Cuir Garamante

Lovely, but misleading; I was hoping for a next-level luxury leather with LOADS of spice, but on me this only delivers an exceptionally classy rose-oud with extra suede. Interesting tangs of nutmeg and vanilla at first led me to think this would be unusually aromatic and intriguing - as anything should be for MDCI's scary prices - but it turned out far more conventional than that. By about 90mins in, on my skin, it's wearing like Santal Royal's much more discreet older sister. That's not a bad character to have, but at this price point (3 euros/close to £2.50 per ml) it needs to be spectacular, or truly individual, in my view - and it just isn't. It's delicious and lovely and if I hadn't smelled Santal Royal first I'd be hugely impressed. But as things are: this would be a gorgeous thing to receive, but not one that I'm going to hunt out and sacrifice my own earnings just to have. Simply too conventional to win true admiration, though undoubtedly lovely to wear. Reasonably long-lasting on me - up to 5h at a metre away, but to 8 if sniffing the skin - but both life and projection are biggest for the rose notes, which are the least interesting to me. True unisex though.

Wow, wow and wow! I love this stuff. Finally a leather fragrance that doesn't smell skanky or like a leather wallet. It's creamy smoothe affect is mind blowing! It's unisex but starts to lean a little femme but i don't care about that stuff, if it smells good I wear it and this is one of the best smelling scents I have ever worn. The leather and suede is there, is more in the background though. I think this is one of the best offerings from the house, invasion barbare is ok, but there are other frags in the same nature for less. This is wonderful guys and you really got to try it out! 9.5/10 overall I really can't get over how good this smells guys, I want the world to know how good it smells, but at the same time I want nobody to know about it...I've never smelled anything so captivating that was able to get leather and rose just the way I like and bond them together in such a perfect balance with supporting high quality notes. This is niche. This is why I only collect niche now. This is art. This is perfection.

Bleh, tried it today both on paper and skin. Don't like it at all! It's closed (as in none-projecting), dark, sour and bitter. Not natural at all. Could something be wrong with the sample I tried? i can't imagine anyone wanting to smell like this. 4/10

I've read the perfumer explanation about this perfume that made me REALLY REALLY wanna have it or even smell it, so i ordered the sample, and the result was..... it's a very very very typical Arabic perfume where i can get it 1/4 the price of this, i barely can smell or even sense the leather in it, all i get was saffron with a hint of nutmeg. sorry but i won't buy this perfume of 75ml for 250$, sorry but i won't pay more than 20$ for this cause i can find it on this scale anywhere here. but still you might be the one who would pay 500$+ for this perfume cause honestly i rarely can find a similar in Europe or the US, but if you love this then pass by the Arabian Peninsula ;) Edit (4th Aug 2015): after having a wide range of essences and exposed to the world's finest inspirations, surprisingly, i found this captivating! i really sense some Arabian essence that made me really quite interested to know more about it, it's again today on my wrest and i am enjoying the fun it brings! it has that sweaty note that makes it kind of and hintly stinky as it drives it's concept to the masculine part. this is by far a masculine erotic essence that triggers sensual instincts! although i still think it's quite expensive somehow but now i realize why :) it's not for everyone definitely. Edit (3rd Oct 2015) It is an adventurous fragrance that resembles Indiana Johns's leather jacket. According to that, i thought it lacked something, most probably the strength as i saw it kind of weak in away that it vanishes within few hours (max 3) and turns into skin close scent. In my opinion, it doesn't require an enormous strength! while an intermediate is quite perfect to be specific as this fragrance stimulates a mysterious action which by itself resembles an imagination of a slight sweat that accompanies any adventure. It remains one of the best fragrances I've ever witnessed by far & deserves every single cent paid for.

Cuir Garamante is disturbing my sleeping nights... I have myself a sample and every single night I crave to put my hands on this wonderful and gorgeous juice whenever I take a sniff on! I'm on a frantic quest for a bottle without the resin bust cause I'm more interested in the juice itself, but if I could I would definitely go for the whole package. Since I'm not rich, I'll be pretty satisfied with the simple bottle. Now about the juice: Cuir Garamante is an aphrodisiac one, that gives me goosebumps. It opens balsamic and spicy, maybe for the subtle nutmeg in concoction to saffron and a tad spices touch. Half an hour later it comes to the heart with an amazing and noticeable rose along with the leather (more suede tipe of leather). The incense and sandalwood comes to party in order to develop the fragrance to a beautiful woody/smoky voluptuous background and for me it's when the magic happens!!! Cuir Garamante is a MASTERPIECE, with capital letters!