Perfume Review: Chergui by Serge Lutens
Does it ever happen to you? You own a scent, you wear it on occasion, you love it and all. Then you don’t wear it for a while, and when you finally do, it just hits you in the face with its beauty? As if saying, “Shame on you for forgetting how beautiful I am! So there, I’ll have you suffering over how perfect I work with your skin so you never feel tempted to go looking for another lover.” That’s what Chergui did to me yesterday.
Chergui refers to a hot, dry wind blowing across the desert. It was also my very first Serge Lutens and an immediate love. With the notes of sap, resins, tobacco leaf, hay sugar, musk, honey, incense, amber, iris, rose, sandalwood it smells like honeyed spicy goodness. It can be dry and smoky, and it can be soft and honeyed, completely randomly and without warning. In cold weather, it’s all bitter and spicy. In warm weather – it’s warm, intoxicatingly soft, resinous tobacco-honey elixir. I like it better in warm weather. In fact, I’ll be bold to suggest it’s meant to reveal its true beauty in warm air only, like the wind in the dessert.
Have there been any scents you’d been neglecting that you finally wore and were smitten by, all over again? Please share in your comments!
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27 comments August 7th, 2006