Un Crime Exotique 12.1

Not an exotic crime but a cozy invitation: to take a cup of lovely strong tea and some ginger cookies, in the mellow, warm-orange glow of a kitchen in late autumn festooned with pomanders. Sweet, but CRUCIALLY, not too sweet - there's enough of a herbal, real-plant glint to the tea (the osmanthus and holly contours maybe?) to stop it getting too cute. Sure, the sense associations with Christmas are certainly there, but this has the restraint to not gallop into full-gourmand mode but rather to hang around somewhere a little cooler, more botanical, and un-sugared enough to be classy rather than cloying. For me this ended up in a surprisingly impressive happy place between real dark-smoked-tea spikiness as in Mona di Orio Bohea Boheme, and full-on Christmas/cinnamon bombs like Rousse, Ambre Narguile or Jungle L'Elephant. In fact it was everything I always wanted L'Artisan Tea for Two to be - properly tannic and rich like real dark tea, but NOT oversweetened with sticky honey or too much sugar/vanilla, which ruined T42 on my skin. Not all that far off PG's existing (and very lovely) cinnamon siren Indochine, but the added herbal tangs of the tea and osmanthus make it sparkle even more. Yet Crime Exotique does have a dark undertow of a sort - enough to keep it interesting and upscale - and that's exactly what makes it work for me, despite the overall powdery and rather gentle feel. As with all tea scents, its full glory doesn't last and as it cools, it does lose charisma. Longevity is not-bad for a PG, but that means not-great by a normal yardstick; same with the price - too high if you just want something generically warm and welcoming; yet this is weird enough to be arguably worth it. Basically breaks down into 2-hour blocks: REALLY impressive for the first 2h, just really good up to 4, fading but quirkily intriguing up to 6-7h in on skin. Maybe a little longer on textiles. Still just perceptible (and teasingly gorgeous) right at skin level for a while longer, but you (or someone very lucky) would have to be sniffing hard and very very close up. Ooof. With all the overlap with other stuff I have and already love ... it's a big ask ... but I'm tempted. Very very tempted. Very highly recommend it to others. ETA: went for it, and have zero regrets - and not for the first or last time, I was dead wrong about the longevity - sprayed properly from a bottle, not eked out from a tester, it lasts like a champ (but: the bit where I was not wrong: those herbal notes are precisely what gives it the legs.) It's a keeper - and gets compliments.

Private Collection Un Crime Exotique by Parfumerie Generale This name alone creates a sense of.. Heightened DRAMA..... something will happen or is about to happen and your in the middle of it . Intrigued and lured by its Old Hollywood Film Noire name I ventured to sample it .... "INDOCHINE" might have been a better suited name .... Allow me to set the film up.... The Decadence of the French living in Vietnam and the exploitive evils of Colonialism.... A exotic place all Steamy and Humid! Languorous visits to hidden Mandarin "OPIUM DENS"... All the while you are floating on a "JUNK" on tranquil waters..... When suddenly you are awakened by the rude shots of a gun.... You feel the wetness of liquid on your chest. the OPIUM has dulled your sense of pain .... Is it blood ? NO! The smell of fragrance fills the air ... Your favorite crystal decanter lies on the floor shattered.... You smile ... having cheated death one more time ... you return to your revelry. Then ... Un Crime Exotique would perhaps make a bit more sense. I really like this Spiced Tea Infusion scent. The fragrance is so heady with GINGER and Spice... predominantly Saigon Cinnamon. Perhaps this mysterious sounding ingredient ..called "Osmanthus" which in CHINA is infused with green or black tea leaves, to create a scented tea called guì huā chá (OSMANTHUS TEA) creates the "CRIME EXOTIQUE" in this Potent,Intoxicating and Long Lasting Fragrance.... A 50ml bottle for 100.00 bucks

I found a very heavily discounted bottle at a reputable retailer and blind bought this scent based on the name, the assertions here that this fragrance is very similar to Tobacco Vanille and knowing about the mixed reviews. The longer I have it on my skin on a very hot day, the more I like it. The chai element and a vanilla sandalwood note keeps wafting when I get a smell of myself. Tobacco Vanille? Not so much to my nose. Chai tea vanilla is more like it, I think. Now, add the milky tinged ginger notes from the chai tea to the vanilla and cinnamon notes that are undeniably here as well and you get "gingerbread"-- more the sweeter American style than the spicier Germanic type. For me, these are very comforting smells and I look forward to wearing this scent in fall and winter. Today will be my last time wearing Un Crime Exotique in high temperatures because it just sits too heavily on the skin and radiates too strongly, even in air conditioned rooms, for me to want to wear it in higher temperatures. As for the name, I do not comprehend a connection between it and the scent--there are no more exotic or criminal elements here than in a kitchen where a grandmother is baking holiday treats for her loved ones. So, in spite of the misleading name, I will enjoy this cozy fragrance in the cooler temps. Try this scent on skin and you may find it a comforting fragrance too.

INSTANT love at first sniff. This had been on my 'want' list for so long, and all the anticipation was worth it! Admittedly, the reason I love this fragrance so much is that it's 100% reminiscent of an Arts & Crafts store like Michael's at fall/Christmastime. It is all cinnamon, vanilla, gingerbread and tea. Simultaneously a little bit gourmand, a little bit spicy, slightly milky and warm, and a little bit potpourri. Very warm, cozy, inviting, and comforting. Definitely potent, probably not very practical for every day wear - but will that stop me? Nope! The longevity is several hours - Spice clings to my skin very well, so on me, this fragrance is at least a 10 hour wear. Sillage is also pretty huge, I was impressed. Many 'tea' scents are very close to the skin. If you love the holidays and fall beverages, check this out.

And I'm left breathless, i have thing for these kinds of scents and I just can't get enough of them. After I first saw the notes I knew I'm going to be completely in love and yes I am. There is everything I love - anise, tea, cinnamon and vanilla. After I applied it I got the most amazing cinnamon which reminded me of home baked cookies, scent wise, the opening was very similar to Sacrebleu by Parfums d'Nicolai. Anyhow, then I started to get sweet tea with a bit of syrupy osmanthus, but just a tiny bit and it faded away rather quickly, yay for that as I'm not so fond of syrupy scents. The next thing that arrived on my wrist was dark and smoky sandalwood. Sexy, alluring, comforting. It has it all, simply lovely.

People were not kidding when they say this is photorealistic chai tea! If you want to know exactly what this smells like before buying, go to the local grocery store, buy a box of bigelow vanilla chai, open it, stick your face into the box and breathe deeply. I absolutely love it. One thing to note for anyone arriving here looking for a Tea For Two replacement (like I was)- this isn’t it, but it is lovely. For me, tea for two was like a fresh southern sweet tea with a little bit of spice, and this is a sweet spicebomb (in a fantastic way, I promise). Both incredible scents but not even close to similar enough to be a substitution, in my opinion.

I get an almost exact replica of Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille with this. I compared them side by side and it's uncanny how close they are. Price is much better too! Although while longevity is actually very good, projection isn't massive like with TV. It's quite nice and I'd get it if I didn't already have TV. Edit: I ended up getting this! The scent is quite similar as I said - delicious and addictive - but the performance is moderate-strong rather than completely overpowering (vintage TV) or disappointingly weak (recent batches of TV). It's much more amenable to layering too because of this. Tobacco Vanille perfected!

A Cinnamon bun, yes, and definitely gourmand, yes, but it's so much more...gingerbread gives it that sort of baked goods/pastry feeling, but there's also a hint of tea, anise, and chai...I would buy a bottle if I could find one! I only get tiny tiny whiffs of Holly & Osmanthus as it dries. Sandalwood comes out in the base, but I don't usually notice it much. Not very similar to Tea for Two, IMO, and no tobacco like Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. I get why people think they're similar since they're both spicy-sweet vanilla, but I still think they are different enough to have both.

Exquisite straight out of the bottle. Spicy, warm, creamy vanilla to open, and on my skin settles down to a warm chai tea, cinnamon and gingerbread. There is a hint of honey on the dry down but it isn't sweet but mellow and baked-in. This is the perfect scent for fresh walks in crisp winter air. It's cold outside, but your scent is a reminder of sweetness and warmth. It's complex enough to be interesting but comforting, cosy, and not sexy at all (which can sometimes be the most sexy).

Huge crush! The opening is dominated by anise, but in just a few seconds, the perfume transforms into a warm and enveloping sweetness. This Crime Exotique is simply a vanilla chai, enriched with a generous spoonful of honey, or even a rich gingerbread fresh from the oven. The honey, which envelops the entire composition, is superb, incredibly creamy, not at all synthetic; I could eat it! The only crime here is to give in to the temptation of this comforting sweetness.

opens with warm and dry anise, smells like a hot cup of chai, but super sweet. The gingerbread note in here is pretty prominent and it’s a fun one. It smells spiced, bready, sweet, and comforting with a hint of apricot adjacent fruitiness coming from the osmanthus. The dry down a dry, powdery and softly sweet tea like scent. It has remnants of all the spices from before and smells slightly like a chai latte.

To me this smells like a steaming mug of spiced apple cider with a cinnamon stick floating in it, really wonderful. Dries down to a mellow warm vanilla, with a hint of the floral and sandalwood coming through, lightly dusted with sugar. Sweet but not saccharine. Subtle and comforting. I'll be pulling this sample out again come autumn/winter.

The osmanthus is key here. It brings fruitiness and a lift to the spicy sandalwood profile. In the end I get a really nice cinnamon and ginger tea scent. I was seeking a good chai perfume but this is unexpected and interesting in its’ own right. 3 out of 5.

Slightly more tasty and Christmas appropriate version (while the second one feels like autumn more) of Tea for two L'Artisan. ;) The latter I adore, so it goes without saying I love Un Crime Exotique too. Already on my wish list. EDIT: on my shelf yet :)

This offering from Parfumerie Generale reminds me very much of drinking a steaming-hot cup of apple cider on a cold winter's day. The cinnamon, anise and gingerbread bring a sweet, aromatic spiciness to the fragrance right from the beginning. The spices feel as though they have been stirred into a hot mug of tea or cider, providing a warm and comforting sensation. The vanilla is not especially apparent - this isn't a thick or creamy vanillic number - though I expect it adds to the overall sweetness and warmth. Un Crime Exotique is a delicious scent, though it's simpler and lighter overall than what I prefer in this type of fragrance. Personally I enjoy the combination of sweetness and spice in a more substantial oriental composition like Hermes Ambre Narguile, or even Parfumerie Generale's Indochine, which has a woodier base anchoring the sweet/spicy notes.

Now i have a bottle of this and I really like it very much indeed -for the two weeks of the year that its appropriate to wear it. Why only two weeks? Because it smells exactly, and I mean exactly, of Christmas pudding, on fire, bathed in a seriously good overproof Rum -probably Lemon Hart 151 if you want to get into specifics. For this reason its also the most inappropriately named perfume i've encountered. Bloody good name though. Completely squandered in this capacity of course.. Other reviewers have accurately described it as a novelty fragrance. But nonetheless i have a bottle, because its rich, smooth, delicious and lovely and when i break it out every Christmas it will be just the right thing for the holiday season. Nom nom nom...

All honey and nothing else. I got a sample a while ago, looking for a chai latte gourmand. I gave it to my mum quickly cuz it wasen't that at all and forgot about it. Fastforward a year and I revisit it when I am at her place. I just remember not liking it much, nothing about the notes a side from it containing spices. All I got its sweet, dusty honeycombe. I was 100% sure I am gonna finde honey listed in the notes, but nothing. I can actualy smell nothing of the notes listed here. Mabye a touch of milky ness. Like milke with honey. It stays close to skin but lasts for 10hrs plus. So top for that. If I ever want a nice linear honey gourmand I will remember it. But I wanted a chai latte.

I agree with Pinnacos - it's nice, it's gourmand, but it's the smell of festive candles in winter. At first a big whack of cinnamon and star anise then it dries down gradually to a spicy warm gingerbread. A novelty scent for winter, lovely after the initial blast, but not a serious personal grooming item, is it? I walked along thinking "I smell like pot-pourri - a Christmas candle - or room scent." The osmanthus is struggling against the cinnamon, to be honest. Having said all that, it's cheerful. Required wear for all Santa's elves and maybe the reindeer as well :)

If you love the smell of those cinnamon-scented pine cones at Christmas, you'll love this! I rather enjoy cinnamon perfumes and seem to have gravitated towards them in my scented journeys, but this one is STRONG. If you can wait out the first hour+ of cinnamon Christmas potpourri, you will be rewarded with a smoky-sweet drydown deliciously reminiscent of fresh baked gingerbread with homemade frosting or more specifically, hot out the oven pfefernusse cookies.

On my skin, much vanilla and cinnamon. The gingerbread brings a delicious gourmand nuance, and at the base, with less attention but without ceasing to appear, a incense light vibe and aroma of hot tea those use creamy milk, used in place of water, spectacular. Exceptional aroma, delicious. Longevity very good and Sillage moderate/good. Ps: Sorry about my english.

Bold with gingerbread and spice, a lot like very rich chai tea with some serious smoothness. I find though that the osmanthus is completely overwhelmed by everything else and I get very little of the soft, floral-apricot nuances. Albeit well done, this is too much of an unoriginal novelty fragrance to be considered part of any line's Private Collection.

This smells a little bit too literally exactly like a chai tea. It reminds me of being at my favorite brunch spot, which is pleasant enough, but I don't like my perfumes to remind me of hot milk, or really any kind of dairy product. It's pleasant though, in a quasi CB I HATE PERFUME chai-bomb sort of way.

10)little boy crime where is the crime where the exotism? it is a syrupy scent but who opens onto a beautiful very sweet cinnamon. It was only after half an hour than the pastry side spring. Obviously this is very well done but ... it is a very nice crime to steal a cookie.

sweet pumpkin spice latte before pumpkin spice was popular, settles more as a sweet/vanilla cinnamon. I love both the opening notes and dry down on this but I don't think I can handle more pumpkin spice in fall. Would love it on another person though

nothing to do with crime and not so much exotique, more homecoming to a cosy kitchen after baking cookies for christmas or having a glass of spice milk at a winter fair still, I ike it but I do smell like a gingerbread man

Has an airier quality than it’s ‘reminds me of’ section, it is not heavy at all. Blast of cinnamon and anise and similar spices with lovely vanilla. Spicy and sweet, elegant! My fave from the brand so far

Smells pretty good, but it's super similar to Tobacco Vanille and Noir Extreme. It's not doing anything new or interesting enough to warrant a buy.

Christmas in a bottle. Exudes warmth & cheer and all that holiday jazz.

Un Crime Exotique is a strong warm spicy fragrance that smells like tobacco. Strangly, No one mentions the resemblance of Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille to this fragrance. There's the same scent of vanilla and cocoa, along with the cinnamon and other spice flavors we saw in Tobacco Vanille. (I'm sure one of these two fragrances was inspiring to make the other) Some types of tea notes are also listed here, but they are not predominant and the sweet spicy notes have more power. It has a good longevity on my skin, it has good quality and can be prepared with almost less than half the price of Tom Ford. آنکریم اگزوتیک یه کار گرم به شدت ادویه ای هست که بوی تنباکو میده عجیبه کسی به شباهت توباکو وانیل تام فورد با این عطر اشاره نکرده اینجا همون رایحه وانیلی و کاکائویی وجود داره که تو توباکو وانیل هست، در کنار دارچین و سایر روایح ادویه ای که ما اونجا دیدیم (مطمئنم یکی از این دو عطر برای ساخت دیگری الهام بخش بوده) چند نوع رایحه چای هم اینجا ذکر شده، اما غالب نیستن و قدرت تو دست نت‌های دیگه‌ست. روی پوستم موندگاری خوبی داشت، از نظر کیفیت خیلی خوبه و با کمتر از نصف قیمت تام فورد میشه تهیه‌ش کرد

List on website: Bergamot, Elemi, Black tea leaves, Gingerbread, Cocoa, Sandalwood. It is described as a Chypre Tea or Spiced Black Tea. To my nose it smells like black tea with honey. I smell a lot of honey... and not much else sadly. Still, it's a beautiful warming scent for a winter day.

On a blotter this is a sweet, milky, spicy chai that I expected would be cosy and quite strong on skin. On me it was a bit flat and is more tobacco and sweetness with very subtle spices lingering at the back.

cinnamon reminiscent of fireball whiskey in the opening. Less cloying than some other cinnamon fragrances. The dry down is very cozy when the chai finally comes out.

Oh, boy. Tea, I guess. But not MY cup of tea. It smells like pizza to me, at least upon first spray. No thanks.

i really dislike this, it’s so sickly sweet to me. it smells like i’m wearing honey

The spice cabinet has been neglected in perfumery. I imagine this has to do with perfume producers not wanting to be pinned down by the literal, the prosaic, the kitchen. From the consumer perspective, I don’t know if there is much of a market for culinary spice perfumery, but the need is probably met by aromatherapeutic products. I know that there are others spicy/bakery/culinary perfumes: Tauer’s Eau d’Epices, Lutens Five O’Clock au Gingembre, l’Artisan’s Tea for Two, but I’ve never tried them. I do see a train of thought that goes from Estée Lauder Cinnabar/Dior Opium to Serge Lutens Arabie to Un Crime Exotique, though. For each of these, the spice is in the syrup. A syrupy quality in perfume usually implies an overt sweetness. Generally, in terms of nose feel, syrup = sweetness + viscosity + flavor. The flavor might be vanilla, maple, cinnamon, cardammom. The ‘flavor’ is the spice. Crime Exotique skips the implied syrup (Cinnabar) and the overt syrup (Arabie) and takes the spice in a different direction. The touch of syrup that Crime Exotique gives you is firmly grounded in clove, one of the few cold spices. The chilly blast of clove in the topnotes of the perfume surround you at first but subside by about 80% fairly quickly. The syrup goes the way of the clove hurricane, and Crime is soon revealed as a woody perfume. When not drowned in sweetness, spices like clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, even ginger are shown to be characteristically woody in scent. Un Crime Exotique takes the wood and runs with it. What appeared to be syrup is actually more of a resinous quality that the perfume builds on to make a rich woody floral. The perfume settles into a cool vanillic range that maintains the drying, antiseptic character of the clove, but links it to a floral quality. Parfumerie Generale list osmanthus among the notes. Un Crime Exotique flirts with the gift-shop candle vibe, but is just nuanced enough to escape. The opening notes of the perfume are a refrigerated blast where clove overpowers virtually all the other notes. The heart is evenly balanced, and the spicy, woody and floral notes move around one another respectfully. The drydown gets a bit grey, non-descript. It smells like a muffled version of Lutens Un Bois Vanille’s cool, woody vanilla. A little blurred, but not bad at all. from scenthurdle.com

This perfume has a distinct scent of fresh tea mixed in with gingerbread and sandalwood; it’s a lovely a gourmand with an herbal twist rather similar to Sacrebleu by Nicolai Parfumeur. Un Crime Exotique smells similar to a coffee shop/vintage book store during Christmas time; it’s festive and warm with a penchant for nostalgia. The opening is cinnamon, chai tea and gingerbread. Though on my skin I find the gingerbread to be dominant, with cinnamon notes contributing subtle whiffs of spiciness. Sandalwood and tea create a cozy accord that makes me think of pumpkin pie fresh out of the oven and sprinkled with a generous amount of nutmeg and allspice. I see comparisons to Pacifica’s Mexican Cocoa and I have to disagree, MC smells to me like dark chocolate with a heavy dusting of coco powder and an almond filling. It smells decadent and buttery unlike UCE which is spicier in a totally optimistic and cheerful way. Un Crime Exotique is a wonderful scent that manages to encapsulate the holiday spirit for all seasons and occasions. It’s simply a delicious and happy fragrance, nothing complex or extravagant. It’s a perfume I’ll end up using as a room deodorizer because it reminds me of pies baking in the oven; it’s also great for concentration or to help with relaxation and sleep. Vienna.Pink

Made all the more bizarre for me that a number of the notes combine to at a cursory whiff remind me of sweet tobacco and indeed TF TV none the less - somewhat smoother and less realistic perhaps. Gorgeous it is, I had a sample from PG and I could have sworn it was a flanker to Liquer Charnelle with say, the tobacco increased and the booze reduced. After getting home and spraying Liquer Charnelle On my other arm I felt vindicated In my first impression but after checking the notes online I realised how despite my somewhat experienced nose I completely misread the notes. So, the cinnamon is abundant but the dark ambery depth and extension really does come across as a cinnamon tobacco - despite acknowledging the notes and breaking them down for all intents and purposes my brain is quite content to go with my original interpretation for this as a TF TV alternative and a spin off or flanker of Liquer Charnelle. So where this differs is between 2 - 5 hours in the cacao/milk chocolate comes forward and everything else softens. The Cacao here is not dusty like in Anti Blues rather like a milk chocolate or cup of milo. Either way I’m impressed with the better than average bubble, longevity and wintery warmth that I will have to buy it to compliment My TF TV and Liquor Charnelle!

The notes describe this one well in that it sits somewhere between chai tea and gingerbread. As with a number of the PG line, it's tastefully balanced and not nearly as sickening as many other gourmands on the market, offering a more nuanced experience due, in part, to the smart inclusion of the anise that favors freshness over syrupy sweetness. The name feel like a bit of a misnomer at first, but you could imagine this scent emanating from Phyllis Dietrichson's mug as she maps out her husband's death. Consequently, there's a weirdly incidental, noir-like quality to it that could potentially calm the nerves during sketchy dealings. PG has brewed up a gourmand for those who'd rather not smell like ultra-sweet cake dipped in sugar and coated with caramel. As a tea scent, it's more mimetic than it is interpretive; so if you like the idea of smelling like chai—without smelling like you rolled around in sugar for an hour—this one might be worth exploring. Although it's not my personal cuppa', it's one of the better one's out there right now.

I found a bottle on EBay with maybe 10mls in it. It's so strong, I can't imagine the person who wore almost the entire bottle! This little bit will last me a lifetime, I'm sure. On me, it smells like a sexy cinnamon bun. The cinnamon almost knocked me out at first when I sampled it last night. Have you seen the videos people post on utube when they try to eat a teaspoonful of pure cinnamon? Well, that was me when I first sampled it with my usual 3 sprays. I figured out that this is one of those that you have to spray into a perfume cloud and walk through it. Direct application to the skin is way too much. Some of the reviews compare it to Chai tea and some compare it to Pacifica Mexican Cocoa. It has the ginger in chai and the spicyness in PMC, but that's it. On it's own, it's not milky like chai tea and it's not chocolately like PMC is, but it is very warm and spicy. Anyway, this is a must have for cinnamon bun lovers. It's discontinued, but worth the effort - and this comes from someone who usually can't wear spice!

The first time I sprayed on this scent it smelled good, like a nice sweet cinnamon and vanilla. I now realize that I did not put enough of the juice on to properly analyze it. The second and third skin trials yielded different results. The cinnamon was immediately overwhelmed by a strong anise note and then both were totally overtaken by a sickeningly sweet and rather cloudy, skunky and overwhelming chai tea scent. I like tea scents that smell clean- this one definitely does not. This is funky, too sweet tea with yak butter in it and spices. Not my cup of tea let us say. My experiments with this scent will not be repeated. It is not for me.

After a harsh initial blast it reminded me of a cannoli. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of fragrance so perhaps I didn't pay much attention to it. I do like Genie in a Bottle, though, which is also too harsh at first. The drydown on that one is much more dynamic, with a great interplay of several distinct notes that offer some contrast. If you want to smell like a cannoli, though, this may be the way to go. Another in this group, IMO, is Iris Noir by Yves Rocher, which has an herbal quality and a powdery quality, so I also prefer that one for being more interesting, despite how it reminds me of a cannoli (to a lesser degree).

So spicy, I love! Like opening a box of chai latte mix for the first time. I was hit with chai and star anise, which was then followed by a perfectly steeped black tea. After a while, you finally get whiffs of vanilla, gingerbread, powder, and the occasional hint of pine. Pine, as in those fancy scented pinecones you can get around the holidays. This scent could literally do no wrong in my eyes. I'm so excited to wear this in the fall!!!

Translation of meama's Review: or is the crime or is exotic? it is a perfume syrupy but opens onto a beautiful cinnamon very soft. It was only after half an hour the next pastry spring. Obviously this is very well done but ... this is a very nice crime than stealing a biscuit. My Response: I would buy a sample of something that made me smell tasty! :*

Pretty much a Tobacco Vanille dupe. They smell the exact same. EDIT: coming back to this in the middle of the summer, and I take back what I said lol. Doesn’t resemble Tobacco Vanille to me anymore; more of a root beer float smell. A tiiiiny bit placticky/play dough-y, but I like it a lot more now.

Spicier and a bit louder, but similar to Tea for Two by L’Artisan. Warmer and less fresh than TfT. Very tea forward for me, black tea with chai spices. Very comforting and warming, perfectly unisex. I get the reference to Chergui but without the muskiness, and longer lasting. Really beautiful.

Did not read reviews- sprayed it- thought wow what does this remind me of?? Have I tried this?! Tom Ford TV! The one that got me into fragrance to begin with. Kind of odd considering the notes. Can’t decide if I like it because I can’t figure it out.

The notes on Guillaumes Site are: Elemi resin, Gingerbread, Tea, Ceylon cinnamon, Star anise, Mate absolute, Cocoa powder, Oceanian sandalwood. Sounds enticing! Too bad the brand isn't in Greece anymore... I hate blindbuying.

Honey, honey, and...honey. A beautiful honey it is, but that's all I get from start to finish. I was really looking forward to a spicy chai and gingerbread.

Ha I didn't even realize I had this in my sample stash; this is like a nice chai latte tea when you open up the powder packets. Spice heaven!

Rootbeer hard candies. Turns into realistic sweet vanilla frosting.