Dzing! by L'Artisan Parfumeur
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Dzing! is a perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men and was released in 1999. The scent is leathery-animal. It was last marketed by Puig.
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Leathery
Animal
Woody
Spicy
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
LeatherLeather GingerGinger SaffronSaffron
Heart Notes Heart Notes
IrisIris JonquilJonquil CaramelCaramel
Base Notes Base Notes
CostusCostus CedarCedar Tonkin muskTonkin musk CastoreumCastoreum

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7.726 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 12.12.2023.

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Pollita

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The freestyle
She calmly goes through her routine again while ironing her gleaming white competition blouse. The ironing water smells delicate, light and clean. This flowery scent fills her nose as she thinks again about where she needs to concentrate in order to give herself and, above all, her mare confidence.

Just an hour ago, she had prepared everything in the stable. The saddle and double bridle are polished to a high shine, just like her leather boots. She still has a subtle scent of leather in her nose. There is also a hint of the sweetish shine spray that she used to give her mare the finishing touches after plaiting her mane and tail.

But looks aren't everything. It all comes down to fractions of a second to make the freestyle perfect. Once she arrives at the venue, she leads her mare into the warm-up arena. Many of her fellow competitors are already in the middle of their preparations. The horses are nervous. They also seem to have understood what is important. They are sweating and puffing out their nostrils. There are horse droppings on the ground here and there. She strokes the freshly washed white saddle pad again, which exudes the scent of fabric softener under her mare's sweat. She presses her nose into the fur on the mare's neck, as if she wants to make a connection through the scent. Then she mounts and rides off at a relaxed pace.

The pair do not yet know whether the freestyle will be a success and they will take home a ribbon. But they are a unit and enjoy the moment when the bell finally rings in the arena and they are allowed to ride in.

Show preparations. Show jumping. My association with Giacobetti's dzing, which I actually like much, much better than I had expected. There is certainly a slightly sharp leather note for my nose and a lot of animalism, but everything is integrated into an almost flowery white, delicate fragrance that can be worn at any time. From the competition blouse to the fabric softener, the boots and the shine spray to the horse apples, there is so much that is familiar here and it makes me smile.

The day has come, Mrs. Polly likes a scent with costus, leather, castoreum and saffron. I can't smell the latter, by the way. Just as little caramel. Chapeau Madame Giacobetti. And thank you very much, dear Marieposa, for the testing opportunity.
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Vrabec

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En Voyage chez l'Artisan Parfumeur:19 - Sunlight infused country air
Dzing! is now over 20 years old and had long aroused my curiosity. As a general fan of the house of l'Artisan Parfumeur, I was curious how the Frenchman probably dealt with the subject of Animalik, I also cherished the hope to be challenged a little.

But instead of a biting stinker got
I got the most delicate leather scent that I have come across. Horse apples want to smell some here, warscheinlich by the combination of Animalik, which comes along incredibly milky delicate and hay. The hay smell has something slightly fruity fermented, like the distant smell of a barrel of apple cider. In itself, I smell more chamomile than hay here, as a refreshing cool note plays up front as well. Also dried flowers. As a result, this almost smells like a tea scent, a bit animalic to be sure, but definitely tea. Maybe also because of the mood this creates, I usually only know this relaxedness from tea scents. Ginger and caramel provide a warm sweet cozy note.

So:
Do not be deterred by the fragrance pyramid, because stink does nothing here, quite the opposite! Country air can not smell nicer! Nature, sun, dry flower meadow. Never before has a perfume captured the peace and deceleration of the province as ingeniously as here.

A more complex and, in my opinion, better version of this is Tea for Two from the same house, released a year later, which smells a bit more loaded and thus doesn't convey that serenity like Dzing! .
To whom do I recommend this fragrance?
I find that it is completely unisex.
Even with the age everyone may feel free and thus addressed.
Only a penchant for nature and longing for the country escape and rest from the hustle and bustle of city life should be present.
With me this is to some extent present and was activated here quite nicely.

Thank you for reading my comment.
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jtd

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circus
I've been thinking about how we consider perfumery not just an art but an art form.  Many would agree that perfumery is an art, in that it involves creativity and beauty. But fewer would consider it more broadly an art form, having recognizable trends and aesthetic criteria. We haven’t been taught to view perfumery as a form that fosters critical thinking.

A confusing point is that terms such as genre, school, trend and movement tend to be used interchangeably when discussing the categorization of perfume. It's worth making some distinctions for the sake of understanding perfumery as a specific art form.  

Trends are easy to identify and discuss. Trends are simply grouped occurrences identified after the fact. Even trends that we speak of in the present exist as patterns that have already occured before we identify them. The trend of the fruity floral, the trend of ethylmaltol use, the trend in the 1920s-1930s of referring to balsamic, resinous perfumes as "oriental".

We refer to schools loosely as either 1) using a specific style, or 2) broadly making a distinction between traditional and non-traditional approaches. As an example of the former, Jean Claude Ellena belongs to the minimalist school of perfumery. In the latter, Patricia de Nicolai, belonging to a familial and aesthetic lineage, works within the classical school of perfumery.

In perfumery, genre describes compositional forms.  Chypre, fougère, eau de cologne. These are forms that are defined by their components, and are more like chemical families than artistic genres in this respect.  

Chandler Burr, a fragrance critic and Curator of the Department of Olfactory Art at the Museum of Arts and Design is a proponent of viewing  perfumery by artistic movement, ie. romaticism, surrealism, etc.. His work goes a long way toward placing perfumery in the mind of the public as an art form, but there is an inherent incongruity in placing the nomenclature of sensory form (the visual or the written) on another (the olfactory). Still, historical movements such as modernism or post-modernism affect many forms of creative thinking and can be used to advance arguments and discussion. Perhaps there are movements in the history of perfumery inherent specifically to the olfactory that will be recognized in the future.

Schools and movements often have credos, manifestos, statements of intent or the like. It is arguable that there is little distinction between such statements in the past and current marketing and PR, but aside from a few cheeky derivations such as Etat Libre d’Orange’s “Le parfum est mort. Vive le parfum!” (Perfume is dead. Long live perfume!) perfumery doesn’t stake a conceptual claim and then illuminate it.

So, Dzing. I tend to dislike narrative in art, and even more in the explanation of daily life. It seems so pat, so tedious. Narrative is often touted as a way of making sense out of confusion, but I find it more often seeks to create an expectation that the participant will fulfill, incorrectly or not, in order to have the safety of a conclusion rather than an ambiguity or a question. Dzing appeals to me for the fact that it presents the circus by systematically breaking down an image to its constituent parts, then rearranging a few of them as clues that suggest a scenario. There is an association between the olfactory elements of Dzing and the circus. Dzing smacks of a sweet treat to eat. There’s the hint of straw and sawdust covering the ground, the implication of being confined within a tented space with other people and even animals. Dzing doesn’t beat you over the head with its message like a Spielberg film. It leads you to a suggestion. I doubt that without being told about the circus imagery many would sniff Dzing and say, “Circus!” But as a well designed piece of art, whether you take the circus image and run with it or simply appreciate the perfume more abstractly, it conveys aesthetic intention. To suggest with a perfume an experience that is ridiculous if not surreal in the first place is a brilliant concept and I applaud the perfumer Olivia Giacobetti for pulling it off so effectively.

Niche perfumery seems to me to have moved away from the creative and the conceptual toward the merely luxurious. Dzing reminds that I first came to niche as a way to find quality and innovation that was lacking in the larger commercial market. I don’t look to niche to comfort me with beauty that may or may not be provided any longer by Caron, Chanel or Guerlain. Almost 15 years after its release, Dzing is still the unbeaten the high-water mark of niche as a statement of defiance to the restraints of commercial perfumery. Who needs a countertop full of plush pieces of oud perfume finery that cost north of $300? I don’t.

La niche est morte. Vive la niche!

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Nofretete

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Saltomortale of a clown: beautiful?
Circus arena backstage, in a hurry the saddles and horse droppings of the previous number are carried away. There stands the clown in his chequered costume, eagerly awaiting his appearance. The curtain's blown. The artist climbs the rope ladder to the trapeze, under him instead of net a sea of flowers. Yellow daffodils - sulphur yellow, cadmium yellow, mustard yellow, yolk yellow, canary yellow, hornet yellow - as far as the eye can see, iris is not visible, not even yellow. He jumps, floats down on the scent of blossoms, performing the greatest capers. Land gently and disappear behind the curtain to thunderous applause.

The stage workers are standing around, puffing their gitanes and gauloises, the ashtray is already overflowing. Behind them the new scenery, all in yellow, brown and grey, the colour still moist. The clown costume exudes the scent of narcissus, now strangely withered.

It pushes the clown out into the open: Let's get out there, get some fresh air, under those trees. But what does he smell: dead flowers, cold glowing stalks, damp glue colours hanging in the robe. Ventilate quickly. But after hours still the same smell, biting. Get the costume in the laundry!

Conclusion: I could have liked the trapeze act, but the opening act and the after play are not for me. On the program card was "Ingwer & Safran", they probably stayed in the caravan, I didn't even see them on the stage curtain. Some animals should also take part, they certainly scared the stage workers away with their smoke. What remains: wilting flowers and smoldering cigarettes with an airy somersault tree - no, I won't visit this circus again, even if I admire the clown for his courage.

Surely other noses smell different here and let themselves be entertained in the circus Dzing! splendidly. Nefertiti doesn't like circus and daffodils only in nature, so instead she goes to the Botanical Garden.

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Tanninaz

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Vanilla-horse apple fragrance
I was curious about this somewhat controversial scent. At the first spray: actually a note reminiscent of fresh horse droppings, which also smell musky-sweet and of fermented hay. When this note is gone, I have some caramel vanilla note left over, with some animal background. I find Dzing quite wearable even in the heat, at least if you wait at least half an hour before leaving the house....
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KimJongKimJong 4 years ago
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I thought my dog ​​pooped under the table again. But after a while, the poop smelled delicious. To eat or not to eat, that is the question.
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LillibetLillibet 6 years ago
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Grassy-animalic hay notes mixed with popcorny/candy aromas & spices, particularly ginger. Love it! There is nothing else like it.
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HajuvanaHajuvana 8 years ago
Vanilla fudge at the taxidermist
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