Reverie au jardin, Andy Tauer

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Andy Tauer is a generous and accurate person. Not only he replaced the wrong sprayer for my Orris, he also sent a lot of samples of his previous scents.

I asked him not to send me samples of his previous scents, but my mail was probably lost and it's good this way. Because when I tried samples of scents familiar from the past time, I discovered that they were adjusted in a way. Le Maroc got a clear jasmine reinforcement and l'Air du desert... got more transparent. Transparency would be the key word for the current state of Tauer's scents.

After his spectacular sharp Orris scent he falls in love with the classical lavender story. There are several intriguing lavender perfumes like Jicky or Eau d'Hermes, but Tauer chooses the English way -  lavender and some fir accent. The idea comes from  the recently revived Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet, which is quite a modern interpretation of lavender but fails to serve you in these hot,  temperature record breaking days.

Some months ago, maybe a year, Turin was on the hunt for the ideal lavender scent. Well, he found one, accelerated with some IFRA inadvisable musk material at an Irish monastery, as far as I remember.

Tauer's lavender is a fully correct creation. It has musky head nuances of abelmoschus, familiar to many of us from the jewelry scent of the last Chanel launch. It has the familiar woody base that we know from Orris. It's nearly as sharp as Orris. But through vetiver and tonka it finally gets quite a gourmet and comfortable feeeling. I take it as a very modern cold and green, herby and a bit powedery, sharp but still a comfortable scent.