Tauer Perfumes Golestan | Fragrance Posse

Proper, final week, I made noises a few load of samples dropping via the door. And so they did. I acquired three samples from one supplier plus a big pattern set from a home I’m not accustomed to. I used to be planning to write down concerning the first three samples collectively. However, as soon as I began the Golestan part of the publish it grew to become clear that this wanted to be standalone. So, that’s the place we’re at this time – and the opposite two will wait until subsequent week.

12 months in the past, undecided what number of, I learn or heard about Tauer Le Maroc pour Elle and L’Air du Desert Marocain, his first fragrances made for a neighborhood buddy’s store, and got down to get samples. Duly arrived, tried the Le Maroc. Good. Then most likely subsequent day sprayed on LDDM.

A kind of ‘oh my’ moments, however a little bit of a mind squeeze. I’d spray it on and scent and be drawn in again and again, like I did this for days, attempting to determine what I discovered so godawful compelling. As a result of it wasn’t particular notes that stood out. It was that general scent on me. I gave up after some time and simply accepted that I adored it.

I had certainly one of my ‘I’m at unfastened ends, I would like some samples’ plenty of weeks in the past. I had seen one thing on Golestan and on one thing else that piqued my curiosity, so I went wanting. I used to be capable of order each at a new-to-me pattern website right here referred to as Tiny Fragrances. First rate mixture of stuff; good CS.

So, the parcel confirmed up and Golestan was the very first thing I attempted.

This was launched final 12 months (ie, 2022). First couple of samplings, this was a severe conundrum. It doesn’t scent of the notes listing on me, no less than for the primary few hours, and I spent the instances I sampled it attempting to tease out particular person notes with out an excessive amount of luck earlier than principally giving up and simply having fun with the trip. As a result of it’s a really fascinating trip. And I used to be reminded of the expertise I’d had with L’Air du Desert Marocain all these years in the past.

The backstory on Golestan is Andy Tauer visiting a piece of the Louvre he hadn’t been to earlier than, protecting the Persian empires and historical past. The go to sparked extra analysis, resulting in discovery of a palace referred to as Golestan constructed within the 16^th century in Iran, which was also called the Rose Backyard Palace – resulting in this fragrance.

Edifice of the Solar part of the Golestan Palace

Per the Tauer website, “the fragrance of a flower backyard”. Notes embody ylang, bergamot, lemon zest, tuberose, jasmine, orange blossom, Damask rose, ambergris, vanilla, patchouli, woody notes and cistus incanus (under).

What an inventory! However on me, this smells of what I ended up, after a little bit of head-spinningness, labelling historic mud (this was earlier than I learn the backstory, so I don’t really feel I used to be influenced).

As quickly as I bought my first whiff off the wrist I went on the lookout for a assessment from the primary Perfumes: The Information about Guerlain Behavior Rouge as a result of I recalled the subheader having one thing to do with mud (turned out to be ‘candy mud’) and I needed to verify that what I used to be smelling made some form of aromachemical sense. Per Luca Turin, that mud ‘sense’ derives from an orange blossom and oppoponax accord. A tough barely floral scratchy mud scent. Okay, thanks, that helps. There’s orange blossom on this, however not oppoponax. So, I puzzled if the combo that led me to scent mud is likely to be the mentholated side of tuberose and/or the ‘wooden notes’ or the cistus incantus, which is listed as having a woody herbaceous aroma.

This smells on me like how I might think about the air round an historic website smells. However perhaps someplace in Greece with that floral herbaceous scent you get within the hills. As I mentioned above, I’ve bother teasing out notes on this – till it begins to dry down. So, for the primary few hours I simply get that uncanny mud side.

Curiously, on paper, I discovered it a lot simpler to delineate completely different notes, getting a fruitier, lighter fragrance, with one thing candied.

In any case, that is beautiful. It’s lengthy lived on my pores and skin, and solely hours into its growth do I begin to get the Tauer-ade (that amber incensy sweetness). In any other case, it’s that other-worldly mud which is decidedly not candy and after some time I believe I can discern orange blossom, jasmine and tuberose, however I is likely to be making that up.

Oh, and earlier than I overlook, the bottle artwork is gorgeous: a tackle Persian flower work. I wasn’t vastly taken with the artwork on the Sundowner bottle (very a lot appreciated the perfume), however that is beautiful.