Furyo

This review is for Vintage formulation: Masterpiece. This is, like "liquid kamasutra" - an olfactory orgasm in a bottle. Almost a surreal opening of rich spices and florals with deep, smoky patchouli along with a very nice dose of civet - that comes together with a warm, glowing base of amber and vetiver in glorious richness! This is a time bomb from 1988...but is entirely 'avant-garde' perfumery. Better than almost any niche offering in both sheer quality and something entirely rare...transcendence! One can literally lose themselves in this fragrance. One is engulfed in the Nag Champa incense accord that these amazing notes form. Some green notes in the top along with coriander and ambrette create a wonderful balance of herbal bitterness and earthiness right before an "incense cone" starts to form and glow on your skin. Rose in the heart along with carnation, jasmine and geranium create a nice bouquet that shows itself in plumes...this is truly amazing! The incredible power, as mesmerizing as it is...this actually calms down and wears (for many hours) as a radiant skin scent (dense and very warm though). It projects well on my skin for the first hour or so and after that, it wears much closer but breathes out a few inches from the skin...creating a true aura effect. It also will leave a scent trail behind you as it is that strong. A wonderful vibe that your skin is glowing with warm embers of incense, amber and spices. The ingredients are of exceptional quality. Also blended into this incredible scent is a nice touch of rich oakmoss, warm vanilla and a slightly dirty musk which blends well with the rich and beautiful civet. Nag Champa incense is a composition itself that traditionally contains Plumeria flower (in a semi-resin form) and sandalwood. Those accords show here, but are mysteriously not listed as notes...which makes this even more fascinating. This is niche-quality fragrance in Vintage formulation - period. I cannot compare this scent to any other as it breaks conventional wisdom and turns its back on anything traditional in fragrance. I am in pure admiration. After having done numerous full wearings and a couple sample wearings, I realize it is a scent that one must be comfortable and confident to wear - this is not for the faint of heart. However, since it does not project too loudly, a scent that you could wear (in light application) to a lot of occasions. This is truly, enchanting "perfume" that will swirl around you. My favorite association is when I wear it while burning high-quality Nag Champa incense in my house and drift very far away in meditation. Hedonistic, at this point. Stunning. I will refrain from giving it a fractional rating but know that one is very lucky to be able to have tried this...for it is pure olfactory art, with no name on the canvas. I am so curious whose brilliant touch & incredible nose was behind this under the Jacques Bogart label. Cheers.

I was told Furyo Bogart might suit me, but it’s discontinued so I had to find a sample from hands. Idk about the batch and so on, but it’s certainly vintage (in any way all Furyos are as it’s discontinued in 2011 as I remember). To be honest - I was bought buy earlier reviews about “occult book store” and torture themes : D What can I say? Those persons didn’t lie! I’ve also read the official description of this perfume and I can’t agree with it in any variant. Sorry not sorry. Well, what can I say by myself? It’s a real vintage beast mode fragrance. THAT clear and true one beast mode. It’s balsamic and extremely oily. Reminds me of occult potions made by type of a dark mage (idk how to call a male witch properly, but it’s for sure that kind of personality) by using poisonous creatures and plants. Not much civetone, but tons of sweet thick castoreum. I consider civetone as mostly feminine note and I’m grim death happy it’s not the main! It’s really hard to find true castoreum fragrances nowadays as they all seem so light and synthetic... But Furyo got it. It’s a dark side of musk, extremely rare masculine powdery accords. I personally hate lavender, but here it feels like a mix of belladonna and henbane spiced with aconitum. Yes, Furyo is spicy. Have you ever tasted Worcester sauce? That kind of spices, but on extremely vicious oily base. Tobacco goes here like wet burned pages of an ancient folio. Yes, it’s indeed the smell of an occult book store with discreditable practices on the backstage. Remember Hjerim from TES:Skyrim? That’s it! I found a word for this fragrance and it’s “GRIEVOUS”. It has cold, I’d even say winter-wolfy vibes. And after nearly two hours of wearing it I can swear - it has kerosene in notes! Heavy spicy stagnant atmosphere of a vintage place. I wished I could compare it with the inquisition, but it’s too tepid for it. Maybe only the hunter’s from Red Riding Hood (2011) vibes ‘cause it’s animalistic in wolf style. I really can’t choose any other suitable animal. Wet wolf fur with blood and ashes on it - yes. It brings us to the witchcrafts again, tho. It also some has leathery tones that remind me of a heavy leather covers on occult books. The whole thing about Furyo - it’s heavy but not overwhelming. It doesn’t cause nausea or headaches. But it also won’t become your second skin. Magical armor? Maybe. Personal weapon? More chances. I won’t even try to mix it with anything else from my collection. Maybe with Zombie from Demeter, but much later. It’s an artpiece for any masculine person. It’s a magic portal to the beast side. I’m going to buy all the samples around, yes!

WOW! This is incredible. Very, very raw, extremely masculine and SEXY. I recently got hold of a vintage bottle of Furyo on recommendation of a friend when I mentioned that I wanted to try something classic but unusual. The reviews below certainly convey the details of this amazing fragrance far better than I could, so this is purely my own reaction. The opening salvo is intense and animalic, with lots of civet, although refined with ... a blend of something resinous, something spicy and something slightly woody, but my unsophisticated nose is unable to determine exactly what elements are in the supporting cast. I remember reading that civet, castoreum and deer musk are meant to have an aphrodisiac quality insofar as they are thought to enhance one's own pheromones, thus making the wearer more desirable. Now I believe it. Wearing Furyo I definitely feel pretty damn sexy. It really is hypnotic in a way and has a kind of intensity that reminds me of another legendary French masculine fragrance, Zizanie by Fragonard, although Zizanie hails from a much earlier era. I'm not saying that the complex and sultry Furyo resembles Zizanie (although the musk in the latter is somewhat reminiscent of Furyo's civet) just that they both have fairly bold ouvertures. Furyo evolves beautifully as it develops, and the civet remains constant, along with patchouli and oakmoss, while the intensity of the opening transitions into a sublime and complex symphony of harmonious woody, spicy, ambery sophistication. The first evening I wore Furyo in public, I had both men and women coming close for a sniff, and it certainly attracted a great deal of attention, curiosity and an avalanche of compliments. This is a remarkable fragrance and I absolutely adore it. Comparisons, like opinions, are always subjective but I must say that Furyo doesn't smell anything like Kouros to me. Admittedly I can't stand Kouros, and still remember my horror after receiving a gift set of it as a teenager. But that's just me. To my mind it recalls the bold and unashamed muskiness of vintage Zizanie. Furyo is a wondrous masterpiece, a tribute to the perfumer's art, boldly masculine yet gentlemanly, with a powerful underlying sexuality and sexiness.

What. A. Beast. Furyo is an animalic powerhouse in the league of vintage Kouros, and to some extent Balenciaga. Extremely powerful, decidedly wild, with an animalic sweetness that is to die for! I'm happy that the top notes haven't faded, as the herbal opening is invigorating in a way I have experienced very few times. Laurel, extremely aromatic leads the way. No fig to my nose, and a slight zing from the juniper. I wasn't sure about the laurel but it brought to mind the slight green feel of vintage Opium, the only other fragrance I've noticed this note. The vetiver feels smoky and the tobacco note compliments the feel. The heat is bringing out a patchouli that is extremely nice! Dark brown, sweet, dirty. It is the whole plant, not fractions or sanitized distillations; this is a die hard absolute that makes me love it even more. It doesn't list floral notes but there must be something in there. Jasmine perhaps, with a smidgen of indole. Carnation? The spiciness says yes! But the star from the second hour onwards is the civet. A powdery dirtiness that high quality civet is known for. And there's heaps of it. Talk about a clean/dirty dichotomy! If castoreum adds the leather feel, there's also quite a bit of it in there, along with a slight urine note (honey?) that I love! Dirty and animalic but in the style of older perfumes; simply irresistible. And to top it off, if the above aren't enough, a good dose of oakmoss to make it a truly animalic chypre. It smells like a million bucks, without the price tag. If you enjoy Kouros, Antaeus, Balenciaga or Lapidus pour homme, even vintage Paloma Picasso, Furyo is a hidden jewel. Just as animalic as the first two, but with a more pronounced raw patchouli, it is far more affordable than the rest, and bottles still show up on eBay. Just get an atomizer first to decant, as most of the bottles of the first release come as splash. Very powerful, long lasting and extremely sexy. A perfect example of 80's chypres!

A potent animalic powerhouse in the style of classic European perfumery, with a beautiful dry down. . When I was a teenager I worked weekends through high school and blind bought myself a bottle of Kouros circa 1984. As a 16 year old I was utterly horrified. Furyo reminds me of the first time I wore Kouros. They must have made truckloads of this stuff for it to be so widely available despite having been discontinued for years - making it an inexpensive way to experience a composition starring the most famous now-forbidden (in commercial perfumery anyway) notes of animal origin: musk, civet and castoreum, once so integral to the “dirty sex” vibe that inspired perfumers like Jacques Guerlain (creator of Shalimar, Jicky and Mitsouko) who famously declared that he wanted his perfumes to evoke the scent of his mistress’ crotch. Given how many legendary perfumes were inspired by body odours and body fluids, sex seems to have been a recurring theme in early C20th mainstream perfumery, inversely proportional to the relative tolerance and permissiveness of society. As someone below pointed out, Furyo is reminiscent of vintage Chanel No 5, since many classics of 20th century perfumery were built around animalic notes. I have a modest collection of traditional Middle Eastern perfumes including several varieties of deer musk - deer musk imparts a kind of "sweaty sex" note that is very present in Furyo. Although Furyo opens with a blitzkrieg of animalic intensity that can be a bit overwhelming - it settles rapidly, softens and changes - the dry down is sublime: musky, slightly sweet, figgy, patchy and funky, showcasing the beauty underlying the legendary appeal and cult status of this style of perfumery. Perhaps not ideal as an office scent, Furyo is fairly unusual by contemporary standards and once settled, its beauty really shines.