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UITGHTHNT – :
Help me! Does this frag have any similarities with “The One for Men Dolce&Gabbana for men”? Many notes are the same…
Edd1962 – :
This is so weird. It certainly smells 100% synthetic (that’s not an insult–it is supposed to be 100% synthetic from what I know of it). I only detect 3 notes on my skin: wood, orange flower, and cinnamon. It smells like wet paper and the inside of a brand-new house or maybe even an IKEA warehouse. I can’t say that I don’t like it, I actually do like the scent, but this is not a perfume that stands out enough for me to want to wear regularly. I need something else for some depth, like that tobacco note would have been great if it were amped up a little.
Membx608Unlogrere – :
I think this fragrance is more of an artistic experiment than an attempt at creating something pleasing and wearable. Maybe it is meant to challenge our notion of “good” or to question our tendency toward comformity. How many of us would wear sonething to work that smelled weird or not “good ” by most people’s standards? If anything, this fragrance gets people to wrack their brains to figure out what this reminds them of and it creates conflict and dialogue. A photorealistic rose soliflor doesn’t make you have to think. It might just be instant pleasure for one who likes roses. Someone else mentioned that this belongs in the MOMA and I agree. The notes listed seem rather irrelevant(I suspect this may be some version of the Tauer base)Of course, Mr. Tauer may disagree and to him it smells warm and heavenly. To me it smells like a mess of different flavored Kool-Aids with some root beer and redhots thrown in the mix. It’s slightly nauseating to me. I wouldn’t buy a full bottle or even wear my sample, but I’m glad to have experienced it.
SSDF – :
Slightly bitter opening with a soft cinnamon and amber dry down with a soft touch of sandalwood. I don’t get the tobacco as some folks do. It’s lasted about 7 hours with soft sillage. The sandalwood creates a softness that I do not like. I agree that it is a strange scent and should project more than it does. I bought the sampler set and this is the last one I chose. This is the only one that I don’t like.
zizop10 – :
To reprise my review from the site of a well-known purveyor of niche fragrances:
“On me, Tauer’s Pentachord Auburn ends up more like Single-Note Dryer Sheet – a very warm, spicy, rich dryer sheet. Lovely…but, well, dryer sheet.”
Xeroxmhtic – :
I got a sample of this as I am a fan of oriental/spicy fragrances, especially for Winter. It promised so much notes-wise…tobacco, cinnamon, spicy, warm, so I was really looking forward to trying this.
I have to say, it is AWFUL. It smells mouldy, sharp and somehow really old-fashioned. I didn’t get any of the aforementioned notes, just a really unpleasant metallic hit.
Normally I give a new fragrance a fair trial and leave it for several hours to check how it reacts and develops on my skin, but the initial hit was so vile I washed it off straight away, something I haven’t done with any other fragrance.
Step away from this one, oriental/spicy-loving people!
CooLG – :
I can’t feel the cinnamon, I would love to! For me it’s too metallic, too cold. The tobacco is way to far. It’s interesting but not comfortable enough.It s like tasting a silver spoon. Anyway I really like A. Tauer. Verdant is awesome.
koshka287 – :
it’s quite weird to say so but this is what i get.
all i get from this is someone who ate a white thin bread with cheese slice in it & afterwards blown up a nylon bag and made the bag like a balloon then smash it, by then i can smell the nylon and his breath + the nylon of the “la vache qui rit” cheese slices…
Edit (14th Sept 2017) After 3+ years, now i realized that it is quite true what i have wrote above LOL.. i still smell the nylon, cheese, and breath, all these mix comes from the tobacco, dusty cinnamon, neroli, and sandalwood! i smell something slightly metallic. BUT IT IS what i have written above LOL.
peeneunse – :
Reminds me of industrial orange blossoms and Crayola crayons. This perfume places me in a block of grey manufacturing buildings, not a verdant field. The tone is cold and synthetic, yet intermittently magnetic.
xaqani – :
I totally don’t know what to make of this. But it transports me back to hot summer days in Georgia drinking grape Nehi soda with lots of fizz. It’s syrupy and sticky sweet. Yep, thats what I get along with grape Dip Stix. Nostalgia in a bottle that’s too cloying for me to wear. But I can’t bring myself to hate it.
ribokris – :
Imagine walking into the spice souk in Dubai, and as you pass by one of the stalls the shop owner’s daughter is applying nail varnish when a fan blows the cacophony of aromas straight up your nostrils. I still can’t make up my mind about this one. I’m all for weird, off kilter fragrances, but this one is very challenging. Still bought it though because it deserves closer study.
zakidonoff – :
It’s the most amazing fragrance i’ve ever smelled. The sensasion that i feel when i spray it is that of a hug, a hot and passionate hug. The tobacco scent is really noticeable and it’s melted in a wonderful way with the other 4.
I feel really comfortable when i have it on and i would continue smelling my wrist all day long.
The stain power it’s amazing. I can smell it also after a shower.
I’m absolutely impressed.
khg659Negeltzex – :
47) ? what that? but it’s stink! hew, I mean that smells like wet cardboard being moldy…
The 3 Pentachords are the worst things i’have tried for a long time.
Minimalist composition around 5 notes, 100% synthetic, no evolution at all, stays a eternity.
Obviously this is art so you will pay more than 100 € for a 5 € improperly assembled products.
mais c’est quoi ce truc!? c’est ignoble, on dirait l’odeur des boites de cartons en train de se décomposer au soleil après avoir pourri dans une cave humide.
Les 3 Pentachords sont les parfums les plus infâmes que senti depuis bien longtemps (et dieu sait que j’en essaye beaucoup et suis très ouvert aux expérimentations).
C’est donc une composition minimaliste de 5 notes 100% synthétiques, il n’y a aucune évolution, ça tient très longtemps.
Evidemment c’est de l’art donc vous allez payer le même prix pour ça que pour un extrait de Chanel.
jgyykrxlrfg – :
If this fragrance had only been named, Fruit-Scented Erasers, Christopher Brosius would have nothing on Andy Tauer.
When I was a kid, I had a collection of erasers that were colored and shaped like little fruits, and were supposed to smell like fruit, but they just smelled artificially sweet, and mildly bitter in an off sort of way, and still very much like normal erasers. This is the essence of Pentachord: Auburn.
Pentachord Auburn is cinnamon/tobacco/plastic chewing gum. It smells like the glow of a back-lit, matte-orange hue. It’s like being inside of the orange tunnel on the playground, re-appropriated from raw manufacturing materials, or climbing the wrong direction up the spiraling orange plastic slide at the end of the monkey bars.
It’s a combination of notes from childhood, combined to smell like something very grown up, if not altogether industrial. Cinnamon (sweeter than spicy), loud synthetic-smelling amber, and very sweet tobacco with orange flower water and rubber. It projects moderately and has fantastic longevity, remaining pretty linear after the opening calms down.
There is nothing “natural” smelling about Auburn, though I don’t dislike this about it. I feel quite comfortable breathing it into my lungs, but only because it is being presented to me as a fragrance. If I were to encounter this scent in an industrial setting or permeating the air in a warehouse or storage facility, I’m pretty sure I’d be terrified.
I first tested this while exploring a glass blowing facility, and am basing this review on my second wearing, not that first one. However, the smokiness in the air of the glass studio combined amazingly with Auburn, making me think it might layer beautifully with a dry, smoky wood-centered fragrance.
dima19 – :
This is not pleasantly smelling for me at all, I must say. There is no cinnamon, nor any warmness here. It does actually smell a tiny bit like a menthol toothpaste, it is not the first time tobacco has done this to me (Parfumerie Generale – Bois blonds did the same), so I am not even surprised that this turned out to be like this on me.
Under the fresh and spicy tobacco I can clearly sense sweet orange flower and a very dry hint of powdery sandalwood, but that is pretty much it. From opening to dry down it is pretty much straight forward and if you do not enjoy the opening, do not expect something great at the end.
estastcom – :
A present, ’cause “you’re the kind of girl who likes orange flower”. I liked the scent for smelling like the orange flower on me (this was of the “no scaring, please” kind), and I liked it because it smelled like my pencils, in their dear old box, it had some of my Uncle’s tobacco dropped on it…
amirskarca – :
I got given a sample of this so i tried it. In my view it should be an exclusively male scent. (perhaps it it is and I didn’t realise?) It smells like sandalwood and soapy leather and reminds me of the aftershave my dad used to wear when he went out to dances with my mum 30 years ago. It isn’t a complicated layered scent and what you get after first whiff is pretty much it. I think it would be ok for a man but definately not one for me.
elefteria – :
A blast of orange, almost tangerine-like, opens the fragrance. Shortly afterwards, cinnamon blends in, a dry, crisp cinnamon, which only lasts about 5 minutes. Then, the fragrance remains excruciatingly linear; I got nothing but orange blossom for the next 8 hours.
Zopemesomanum – :
Love it or hate it I guess.
I love it, and the FB is on my list of “have to haves”.
It’s an experiment in 100% synthetic, and I say it’s a winner. The notes are simple. There are 5. It’s not overly complicated. You can smell each note.
I love a good sweet pipe tobacco smell. Very traditionally masculine in an adoring your grandpa by the fireside sorta way. I love a cinnamon scent always, even in summer, but this does harken to darker, more cozy days of winter, during the holidays.
Test it first. Take it or leave it. I have two generous samples that I use sparingly, and lovingly. I think Andy Tauer is an artist. I can’t wait to own this composition.
oleg888 – :
I am normally a worshipper at the altar of Tauer, but no paeans for this one. The tobacco note dominates so much for me that it literally burned my nose. Both today and yesterday I had to wash off the juice because it was killing me.
It’s an interesting scent from a creative point of view- it reminds me of opening an old wooden chest in an attic where you can smell the old wood rafters. When you open the chest there are grandpa’s old suits and you get a strong scent of grandpa’s pipe tobacco from the trunk where it has been trapped. You don’t dislike the smell but it bowls you over.
I mainly get the dry woods and huge tobacco from this one. I only really detected the cinnamon note individually when I washed it off. what remained was a bit of cinnamon and then it was overtaken by that persistent tobacco again.
I grew up with smokers, so this scent does not bring back any unpleasant memories but it is just too much tobacco and mustiness for my taste.
dima_zr – :
Citrus blossom, warm cinnamon, fruity tobacco, dry amber& creamy sandalwood… Unfortunately, to me these five chords play a diabetes-inducing synthetic cacophony with odd plastic feeling. I suspected my bottle was faulty and tried my friend’s bottle, but it was the same.
This is Iris Ganache by Guerlain minus the Insolence-like elements. It is sickeningly sweet, even more than Britney&pals, but is a bit better on skin than when sniffed from the bottle. Very different to his other scents, I don’t get any tauerade on this. On me, the sillage is still there after 6h, the scent is still present after 10+ hours of wearing so 10/10 points on longevity&projection. Sadly, it does not smell anything like you would presume on the basis of the listed notes.
I have nearly finished a 50ml bottle, but this is only because I was helped by my friend’s 6-year-old who loves this stuff and spritzes it generously every time they visit. She loves it because it smells like her shocking pink gel roller pen (I tried to give the bottle to her but her mum didn’t approve because she does not want to sniff this more often than once per week).
gorbuss – :
Forgive me Mr.Tauer but Auburn is surely a no-go for me. Tobacco-Cinnamon flavoured bubblegum with the typical harshness of orange flowers. An instant scrubber.
Rating: 3/10
Donhomer – :
Can you say TOBACCO! When in the right mood, this can be quite enjoyable as it allows you to relax and put you in a good mood. Unfortunately tobacco and smoking has too many negative connotations for me.. still, it’s not bad at all. I’d not say this is unisex.. a bit more on the masculin side!
Also again, waaaay strong but at least this is a tolerable strong scent!
Interesting remark about ambroxan, I’m going to test ‘Not a perfume’ next and that ‘not a perfume’ fragrance is one of them, so will try to pay attention!
Ludmilka – :
Tauer Perfumes Pentachord AUBURN has a vaguely comforting familiarity to it. My best guess is that this is primarily an ambroxan composition with a dusting of cinnamon on top. Not unpleasant at all, but AUBURN reminds me of the bases of lots of men’s colognes–and it probably is very similar to some of them, given the minimalist idea being executed in these Pentachords.
For those who have been investing in Escentric Molecules MOLECULE 01 and 02 or Juliette Has a Gun NOT A PERFUME, this creation might work for you as well. There is nothing harsh or contentious about it. On the other hand, it’s not very exciting either.
Rustamer – :
OMG! I put it on about 2 hours ago and still going strong. What an amazing scent!
Definitely not for the faint-hearted and I wouldn’t wear it to dinner because it would interfere with the food but I LOVE it.
Every time I catch a whiff it tells me a new olfactory story. Gorgeous!!
Pursuant:
It is now 16 hours later and I am still getting whiffs of this amazing perfume, it is sexy and very animal but still sweet. YUMMY!!
Vahtang – :
Such a strange fragrance. Can’t help liking it though as it strongly reminds me of my grandfather who used to smoke pipe tobacco so that the air was thick of smoke. The opening is not very pleasant to me: very sweet, fruity tobacco, but I love the dry-down, very authentic sweetish but dry tobacco smell :). I ordered the sample partly because of the cinnamon note which I can’t smell at all, unfortunately :(.
Deaths_head – :
So very strange. My experience testing “Pentachord: Auburn” is simply that it reminded me of washing coming out of a drier in a busy launderette. Perfectly pleasant but uncanny.
kju629Diobtetty – :
After a long time when I gave up on sampling Tauer perfumes which most of the time do not work for me all that well, I thought I would give Pentachords a chance.
Again, the experience is very interesting, but as for the enjoyment of wearing Auburn, I would not be so sure any more. This is THE scent if you are looking for a strong tobacco note. It is dominant from start to finish to the point when it starts itching your nose, there is a lot of smokiness which creates an impression that there is also a lot of incense included in the composition. Apart from this, on my skin there is not a lot more- some hints of wood and cinnamon, but not strong enough to pair with tobacco. It ends up being more masculine than unisex.
buywowgoldpki – :
I’m sampling this one today and it’s a gorgeous fall fragrance. I don’t get the cinnamon so much but the amber and sandalwood and tobacco are an outstanding mix as they dance about together as if in a tango! It’s perfect for cooler weather and only gets better as it develops on my skin.