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by L'Artisan Parfumeur
- Availability: In Production
- Perfumer: Bertrand Duchaufour
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  |  Certainly not nearly as bad as most new fragrances, but not the greatest either. I get a lot of soap in the mid notes and green wood in the drydown. It's pleasant enough for day wear, but there isn't anything the opposite sex would be drawn to. The subtle reminders of Irish spring soap throughout the day makes me feel clean and lets everyone around me know it too. Kind of a why bother frag for me, but I'll keep it in a drawer and visit it occasionally.15 January 2007 |
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| A vetiver based scent that I can't get a beat on. It's extraordinarily dry. I can't get a strong feeling for it either way, though there are some days where it works. It's a scent that's unique enough to warrant trying, but I really can't get a full bearing on what I think of it. I have to be in the exact perfect mood to wear it....regretfully that isn't very often. It has enough going on in it to warrant a test drive, but I can't figure out what it's trying to do. 14 April 2006 |
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| Roasted red peppers marinating in Indian spices at the bottom of a leather satchel abandoned in a church. Ugly-sexy. 04 April 2006 |
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| Looking at the notes, I would expect this to have some sweetness in it. However, that is not the case. It smells really dry and woody to me, like an old tree. I suspect it's the vetiver note that makes it earthy and musty. This isn't a scent that I see myself wearing. I don't usually think scents pertain to certain age groups, but this one doesn't smell like it could be pulled off by a teenager or early 20's person. 29 December 2005 |
 | VERY dry scent. Like Passage D'enfer without the flowers. Not really made my mind up about this one yet. 04 September 2005 |
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| Though Timbuktu is not a scent I would wear, I love it for its gloriously evocative quality. When I applied Timbuktu to my wrists, I was hurled back in time approximately 30 years, landing with a thump in the hayloft of Grandpa's big old barn. Yes: that aroma of aging wood, the greenish spice of dried alfalfa hay, the faint tang of a rusting iron plow. In the dusky atmosphere broken shafts of sunlight sneak in through the cracks, illuminating the quiet dancing of dust. Timbuktu, thanks for the memories! 04 August 2005 |
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