Eucris (1912)
by Geo F Trumper

Eucris starts out spicy and mossy and feels very dark. With time a honeyed accord, much like Givenchy Gentlemen’s emerges. In fact, I think of Eucris as a heavier, darker version of Givenchy Gentlemen. At first I had my doubts, but I am impressed.

29th January, 2012.

This is a dark masculine scent that opens with a dank musky lavender fragrance that smells like stale sweat to my nose.

If you were to go down into Count Dracula's crypt and opened his coffin this scent is what you would smell from the vampire lord. Lol

To be fair though this fragrance gets better in the drydown. You get a peppery musky sandalwood which is aromatic and very dry. This scent would suit a mature business man.

I do not like the opening but I like the drydown and this one is definitely a try before you buy cologne.

15th January, 2012.

This is a very complex one. A mixture of spices, blackcurrant, and oakmoss. Spicy and soapy. The opening is a sharp, peppery accord that settles down into a peppery woods scent. The mossy, musky base comes through after awhile. Something about all this does not wear well on me though. One reviewer mentioned smelling like motor oil and I can say after reading that it hits it spot on. I appreciate this for what it is, but don’t think it could work for me.

24th September, 2011.

Eucris litterally makes me shiver with pleasure! It fits perfectly the idea that I have about classic and traditional but absolutely not aged scents. A dirty/clean peppery /cumin opening evolving into a mossy/musk drydown while an huge oakmoss presence watches from the above. Crispy, snensual, mature and elegant but not mannered. Excellent.

Since 1912, one of the best in its genre.

19th May, 2011.

Today I am briefly testing Trumper's drier, more leathery offerings Astor, Curzon, Eucris and Marlborough together. It took me a few tries to distinguish them.
Eucris is weaker at first, with lavender and bay leaf, then strong and sweaty with mint or some other sharp herbs. Drydown is multifaceted...dirty for a while like Yatagan, then back to soapier dry herbs with a dash of sweet spice.

26th March, 2011.

This is a very fine, dark, oakmossy, heavy scent in a lovely bottle which definitely suits an older man (as many reviewers have noted here). It slips on a like a dead man's suit and the heaviness of the aroma seems to weigh the feet down, shorten the breath and increase fatigue like a bad spell or a dose of pneumonia.

It's a peculiar scent that conveys a a strange sense of doom and foreboding to the host/victim as if holding up a mirror and offering a portrait of infirmity as a cruel joke.

29th January, 2011. (Last Edited: 30th January, 2011.)