Au Coeur du Désert 2016

Au Coeur du Désert by Tauer Perfumes
Shop now
Search on
Search
More
Shop now
Top 12 in Unisex Perfume
8.8 / 10 1038 Ratings
Au Coeur du Désert is a popular perfume by Tauer Perfumes for women and men and was released in 2016. The scent is spicy-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still available to purchase. Pronunciation
Search on
Search
More

Main accords

Spicy
Oriental
Woody
Resinous
Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes SpicesSpices Citrus notesCitrus notes
Heart Notes Heart Notes AmberAmber
Base Notes Base Notes Balsamic notesBalsamic notes AmbergrisAmbergris Woody notesWoody notes PatchouliPatchouli

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
8.81038 Ratings
Longevity
9.1975 Ratings
Sillage
8.5963 Ratings
Bottle
7.9863 Ratings
Value for money
7.8416 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 20.03.2023.
  • RateRate
  • CollectionCollection
  • ClassifyClassify
  • NotesNotes

Reviews

32 in-depth fragrance descriptions
8
Pricing
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Ponticus
Translated Show original Show translation
Ponticus
Ponticus
Top Review 69  
Get lost and how I then found peace!
Au Cœur du Désert by Andy Tauer is the best rated unisex perfume on Parfumo. This fragrance I really wanted to get to know. After a first sample test, I now own a full bottle.

By reading various reviews and testing the sample I was in very positive expectations and mentally already quite the generally widespread desert impression with Au Cœur du Désert caught. This perception fits perfectly, because the moment I spray it on, I feel an explosion of dust-dry heat, the sun heats the skin and a drought spreads that lacks any moisture in the environment. A fire blazes without smoke, the wood is "bone dry", both the burning and the branches next to the fire parched by the sun and flames. With vehemence, the heat of the fire presses the last resinous drops from the crackling branches into the embers, and a distinctive, bitter-citrus odor imprints an enigmatic citrusy stamp on the glowing wood. The silvery wood, mirror-smooth from wind and sand, thereby slowly and intensely spicy coals in front of itself, while the shimmering heat above makes me believe mirages typical for the fragrance.

Hatt, hatt, hatt, forward, on and on he drives the little Bedouin group, hatt, hatt, forward, on and on towards Aqaba in the rear of the Ottoman enemy. The crossing of the Nefud desert demands everything from "Lawrence of Arabia" and his daring band, but he never loses sight of the conquest of Akabar, despite all the hardships.

On the other side of the shimmering air, the confident Raisuli, proud leader of a Berber tribe, rides through the Maghreb to the native Rif Mountains. In tow and as a hostage the kidnapped American Eden Perdicaris to defy the American President Theodore Roosevelt "Like the wind and the lion".

An onset of balmy wind, coming from infinite distance, dispels the fantasies and delusions. It lures the nose with warm woody-sweet spice and settles deep-dark, heavy and dust-dry like a solid, ancient patina on the skin. The air is still scorching, and now that I'm sitting, I can feel the blazing heat of the rocks, the sand, and the last remnants of earth rising up at me. The barren ground breathes absolutely dry and the brooding sun vigorously drives the last remnants of aromatic resinous, woody and earthy scents from the parched land. Like fragrant balm, these melt into my warm skin and make my soul glow. No sound reaches my ear, endless silence everywhere.

And now what of Hau ab and the peace I found?

In all this desertness, I almost missed the fact that I had already encountered this Andy Tauer perfume, or at least a very similar scent. On mild summer evenings on the terrace at cozy get-togethers, we like to burn incense for the purpose of banishing stinging insects. One of the most famous manufacturers produces many different scented incense candles under the label "original Crottendorfer". Among other things also an XL variant called "Hau ab"! The funny packaging of "Hau ab" already suggests, with this scent aroma it goes to the pieksenden pests to the collar.

Is this incense candle lit, it smells like lemony incense, very intense, dry and balsamic. Confusingly similar to the beginning of the fragrance of Au Cœur du Désert! The burn is a little more smoky, coarser, superficial and lacks spicy depth, yet unmistakably a smell like Au Cœur du Désert. Unfortunately, this exquisite insect repellent has recently been discontinued for marketing reasons. From time to time can be found still full Schächtelchen on online sales platforms.

In the course of my excited call in Crottendorf, I was assured that only the name had changed, the new incense "calm" would have the identical recipe, but there would be much more possibilities of marketing in the direction of meditation, yoga and relaxation. Now there are even incense sticks in addition to the classic candles. The aroma is characterized on the part of the manufacture as lemony-good aromatic incense candles, aromatic and balsamic, a spicy incense resin scent with a dominant incense note. After about 30 minutes burning time is over.

The striking, albeit superficial similarity of the scent of "Hau ab/Ruhe" and Au Cœur du Désert suggests that the perfume could also be a mosquito repellent. I'm already curious to see how the two complement each other. The summer will show it, when the "calm" glows on the table and I enjoy the sociable round with two / three splashes Au Cœur du Désert in the evening.

Au Cœur du Désert is a great perfume with enormous durability and good sillage, absolutely striking and well-dosed everyday wear well. And if you really burn times for something, then it may be also gladly a splash more!

Thank you very much for your interest in this impressive top fragrance!

46 Replies
10
Sillage
9
Longevity
9
Scent
Ttfortwo
Translated Show original Show translation
Ttfortwo
Ttfortwo
Top Review 44  
No risk - no fun
The first test of "Au Coeur du Désert" - under real conditions in the (open-plan) office. As far as my colleagues are concerned, I am lacking a bit of sympathy, because I do not normally work on Fridays, but now I do because of colleagues who are ill or on holiday, and of course the others should also suffer if I have to. So: No pardon, no empathically selected office fragrance, gentle and reserved, no, today I let it crash. No risk - no fun. Thauer's desert planet.

Right now I'm really happy about the scruple I had left this morning and about the fact that I only gave a single, rather cautious spray in the direction of the neck, neckerchief and sweater hem. The whole thing is now, as I write these words, almost an hour ago and I sit here in a gigantic fragrance cloud. A Sillage as big as the Namib.

This is certainly one of the most unconventional fragrances that I, the friend of old perfume art with classical signatures, possess and also the one that breaks with her time-honored principles most of all. It's less a perfume than an epic narrative
Following the traditional idea of a top note, the "heart of the desert" only smells halfway authentic in the opening: a little floral, with a hint of plant sap and stem and a delicate bitter sweetness. It tells of an oasis, of a rose, of its scent, of the smell of hot rock, hot sand, moistened for the purpose of cooling. Of resins and bittersweet honey, collected from small wild bees.

Still it is not hot, the morning sun paints long shadows.

The pace of the story is slow. Gradually, step by step, I walk on with the narrator, leaving behind the last irrigated fields and also the last shadow. It gets warmer, then it gets hot. He tells me of wild beauty, of the silhouette lines of the horizon in the distance, of violet shimmering mountain flanks, of the dance of hot air over ochre, over dark orange, over violet, over blood red and over all shades of brown, of light so bright that it appears black. We look at stone lines, mineral-oily shimmering, feldspar mica. Spiked, resinous-scented plant heroes, survivors in nothingness. Dry wood with a dark colour and a silky shimmer, who knows how old it is.

We're hiking. But time stands still.

About three hours after application, the fragrance also seems to have come to a standstill. The sun is still high, the colours are faded, dried up in the heat. I smell dusty, creamy ambergris and mineral sandstone notes, dry warm resins with subtle sweetness. I smell warm woods and dry earth. It smells good, the scent likes me, is friendly to me. On the skin tenderly sweet-warm-powdery - on the clothes rather dusty-warm-mineral. Own and beautiful. The Sillage is still enormous, the smell fills my nose effortlessly with each breath, with each small movement a bright little cloud puffs up, with matte texture and warm oily smell color.

Once again many hours later the narrator and I sit on a rock, we are tired, the day was long. The narrator has almost fallen silent, he speaks only little and with a quiet voice, but there is no need for words either. We have become familiar on the way together, many words are no longer necessary. Soon the sun will set and it will get cold. I put on a towel, get up and go.
---<¶

And last but not least: The hardcore test in the open-plan office didn't go wrong. Nobody has made a big bow around me or - as if by chance - constantly rubbed his nose with his hand near me. However, nobody was enthusiastic about my scent of the day either. I think it's a vitrine scent to me. Precious and like to be smelled, but not worn in the end.

The shelf life is exceptional and the Sillage is gigantic in the first hour, then still clear for many hours.
21 Replies
7
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
9
Scent
Delasoul
Translated Show original Show translation
Delasoul
Delasoul
Top Review 19  
So that's him....
So this is the famous and one of the top rated perfumes here. Forgive me for not having a trained nose and not being able to smell all the ingredients out ???? I still try to evaluate him as best I can. Until that time when I smelled it I only knew the designer world from the turquoise branches. I first became aware of this fragrance through the parfumo community. So quickly get a sample and test it. When I first smelled him, I thought to myself, okay... Very unusual... But not bad at all. During the day I tested and smelled him several times. Because of the positive comments here, I ordered it short hand. I didn't know such prices for a perfume until now. Now about 1 year after the purchase comes the disillusionment. It's a good scent anyway, but it's not for me. Well, I don't know when. That's why he's about to be sold... So who's interested? Aroma: Spicy, dry, dusty. So I can understand the connection to the desert.
Durability: With me loosely at least 10 std
Sillage : Very well perceptible.

End of Comment..... ???? Please don't judge me too harshly... ????
6 Replies
8
Pricing
7
Bottle
9
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Zapp
Translated Show original Show translation
Zapp
Zapp
Top Review 37  
The smell of Spice
I experience again and again a romantic longing for the Orient, the desert, the landscape and the cities, oriental spices and handicrafts This fascination and longing I seem to have in common with many sensitive people from the Western culture - including many artists - who banish their passion in pictures, stories and art or even fragrances and then further romanticize me.
That I therefore № 02 - L'Air du Désert Marocain and Au Coeur du Désert attracted like a moth the light is almost self-evident or? I like both very much - Au Coeur du Désert is for me still a little deeper, fuller, like the completion of an already before grandiose masterpiece.

How does Au Coeur du Désert smell? That's not even that easy to describe, because the perfume is wonderfully interwoven. To me it smells wonderfully warm, dry, balsamic soothing, slightly sweet, of oriental spices without me being able to make one out, promising and with a wonderful depth.
I could draw you a picture: imagine you've been traveling all day on the edge of the Sahara, the last stretch into the desert you've undertaken in the evening on the backs of camels. Finally you are there, in a small tent city between the dunes. Around you there is a hustle and bustle, preparations for a fire are being made, others are preparing a delicious spice-laden dinner while still others are rolling out their prayer rugs and burning balsamic resins in a small vessel. Only you have nothing to do right now and so you decide to get away from the hustle and bustle and into the dunes.
The sun no longer burns as mercilessly as it did hours before and now bathes the dunes around you in a wonderful sea of amber while the sky provides a beautiful blue contrast and fades into something lavender towards the horizon. You take off your shoes - the sand is still quite warm and feels wonderfully warm and smooth as you let it trickle between your hands. You take a deep breath of the still-warm desert air and enjoy the peace and depth of the landscape.

*Cut* of course that's not how the air in the desert really smells - believe me I've been there - Au Coeur du Désert is more just one of those transfigured objects of longing art that move people like me so deeply. The longing has remained with me whether I come in this life again in the Orient I do not know, because I do not fly any more. Without being there" was for me a mixture of fascination and reality shock. Many, especially people from Japan, it should go like this, when they come full of romantic fantasies to Paris and then are confronted with reality (there is even a name for it - it is called the Paris Syndrome).
Maybe that's why I prefer to snuggle up on my sofa between my Berber cushions and read, say, "Voices of Marrakech" by Elias Canetti, "Baptism of Solitude" by Paul Bowles, "High Time of Solitude" by Albert Campus or, say, "The Little Prince" by Antone de Saint-Exupéry, wearing Au Coeur du Désert and dreaming of the desert and the Orient.

Another comparison I would make for Au Coeur du Désert is the Spice from the desert world of Arrakis from Dune. I devoured the book when I was 16 and right now it's in the cinemas with a terrific film adaptation. The Spice here is a just too mystical spice that only occurs on this desert world and is the most sought after commodity in the entire universe. It can only be found in the Deep Desert, smells sweet and slightly like cinnamon. It has life-extending and consciousness-expanding properties. The book Dune is an exceptional SiFi novel in that it is deeply philosophical and religion and culture of the Orient inspired.
There's something so mystical and deep about Au Coeur du Désert for me, too. When I imagine what Spice smells like, it smells like Au Coeur du Désert.
4 Replies
Pinkpug5
Translated Show original Show translation
Pinkpug5
Pinkpug5
Top Review 24  
Childhood memory of Tehran
I can't believe how this scent lets images from my childhood rise up. We lived almost 2 years in Tehran when I was a child and this scent lets a lot of pictures from this time rise up again. I smell/see the dusty roads and the smell of kerosene when we drove into the mountains on the weekend. I remember sweet pastries soaked in rose water and honey. The hot sun that lets the air waft and softens the tar. Carpet dealers in the bazaar offer their customers strongly sweetened tea. Fruits dried by the mountain on the market, such as mulberries, apricots and sour barberries. A friend of the family brings my mother honeycombs as a present, which we suck out with pleasure.
My favourite food, a stew of meat strongly seasoned with cinnamon and dried apricots.
The colored dresses and the clinking jewelry of the Berber women. The smell of the goat that was kept some time in the garage.
Fresh Barbari (bread) with sesame. Bundles of herbs and panir (cheese). The slightly smoky smell of the bakery in which soured flat bread was baked in an oven on hot pebbles (woe, I was too greedy and immediately eaten a piece with hot pebbles!)
I could continue to indulge endlessly and therefore like to hold my nose to the specimen again and again. It's too special to wear, though
5 Replies
More reviews

Statements

20 short views on the fragrance
BertolucciKBertolucciK 2 years ago
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
9
Scent
The opening is shyer than in LDDM. Also spicy (but with less cumin) and less sweet. The scent is dry, ambery, more leathery and deep.
0 Replies
Carlitos01Carlitos01 3 years ago
8
Bottle
9
Sillage
9
Longevity
9
Scent
Woody, ambery and balsamic. A simple recepty for a high quality, high pleaser, huge performance, indispensable perfume. Tauer nailed it!
0 Replies
Rossi09Rossi09 12 months ago
8
Bottle
9
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Denser, more intense, sweeter than the “original” with more than a hint of chocolate. Warm, spicy, almost radiating heat. A wonderful scent!
0 Replies
ItchynoseItchynose 3 years ago
9
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Warm sirocco winds blow over the Saharan dunes carrying aromas of incense and resins. A million grains of sand scrub the skin under the sun.
0 Replies
Maximus001Maximus001 1 year ago
9
Bottle
9
Sillage
10
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Herbal ambery scent with serious wow factor. Parfumery at upmost level. Fantastic buy. My batch: 1712
0 Replies
More statements

Charts

This is how the community classifies the fragrance.
Pie Chart Radar Chart

Images

45 fragrance photos of the community
More images

Popular by Tauer Perfumes

№ 02 - L'Air du Désert Marocain (Eau de Toilette Intense) by Tauer Perfumes Collectible PHI - Une Rose de Kandahar by Tauer Perfumes № 03 - Lonestar Memories by Tauer Perfumes Attar AT by Tauer Perfumes Sundowner by Tauer Perfumes L'Air des Alpes Suisses by Tauer Perfumes № 08 - Une Rose Chyprée by Tauer Perfumes L'Eau by Tauer Perfumes № 06 - Incense Rosé by Tauer Perfumes Les Années 25 by Tauer Perfumes № 14 - Noontide Petals by Tauer Perfumes L'Oudh by Tauer Perfumes № 01 - Le Maroc pour Elle by Tauer Perfumes Cologne du Maghreb (2021) by Tauer Perfumes № 05 - Incense Extrême by Tauer Perfumes Collectible ZETA - A Linden Blossom Theme by Tauer Perfumes L'Air du Désert Marocain (Solid Perfume) by Tauer Perfumes Lonesome Rider by Tauer Perfumes № 09 - Orange Star by Tauer Perfumes Sotto la Luna - Tuberose by Tauer Perfumes