Animal Mondain

Just arrived! Beautiful natural tobacco ala PDM Herod, TF TV, Chergui et al... Gorgeous refreshing opening slightly dusty green herbaceaous slight mint like feel which is the pear leaf (bodied out by slightly damp hay) changes over 10 - 45 minutes where in the dry pipe tobacco asserts itself with a dry waxy honey (rather than syrupy) in equal parts moving everything else to the back ground. At this point it reminds me of 18.21 Sweet Tobacco though this is retains just enough green with a reduced sweetness and less syrupy honey which keeps this surprisingly fresh and natural ala Miller Harris Feuilles De Tabac and great as a hot weather or summer tobacco scent. Happy blind purchase however whilst not poor in performance this so far performs on the mid to lower scale in longevity and Sillage on the usual offerings from PG. I have had to spray a dozen times to get a get smell... Adam_Forziatis comment ‘Chergui eat your heart out’ sums it up succinctly...

Sort of reminds me of Kilian Gold Knight which is a great fragrance, but to me this one is more about tobacco and the Kilian is more about anise. What makes this interesting, is the tobacco here is unique and has the nuances of Turkish gold, which is a blonde cigarette tobacco not common in perfumerey. Aside from that, the honey is present (like in gold knight) along with some nicely and moderately done spices. Worth mentioning that this is hardly "animalic" at all. It should be fine for most people unless you're a real sensitive wet noodle. Kohrs is much smokier than this formula and the tobacco here is dry leaf. It's not a honey bomb like vintage Kilian back to black, and B2B also has cherry tobacco. Overall this is a great fragrance with a unique tobacco note that keeps me coming back for more. ----------------------------------------------------- Scent 93/100 Performance 60/100

Just an unimaginably good fragrance. What a precision of combining pear with tobacco. Sometimes I hate pears, but sometimes I love them. Here it is juicy, fragrant but not sweet with girlish naive sweetness. The sweetness belongs to the honey and is completely independent of the fruit. How this perfumer made such a masterpiece? How did he combine all the other ingredients, maybe sprinkled them with tiny blades of hay grass, which are also easy to smell here? This hay coumarin is so damn relaxing and makes you think of a holiday in the countryside. I must say once again, a real piece of art, and gargantuan in its dimension.

Definitely rings Kilian. Somwhere between Back to Black and Intoxicated ,but it also reminds me of Angel Muse from Mugler. Cozy ,comforting ,close space safe and beautiful.

PG's attempt at capturing the atmosphere of the 30s. I'm sure he has his reasons. Regardless, this is an underrated gem. From PG website: 'Pear Tree Leaves, Turkish Tobacco Absolute, Mahogany Wood' So, you can see there is no mention of honey or hay. Those notes are part of Chergui, but other than a superficial connection between the two, that's where the comparison ends. There is a sweet aspect to Animal Mondain, but I think that is an aspect of the tobacco note. Opening is tobacco and something resembling licorice, followed by tobacco and wood. Both stages are wonderful. Also fromt the PG website: 'Between the spicy ardor of Cozé and the balmy and liquorish opulence of Liqueur Charnelle, Animal Mondain interposes itself as a new Tobacco in my production. Stripped of all artifice, it is a gender free olfactory creation inspired by the modernist architecture of a Mallet-Stevens smoking room.' Performance is better than initially thought (about 6 hours) with decent enough sillage, but wish it were more.