Up for grabs (US only): Tauer Cologne du Maghreb + Happ & Stahns Rosa Alba

Posted by Robin on 7 December 2010 178 Comments — Comments are closed

What is it: For anyone who has not had luck so far with the Tauer Advent calendar (don’t forget, you can still enter every day!), here’s another chance. I have a lovely bottle of Tauer’s Le Cologne du Maghreb (yes, it smells great, and I would keep it if I could) up for grabs. I have tried it several times, but the bottle is still at least 98% full. I’ve also got six 10 ml “Victorian tear catchers” filled with the Happ & Stahns 1842 Rosa Alba fragrance. So we’re looking for 7 winners total.

How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment telling me that you live in the US. Also, please tell me a) the name of your favorite mascara, or b) the name of a favorite movie, new or old, that you think everyone should see, or c) the celebrity that you think ought to launch a perfume…

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Tauer Perfumes Advent 2010

Posted by Robin on 1 December 2010 453 Comments — Comments are closed

Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes is holding 24 days of giveaways for Advent again this year:

It is this time of the year again: Advent, with its warmth and scents bringing back memories from our childhood. It is the time of the year where we prepare for the holidays, a time to looking back to 2010, and it is the time to look forward into 2011.

“Tauer” brings you an ADVENT CALENDAR December 1 -24 with lots of gifts and fragrant treasures. I invite you to participate and make sure to take your chance to win a COLOGNE DU MAGHREB.

Now Smell This is hosting the prize draw for December 1st: the winner gets a limited edition, can’t-buy-it-anywhere fragrance called Cologne du Maghreb* developed just for this year’s Advent giveaway…

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Tauer Perfumes Carillon pour un ange ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 20 October 2010 89 Comments

Tauer Carillon pour un ange + Jean Harlow

When I think of recent Tauer Perfumes launches (Eau d’Épices and Une Rose Vermeille), I think of Lady Gaga’s costumes and all things “radioactive.” These attention-seeking perfumes, with the half-life of uranium-235, are bombshells: once applied to skin and clothes their effects last (almost) forever — through showers, baths, heavy-duty laundry cycles, and dry-cleanings. The scents wear ME, and during the course of a day, they wear me out (I get tired of their non-stop blare). Yet, I couldn’t resist trying Carillon pour un ange*, Andy Tauer’s homage to lily of the valley (one of my favorite flower scents). How would Tauer create such a delicate aroma?

Carillon pour un ange’s list of notes includes lilac, rose, ylang-ylang, green lily of the valley accord, jasmine, leather, ambergris, moss and woods. Carillon pour un ange starts off with a tropical-smelling, floral accord that reminds me of plumeria (probably a mix of rose and strong, sweet lilac) — with some added “greens.” There is a certain old-fashioned, creamy aspect to the opening; I detected a familiar scent from my past, and it took me awhile to “get” it: Jergens® lotion! (Since I haven’t smelled Jergens body lotion in at least ten years, I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this comparison with today’s Jergens formula…or should I say formulas …there are at least 15 moisturizers in the current line!)

During mid-development, Carillon pour un ange smells like one of my favorite fragrance combos…

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Tauer Perfumes Une Rose Vermeille ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 1 October 2010 81 Comments

stained glass window, rose

I wish I had a dollar for every time a fragrance salesperson has offered me a sniff of a new rose-based perfume while saying, in an apologetic, slightly lowered voice, “I’m not usually a rose person, but I really like this one.” He or she will go on to justify this unexpected liking for the fragrance by explaining, “It’s a really modern/fresh/youthful take on rose, not what you would expect.” Unfortunately, the scent in question often turns out to be exactly what I expected: a faint, synthetic-smelling rose note diluted and obscured with so much bright citrus and sheer musk that the result is, indeed, a fragrance for non-rose-lovers.

Andy Tauer makes no such apologies or justifications with Tauer Perfumes‘ Scent no. 10, Une Rose Vermeille. It is not a soliflore, but the fragrance’s overall impression is definitely the “scarlet rose” of its name, enriched by the other elements rather than masked by them — it is, as the perfumer himself says, “a true homage to rose.” The composition includes top notes of lemon, bergamot, and lavender; a heart of rose, violet, and raspberry; and a base of vanilla, sandalwood, tonka bean, and ambergris.

The opening of Une Rose Vermeille is a characteristically Taueresque twist of greenish, herbaceous notes…

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And the winner is…

Posted by Robin on 20 September 2010 8 Comments

...Zeram1! Congrats on winning the latest Tauer contest.

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