Top Notes 
Heart Notes 
Base Notes 
05/18/2018
MrGaunt
19 Reviews
Translated
Show original
MrGaunt
Top Review
16
L'Eau PHI de Marocain?
A new Tauer is always very exciting.
He is known primarily for his strong fragrances, partly polarizing, not suitable for everyone. It seldom smells classic, beginners are quickly overwhelmed. A little it goes in the direction of hate or love. But with the two desert scents he has already created two very prestigious scents without making too many compromises.
I like his scents a lot. But with one limitation: little is portable for me in the office. The Kandahar rose sometimes finds its way onto my skin, rarely the desert air. I like L'Eau with pleasure and it is also very office suitable, but I have only rarely desire on this creaminess. Sounds weird, but it's like this.
Now Les Années 25 comes along, according to Tauer's description "A modern vintage". To anticipate: The description fits. The fragrance has something "old" in the positive sense, but brings the Tauer fragrance brand with it.
The start is strong, quite harsh and has this window cleaner note which - so I feel it anyway - has many fragrances with citrus-heavy top notes. However, this disappears very quickly (1-2 minutes), the citrus notes become more relaxed and shortly afterwards the rose comes and makes a present visit. It's a bit as if good Andy had put "L'Eau" and the "Collectible PHI - Une Rose de Kandahar" in the drawer and experimented a bit. Works but good.
The citrus notes then retreat after some time and remain quite slightly in the background. The base note is very soft and dominated by oakmoss and musk. With my nose the rose remains however further present. The whole thing is balanced by wood and tonka/vanilla, but they remain charmingly in the background choir.
A very successful and possibly the most suitable Tauer for the masses (together with L'Eau) without being boring. In contrast to his siblings clearly more reserved.
Is it a chypre? Probably. With the classification I always have a hard time, too many fragrances carry this label which seem too different to me.
He is known primarily for his strong fragrances, partly polarizing, not suitable for everyone. It seldom smells classic, beginners are quickly overwhelmed. A little it goes in the direction of hate or love. But with the two desert scents he has already created two very prestigious scents without making too many compromises.
I like his scents a lot. But with one limitation: little is portable for me in the office. The Kandahar rose sometimes finds its way onto my skin, rarely the desert air. I like L'Eau with pleasure and it is also very office suitable, but I have only rarely desire on this creaminess. Sounds weird, but it's like this.
Now Les Années 25 comes along, according to Tauer's description "A modern vintage". To anticipate: The description fits. The fragrance has something "old" in the positive sense, but brings the Tauer fragrance brand with it.
The start is strong, quite harsh and has this window cleaner note which - so I feel it anyway - has many fragrances with citrus-heavy top notes. However, this disappears very quickly (1-2 minutes), the citrus notes become more relaxed and shortly afterwards the rose comes and makes a present visit. It's a bit as if good Andy had put "L'Eau" and the "Collectible PHI - Une Rose de Kandahar" in the drawer and experimented a bit. Works but good.
The citrus notes then retreat after some time and remain quite slightly in the background. The base note is very soft and dominated by oakmoss and musk. With my nose the rose remains however further present. The whole thing is balanced by wood and tonka/vanilla, but they remain charmingly in the background choir.
A very successful and possibly the most suitable Tauer for the masses (together with L'Eau) without being boring. In contrast to his siblings clearly more reserved.
Is it a chypre? Probably. With the classification I always have a hard time, too many fragrances carry this label which seem too different to me.
6 Comments
