02 L'Air du Desert Marocain

This is my first ever review of any fragrance on here, and I just recently got into fragrances and this is also my first niche scent. So.......with that being said I'm not exactly a pro. I also did blind buy this (and I know many have said not a good Idea and I can kinda see why) and I personally fell in love with the beauty and the adventure in this scent almost immediately. So I'm definitely not disappointed. I gotta say, I dont know if I have the right way or words to describe this scent but.......GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY!! This really is something else!! As many have said that this is NOT a typical scent and is VERY transportive! The moment I smelled this I felt like I was on some other planet walking around by myself in a very dry but cool desert while late afternoon and cloudy, smelling totally foreign and unfamiliar vegetation wafting through the gentle breeze, hearing no other sounds other than that breeze making me feel like I was lost, and VERY VERY VERY far away from home! It also smells like something VERY ancient. History in a bottle (like almost 3000+ years old) to me but VERY BEAUTIFUL!! This to me is absolutely an otherworldly smell as someone else on here has mentioned. Tauer has mixed fairly and somewhat common ingredients in such a way and just the right mix to make it smell like something that's not of this world. I'm gonna say this........this scent is so unique, whatever your imagination can conjure up before you have even smelled it yet...........you WILL be wrong! It will NOT smell like you think it will. Trust me on this. However, I will say that to me, this smells very dry, herbal, earthy and dirty (but in a good way like a rich soil). If you like those types of smells, chances are you will like this one. I tip my hat to Tauer and mad respect to this man for accomplishing something like this. This is definitely liquid art or a transporting time machine in a bottle. He definitely has a very vivid and deep imagination. You can tell the work he's put into this. Now, I'm a guy btw and to me this definitely leans masculine (but not an overly rough masculine) and as far as wearability, I would say, definitely and even in warmer weather because of how dry and kinda cool the scent is. (at least I think so, but I definitely would not go heavy on it as it does have a kinda sharp herbal smell to it, light application should do it so to intrigue and not offend anyone). Some may not like it, but we all know that smells are subjective. This is (to me anyway) a very unique and very beautiful scent and VERY purchase worthy (even if you don't wear it a lot). If I were an octopus I'd give it eight thumbs up for the creativity in this. Holy moly what a unique scent!! Nice one Tauer, I'm definitely impressed. This is really cool!!

There are scents that capture a moment, and in L'air du desert Marocain is clear that Tauer found a magic combination of notes that creates a special story, The scent is splitted in Three in the best way possible, There is a straight Citrus that is combind with Coriander Cumin and Lavander wich gives a first burst of whats to come, but is not directly pleasant, as in any good scent the unbalance create interests and here is masterfully done. Labdanum and Geranium follows the scent into a floral aspect that make the scent elegant and "Pleasing" to the nose, but is strongly connected to the bottom, You can virtually " see" the layers, one is interconnected with other, the sky, the sand, and the ground, "L'air" itself is fresh (in warm weather) ,and the sand is dry, but the ground is deep not fully dark and a bit wet, amber like, is truly a great scent to at least try to inject knowledge to your nose. Andy is capturing the air above the beautiful landscape frozen in time. I do understand why this scent become a giant hit, it has that special connection to a real life feeling perfectly balanced, yet it goes away when he desires, giving you a certain leathery, woody trail when you smell it out of you, there is a very bitter combo Patchouli / Petitgrain that makes it almost unpleasant at the first sniff, but that is clearly why the scent becomes more light leather than full wood/amber, He worked out that balancing on a pin the Petitgrain bitterness and the sweetness of the flowers gives this special balance that is very hard to find when composing a scent, one way or another Tauer figured out a perfect sweetspot. Glad i own it, and i can say that is clearly my style. It goes in the middle of the Desert scents collection that are more into the deep night, when the sun is gone, and the air becomes slowly colder, but not yet, the warm breeze is still up there, fully in the night, it's a moment in time, balanced to perfection. This scent with Black Afgano are really the definition of nieche selfmade bangers, and will go in history as a very unique and personal amber style that people will keep discovering and coming back to.

I'm Moroccan, so it was obligatory to try this fragrance. My first impression, honestly, was that I had no scent memory association at all. However, it had a super interesting, animalic, spicy opening that lasts for a bit, with strong coriander and cumin. I don't get a direct lavender smell, but more of a "haze" that comes off it. The petitgrain is very hidden, but I can see what it's doing - it relaxes the opening from being too pungent, and it barely managed to do that. Honestly, it's a unique and cool opening. Once it mellows, I'm getting a warm, leathery birch tree, slightly dry and dusty, but somehow still airy. Hmm, this is actually really nice. "L'Air du Désert"... okay, I see it now. But, as a Moroccan, I don't think it captures the essence of the desert. Overall, I'm perceiving this more as a labdanum leather fragrance. If anything would remind me of Morocco, it would be the big, cheap, yellow bars of soap that some old houses used for laundry. It's right there, between that dryness. It's far from bad - actually, it's quite smooth and nostalgic. The geranium/jasmine combination is doing that. Even though it's dry, it's not at all desert-like. The generic amber has a slight benzoin lean, for sure. It's got something sweet and vanillic that's not stated in the note breakdown, next to the cedar and vetiver, which are both coarse. But, trust me, it's not that super dry - the airiness is balancing that quite nicely. The mossy/patchouli musk is giving lift to all that. It's really good - I like it a lot. I might one day pick up a bottle. The fragrance definitely hit the mark with the dry/airy balance. I enjoyed the soap-like quality. I wish it actually retained some of that animalic spiciness further into the fragrance. It would've been great if it had been inverted somehow - that would've maybe captured some of the Moroccan essence in the scent. It didn't blow me away, but for sure, it's a fragrance that will have people stop and ask what you're wearing, no doubt. It's really strong... do be easy with the sprays! Lasts on clothes for a very long time.

I have long wanted to try 02 L'Air du Désert Marocain, deemed a masterpiece by many. I have only tried one Tauer perfume previously, Phi Une Rose de Kandahar, and I was impressed by its quality. One of the earlier niche brands, Andy Tauer's creations are instantly recognisable by their lapis-blue pentagon-shaped bottles, and their consistently high quality is frequently commented on in blogs etc. 02 is a spicy-amber scent, dry and woody, fougère in style. It is of the high quality I expected, evocative of its theme, slightly unusual and beautifully-composed. 02 has an aromatic, spicy opening, savoury and peppery. I get a prominent cumin note, slightly dirty and adding heat, with some dry, peppery coriander following. The lavender gives it a fougère edge, with green petitgrain rounding out the herbal quality as well as paving the way to the woody base. Geranium complements it, adding its distinctive peppery greenness. The spices and herbal notes are beautifully balanced. The amber base is detectable from initial spray, coming to the fore as the scent develops. It is balsamic, dry and quite medicinal. Leathery labdanum is evident throughout, a favourite amber note of mine. The woody notes that follow marry beautifully with the amber, making for a rich, layered, dry accord. Dry, grassy vetiver is quite prominent here, the perfect addition. There is a nice earthiness to the base in the later stages too, mostly thanks to the patchouli, but I get a hint of vintage-style oakmoss too, punctuating the woody-amber accord beautifully. Remnants of spice remain until the end, adding interest. It fades to a dry, woody-musky skin scent. Sillage is moderate and longevity is long-lasting. It is masculine-leaning in my opinion, best worn in autumn/winter. Utterly beautiful and high-quality, 02 is a masterfully-composed woody-amber, classic in style, yet unusual and compelling throughout. It is comforting and restorative as well as being utterly wearable. An elevated amber-spicebomb. Exceptional. 4.5/5.

Disclaimer: This is my first time posting a review, and I am not at all a professional in this industry, but I was compelled to share my thoughts on this fragrance. It is unlike anything else I have smelled. It's somehow simultaneously cool and spicy. Frosty and sparkling yet dry--just like dawn on a winter's day in the high desert. It's hard for me to pick out individual notes on the, because of what I feel are misleading descriptions, disarmingly sparkling opening. The one exception is almost citrusy coriander seed (I definitely do not smell cilantro/coriander leaf), and there is something verdant and refreshing (perhaps orange leaf, Pelargonium leaf, and/or lavender). I do not detect the musty body-odor note I associate with cumin. I must confess I don't know what rockrose/labdanum and oakmoss smell like. There is a pleasant but subtle white floral fragrance like orange blossom or jasmine sambac. And for me, the whole fragrance seems to balance on a sturdy and refreshing base of cedar or cypress that dries down somewhat creamy, like Ponderosa bark, after a couple hours. Finally, onto the reason I am writing this... Based on many reviews and the votes here, I expected this to be a very different, wintertime scent: warm and grounded in lots of amber. However, like @Mouse011 below, I detect ZERO AMBER in this fragrance. A quick check on Tauer's own website seem to confirm this. Instead. he lists AMBERGRIS, which is not listed anywhere here. I presume this is contributing the mineral and faintly marine notes and —along with the lavender—to the cool, vaguely minty opening, when this fragrance sparkles like fresh hoar frost for me. L'Air du Désert Macorain is not a cozy evening in a bazaar with a cup of hot tea and warm, comforting tagine spices floating around. It's a gust of surprisingly brisk winter wind whipping through frost-laden desert scrub on its way to tingle my nose, and I love it!