[perfume] Tauer & Knize; leather & orange
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kaberettKNIZE TEN
lemon, bergamot, orange, petitgrain, rosemary, geranium, rose, cedar, orris, carnation, cinnamon, orange blossom, sandalwood, leather, musk, moss, patchouli, ambergris, castoreum, vanilla
Acquired at the same time as ELdO's Rien, based again offrydra_wong's recs posts for leathers. Initially I liked this better than Rien, but the latter grew on me as we can tell, so this is the first time I've tested Knize Ten in a couple of months.
In the vial it is smooth but with corners (I think from the patchouli, though the geranium and carnation may be implicated). Wet, it smells very dry and acrid with something powder-sweet in the background; I normally get on quite well with citrus so I'm surprised that's not showing itself more. The leather does come through after about five minutes, but it's a dusty and brittle leather on me, again with the powdery sweetness lurking.
... little old lady hung up her biker jacket and turned sweet and proper? Not sure, but not loving this. (Yes, that means if you are curious I'm happy to pass it on!)
TAUER - ORANGE STAR
clementine, red mandarin, lemongrass EO, orange flower, violet flower, ambergris, vanilla, patchouli, ambreine
I'm curious about what Tauer is doing with his scents, and the mandarin top note in Penhaligon's Endymion is again why I got hooked on this fandom. So.
In the bottle this is... very juicy ripe oranges-proper, with the bitterness of the pith and acidity all over the shop. First on it's identical, but very rapidly (within seconds) morphs to bring the violet and green of lemongrass forward, with a whiff of patchouli.
This has been described elsewhere on the Internet as midway between the heavens and the earth - brilliant orange light mixed in with dirt. And, yes, I'd say that's fairly accurate - and the citrus notes are nice and complex, rather than blurring, and are maintaining their sharpness, for all the grit underneath.
TAUER - LONESTAR MEMORIES
geranium, carrot seed, clary sage, birch tar, cistus, jasmine, cedar, myrrh, tonka, vetiver, sandalwood
Now this I picked up because I am currently on a bit of a jasmines kick - specifically, I'm trying to hunt down jasmines-with-bite (and am particularly keen on looking for the jasmine+vetiver combination). Also because this order went in when I was still thinking decidedly-butch perfumes for That One Lady & I wanted to see what this would be like on her (answer: very rapidly becomes sandalwood, cedar, and tonka forever -- very smooth and sweet). Also also because one of my favourite BPALs (worn in winter when I am feeling aggressive and spiky and miserable - winters are always worst) has carrot seed in and it's vicious as fuck and I adore it.
On me, though... well, to start with: smelling it in the bottle (so before my skin chemistry's had a chance to mess with it), it's very smoky and bitter -- the birch tar and myrrh and vetiver and carrot seed all swirled together.
Wet, it starts out the rich of geranium and a hint of jasmine and, yes, the smoky birch tar... drying rapidly into carrot seed and cedar, albeit a smoky combination of the two - the birch tar is making itself felt, as is maybe the sage.
Interestingly, last time I tried this on it went straight to smelling like WD40. Unambiguously like WD40. Which is not a scent I object to, but is definitely one I can get cheaper. ;) This time, however, I'd recently washed with my ridiculous Lush jasmine-based shower gel, and that seems to be giving the florals the boost they need to make this a bit more interesting -- and rather easier to interpret as worn leather and dust and hay along with a whiff of the long-chain hydrocarbons. So! There we go: the power of layering strikes again...
lemon, bergamot, orange, petitgrain, rosemary, geranium, rose, cedar, orris, carnation, cinnamon, orange blossom, sandalwood, leather, musk, moss, patchouli, ambergris, castoreum, vanilla
Acquired at the same time as ELdO's Rien, based again off
rydra_wong's recs posts for leathers. Initially I liked this better than Rien, but the latter grew on me as we can tell, so this is the first time I've tested Knize Ten in a couple of months.In the vial it is smooth but with corners (I think from the patchouli, though the geranium and carnation may be implicated). Wet, it smells very dry and acrid with something powder-sweet in the background; I normally get on quite well with citrus so I'm surprised that's not showing itself more. The leather does come through after about five minutes, but it's a dusty and brittle leather on me, again with the powdery sweetness lurking.
... little old lady hung up her biker jacket and turned sweet and proper? Not sure, but not loving this. (Yes, that means if you are curious I'm happy to pass it on!)
TAUER - ORANGE STAR
clementine, red mandarin, lemongrass EO, orange flower, violet flower, ambergris, vanilla, patchouli, ambreine
I'm curious about what Tauer is doing with his scents, and the mandarin top note in Penhaligon's Endymion is again why I got hooked on this fandom. So.
In the bottle this is... very juicy ripe oranges-proper, with the bitterness of the pith and acidity all over the shop. First on it's identical, but very rapidly (within seconds) morphs to bring the violet and green of lemongrass forward, with a whiff of patchouli.
This has been described elsewhere on the Internet as midway between the heavens and the earth - brilliant orange light mixed in with dirt. And, yes, I'd say that's fairly accurate - and the citrus notes are nice and complex, rather than blurring, and are maintaining their sharpness, for all the grit underneath.
TAUER - LONESTAR MEMORIES
geranium, carrot seed, clary sage, birch tar, cistus, jasmine, cedar, myrrh, tonka, vetiver, sandalwood
Now this I picked up because I am currently on a bit of a jasmines kick - specifically, I'm trying to hunt down jasmines-with-bite (and am particularly keen on looking for the jasmine+vetiver combination). Also because this order went in when I was still thinking decidedly-butch perfumes for That One Lady & I wanted to see what this would be like on her (answer: very rapidly becomes sandalwood, cedar, and tonka forever -- very smooth and sweet). Also also because one of my favourite BPALs (worn in winter when I am feeling aggressive and spiky and miserable - winters are always worst) has carrot seed in and it's vicious as fuck and I adore it.
On me, though... well, to start with: smelling it in the bottle (so before my skin chemistry's had a chance to mess with it), it's very smoky and bitter -- the birch tar and myrrh and vetiver and carrot seed all swirled together.
Wet, it starts out the rich of geranium and a hint of jasmine and, yes, the smoky birch tar... drying rapidly into carrot seed and cedar, albeit a smoky combination of the two - the birch tar is making itself felt, as is maybe the sage.
Interestingly, last time I tried this on it went straight to smelling like WD40. Unambiguously like WD40. Which is not a scent I object to, but is definitely one I can get cheaper. ;) This time, however, I'd recently washed with my ridiculous Lush jasmine-based shower gel, and that seems to be giving the florals the boost they need to make this a bit more interesting -- and rather easier to interpret as worn leather and dust and hay along with a whiff of the long-chain hydrocarbons. So! There we go: the power of layering strikes again...
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Date: 2014-04-01 01:14 am (UTC)Still and all, between you and
Orange Star sounds like a bright summer day, tho, which also sounds lovely since we're stuck in ambiguously not-cold-but-not-really-warm of spring right now.
Lonestar Memories sounds like it's levels of interesting. Although heh I just bet WD40 comes much cheaper than perfume! xDD
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Date: 2014-04-01 03:23 pm (UTC)hmmmm I wonder what vanilla-y things I have I wouldn't mind parting with...