Tauer Perfumes has launched L'Air Des Alpes Suisses, a new unisex fragrance.
L'Air Des Alpes Suisses opens bright, fresh, and invigorating, with notes of bitter, lively alpine herbs and cool glacier air. As if on our own Swiss adventure, our journey then leads us into the fresh, green heart, the air rich with blooming alpine lilies and pine needles drying on the forest floor. And finally, we smell the warm woods of the timber trees, sweetened with the amber tones of earth drying in the midday sun. It's about as different from most of his previous offerings as can be...
The notes include amber, tonka bean, fir, birch, dried needles, lily, orchid, wild thyme, basil, rosewood, nutmeg, mountain lavender and lemon balm.
Tauer Perfumes L'Air Des Alpes Suisses is available now at Luckyscent, $135 for 50 ml Eau de Parfum.
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I never got into Tauer scents..I believe I liked one..Reverie Au Jardin. Notes in this one sound nice though. I would like to try it.
It does sound very different from his others.
Never liked the underlying creosote, which he associates with the Southwest, in his base. But this one sounds like he may have ditched that idea. Hope so.
I can’t wait to try this one and have been waiting for it to be released. You don’t see to many perfumes that feature pine.
You really don’t.
I like the pine/fir notes in Idyllwild from Ineke quite a lot.
(Is pine too closely associated with cleaning products to be widely used in perfumery, I wonder?)
This does sound good, reminds me a little of Barry Lyndon with the high altitude ingredients and I love herbs…..plus lilies, wow! Hopefully it will be a popular split meet offering. I’d love to try it.
Hopefully it will appear in the travel spray edition!
He doesn’t do the travel sprays any more, but he does have a mini of it!
Ah, didn’t know, thanks!
One thing I notice in so much recent “unisex” niche is that they seem to feel the need to include an obvious floral note, the way lavender notes were so common in vintage “masculines.” I wish they would offer a few scents with a label stating that the floral notes (if any) are very light, and the dominant notes are spices, leather, incense, or whatever.
I am not sure how that would help…there are heavily floral fragrances marketed to men and heavy spicy woods (with little obvious florals) marketed to women, and what people think each gender ought to smell like varies by geography and culture.
Really looking forward to trying this!
Me too.
I’m excited to try this – but it’s not on Andy’s own website yet (I was hoping for a mini). We go hiking in the Swiss Alps a lot but I associate the absence of any scent with that, perhaps intermittently interrupted the smell of cheese…:)
It’s there now — the miniature bottle, the sample and the full bottle.
…except I can’t checkout — it’s saying it has no shipping methods for either the United States or Canada. Sigh.
I typed in my US address and it worked fine, 23 swiss francs shipping charge. Maybe try again?
He said recently that he can only ship full bottles to the U.S., if I remember correctly.
Apparently my problem was that I also wanted a sample of L’eau. Once I got rid of that — no problem. Seems he’s shipping his American orders from California (Luckyscent?) based on the shipping response I got, so I guess they’re not covering everything. (If I could move back to my old German address I’d be set, apparently, based on my experimentation. Sadly, no chance of that.)
Finally got it — went to visit family in the U.S. this weekend and picked it up.
Verdict: Smells like a Tauer factory exploded on an Alp. Maybe.
Definitely a unisex — feels actually more “male” to me, whatever that means (I wear “male” scents with impunity.) It’s probably a more traditional masculine, for a Tauer…but then, are his more iconic scents really “feminine”?
Very little pine. A lot of Tauer base.
I had such hopes after hearing the description, but as someone who knows the Swiss Alps well — and LOVES Tauer — this didn’t do it for me based on the name and description If I’m thinking of Alpine air, it needs to do away with the Tauer base entirely. Air, with pines…yes. Tauer, with a hint of pine…eh, it’s fine but says nothing to me about the Alps (except maybe what Andy Tauer smells after coming back from a long day in his manufacturing space).