Zanzibar

I love this scent and am disappointed that it is no longer in production. I was excited to hear that there is a company called Perfume Parlour, here in the UK, that supposedly makes good copies of many fragrances, including Zanzibar. The reviews of other scents they produced seemed to be largely very positive, although there was no review of PP's version of Zanzibar. On receipt of their version of Zanzibar, I was VERY disappointed it did not even closely resemble it and it didn't even smell pleasant!! I was equally disappointed by their response when I said as much. They said "It is very unlikely that we would have got the scent wrong as we have sold many of the same and not had a single complaint thus far." What arrogant b*****ds!! They have got it VERY wrong, so don't waste your money on them, as you will be sorely disappointed as I was. Any recommendations of places that do GOOD copies is most welcome! :-)

The top, middle and base notes as listed are perfect. Spot on it covers all of those notes. I will echo what many others said. The performance was simply never there. Where others use 4-8 spritzes, I typically use only 1 spritz, but when it comes to Zanzibar, even I had to use half a dozen to get any traction out of this scent at all. Even when I did spray a good number of times, the DIVINE, UNIQUE and DELICIOUS scent was reduced to a mere shadow of itself within 1 hour. This might be a scent to simply keep in a bottle and go to when you need a few moments of something different in your life. I am very sad that this scent is no longer produced because it reminds me of all the best parts of my early 20's. The prices it goes for now are simply not worth it.

Masculine enough for a Man but Feminine enough that a bold daring that defies convention The opening begins with a zesty blast of Lemon it dries down to an spicy Cardamom and Black Pepper and third Ginger the drydown starts off with sweet cloves warm Amber and Hot Sandalwood to make this Colonge a Gem. I can picture Clark Gable duking it out with Ava Gardner in the Battle of the wits & sharp tongues from Mogambo or going to an hunting expitition on the african Serengetti or going to an Zanzibar Bazaar full of bright colors of red yellow orange gold with the scent of curry and spices being sold incense buring Oriental and Baltik rugs being hanged for us to show. A beautiful piece of work they put in this scent.

I had this in my cupboard for a little while now . It was one of the first in my collection. I bought it because the bottle did look just amazing to me. I did not know anything about fragrances at the time I still dont but I slowly can appreciate some of the reviews Clark Gable and Ava Gardner going to a Zanzibar Bazaar ? Fresh and exotic? like an "African wind" ? I agree with all of it and more . To me its very classic and sophisticated, So glad I finally tried it properly and glad to have it in my wardrobe. Only drawback is that its a very fleeting pleasure on my skin and way too close.

Classy bottle, Lovely smell. This really is one of my favorites, I've got half a bottle left and I'm being really careful with it, shame it was discontinued. I'ts a great wild and spicy scent while it lasts, and that's the problem - the smell is gone after around 4 hours and it stays very close to the skin.