Sundowner

Scrubbing this off. The cinnamon makes me think of cheap candy, or the smell of pine cones when you walk in grocery stores at Christmas time. If you're not big on cinnamon, I say avoid this.

Its not difficult to describe Sundowner because its simple compared to what Andy released before! The simplest description will be its a Red tobacco by Mancera but Sundowner has a very strong orange note. In more words, Sundowner to me smells like red tobacco but with three notes added, the 1st note is the orange this one it penetrate the whole composition and it last a very long time through the drydown, to me its not a top note but a base note. The second note is the rose, its very little but you can smell the sweetness of the rose. And the third note is the cyproil, it smells like oud mixed with diluted patchouli here in Sundowner its smells like a mid note and it last only 1-2 hours. Sundowner is still different from Red tobacco, and I will say they are different by %30 to%35 and I mention it here just to simplify and give y'all idea how it smells like. The performance is good and it has a great depth, it last 6-7 hours on the skin and it project softly for about one hour. Rating 8/10 I'm not a fan of orange mixed with tobacco and chocolate.

Based on a sample, this is a sweet and sour cinnamon, which after some time, settles as a powdery vanilla. It's well blended, and I prefer it to other gourmand leaning cinnamons such as Ambre Narguile or Angels Share, largely because they smell like bakeries. Sundowner is intruiging and very (very) pleasant, but if I had a FB I could see it sitting on the shelf, used only infrequently. 3.5/5

Andy Tauer seems to be one of the only perfumers out there who actually delivers what he promises as directly as possible. Essentially a grandiose, massive, tobacco accord, making you almost realize that the note of tobacco in perfumery is much more than the scent of dried tobacco leaves, similar to how the scent of amber is practically the abstractions of an artistic mind. If you want photorealism, this is however not the right option for you, this is more of a 'what would tobacco smell like... in heaven?' type of scent. So immediately a bright 'open' citrus, strong and sweet, peachy almost, slightly floral, but with a distinct dirty nuance a lot of people have pointed out as well, an intentional spicy dissonance, which imo serves to remind you of where this fragrance is going, which is an oddly chocolatey juicy fruity floral slightly skanky tobacco heart. I think it is the result of the ridiculously potent, almost 'burning' cinnamon note you see in a lot of Tauer offerings. 30 mins and you enter the second phase, the peach cobbler made out of an overripe rosy peach, boozy almost, honeyed, quite floral too, but always underlined by an animalic woody tobacco. To my nose this is the nicest phase and last about 2-3 hours. After than comes the massive tobacco base, unfiltered, high grade pipe tobacco, slightly tart and cherry-like, slightly vanillic, slightly raunchy but not unbearably so. Just a beaming sweet tobacco beacon that last practically until the next morning. Extremely complex, intense, massive and all-encompassing. Perhaps the ultimate tobacco accord. However it is for me the hardest category of fragrance to wear. If you were to wear it in a restaurant you would probably make the flavor of the food intelligible, half the room being able to smell you, as if you were holding a massive artwork in front of their faces. I think it is best reserved for Summer evenings, on a terrace, with a drink in hand, letting the cool air form a hazy cloud around you. I am going for a 5ml personally and I am confident it will last be an entire lifetime.

This is an instant love. I’m amazed at how this evokes memories of a tropical beach at sundown. There is moisture in the midst of the waning heat, a soft humidity reminiscent of evaporating rainfall steaming up from the sand under your feet. As the sun sets, you pull out a fresh cigar, slide it under your nose, clip it, and light a cedar strip. Reminds me of the times I spent on beaches and patios in Costa Rica.