SERGE LUTENS Chergui Eau de Parfum

Incredible fragrance. I'm pretty shocked that people don't compare it to Naxos. On my skin it is VERY similar. At least the tobacco honey combo. This is bold, powerful, strong. Performance is excellent. I find this very masculine.

When I first got into perfumes in 2008, Chergui is what the niche-enthusiasts were constantly raving about. I got the coolest opportunity to attend a perfume event at Neiman Marcus in Dallas with other online forum-dwellers, and I left with so many samples of Serge Lutens, L'Artisan, Creed, and Comme des Garcon and a new appreciation for niche. My avid 19-year-old self felt so very cultured, lol. Niche was way out of my league back then, and oddly, I fell out of the perfume game that year. But I'm back, and I always thought about Chergui (also Arabie).
Chergui is the ultimate fall fragrance to me, like the token fall sweater of perfumery. It's enveloping in a unique way... dry, but smooth. Warming and caressing amber-tobacco, sweet honey-sandalwood, with the fantastic addition of hay that makes it special...all on a musky cloud. It's perfectly unisex.
I'm so happy to revisit Chergui. It's like reliving my passion all over again.

I'm sad to hear it was reformulated... I don't remember well enough to make any comparisons between old Chergui formula and the one I'm trying today. I can say that my decant very much smells like Chergui, though... that's for sure. It may be weaker? But I still love it.

It's like- if you found a crayon that'd rolled under a church pew and collected dust for a few months...

All i get on my skin for hours is wax/plastic and a spicy note. But not the kind that appeals to me. Not a floral insence with any smoky nuance. More like... stale and peppery. Perhaps it's the tobacco.

I get a slight amber/powder after a few hours.
But it's not pleasant or worth it.

I may have the kind of skin chemistry that amber doesn't work on? I'm still new to fragrance... But that's my two cents.

Its quite pleasant, like a sweeter and more tolerable Écrin de Fumée. It smells like pipe tobacco and ambery honey on the dry down. There is absolutely a hay note in there too.

This is a more mature scent as it is more incense-y and musky than it is sweet. Don't expect sweetness like Tobacco Vanille.

Way to medicinal and too little tobacco for my liking. But I do like it's uniqueness. I would imagine Sherilyn Fenn in twin peaks smelled like this.