Fareb Huitieme Art Parfums for women and men

Fareb is a sort of cousin to a few PG's creations. It sort of made me think of Aomassai and Corps et Ames. Not the notes perhaps, but the overall feeling. Fareb is spicy, with a big dose of herbs, woods and leather notes. It might as well have been another number in Parfumerie Generale's collection... Also, very surprisingly, on me it bears a faint resemblance to Feminite du Bois, or perhaps my nose just makes weird associations.

It is sort, rooty, warm, dry and somehow... sweet at the same time. Quite an interesting experience, but fails to grab my attention. Slowly develops in the background. It smells a lot more complicated than what the notes say, but the scent did not inspire me personally.

This is sooo high on my wishlist! To me it is very dry rooty, musty in a "empty wooden spice-cabinet feel" but more from the spiced up wood than from spice alone.
I do not get much if any leather, get more of a black tea with dried berries in it, cumin but pleasantly balanced and a tiny curry feel (Which I can imagine may project abit stronger on some, giving out the spice cabinet feel)
It has a totally different array of spices then say Piper Nigrum which I also adore. Fareb is way softer, warmer. Soft spices, no pepper or sauna eucalyptus feel. I do not know what Immortelle smells like though I get that there is something in Sables which is here as well, only more airy, dry, rooty, spiced tea-like. And no burnt sugar feel! Like tea-spiced dry roots warmed up and withered by the hot desert winds. I soo crave this!
But test before buy, some have read my love for it and only gotten a very boring uncreative spice cabinet on their skin. Well luckily for me, here it shines!
My only love from the Huiteme line so far, and I have tried a few.

Fareb strikes as an innovative take on Immortelle which emphasizes the plant's aromatic/resinous/spicy aspect instead of the dark burnt sugary one. The fragrance smells modern, natural and incredibly masculine with a consitent dose of immortelle joined in the opening by fizzy ginger and turning leathery/woody during the outstanding drydown. Good projection and lasting power.

Overall Fareb is a consistent and bold fragrance but avoids the heavyness of other compositions of the same genre. If you like immortelle but find 1740 or Sables to be overly sweet due to the pipe-tobacco in the former and the amber in the latter, Fareb is the one to go for. Very good.

Rating: 8/10

I am a great fan of Huitième Art Parfums and I think that Pierre Guillaume is a fantastic parfumeur.

I've already bought full bottles of three of his perfumes, and I'm considering two others.

So, you can imagine my disappointment when I tried this scent, and found that I really dislike it.

To me this smells very much like straight up curry powder. The opening was literally like having a pot of curry powder thrown all over me.

It's strong and pungent and could even be considered a sort of savory gourmand.

The immortelle and its spicy, curry like aroma undoubtedly dominates the fragrance, but the other notes listed here are incorrect.

According to the HAP website the notes are:

- Bois d'Immortelle
- Leather
- Hot Sand
- Ginseng

Underneath the curry-like pungency of the immortelle is the leather note, which gives it a slight musty and antiquated aroma...sort of like 3 week old food forgotten in the back of the refrigerator.

I've noticed a few other *curry* smelling perfumes recently, most notably Fougère Bengale by Parfum d'Empire, which I also didn't like. Perhaps it is my skin chemistry that warps them, but even from their vials, they didn't agree with me.

This is not the kind of fragrance I would want to wear, but still I have to admit that it's a well made perfume, and a good quality.

It's very potent stuff with great sillage and it outlasted 2 scrubbing attempts by me, sticking around for over 6 hours, in spite of my trying to wash it off. So good news for anyone who enjoys it.

I guess this perfume is a perfect example of how you can't please all of the people all of the time. I'm sure there are a lot of fans of this scent out there.

But it's not for me so I will stick with some of the Pierre Guillaume creations that I find much more beautiful.

Just two notes? I can't believe it. "Fareb" is loaded with spices very heavily.

Almost savory. Smells exactly like a sherried turkey I baked one Thanksgiving. Herbal and slightly tart/sweet like cranberry. Intruiging masculine fragrance in my opinion. Great for a chef!

This is one of the most unusual fragrance I know in my life. Very niche, very special. Pierre Guillaume created this masterpiece to show the feeling of the Middle East countries as far as I know. The dusty full of tobacco smell of coffee shops, where people are sitting on the leather sofas spending their lazy time. He catches perfectly the atmosphere. This is how everything goes in those places. Just close you eyes and imagine your vacation not in exclusive hotels on Sinai Peninsula but in old villages somewhere in Jordan, Syria or Egypt. However this is not the oriental type of fragrance it is rather the smell of places which will last in your memory for long time. Fareb is not very expensive and for sure worth its price. Fareb is in the group of my first five favorite fragrances ever created.

Pierre Guillaume was clever in the choice of FAREB. With only two main notes he was able to create a pleasant and complex fragrance. I think that due to the new extraction technique he used he was able to capture one of the beste imortelle aromas that i have already smelled. The imortelle here is as complex and strange as in other compositions where it`s the center. It has that fern, woody, burnt sugar aspects. But they aren`t heavy, they seem to be more airy here, more easier to be appreciated. The scent opens more intense, with a blast of spiciness and something bitter, and then it settles down to a soft sugar-hay impression, with ginger on the background acting like gingerbred for me. The scent also has a very subtle incense aroma that comes mixed in the sweet-ginger and burnt sugar impression. It`s enticing, but not so dramatic that you cannot wear it daily. A really well-balanced frag, one of the best in the line.

Just perfect. Immortal allure. The best of the "8".