Yatagan (1976)
by Caron

Different and powerful enough to satisfy strong frag lovers. Distinct celery note and to me, Yatagan has alot in common with Ricci Phileas.

Wormwood,petitgrain,patchouli,vetiver,leather & castoreum........what's not to like here? Bottle worthy leather chypre here folks.

Big thumbs up from AE.

Celery and gunpwoder! My advice for those of you who love it would be to step out of the kitchen into the dining hall of the palace and take your rightfull place at the head of the table with Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet.

Nevertheless, one must grant this is a a most unusual frag. Perhaps I'll buy when I run out of Jacomo de Jacomo, my present sinus rocket.

Hubba hubba!

Bathroom cleaner, creosote, wood, more wood, pine needles and butchness. This smells like a forest. And possibly also a lumberjack. It really is good.

I'll be wearing it and to hell with the consequences, but I do wish I could bump into a chap sporting this cologne. I'd probably follow him down the street. And into a bar. :)

you know the guy whose face is plastered on each and every roll of brawny paper towels??? this is what he smells like... this is burning forest mixed with hot sweat and old flannel... paul bunyan would probably have this in his daily rotation... this scent requires a generous amount of facial hair and twenty pound boots, along with some sort of axe or chainsaw... i think that there's only a few people that could actually pull this off as a daily fragrance, and utterly blasphemous for the wrong person to try... the woods are extreme, the patchouli absolutely dirty (not unclean, but straight out of the earth), and whatever other notes are there are pummeled into submission by the sheer masculinity existing from top to bottom... if oscar pour lui is the refined gentleman sipping a martini at the jazz bar downtown, yatagan is the hulking mass of a man drinking wild turkey at the hole in the wall pub on the outskirts of town... this is the essence of testicular fortitude, and that gives it a thumbs way up

Quite simply I think this is one of the most beautiful fragrances for men I have encountered. I've heard people make reference to "celery" and as it dries down and mutates you can see where that comes from but it's a small part of what is quite simply a gloriously rich, spicy and evocative fragrance. This is a rich leather scent, yes, but with it comes a whirl of pinecones, earthy muskiness (from the castoreum) and more with the patchouli adding a sweet yet dry richness in there.

Also, what it projects above the skin is far warmer and sexier than right down on skin level (which is where you will find the "celery" like note). I suppose it depends on your skin, but on mine, this is just an elegant, warm and deeply dark and rich fragrance that lasts for hours.

This is not a fragrance to be afraid of - unless you are in your late teens perhaps or early twenties. It is a mature scent for an older male, for it carries with it an authority and confidence that a young, fresh buck would not be expected to harbour.

It is unmistakably a male fragrance. Dignified with a kind of snooty indifference but alluding to an animalic growl underneath.

A classic - oh yes. In every sense of the word.

I've heard so much good feedback about this stuff. Now I know why. I also bought a dacant from PerfumedCourt and haven't regretted it since. Maybe it's time for a full bottle when my decant's done.