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Notes08/26/2020
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Pale desert landscape
The more good ratings a fragrance has and the more you look forward to it based on its individual notes, the greater the disappointment can be if the high expectations are not met. Of the 16 comments so far, 15 have a rating between 8 and 10 - only DaveGahan101 gives a 7.5 - and you can also read a lot of positive things in the statements. Today I tested the scent again after a long time and although Taklamakan doesn't annoy me either, I only feel indifference as I move my wrist towards the nose. I'm aware that there might be some contradictions to this comment, but just because most people have a different opinion, I shouldn't bend mine but start from my own perception.
The name and the associations associated with it are quite understandable, because warmth and dryness are clearly recognizable, but the texture of the fragrance does not seem quite right to me. Something synthetic seems to keep the individual notes relatively close together, as I have already noticed in other creations by Stéphane Humbert Lucas (including soOud).
At the beginning Taklamakan has a slightly 'boozy' character, but basically the fragrance starts with the heart and base notes. The rose that I can smell directly from the sprayer of the sample is not present on my skin at any time. Instead, the resinous and woody sides hold their own, while a slightly sweet vanilla is always perceptible. The big problem for me is that everything seems to be densely packed and yet quite dimmed. But good perfumes give the individual notes air to breathe, no matter how heavy they are. Benzoin leaves an impression of something dried up waxy, and rockrose doesn't have its ethereal quality here; sandalwood seems only partly creamy to me, and patchouli at least gives a soft, earthy touch. A further difference can be seen in the projection/silage, because I can only perceive Taklamakan really strongly in the immediate vicinity of the skin. Only the pale mixture remains in the air, which does not do justice to the given scents.
The question whether my sample is not authentic or tilted, I can answer in the negative, because I received it in exchange from a long-time perfumer who owns Taklamakan himself. You have to assume that every now and then there are those fragrances where you simply get completely different impressions than the majority do.
The name and the associations associated with it are quite understandable, because warmth and dryness are clearly recognizable, but the texture of the fragrance does not seem quite right to me. Something synthetic seems to keep the individual notes relatively close together, as I have already noticed in other creations by Stéphane Humbert Lucas (including soOud).
At the beginning Taklamakan has a slightly 'boozy' character, but basically the fragrance starts with the heart and base notes. The rose that I can smell directly from the sprayer of the sample is not present on my skin at any time. Instead, the resinous and woody sides hold their own, while a slightly sweet vanilla is always perceptible. The big problem for me is that everything seems to be densely packed and yet quite dimmed. But good perfumes give the individual notes air to breathe, no matter how heavy they are. Benzoin leaves an impression of something dried up waxy, and rockrose doesn't have its ethereal quality here; sandalwood seems only partly creamy to me, and patchouli at least gives a soft, earthy touch. A further difference can be seen in the projection/silage, because I can only perceive Taklamakan really strongly in the immediate vicinity of the skin. Only the pale mixture remains in the air, which does not do justice to the given scents.
The question whether my sample is not authentic or tilted, I can answer in the negative, because I received it in exchange from a long-time perfumer who owns Taklamakan himself. You have to assume that every now and then there are those fragrances where you simply get completely different impressions than the majority do.
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