep and intensive like most of the fragrances by Serge Lutens.
And unfortunately, I can’t say that it reminds me about my awesome traveling to Turkey a lot. The fragrance is really very oriental, but I miss something reminding me special Turkish atmosphere.
It’s enchanting enough. Just not for me.
isupovav – :
I absolutely get the Tom Waits vibe mentioned earlier! Smoky jazz clubs certainly come to mind. Personally, I love the tobacco/leather mix but I can see it might be an aquired taste. Unique, challenging, but weirdly romantic, too.
ivan007 – :
i also just got a sample of this and i’m so glad it was just a sample. the only thing i smell from this is tobacco and tonka bean. didn’t like it at all.
piteglispLype – :
A masterpiece. Art in a bottle. The first spray I witnessed how realistically it transforms into a pure smoke. You can smell it but cant see it. It brought a smile on my face. Its the best smoke perfume ever. Dried fruits and beeswax are delicious and lend a gourmandic feel to it. Very nutty as well. Sweet but not cloying at all. Smoke keeps it light and airy yet complete and strong. Tobacco and leather give this a body. A very well balanced perfume. I quickly got my hands on a bottle after trying a sample and learning it won’t be available anywhere except their boutique in France. It lasts for days on fabric. This smoke does remind of a smoking hookah pipe. Splendid.
Verdict: Really?! 10/10
Wamearguert – :
Ug, thank goodness for sampling!
For me, a straight up nose curler, and the 2nd SL fragrance to do so (Chergui being the other).
Hideously smokey at the start, a ‘kind’ of very strong ‘Arabian’ smoke that doesn’t take my fancy one bit! But I put Arabian in quotes because I feel it’s quite an insult to it, straight speaking.
This is no portrayal of the sweet, airy, light and gentle wispy tendrils of the East I know of. Not in slightest.
I also hope this isn’t trying to recreate a near-Shisha bar experience because it fails woefully from the very first second! It’s brash, unforgiving and relentless.
Where is the addicting, appley fruit? Or sweetened, inscensey cherries?
Just beneath the choking fumes, there is some faint honey, leather and woods.
I never got the fresh, sweet tobacco I was looking forwards to, nothing like Ford’s Tobacco Vanille. This is dry, dusty and all a pretty pathetic mess!
Whimpering smoke, almost like it cannot make up it’s mind whether to sweeten up or go full-chimney mode and in the end, failing miserably do be smoothly distinct in any way.
Redcurrant? I mean, seriously?
A fruit listed for what in reality should be the icon of a *100 fully in-use ashtrays* ,, half the size of this page??
Again like Chergui, it very verrrry slowly develops into very nice creamy/hay/amber like notes, but the smoke never fully dissipates/clears, and the whole experience is ruined.
We also pay good money for some half-appealing Top notes Mr Sheldrake. Remember those?
Another example to be *very wary of a note list,, however well-informed it may be.
A scrubber, and a £80 one at that,, no, no way. Easily one of the most hideous ‘big House’ scents I’ve ever sampled. What was Mr Sheldrake thinking,, or smoking rather??
Possibly a new low for Niches.
Try Creed’s Tabarome instead for tobacco; house of true quality without the scary, gag-inducing openings – or for a closer fit to the smoke, go with TF Tobacco Oud, it’s not bad.
My rating: 2/10 (being very generous!)
viktor_56-2 – :
This is a unique scent with great longevity and complexity. It may be a bit sweet for some but the tobacco and leather notes really stand out and mellow to something mature as time passes. For example, I sprayed some on my arm and neck today (one spray e