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Dzing! (1999)
by L'Artisan Parfumeur

Image Credit: Paul Gamboa
  • Availability: In Production
  • Perfumer: Olivia Giacobetti
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729 reviews

I think the exclamation mark is needed. This reminds me of Mechant Loup without the wet honey. This still smells saturated but more like ink instead of water. Like printed cardboard. Maybe it's the smoky sweet smell that reminds me of paper goods.
19 June 2008


95 reviews

I get the circus right off. No, not the circus, the stable where the horses are kept. Hay and some manure. Then cotton candy arrives a little later-very weird, as well as leather saddles for the same horses that provided the manure. Other notes: popcorn, browned butter, canvas, parchment. Strange and wonderful, but not a fragrance to wear. I can't imagine enjoying this on someone else! Still, as already mentioned, many points for creativity! Hence the neutral, not negative!
15 June 2008


93 reviews

It's paper! It's leather! It's Dzing!!

The opening is boozy and leathery as all hell, but it soon mellows down into something sweeter and more playful. I generally don't like sweet but somehow this manages to pull it off, partly because it's offset by that (literally) animalic barnyard note.

I smell both the leather and the paper that people talk about, but what's odd is that they are ONE AND THE SAME SMELL, which smells like paper or leather depending on what you happen to want it to smell like at that moment, kind of like an olfactory Rorschach test. How Olivia Giacobetti manages to achieve this effect I don't know, but it's brilliant and only adds to the mystery of this already uncanny and sublime masterpiece: A saddled unicorn in a second-hand bookshop.

Wordbird says he wouldn't wear this to church. No worries I say, I'm prepared to found a Church of Dzing!

Did I mention I don't generally even like perfumes like this?
14 June 2008


1006 reviews

i want to delete this but it won't let me.
14 June 2008


55 reviews

I don't know what to say. Even after a few wearings, I can't get used to this one, partly because the drydown turns sour on me (my skin does this to a few scents that would otherwise be perfect). It's a funky leather, verging on cardboard, with hay and a little sugar. It's like someone tried to put up a model stable with papier-mache and decided to make it smell vaguely like a zoo. Not to say that the overall effect is unpleasant, not at all.

Certainly it's like nothing I've ever smelled so far, so points for originality - in fact, this one so came out of the blue that it's humorous, like a good joke, and it made me smile. On the right person, I can imagine it would work well.
29 April 2008


6 reviews

it smells like its alive.sweet wet leather. one of my favs
14 April 2008

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