The Dark Side 2019

The Dark Side by Tigha
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7.4 / 10 325 Ratings
A perfume by Tigha for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is spicy-smoky. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy
Smoky
Woody
Resinous
Leathery

Fragrance Notes

FrankincenseFrankincense MarijuanaMarijuana OudOud LeatherLeather Pink pepperPink pepper MuskMusk TobaccoTobacco

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.4325 Ratings
Longevity
7.9312 Ratings
Sillage
7.6313 Ratings
Bottle
7.2287 Ratings
Value for money
7.5191 Ratings
Submitted by Feuerfuchs, last update on 24.04.2024.

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Chizza

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Chizza
Top Review 53  
The other day in the perfume lab
"Chef, the perfumer can't get any further on our new scent!"
"What is it?", Thorsten asked and rubbed his tired eyes. "Too little budget?"
"No, he says his leather ideas are getting us nowhere, what should we do?"
"Only one can help. Give me a phone."
Meanwhile in Herne: a man, dressed only in swimming trunks, was sitting in the garden in the children's paddling pool, his beer belly filled the pool quite well. Single cans - full but also many empty ones - were swimming in the pool. He babbled to himself: "delicious, these ribs! First a cool blond one before I have to go to the clubhouse. Oh no, now one has fallen into my pool! Well wait, you rascal ..."
Suddenly his phone rang and he answered: "Wollny here from the famous motorcycle gang, what can I do for you?"
"Wolfgang, very good! Thorsten is here, I'm now working on a perfume for Tigha, the one with the leather jackets, and we're not getting anywhere. You are my last hope!"
He thought about it for a second, then said, "My boys are in on this too?" "Yeah sure, we'll pay you anything! Can you make it today?"
"Difficult, I'm in a meeting right now and I think we could leave in the morning. Probably a long meeting."
"Do I hear the sound of splashing and hissing from opened beer cans?"
"Oh, it goes on, I have to hang up, see you tomorrow and send everything to me, mace!"
The next morning the boys drove off with their motorcycles up to the newcomer Schlicko, who only owned a moped. But he also owned the new George Foremann grill and worked at the regional brewery, so they were flexible. So he followed the men more slowly, but his foxtail on the flag at the back of the moped was blowing in the wind. Since nobody got younger and one had to leave more often than some years before, this circumstance was no problem. In the end one arrived one day too late.
The person responsible for The Dark Side greeted the motorcycle crew with a little echauffiert: "where were you yesterday? What happened there, Wolfgang?"
"Long story...without going into detail, it seems that recently it has been forbidden to use pitchforks as a lance and then fight a duel against each other in the farmers' fields."
"Oh, just come with..."
Thorsten went to the laboratory and pointed to the rudimentary results obtained so far. "This is all we have, can you help?"
"Sure, but it'll cost you..." "how much do you want? I can give you 50 dew..." "Done, 50 cases of beer!" rejoiced Wool. "And a batch of this Bentley rum!" cried Udo Wool reacted quickly to placate Thorsten: "all's well, Totty. 50 boxes and of course no Bentley Intense, ridiculous! We take the Dark Rebel with us."
So our rocker friends went to work, fiddled, experimented with ingredients and wool lunch and finally created a leather scent. They invited the management to the report to explain the scent:
"Well, we have designed a board, fellows! Smoky leather, dirty, like your jackets! But at the same time so mainstream that your customers don't run away but can feel cool and bold with it. Catchword super masculine and only for rockers, like your customers are only real rockers" Wolle winked at the management and all snorted away.
"Okay, Mr. Wool, so the scent is fairly generic?"
"If you know many leather scents, then yes. Or smoky scents. Otherwise no."
"Okay, go on, what does your creation smell like?" "First comes the pepper."
"Ah, for the spice? It does have an intense peppery smell."
"No, I fell in the shaker, I had seasoned my food on the side. But it smelled quite good. Very aromatic and then mixed with the incense. That's when we first had difficulties with the procurement. Operation Raid on the Altar boy went wrong. There were several of them, and they're stronger than ever. Anyway, the incense smells a bit dirty because of the oud. We made it like this because we want your customers to smell wild."
"That's good, but how did you put the leather in?" "with a smoked ham flavor, we had just purchased from the discount store around the corner. So you get a leathery smell that's really spicy. Fully masculine and with corners and edges."
"Could be too extreme, we don't want a niche fragrance." Wool laughed exhilarated: "What if it's mainstream with just enough niche painting to be celebrated for it? What if he gets exhausted in the beginning, you've noticed him as a bold guy and then after a few hours you retreat? If he becomes sweeter through the tobacco?"
"Wow, genius, Mr. Wooly Wooly! Did you use the marijuana as we specified?"
"Shit, forgotten! Can't you just write that on there anyway? Nobody will notice and be celebrated anyway. The beginning could look like this with a lot of imagination, we just have to advertise."
"You're right wool, that's how we do it."

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For me, The Dark Side stands in a series of solid, non-superior leather scents, which for various reasons play on the illusion of a super-tough scent. Sometimes they don't do that on purpose, so that's no reproach. Objectively speaking, we have a spicy leather scent here, where a bit too much pepper has been used and which slightly disfigures the incense with the oud. Normal smoke would have been better, but the scent was intended. Insofar as the solid, unfortunately poor durability is exaggerated as it comes out of the bottle, the perfume evaporates so quickly. I don't know the Tighamode, I've outgrown the leather jackets for years, but I would certainly choose other leather scents if I feel like smoky leather.
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GoodSmeller1

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GoodSmeller1
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Are my pupils dilated?
This fragrance seems to interest some people and since it is not easy to test it somewhere, I decided to write my first comment on a fragrance.

Here is a short information about me, so that my comment can be better appreciated:
I'm in my late 30s, male. Musician. I mainly wear rock clothes, black leather jacket etc.
Tigha is my favourite brand when it comes to fashion. I am also a small hobby perfume collector (about 30 fragrances). I like dark, sweet scents. Tonka bean, leather, iris, rum. My favorite scent is Dark Rebel by John Varvatos. So all in all "The Dark Side" is like made for me....... or not?
I have this scent of Tigha on the back of my hand at this very moment.
The first thing I smell is rubber. Some have described this scent here as tar. Understandable. The last time I smelled such a garage smell was at Fahrenheit and its success speaks for itself.
Second, the smell of marijuana gets into my nose. Unfortunately. I don't smoke pot and I don't want to smell it. It's not an unpleasant smell, quite the contrary. And whoever smells of it now and then anyway, it certainly doesn't matter to them. Maybe this perfume is a welcome excuse for one or the other to explain the sweet scent in the clothes.
I take oud as well. A nice, pleasant oud. That's rare.
All in all, Geza Schön has managed to bring out all the relevant fragrances. I perceive the pink pepper, but pleasantly discreet. I don't really like incense as a fragrance, but here it is well dosed. I like the leather note very much. Nice black leather. It's like distilling one of Tigha's leather jackets.
The name "The Dark Side" is definitely appropriate. The fragrance is dark, masculine and rebellious.
This perfume is supposed to be unisex? Okay, so every scent is kind of unisex. Allowed is what pleases The Sillage seems okay. I can't say much about durability yet, but from the fragrance notes I think this perfume performs very well here.

My conclusion: Unfortunately, this fragrance is nothing for me, even if I would have liked to have it. This car tire-like scent is slowly fading away, but I like perfume, which I like immediately after spraying on and gives me a good feeling. Also, I am proud of the fact that I have never pulled a joint and I just don't like people around me to think I just smoked something... and not even let them pull it.
Is "The Dark Side" a bad smell? No. I'm quite sure that Geza Schön has done a great job in carrying out the assignment. Is it a masterpiece? No. Does it smell synthetic? Yeah.
At the end of my commentary I smell the back of my hand again. Yes, there's something about that perfume... I can't deny that. In the club, with appropriate body warmth under the black leather jacket, one or the other woman will surely get stuck on it. Or the one or the other man - depending on the club.
But that also happens with CK One Shock - for a quarter of the price.

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Basti87

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The matching fragrance for the Tigha leather jacket
I have tested this new Tigha fragrance several times this month. I ordered a small sample because I liked the pyramid and with Geza Schön a great perfumer is behind it. Who knows my taste knows that this kind of scent is not my prey scheme. But sometimes opposites attract and nothing speaks against variety in the collection.
Tigha is a fashion label from Germany, which is known for leather jackets. Rather not my style, but I have some shirts of this brand. Fashionably already a very cool and modern style. Even though Tigha is a designer label, you can attribute this fragrance to the niche because of the price (120 Euro a 100ml). Geza Schön is also more at home in the niche world. But not so important to me, because I don't separate them that much
The Dark Side has a dark coloured fragrance to match its name. Already cool and fitting. The pyramid sounds mean and you expect a real banger that will blow you away. Also because Black Afghano is mentioned, who is not exactly squeamish either. Here you have a price advantage, because you get 70ml more for the same price. But it's still not a clone, even if it's going in that direction.
Here only the fragrances are given, without dividing them into head-heart-base. It does not have much progression, although the first two hours are much better in quality. An oriental firecracker, without being too overpowering like many others in this category. Many of the scents are easy to guess without being really barely noticeable. Oud-incense and leather are in the foreground and provide a great oriental feeling. Goes already in the direction of Bad Boy matching the leather jacket. Tobacco also complements each other well. Weed is not really recognizable, but this mixture is already harmonious and well blended. A great valuable fragrance for self-confident people. I rather see it on men, but ladies with a preference for strong oriental scents could also be happy with this one.
Would be a candidate for purchase for me if it would not end after 2-3 hours in the trivial. With these fragrances more is possible and unfortunately it loses power, not only in terms of sillage. It stays on a decent level, but I expect more from this type of fragrance The durability is good, if you add to this the closeness to the skin. The Sillage is good in the beginning but for this type of fragrance rather mediocre. Whoever expects a real firecracker like Interlude Man will be disappointed. But it is quite decent, especially since you can wear it on many occasions.

Altogether a great fragrance. If he could keep the level from the beginning longer he would be even better. But all in all a great special scent, which you can wear to many occasions.
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Manogi

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Good stuff
I got me a bottling of this fragrance at @StolzerOskar, because the notes appealed to me very much. It was worth it.

Yet "The Dark Side" is certainly not for everyone. Sweetness about one looks here completely in vain. The aroma is smoky-tart.

Initially, the marijuana hits full through. Then incense, tobacco and leather are well perceptible. From oud I notice against it nothing, which I find a bit of a shame. The pink pepper comes through very discreetly.

Unfortunately, the sillage is not so famous. The durability is ok, but after about 3 hours, the fragrance is already very close to the body.

All in all, a test is still worth it if you want to try a fragrance that is certainly not mainstream.
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Fahrstuhlman

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With a swing like Thor's hammer
First of all: I got to know the perfume through the perfume critic JeremyFragance, who appears on YouTube, and then I simply bought it on "good luck". And I have no regrets.
The perfume has a gigantic durability on my skin and I can still perceive it even after showering. CLASS!
The projection and sillage are also phenomenal. I have already received a number of comments and compliments (even without pointing to my applied scent myself). So far, these comments have been consistently positive and I love to apply the perfume. During spring and on cooler days I find it even more pleasant and relaxed to wear than on very hot days, because then it becomes even stronger, at least for me.
The bottle is kept simple and does not represent a speciality for me, whereas the Zersteuber does its job excellently :)
At this point in time, I cannot say that I can smell the fragrances, as I am only at the beginning of my olfactory "career". Nevertheless I believe to "sniff" the tobacco/ incense clearly, which I like phenomenally well!
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Foreigner77Foreigner77 8 months ago
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Geza Schön has found his "Dark Side". Strong cannabis at the beginning fades into leather& incense. One of the most challenging scents.
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Topfpflanze3Topfpflanze3 1 year ago
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Leathery and green herbatious... and yea a bit canabis. Quite interesting, as it dries down it turns a bit sour, however not unpleasant
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 3 years ago
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Warm, cozy, sweet, dark, spicy and woody. A slightly animalic oud in the opening, incensy and peppery. Dark leather and dry tobacco.
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