Cuir Garamante

What is happening here? Why have I not reviewed this? Did my review get voted out of existance? How could I let such an oversight go unchecked? For a while at least it was my favourite MDCI but revisiting the samples from this house again this week I've realised that Claude Marchal's vision for this brand is one I admire, and everything is good. I don't feel I had the level of maturity to appreciate the full body of work the first time around. At that point I had rejected the nicely, nicely, French perfumery approach and was seeking the visceral, wacky thrills of niche and Indy perfumers. Having got that out of my system I still arrive back at Cuir Garamante and I'm stunned by just what a great perfume it is. The opening is leathery, indulgent and does smack of lots of things I was into at the time of first trying and probably why I didn't pursue CG more intently. So... from memory then, I got an incense sandalwood and vanilla vibe accented with resins and it kinda is that still. However, upon todays trial I get much more of an unusual and enticing quality of rose wrapped in a hyper creamy accord comprised of sandalwood materials, not nutty or cedarish, pencil shaving but not a million miles from palo santo actually. Now that stuff is an almost unusable material for numerous reasons but mainly the off putting creepy rubber and mint facets, and it's ipecac, sickliness to boot. However some strange nicer quality of Mysore sandalwood is captured in this fragrance and with the rose it can evoke one classic perfume. Chanel Egoiste. The selfish man's choice for smelling great, however this is even more rich and densely layered with that labdanum/resins effect and a sort of gourmand, shortbread accent. There's top notes too, it's not all bases and mids and that is what makes it shine through and ultimately the leather quality of the name too. It's more magic from MDCI and it's not even my second or third favourite now but I still love this thing!

I’m not even going to bother updating my old review of this one, it’s so good I’m going to slap a new one on it. What a wonderful balance this perfume achieves, simple but the individual elements in and of themselves are complex. Really it’s the classic three (possibly four or five? Haha) elements providing the vibe. Labdanum and sandalwood begin with and rose later moreso but in the beginning having that sort of creamy, rosewood rose of a Egoiste or something classy as hell. The main thing bringing the Cuir to the table is the labdanum (and perhaps from the notes here saffron and Cypriol) and it’s a glorious labdanum, sharp, sweet, heady and being so heavy effectively as a top note but permeating the entire fragrance with some support in the sharp/sweet dept from pink pepper. Blending this creamy sandalwood rose and overt resinous accord makes for a unique but understated perfume. I remember thinking when this first came out...this is everything I love about fragrance, like fundamentally, the core of what this is, smells like the core of a good perfume whatever direction it might go. I still think that. One minor gripe is that it’s almost too much for me, overloads my emotions or something? I love it in the opening but then after a while it becomes weirdly cloying until it settles back down again and dries down super quiet. Cuir Garamante is superb.

در حال حاضر دو کار این برند را در کالکشنم دارم. این کار و اینویژن باربر. بینهایت دوستشان دارم .هر دو به غایت شیک ُ خوش بو و رسمی و با کامپلیمنت بالا و فراوان. .شاید بهترین واژه ای که بشود در یک کلام هر دو را توصیف کردواژه لوکس باشد. برای ما ایرانی ها که از کودکی با رایحه هایی مثل زعفران گل رز و گلاب و دارچین بزرگ شده ایم و اصلا بر خلاف ارورپایی هیچ چیز خاصی برامون نیستند قضاوت در رابطه با عطرهایی که این موارد رو داخلشون دارند باید بسیار با احتیاط باشه .منظورم اینه که شاید برای یک فرانسوی زعفران و دارچین و رز هر چه بیشتر باشه بیشتر لذت ببرند اما حداقل برای من که کاملا خلاف این صادق است.مثلا تامفورد ایتالین سایپرس مورد علاقه من نیست چون غلظت دارچین ان برای من غیر قابل تحمل است و ممکن است اطرافیان تصور کننددارچین استفاده کردم و یا کویر ساکری از دس اورس را به خاطر عفران غلیظ و بالایش سالها قبل حتی با قیمت مناسب و تقریبا در مقایسه الان رایگان تهیه نکردم. اما وقتی همین زعفران و یا رز با غلظت کاملا مناسب و بهینه توسط یک عطار چیره دست در عطر به کار گرفته می شوند که نه کمند و نه زیاد انوقت معجزه ایجاد می شود .نظیر همین گارامانته که غلظت زعفران و رز و ترکیبیشون با چرم رایحه ای بسیار دلپسند و لطیف ایجاد می کند که برای اطرافیان دهها بار خوش بوتر از ان چیزی است که شما احساس می کنید. کاری فوق العاده لوکس و کاملا فرمال که صد البته هم باید با لباس فرمال و شیک ست شود.

Wow, wow and wow! I love this stuff. Finally a leather fragrance that doesn't smell skanky or like a leather wallet. It's creamy smoothe affect is mind blowing! It's unisex but starts to lean a little femme but i don't care about that stuff, if it smells good I wear it and this is one of the best smelling scents I have ever worn. The leather and suede is there, is more in the background though. I think this is one of the best offerings from the house, invasion barbare is ok, but there are other frags in the same nature for less. This is wonderful guys and you really got to try it out! 9.5/10 overall I really can't get over how good this smells guys, I want the world to know how good it smells, but at the same time I want nobody to know about it...I've never smelled anything so captivating that was able to get leather and rose just the way I like and bond them together in such a perfect balance with supporting high quality notes. This is niche. This is why I only collect niche now. This is art. This is perfection.

Cuir Garamante is disturbing my sleeping nights... I have myself a sample and every single night I crave to put my hands on this wonderful and gorgeous juice whenever I take a sniff on! I'm on a frantic quest for a bottle without the resin bust cause I'm more interested in the juice itself, but if I could I would definitely go for the whole package. Since I'm not rich, I'll be pretty satisfied with the simple bottle. Now about the juice: Cuir Garamante is an aphrodisiac one, that gives me goosebumps. It opens balsamic and spicy, maybe for the subtle nutmeg in concoction to saffron and a tad spices touch. Half an hour later it comes to the heart with an amazing and noticeable rose along with the leather (more suede tipe of leather). The incense and sandalwood comes to party in order to develop the fragrance to a beautiful woody/smoky voluptuous background and for me it's when the magic happens!!! Cuir Garamante is a MASTERPIECE, with capital letters!