Reviews of L'Air du Desert Marocain
by Tauer

This stuff is hugely overrated!
I bought a bottle based on the glowing reviews of LAdDM and boy was I in for a surprise! Tauer seems to have a common base for all his products and it just doesn't work for me, too harsh. That's not to say that I liked the topnotes either all I get is incense and... a turpentine like accord which others might call citrus. Not for me.

This is Dune with an Avignon drydown. I love the opening... a dry, not too sweet, citrus amber. But the moldy, damp basement smell that comes next really makes this one a scrubber for me.

An unbearable, never ending, cloying sweet amber and vanilla that won't go away despite furious washing attemps.

This fragrance just did not do for me what it seems to be doing for everyone else. While I loved how it opened -- that gorgeous dry, dusty desert sage -- the extremely sharp cedar creature it morphed into overwhelmed me until I began to feel like I was buried alive in a cedar coffin. And "Hey That's Life" was spot-on about how it "easily endures 10-12 hours" -- I kept waiting for it to dry down into something less intrusive, but it was just as strong and insistently cedar on me over five hours later until I couldn't stand it any longer and scrubbed it off. For me, L'air du Desert Marocain was the opposite of serene or mesmerizing. If you're not a huge fan of cedar, I suggest taking a pass on this. Maybe go for Timbuktu, instead. On a side note, every woman I've talked to thinks this stuff is sex in a bottle -- but only on themselves or other women.