Dzhari

Dzhari opens up so boozy, like when you stick your nose to the opened neck of a very sweet Spanish wine, intoxicated just from the smell itself. Then dates coming out with their lush, honeyed texture. Within 15 minutues all this sweetness is absorbed by velvety woodiness, at that stage it reminds me of much loved Indochine. Dzhari is very warm, very moreish, very exotic, it smells indeed like bright-orange-yellow colours of Sahara desert. It is very long-lasting on me, I keep smelling it for the entire day and it is just joy to wear. Love.

It's a shame , as soon as i bought and fell in love with this it is discontinued. You get a rustic spanish wine and a unique red clay terrocotta vibe. There is a unique warmth here that is hard to describe and i find this addictive. Sweet enough for compliments and many modern noses, but something truly different and creative. It's a shame this had to go performance - 7 hours compliments yes seductive yes i would pay more than 150 usd for this

205) Destin volé Mon commentaire sera encore le même que pour 80% des créations de Pierre Guillaume. Moi même je commence a me lasser d'écrire la même chose. Original les premières minutes et puis il aurait franchement pu mieux faire, la composition ne semble pas aboutie et ne débouche sur rien, bref c'est baclé. Ensuite la tenue est trop faible et le parfum ne dure que deux ou trois heures maximum. Il s'ouvre sur oriental-boisé à la Lutens, une sorte d'Arabie mais dégoulinant de sirop de dattes. En coeur c'est l'ennui, du sirop trop présent on passe à la fève tonka, le santal et le cashmeran. C'est notes sont trop proches les unes des autres pour se différencier, on obtient juste l'odeur d'un truc chaud-doux qui s'étiole. Il aurait du être un très bon parfum, il ne le sera pas. stolen destiny My comment is still the same as for 80% of the creations of Pierre Guillaume. I myself started to get tired of writing the same thing. Original the first few minutes and then he would frankly have done better, the composition does not seem to be accomplished and does not lead to anything, in short it is sloppy. Secondly the sillage is too low and the scent lasts only two or three hours maximum. It opens on a Lutens like oriental-woody, a kind of Arabie dripping down of dates syrup. In heart it's boredom, from too present syrup we pass to tonka bean, sandalwood and cashmeran. It's notes are too close to each other to differentiate themselves, you just get the smell of a hot-sweet stuff that fading. It should have been a very good perfume, it will not.

Opens with an "in your face" scent of earth and soil, it is mixed with this extremely sweet scent of dates, at this point I'm simply loving it. Dates makes this very sensual and the earthiness of this makes this very raw and sexy. And also unique as this combo for my nose is something new. Might work very well on males also even though this is very sweet. The heart does not deliver anything new, still dates dominate this scent, funny enough - I do not get much tonka bean, just a slight bit of background powderness. The soil note has settles to being just a background also and this for me is just a dates solo 15 minutes from applying. I though enjoy this very much, my partner on the other hand sniffed me and in disgust said "this is not perfume, this is some kind of gross stuff", but well - he is not well known for his taste in fine perfumery. At the base and drydown I finally get some tonka bean, added just to be noticeable, but not to overpower the scent. Dates have calmed down as well and the drydown is like a warm blanket. I do like this, but the scent for me lacks complexity. As it is mostly dominated by dates I must admit that I've seen better. Nevertheless - it was a joy trying this.

Lush and boozy and sweet and gorgeous: a delicious coupe of the most upmarket rum 'n raisin ice cream imaginable in any cosmos, with earthier notes adding plenty of extra interest and character. Not at all synthetic-seeming or chemical-yucky, but overall it's several notches too sweet to win me over 100%. The malaga-wine alcoholic tang is unmistakable (and rather overwhelms the relatively retiring date) so watch out if it's a deal breaker for you. Somehow it's not sticky or jammy, but to me (usually gourmand-sceptical if not gourmand-averse) it's a slightly overpowering dessert cloud, of the classiest possible kind, done wonderfully, but not quite my thing. But if you crave for grapes, dates or rum - or thirst for the most natural-seeming, deeply flavoured, really yummy treatment of these notes in fragrance form- you should definitely seek out and try this. Not my personal taste but undeniably toothsome.

Yes, definitely a grown up perfume, different from anything I've experienced before. The scent of dates is very clear, along with the terracotta accord. It makes me feel like I'm in a foreign country, somewhere in the north of Africa... is it a scent I would want to wear as a perfume on myself though? I'm not sure yet. But it is very interesting and I wholeheartedly recommend you try it, especially if you're tired of perfumes smelling the same and you want to experience something different.

Dzhari is one of those sweet fragrances with Arabian flavor. A gourmand with rich flavor of dates with wine that reminds me of a sweet wine from southern Spain very good. It really has a nice and natural outcome, but with two major problems: the first is that smell sweet wine can confuse who you smell because it might think you're a heavy drinker of alcohol or who come from taking it and second that lasts too weak (as in an hour or so no longer smell or nose sticking to the skin). Rating: 3

like Luca -italiansdoitbetter-. warm red wine, dates, mud.... I search all time the man is wearing this thrill stuff...but am I.

At first I'm not sure I like this, I love the notes but I get a fairly masculine amber laced with an earthiness from the terracotta. After a few minutes the date and tonka come our more although this scent is overall subdued and stays well within your personal space. Although it is supposedly gourmand, it's like a man's gourmand, spices and ambery warmth and it never reaches the stage of being sweet or fruity. It's like the dates are dried and ground up and the scent is dusted with that powder. It's well done, but I just don't know if it's really right for me. I'll try it a few more times. Wow I'm trying this again almost exactly 3 years later. And the conclusion is similar. Just not sure about this. The first 5-10 mins I smelled earthy greenness and I was about to flush my sample down the toilet thinking why did I buy a masculine sample? Then I look on here and read. Then out comes the tonka covered dates. Now it's a gourmand, but still erring on masculine or at least unisex, which is okay but nothing wows me. About an hour later it dries down to a slightly dusty tonka. Okay but not FBW for me.

Starts off with a note that's reminiscent of wet coffee grounds, then if softens down and becomes sweeter. This is damp, musky and quite gourmand to my nose, it's very foody. Overall it has all the qualities I like in a fragrance: complex, earthy, some sweet and some bitter, but for some reason I'm not sold on this. It smells like you are standing in an old dusty bookstore that happens to have a coffee bar in it and serving warm baklava. I like bits and pieces of this, but as a whole this doesn't work for me, its too stuffy for my taste.

So I just received Dzhari; albeit to have Tabac Rouge, I must say Dzhari is an absolute WONDERFUL fragrance!!! Here is the note breakdown: Date, Essence of Malaga, Tonka bean, Terracotta accord, Cedar, Cashmeran, Sandalwood I am not sure what exactly Terrcotta accord or Essence of Malaga smells like, but they sure do smell good! lol....This fragrance opens with a sweet, wait no jammie [is the better word as another reviewer mentioned neither sticky nor syrupy] airy aroma with the Tonka bean settling underneath, magnificent! In the dry down, there is this tobacco jamminess from the Tonka bean and Sandalwood that comes out. The performance is above average as you don't need much; a few sprays will definitely do justice while wearing. I am not familiar with what Dates smell like in fragrance, the sweetness I (perhaps) detect in the beginning is definitely due to what I assume to be Dates??? Again, a dry, yet (sweet) woodiness from the Cedar and Sandalwood that adds depth to this fragrance. Wow, this stuff is amazing! I love it! Dzhari has a boozy quality about it, different than lets say Speakeasy, even 1270 Frapin's boozyness! To give (some) a point of reference, this reminds me of Aoud Black Candy by Mancera (the sweetness not sharpness that is), has a bit of Wild Leather's dark tobacco presence, and Vento di Vento (Bois 1920) sharp quality, not sweetness. This is GREAT! Again, just to give a point of reference for those who are trying to figure out what exactly this smells like blind and some similarity. Projection: 7/10 Longevity: 7/10 Performance: 7/10 Overall: 7 Overall: I really like this. In fact, I love the way Dzhari smells. I like the sweetness it presents, not overly sweet to the point of leaning on the feminine side of things; men the woodiness balances things. Very unisex IMHO! I think this will garner many compliments and then some! A very gourmand kind of a fragrance.....scrumptious!

I am chuckling because other reviewers are talking about Phaedon Dzhari as some sort of three-note wonder. Another site gives this as the note pyramid: Top Notes: Date, Malaga wine, Tonka bean Heart Notes: Loam Base Notes: Cashmeran, Sandalwood, Cedar So there you have already seven "notes", which are not ingredients anyway (only metaphors), meaning that the composition could contain dozens of distinct chemical substances, particularly if any of the essences being used are natural, which I presume that they are. A natural essence may indeed contain *hundreds* of distinct chemical substances! By the way, I had to look up the word 'loam', so permit me to share with those of you who do not know: it means soil. Not a sweet substance, obviously... Now, what about Dzhari? It smells like a slightly (not overly) sweet woody oriental to me. I would not have guessed that dates were implicated and this composition definitely lacks the congested and cramped quality which I have found in a couple of other niche date perfumes. There is a more streamlined approach here, but the perfume is still quite complex and, more importantly, pleasant to smell and to wear. I like Dzhari, I do. It might be a tad too sweet for some guys, but this is not really a gourmand perfume to my nose--more of an oriental with a slight bend toward the sweet side.

Pierre Guillaume must of been real confident in his work by completing a fragrance with only 3 notes. So the question is, "How can you make one fall in love with 3 notes"? Good question. 1st, you would need longevity(Dzhari lacks in). 2nd, you would probably need sillage(Dzhari lacks in). The accords in this fragrance would intrigue most gourmand lovers. Upon first application, this starts off with a wow effect. The alluring aroma of the Tonka covered dates is encompassed by a realistic earthy framework. Sadly, after 5 minutes, this very much smells like it was created with 3 notes. This is a one tier fragrance. The volume only decreases as time goes by. A springtime gourmand perfect for outings at the park with friends and family, not for long time events.

Smelling it blind of the notes, I thought I got a bit of honeyed musk, a spiced, amber-leaning sandalwood, and lots of coumarin. Coumarin itself smells like a blend of tonka w/ vanilla touches and a warm, pleasantly dirty hay note. It definitely has the smell of damp, dark soil in there too, and as I pull my nose away that & tonka bean are the lingering impression. The dirt facet also reminds me of a type of desert shrub I used to know in the dry parts of central California... it had a kind of sticky herbal smelling sap if you broke a piece off. I like it all the more for this reminiscent aspect. Summary: Earthy-sweet and warmly resinous, Dzhari walks an interesting line. Would've thought the slight sweetness was honey vs date.

Estremamente complesso e intrigante, orientale, esotico, dolce ma nella sua accezione di sensualità. Spicca il dattero e il vino dolce, un profumo quasi da camino, domestico, intimo. Incredibilmente unisex, ideale per la notte.

red baloon for sherapop! :D excellent review!