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nekit1995 – :
Very much what it says on the tin.
It’s predominantly tobacco and castoreum on me (I am female with quite dry skin)
It’s got that nutty, slightly leathery and faecal smell of castoreum (I have the synthetic oil to compare) which dominates it, it seems to then sink lower and lower into tobacco and a slight sweetness.
Frankly I don’t get the sweat vibe, I’m actually disappointed, nor is it a beast on me, it’s very quiet. Pleasant but not quite worth the money for me I don’t think. I’ll try again in summer!
antefix – :
i’m coming full circle on this beast.
it really does feel like a more approachable blackafgano for mine.
there is NO WAY i could wear BA to work (high school teacher), and a few other other ‘flankers/clones’ have ‘off points’ about them.
this one is a weed-free black afgano, it’s brutus with a ‘nag champa’ vibe.
i’m gonna test terroni out shortly and will compare against the others.
boccanera is a close second, but methinks i wants to gets this as a FB…
Mortos – :
From a 1mL TPC decant. An absolutely sweaty, primal, dirty, knuckle-dragging, wonderful, original, stomach-knottingly INTENSE perfume. If a silverback gorilla or caveman chose a scent this would probably be it. Opens with a little bit of sawdust and confected plum, but transitions quickly into very clean, hot sweat. An absolute sweat and musk bomb.
Agree with other reviews completely that say only wear this after a shower, and avoid summertime or sweaty activities. NSFW to the max, in my opinion. Be careful with application. I have washed my hands >5 times since applying and this is still projecting from my fingertips. No issues with performance!
Can’t imagine wearing this with any regularity. By the same token, I am thrilled to have experienced this. An extremely original fragrance. Every man should try a small (0.5-1 mL) decant. “Excellent,” 92/100.
ustal – :
This is a great way to make yourself musky when you are already clean. DO NOT apply unless you are fresh out the shower as it strengthens your natural scent.
Dark wood scent, tobacco and leather combine perfectly. Think you are a leather tanner sitting in front of a fire in a log cabin in the woods.
Sillage is 8/10, longevity is 10/10 on skin, 20/10 on clothes. I have a jacket and sweatshirt that have smelled like Stercus for almost a week after a spray or 2.
Scent combines pefectly with a coffee and cigar on a crisp morning. I would not wear this in the summer time.
ray002 – :
It’s like uhh, a brown floral. Indolic like a white floral but darker and earthy. Dank in a similarly pleasant way to black afgano, but subtle. Amazing lasting power and good sillage. I spilled the sample vial in my pocket now my pants smell.
freeminder – :
This fragrance is a beast in the best way possible, lasts days on the skin and the smell is absolutely gorgeous, I smell tobacco, some kind of fruitiness, leather, smoke, woods, but even with this notes the fragrance smells smooth and super luxurious, and at the opening I get a cherrycoke vibe which i love I don t know where it comes from, big thumbs up
KristinochkaKW – :
Delicious, smells like dark musty cinnamon and something like mahogany wood with animalic notes. Exotic deep brown tones.
IvanPopovi – :
Love this juice…blind bought. Bopper approved.
artembelovich – :
My absolute favourite fragrance… I own a lot of Carner, Orto Parisi and Nasomatto but this is it.
Gets sweat, tradional and ultra expensive. You smell like heaven. It’s not heavy at all. It’s the ultimate luxury smell for me.
lesruns – :
the evolution of black afgano to something even more earthy
Varess – :
A oud and Castoreum bomb. Incredibly strong, I smell tobacco and leather in the background. Either love it or hate it
ibk0911 – :
This is not a review but rather a note on the advert images, are they supposed to represent a butt hole?
Well it turns out it is indeed, as stercus actually means faeces in Latin (or simply, shit).
Not only it is called “shit” and themed under the same, it has the same colour too!
seriously what was alessandro thinking of?!
Yes I just asked a question and answered it myself 😉
Update: I tried this one 3 weeks ago on my wrist and when I wore the same jumper today it transferred the smell to my wrist, thats some enormous longevity as with all Nasomatto and Orto parisi perfumes. I salute the maker of this becuase they make perfumes that last and last and last ….
Torzan – :
Want to smell like a man who worked a long day on the farm between the hay, the cattle, some green and the shit?
This might afford you some compliments from the barn animals. They might even consider you one of them. (note: i love the animal kingdom, i do not offend them)
Opens with the smell of a sweaty but from a buffalo or something like that. Like that picture from the orto parisi where you see the hairy, oilie, sweaty buffalobut from behind with that tale hanging between the buttocks.
Later on, the stinkienes dissapears a bit now just being a nutty, slightly green barnyard smell instead of sweaty but.
A stinky magic trick indeed.
Happy buttsweatsmelling
pipingut – :
there’s about three things going on in this perfume.
1) the unavoidable comparisons to black afgano. this, unfortunately, cannot be avoided and isn’t necessarily a bad thing. it can mean that it’s stuck in its older brother’s shadow a bit, but if you look past that, it is quite an awesome scent. it’s dark, it’s smokey, it’s funky-woody (if that’s even a thing) and it’s got the whole BA DNA there. if you like that, good, if you don’t, it’ll probably be an issue.
2) there’s a second accord (aside from the BA one), and i’ve smelt it in a few others. i think in the versace oud perfume (or another mainstream oud offering), it’s the accord struck between oud, leather and a sweet spice. it reminds me of the incense ‘nag champa’ in that it is a smooth, dark and smokey scent with a low-end bassey vibe to it. it works well with the black afgano vibe and leads to a subsequent third accord, if you will.
3) the lack of the weed, green high-end cannabis note (which is present in the original black afgano) makes this scent — and the others which smell like ba in this line — inherently different from BA. a lot of the time, i found myself sniffing my wrist and thinking “too much like ba”, but the truth of the matter is that with ba that weed note either dominates or lingers annoying around for the duration. orto parisi scents thankfully don’t have it.
this one is worth a long, considered try. without any comparisons to anything…
nur796Bessinepome – :
No idea where the fecal/ dirty smell is. I sprayed it on 8 hours ago and it went on very sweet, I think I picked up vetiver. Still going strong and there’s nothing at all unpleasant about it. Not understanding the name but if it infers what it means they missed it.
Sagat111 – :
Initially, I was so disappointed by Stercus. I had been hoping for something really interesting–earthy and poo-ey, but instead I found it to be unpleasantly sweet. I did get a hint of something fecal, but mostly I just got very heavy plum, vanilla and perhaps a little smoke. Indolic, but so sweet that I was embarrassed to have the smell about me and felt somewhat ill until I washed it off and changed my clothes. Despite washing, the smell hung around for days… my partner put through a load of washing which included the jacket I’d been wearing on my Stercus day. Post-cycle, he opened the washing machine and exclaimed “Urgh! Stercus!” as he was hit with the wall of heavy, rotten vanilla plum. Everything which came out of that wash had a faint, vague, Stercus-ish-ness to it. It even hung around in the straw hat I’d been wearing that day. It became a joke as we became paranoid about the lingering hints of Stercus in our lives. Anyway, then a couple of weeks later it rained. At the time, due to someone in the neighbourhood having dodgy plumbing, each time it rained, sewerage would get washed into the creek at the back of our house. We’d have to shut all the windows and doors to try to keep the smell out, but, never-the-less, every time the creek filled with shit the downstairs bedroom would end up smelling too vile to occupy (even for me, and I like funky smells). This time, though, the first flooding after Stercus, I smelled the poo-in-the-creek smell and actually smiled and found myself sniffing again. “Hey, it’s kind of like Stercus!” It was like a weird old friend returning (and me finding, on their return, that I had actually missed them!). I called to my partner who sniffed and agreed that he also got a hint of Stercus. And somehow the shit-filled creek actually smelled kind of beautiful. Orto Parisi, your work here is done. I’m not going to buy a bottle but still, thanks, that was a cool trick.
shivaHekthase – :
MANIFESTO
The parts of the body that carry more smell are those where more soul is collected.
The strong smells have become unpleasant to us, because the excess of soul is intolerable to the extent that our innate animalism is repressed and breaking from civilisation.
This project is my garden I have planted, fertilized, cultivated, and harvested. Orto Parisi states that our body is experienced like a garden, and its smells are a true mirror of our soul.
The Nose, Alessandro Gualtieri.
The opening is a harsh, dirty leather. There is an indescribable sweet animalic note. It is so sexy. I sense soft sandalwood. I sense bitter, sweet, earthy, resinous green notes from the patchouli, oud, and perhaps a little coffee accord. I get plum on my skin. I sense inspirations from Black Afgano in this fragrance as well as in Boccanerra but it is really faint.
The drydown is a powdery woods.
Longevity is good and sillage is about arm length but still noticeable after a few hours.
cinemaartist – :
I am a huge fan of powerful, dark scents so this one is perfect. I am going to have to disagree though with all of the people who say this is 1)a beast of a scent and 2) fecal/nasty or in any way related to the various nooks and crannies of the body.
This is a powerful scent and it does last a long while but it is not a beast. It reminds me of the dark, cedar and smoke notes of Jeke which I DO have to be careful not to overapply. I get a very smooth cedar, musk, sandalwood and incense. I love it! I can easily apply a couple times to my wrists, chest and neck without worrying about overdoing it.
Even though the company has overdone it with the holes/anus/feces advertising, I don’t get it and believe me when I say that if it were offensive in those notes then I wouldn’t be interested.
Now, perhaps the most exciting part. I think I have found my replacement for the Gucci Rush that I miss so dealy. I LOVED the cedar, sandalwood and musk notes of Rush although I was always dismayed with the performance. Although Stercus is about $200 for a smaller bottle, it will WAY outperform Rush and it will please those of us here who dearly miss Rush and/or are unwilling to pay $3oo for a discontinued and weak performing scent.
Don’t be afraid and don’t believe the fecal/hole hype!
paintdan – :
A real masterpiece ! I’m a huge fan of Alessandro Gualtieri (the nose of Orto Parisi, and Nasomatto) and my favorite Nasomatto’s perfume was Black Afghano. What a pleasure smelling a variation of BA, without the resinous ,smokey dark side of BA (a side that I love), but with another side, more animalic, maybe like fermentation(fecal…)or I don’t know what. Some people say Stercus is too similar to BA but I disagree : Stercus is sweeter thant BA,less agressive, but made some people around me feel nauseous. The first time I used Stercus, it was like smelling a barn,this perfume reminds people we can have animalic smells,animalic feelings,that’s not a perfume for people who want to feel like the others(and maybe not for a professional meeting…) . If you love BA, don’t hesitate, this one is for you !
33669933 – :
It has been the only fragrance that has actually made me puke. That sour accord mixed with STERCO and FECAL (real!) mix kills my olfative sense and stomach. I never could imagine a winter fragrance being “stinky” or intolerable, until I smelled this one. But i recognize each nose is different, and glad you like it.
suel1453 – :
I was very intrigued by the name and the reviews…. and I am a fan of Nasomatto and Alessandro Gualtieri.
Even though I live in Amsterdam I could not get a sample of this anywhere; so I was going to blind buy this one… finally I was in Berlin and came across one of the few retailers offering Stercus: just loved it….
Tried the whole Orto Parisi line but just had to go for Stercus…. opens up very strong (some notes remind me of black afgano) but the dry down is definitely softer and more causal and wearable; the longevity is amazing and the name just makes it for me… it’s pricey but really potent so 50ml will last for long time…. a must have in my collection. I love the Nose <3
lexa-siga – :
well…it does smell like feces, and i absolutely love it…as for the resemblance with black afgano i really can’t find it…anyway i loved the story about Vincenzo, Allesandro’s granfather
foi920bedyWelty – :
… plum, saffron, leather, fine wood ash, sweat, animalic …. the drydown is delicate, it reminds me the powder for children …… not too original, moderate longevity and good sillage. Bergamask is a bomb, this is a small bang.
FriendDylan – :
Unsurprisingly this too has the resinous, woody, oud accord of Black afgano perhaps with a hint of the spicy wood from Duro and magic from Pardon?
A well and truly trodden pathe then, some might say trampled but I say…I love it!
There’s an earthy, tobacco perhaps some patchouli there? It’s instantly recognizable for it’s similarities to many of Gaultieri’s work…but I’m not fussed, doesn’t make me want it anymore than the ones I’ve mentioned. I think if you had Black Afgano and Pardon, Duro etc…would you really need this?
I suspect not.
Worth a sniff if you’re a fan of Nasomatto.
^^Nik008^^ – :
It is one of the best fragrance on 2014 IMO
it nice combo oud woody tobacco fragrance if you are familiar with Alessandro creation as I am you will adore this juice.
It’s not similar to Black Afgano to my nose at least Boccanera it is more close to it.
Projection and lasting is high all the day and you will get compliments every time you wear it
Smell 9/10
Projection 9.5/10
Lasting 10/10 +24 hrs
grovymike – :
This one is very good…reminds me of a place where people smoke pipes, pipe tobacco is where I get instantly reminded of!
This one to is in the line of Black Afgano but hey….That’s where Gualtieri is at his best!
I would look at it as a BA variation-evolution, more tobacco like, with a pointier top ( if that word exists ).
Unfortunately the negative point, and that goes for the whole Orto Parisi line, is that he attempts to give his perfumes a dry middle note and it tends to smell a bit synthetic and artificial. I don’t minde the use of synthetic notes but they have to be, just like naturals, well balanced.
And at some moments, for my nose, this dry note is just not well balanced enough.
snompoupe – :
I had high hopes that Stercus (latin for poop) would deliver a disgusting pig-in-filth mess of animalic insanity, but instead, what I found was a slight modification of Boccanera’s main structure—which itself is lifted directly from Black Afgano. In other words, this is Black Afgano minus the smokey parts and with maybe a touch more synth oud and some castoreum. There’s a hint of something rosey and there are definitely some spices, but the scent is almost entirely incoherent in what it’s communicating—it just feels like a slightly more burgundy-colored version of Black Afgano. The usual Gualtieri moves are played: insane volume; zero dynamics; massive compression; and it becomes the sickly base that he uses in many of his scents (psychotic levels of ebanol, bacdanol, sandalrome etc.). Furthermore, it gets progressively sweeter and sweeter over time. Although I quite enjoy Black Afgano for what it is (even though I can only handle it once in a blue moon), these stripped down remixes (Stercus and Bocanero, most shamelessly) aren’t offering anything new, and Black Afgano does it better. So, all in all, this is an obnoxiously loud wall-of-chemicals that, while raising concerns about nuance and taste, does serve its purpose as a blisteringly loud synth amber. But what’s most disappointing is that, given the name and the kind of filth that might have produced, this could have been so much more interesting than what it is.
krakos08 – :
Why in the hell a perfumist calls his creation such a disgusting, humiliating name? Is he trying to prove that with sufficient advertising and promises of originality people will be proud and confident to smell like animal excrement? The perfume is probably good, but the perfumist has mysterious intentions. I want to try it.
777bigmen – :
Pleasantly surprised, I thought this might be along the lines of alessandro Gaultieri’s Nasomatto creations such as Pardon & Duro which I like however Stercus from Orto Parisi is very different much lighter and easier to wear with a almost fresh yet deep smell which I find hard to describe. I really like it, and feel that’s it’s a definite winner from the house.
stalker70 – :
Never judge a book by it’s cover…in this case..by a name. This composition is very sultry and stunning. People will ask you: Excuse me?? What are you wearing? This is what happened to me..One of my favourite of this line.
oleg-ivanenko13 – :
This is not so daring as it promises to be. A bit like Caron’s Yatagan. It’s very pleasant.
Aragon – :
According to its name and color…hmmm…what a delicious composition, haha.
vjacha – :
The name is terrible. But I like to try it