andy tauer
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Cologne du Maghreb
02 l'Air du Desert Marocain
L'Air du Desert Marocain opens with a jolt of cumin that stops just short of body-note territory — it reads as warm skin in dry heat rather than sweat, a distinction that matters enormously.
PHI Une Rose de Kandahar
A rose pulled from the spice markets rather than the garden.
Les Années 25
Golestan
Sundowner
Cinnamon and bergamot open Sundowner with warm, spiced brightness — the bergamot is ripe and golden rather than sharp, and the cinnamon reads less like heat and more like baking spice, hinting at what's coming.
03 Lonestar Memories
Lonestar Memories opens with a pale, slightly mineral clary sage that clears the air rather than perfuming it—a brief, aromatic exhale before the leather arrives.
06 Incense Rose
The opening carries the bright green-petal clarity of Bulgarian rose, lifted by cardamom's crisp warmth and a flash of bergamom citrus.
08 Une Rose Chypree
The opening announces itself with a citrus-spice contrast—lemon and bergamot cut through a warm haze of cinnamon, creating an unusual brightness that feels both fresh and resinous.
L'Eau
14 Noontide Petals
05 Incense Extreme
**05-incense-extreme** opens with a bright crack of petitgrain that quickly gives way to its true subject: incense rendered in high definition.
Carillon pour un ange
Carillon pour un ange is Andy Tauer at his most deliberately angelic — a white floral of real weight, built from ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, and rose in the opening before leather and jasmine arrive to confirm this is no light summer scent.
01 Le Maroc Pour Elle
The opening of *Le Maroc Pour Elle* is lavender—aromatic and nearly medicinal in its clarity—cut through with a suggestion of spice that keeps it from feeling purely herbal.
04 Reverie au Jardin
A walk through a garden at dusk, captured in green-gold light.
Les Années 25 Bis
Sotto La Luna Gardenia
10 Une Rose Vermeille
Lavender and bergamot open with a cool herbal-citrus quality — the lavender clean and slightly medicinal, bergamot adding a brighter lift.
Zeta
07 Vetiver Dance
Cologne Du Maghreb (2021)
09 Orange Star
A bright orange blossom opening that feels almost electric, flashing white petals against a pale sky.