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Yatagan = Cocaine?

post #1 of 62
8/25/11 at 1:36pm
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So I'm showing a good friend of mine some of my favorite fragrances, and coming upon Yatagan, he says that its bitter edge is very, very reminiscent of cocaine's bitter flavor/smell. He really enjoyed it regardless (or in addition!) to that comment.

It made me wonder if the mysterious Vince was doing lines at a disco club in '75, perked his head up from the table and exclaimed "This bolivian sh*t smells just like celery seed and wormwood!" and set out to create the ultimate "stimulating" cologne.

I've never insufflated cocaine. Can anyone else, or perhaps knows some who can, testify to this similarity?
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post #2 of 62
8/25/11 at 1:39pm
I wouldn't know.
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post #3 of 62
8/25/11 at 2:39pm
Nor would I.
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post #4 of 62
8/25/11 at 2:46pm
Nor would I. Many have claimed Tom Ford Tuscan Leather also has a cocaine note. Tuscan Leather doesn't smell like Yatagan (though they are both leathery), but then again I don't know what note I'm looking for here.
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post #5 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:29pm
Suuuure it was "your friend." That's how it always goes

I laughed really hard at "the mysterious Vince was doing lines at a disco club in '75, perked his head up from the table and exclaimed 'This bolivian sh*t smells just like celery seed and wormwood!'"

But anyway, I wouldn't know. I don't even think I realized cocaine would even have a scent.
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post #6 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:33pm
I wouldn't know either.
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post #7 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:37pm
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I think your friend was presenting you a snow job
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post #8 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:38pm
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I bought him a bottle of the Yat for his birthday today, so he can enjoy that coke-fresh scent all day, every day, and no annoying come-down!
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post #9 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:40pm
I wouldnt know. I have not smelled Yatagan LOL
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post #10 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by kbe View Post

I think your friend was presenting you a snow job

hehe had to look that one up
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post #11 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:41pm
I'd guess that if your cocaine smells of pine (cleaner) and herbs it is probably not of very good quality.
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post #12 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:41pm
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Originally Posted by Nersh View Post

I wouldnt know. I have not smelled Yatagan LOL

Badoom PSSHHH

meanwhile, i now have one more post than you.
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post #13 of 62
8/25/11 at 3:43pm
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I wouldnt know. I have not smelled Yatagan LOL

Haha! Exactly what I was about to write!
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post #14 of 62
8/25/11 at 4:02pm
I think the real question here is whether the Yatagan in question is vintage or a reformulation.
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post #15 of 62
8/25/11 at 4:11pm
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new version. i keep my vintage 80s juice in a double baggie in the freezer sealed in a 1lb can of coffee
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post #16 of 62
8/25/11 at 5:34pm
I wouldn't know either... but I asked a "friend" of mine and he said it is there and that the bitter herbal smell is similar. He actually has owned Yatagan for a while now and never made the connection until now.
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post #17 of 62
8/25/11 at 5:39pm
I haven't sniffed Yatagan...
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post #18 of 62
8/25/11 at 6:24pm
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I think your friend was presenting you a snow job

I nominate this post as best answer of the week
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post #19 of 62
8/25/11 at 7:18pm
Cocaine is often cut with plain asprin, aka salicylic acid. Salicylates are a common perfume ingredient, so makes sense to me.
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post #20 of 62
8/25/11 at 7:24pm
never gotten it.

eric b
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post #21 of 62
8/25/11 at 7:57pm
I really don't know about Yatagan but I really can't see this in Tuscan Leather at all I gotta say
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post #22 of 62
8/25/11 at 8:08pm
nice user name, lol.

eric b
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post #23 of 62
8/25/11 at 8:11pm
hahaha, thanks, I made cause I was actually listening to this song at the time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INC0pmC9JlI which you may enjoy due to your very nice avatar, detroit for life man!
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post #24 of 62
8/25/11 at 8:15pm
detroit forever, for always, and over all. i've heard that tune a couple of times out, sounds good on a rig! when i read your screen name it actually made me think of this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io83bFgR8YM

back on thread topic, i've heard far too many good things about tuscan leather to not have checked it out by now...

eric b
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post #25 of 62
8/25/11 at 8:18pm
Never tried Yatagan
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post #26 of 62
8/25/11 at 8:43pm
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Originally Posted by HazelMae View Post

Cocaine is often cut with plain asprin, aka salicylic acid. Salicylates are a common perfume ingredient, so makes sense to me.

Actually one of the things I really love about Yatagan is that it has no birch tar, a common source of methyl salicylate, and one of my least favorite perfumery ingredients. But maybe other salicylates...?
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post #27 of 62
8/25/11 at 8:43pm
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Originally Posted by MJM_77 View Post

Never tried Yatagan

I looooooooove this stuff! Ballsy!
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post #28 of 62
8/25/11 at 9:11pm
I've ne'er smelled it,but this made me wonder : what would it be like if they actually used cocaine IN a fragrance?
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post #29 of 62
8/25/11 at 9:23pm
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Originally Posted by alexjustdoit View Post

I've ne'er smelled it,but this made me wonder : what would it be like if they actually used cocaine IN a fragrance?

Probably no effect, since it's not an odorant.

Though I imagine many chemicals have a smell if you snort em directly onto the smell sensors.
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post #30 of 62
8/25/11 at 9:26pm
it'd be illegal! heh

but in all reality I don't know about processed cocaine but I could see coca leaf having a nice scent in a fragrance to be completely honest
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post #31 of 62
8/25/11 at 9:29pm
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I tasted coca tea once. It was green and similar to mate in flavor -- mild, green, bitter.
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post #32 of 62
8/25/11 at 10:45pm
I do know that Yatagan is very difficult to chop into neat lines though...
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post #33 of 62
8/26/11 at 1:36am
No it doesn't. Tuscan Leather on the hand......
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post #34 of 62
8/26/11 at 2:36am
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Originally Posted by Duke Hunt View Post

No it doesn't. Tuscan Leather on the hand......

Never tried Yatagan, but I agree that Tuscan Leather has a very noticeable cocaine note.
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post #35 of 62
8/26/11 at 3:45am
Maybe someone's cutting his gear with celery salt? Just a thought.
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post #36 of 62
8/26/11 at 3:51am
Ylang-ylang though - anything with a predominant note of Ylang-ylang - and I'm back to my twenties, smoking smack off a Kit-Kat wrapper in the bogs of the Bristol 'Old E'.

So I avoid Ylang-ylang - because it's a kinda grisly memory and the smell makes me want to heave...
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post #37 of 62
8/26/11 at 5:03am
what a noob

everyone knows Yatagan smells like Afghan Heroin
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post #38 of 62
8/26/11 at 11:15am
Crack heads say the darnest things
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post #39 of 62
8/26/11 at 11:17am
Yatagan doesn't smell like cocaine to me, but Tuscan Leather does.
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post #40 of 62
8/26/11 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by LiveJazz View Post

Nor would I. Many have claimed Tom Ford Tuscan Leather also has a cocaine note. Tuscan Leather doesn't smell like Yatagan (though they are both leathery), but then again I don't know what note I'm looking for here.

It does
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post #41 of 62
8/1/12 at 3:09am
i will take a line of yatagan to see.
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post #42 of 62
8/1/12 at 4:07am
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I wouldnt know. I have not smelled Yatagan LOL

lolz!
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post #43 of 62
8/1/12 at 4:28am
I admit that I have tried cocaine a few times during my wilder days but to me it smells and tastes absolutely not like Yatagan. It sure is bitter but in a chemical way. It reminded me much more of ammoniac / cat piss. I don't think anyone would seriously say that about Yatagan.
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post #44 of 62
8/1/12 at 5:20am
Yatagan does not smell of kerosene!
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post #45 of 62
8/1/12 at 5:52am
I'm snorting cocaine as I type this. However, I've never tried Yatagan, so I wouldn't know.
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post #46 of 62
8/1/12 at 6:29am
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Originally Posted by Chasing the Dragon View Post

Yatagan doesn't smell like cocaine to me, but Tuscan Leather does.

true...... and Villoresi Vetiver does, too.

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I do know that Yatagan is very difficult to chop into neat lines though...



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I wouldnt know. I have not smelled Yatagan LOL

brilliant!!
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post #47 of 62
8/1/12 at 8:22am
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Originally Posted by MonkeyBars View Post

I've never insufflated cocaine.

Then what exactly did you do with it?
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post #48 of 62
8/1/12 at 9:50am
Question: After smelling Yatagan do you get post-nasal drip?
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post #49 of 62
8/1/12 at 10:26am
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Originally Posted by Brian Chambers View Post

Then what exactly did you do with it?

Drunk it in tea form once and also rolled up the dried leaves into a bolus and absorbed it through my cheek once. (My friends were in the peace corps in Bolivia.) Reminded me of tea but smoother and a little more awake.
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post #50 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:07pm
there was a ZIRH scent that had this fresh, acetone and green banana peel quality not unlike fresh raw oily yola. Personally, I despise cocaine, and have never done it, but was a greedy evil b@stard as a teen, so I have direct scent memories to yola.

The Zirh scent is ZIRH by ZIRH (2001):

http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121738.html

Cosign Tuscan Leather having a similar stage it passes thru.
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post #51 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:18pm
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Drunk it in tea form once and also rolled up the dried leaves into a bolus and absorbed it through my cheek once. (My friends were in the peace corps in Bolivia.) Reminded me of tea but smoother and a little more awake.

There's a huge difference between cocaine and coca leaves.
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post #52 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:25pm
YATAGAN is much better, believe me
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post #53 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:27pm
Cocaine hydrolizes when it is exposed to water vapour in the air resulting in some methyl benzoate which is a common perfume ingredient, perhaps these scents contain a large concentration of this. Drug sniffer dogs are trained to smell methyl benzoate for exactly this reason.
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post #54 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:45pm
I have a sample of Yatagan coming, so I'll get back to you on that. I sure hope it doesn't smell like cocaine, because I think cocaine smells pretty harsh and putrid.
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post #55 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by Joe C View Post

Cocaine hydrolizes when it is exposed to water vapour in the air resulting in some methyl benzoate which is a common perfume ingredient, perhaps these scents contain a large concentration of this. Drug sniffer dogs are trained to smell methyl benzoate for exactly this reason.

Thank you I will now proceed to fuck with friends at the airport now with some Methyl Benzoate. LMAO

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post #56 of 62
8/1/12 at 12:53pm
SOTE Yatagan

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post #57 of 62
8/1/12 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by Rüssel View Post

SOTE Yatagan


Very nice. i think his Rotation would be Yatagan, Cartier Santos, Cartier Santos Concentree, Hermes Bel Ami, and YSL Kouros.
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post #58 of 62
8/1/12 at 1:20pm
Probably lost his ability to smell, anyway.
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post #59 of 62
8/1/12 at 1:58pm
The only cologne I know that smells like coke is obsession, coke cola that is
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post #60 of 62
8/1/12 at 11:33pm
In my personal experience Cocaine doesn't really have a smell. I haven't used cocaine in 15 years so I could be wrong.
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