Dzing! L Artisan Parfumeur for women

Dzing is like Slipping on a Skintight Leather Catsuit
The Leather note of Dzing give off a Fluid and Supple
wetness like Second Skin, I detect a good amound of Civet which is missing in the note Pyramid Giving it
a Dirty Animalistic Edge,

As Dzing Dries Patches of Musk comes Steeping though
the Crevises of Wild Ox Assaulting your senses into
Primal and Unhibited Territory Pure and Unadulterated,

Incense seems to be Overshadowed or Upstaged by the Leather Note, but Supports it's self
by being a Mysterious and Esoteric Underpining of Dzing!

Rarely Fragrances Conjors me to a sense of Metal Masturbation Dzing happens to be the only one,

I Whoud describe Dzing! As a Monk with Sexual Distractions His Represed Fantasy of an Image of a

Woman in a Skintight
Black Leather Cat Suit Her throne is a Glossy Black
Leather Sofa

as she reclines
he can hear the Crinkle of the Leather as he get aroused as he Slowly Carresses her thighs and she
slowly leans over gentily kisses him then he's Awoken
to Reallity!

Dzing Is Sprituality and Sex

Remember what a revelation caramel with sea salt was? Or how when you're making chocolate chip cookies, the teaspoon of salt can't actually be tasted, but works to enhance the sweetness and creaminess? The same dynamic is at work in Dzing! There's nothing as obvious as 'salty' or 'savoury', but there is the suggestion of saltiness somewhere in this blend. I love vanilla, but am turned off by straightforward vanillas - they too often are bland, boring, overly sweet and flat. For me, vanilla only really comes alive when it is skillfully tempered with other notes - it needs a proverbial pinch of salt. In this case, as in another favourite, Black, it is leather. The spices add depth without overwhelming. There's some hay floating around in here as well. Yes, Bvlgari Black is cheaper. When I do a side by side, though, the artistry and complexity of Dzing! is obviously superior and the vanilla sings. For me, it's worth the extra cash.

grass? horse manure? rubber? It's amazing reading all these reviews, and all perfume reviews in general. It goes to show you just how different everyone's skin chemistry is...so interesting to read about everyone's experiences with the same thing. This week has been the twilight zone for me. I've always hated vanilla, I'm a broken record about it. But this week..I've found 3 perfumes in a row that all have vanilla as a main or kinda strong note..and I love them all! What is going on here?!!? tides are turning! worlds are colliding! ok, enough dramatics. I was given a sample of Dzing! from a friend. This is a gorgeous vanilla leather...more like tonka bean. But it's not only leather, I'm also getting something kinda oriental spicy..buried under the vanilla and leather. ginger? this is great, full bottle worthy. I could foresee this being in my top ten of favorites, but I really need to spend more time with it to be totally sure. Now, to save for a full bottle! About the leather:it's not a loud obnoxious leathery smell...even tho I like those. This is a subtle strange non conventional leather smell & it's 2nd in command. The star of this scent is the tonka bean and something that makes this creamy and slightly spicy. The leather note makes it all come together to make a gorgeous perfect perfume. I am so impressed by this.

Just received a generous sample of this one and had to try it out immediately.
I don´t get synthetic and the manure notes are in the background for me.
It´s mostly leathery woods sweetened by tonka.
I am still deciding whether this is FB worthy but it is def. growing on me more and more the longer I wear it.

The first thing out of the sample vial is a huge rush of white musk, which within seconds is joined by a distinct note of steaming-fresh herbivore manure. I have to hand it to the perfumer who came up with that realistic accord of cow or elephant dung. It’s quite the opening to an EdT that within 15 minutes dries down to a light manure note accompanied by fruity vanilla, white musk, and the cardboard-y smell of IsoE Super.

Sillage is moderate to strong, and because of the musks the fragrance lasts all day and more on skin - really remarkable for an EdT from this house. After about an hour the manure is gone, except as a remote undercurrent that comes and goes, and the main theme is a musky, woody, slightly fruity and leathery scent with a character all its own. I really like this phase a lot.

After the initial parade of the defecating large hay-eating animals, I would not readily associate Dzing with a circus, but it’s an original and enjoyable perfume, in some ways almost conventionally pretty but not quite. I suppose that really captures the glitz of the circus, which looks pretty on the surface but underneath is not pretty at all. I would say that Dzing is more a fascinating intellectual exercise than a perfume I’d want to wear often, but I certainly appreciate Olivia Giacobetti’s artistry in creating it, as well as the fact that it’s such a radical departure from her usual light, watercolor floral scents. A 21-elephant salute to the perfumer!

Have you seen The NeverEnding Story?

Do you remember, when the boy (Bastian) was riding a mystic animal?

When they where flying above the mythical land of Fantasia?

If yes, u know what I'm feeling. This scent is also mystic. And also heroic. Saves you from the gray weekdays! I recommend it! It has a very strange scent, i don't say u'll love it, but a good choice to escape to Fantasia!

Uniqueness: 9/10
Erotica: 6/10
How i like it: 9/10

Good for a first date? If you tell about The NeverEnding Story (Bastian, Atreyou and the others) sure! If not be care with this scent, bit divisive.

There's something magic about this perfume. It really DOES smell like being at a circus or fairground, horse manure and all. It reminds me of Bvlgari Black too.

What I don't like here is the rubbery/"synthetic" quality. I had to wash it off so I can't say much more about it. If you like Bvlgari Black this may be for you, but if you haven't sampled that one or this one, I suggest starting with BB, since it's easier to find and a lot less expensive, as well as being more "accessible" to most peoples' sensibilities (though I'm a stickler for "naturalness" so I can't deal with these kinds of fragrances).

Thanks to Yambal I’ve got my hands on a lovely sample of Dzing!.

Dzing! is one of those perfumes that I know I should love according to the notes and end up discovering more good surprises upon real-life sniffing.

Dzing! starts with a burst of nearly scentless quite woody sweet smell with a burnt nuance, which reminds me a bit of Blvgari Black, but Dzing! Is much less rubbery-burnt.
After a short-lived quasi-chai sweetness comes and goes for about 2, or 3 minutes, Dzing! settles and smells quite quiet, with a woody sweet wild woody fields smell. This makes me think of absinth without the alcohol smell, plus something rounder in the woods family and a pinch of sweet spice like cinnamon without the cinnamon personality.

Worth trying!

A disappointment for me. Lots of very sharp grass, followed by too much ginger and a little wood underneath. No, didn't like it at all and had to give my bottle away!

The sensual sweetness of Dzing! is specific, complex, 'niche' and intimate. It is not just a sweet candy or floral nectar.
It's a melange of caramel, (milky-vanilla) and musky carnality; (like the finest suede, warmed by body heat), with subtle floral powder, characteristically moist and sour, spiced upp with a pinch of ash and smoke from sooty, smoked raw skin.
It sounds exaggerated, and even 'dramatic', but it is familiar, safe, and contrary to appearances, very harmonious scent.
Dzing! sometimes is innocent, 'infantile' cozy. But more often shows his mature sensual, even "erotic" (luckily not 'physiologically ugly') face. I must confess that Dzing! happens to be so sensual and suggestive, that sometimes I feel a little
embarrassed when I got it on my skin...

This is a lovely, subtle fragrance which (as everyone says) smells of vanilla, hay, sawdust and books. I just cannot understand the 'fecal' descriptions as to my nose, it's anything but. Instead, it's a very wearable, tame, friendly, inoffensive thing.

It does bear a slight resemblance to L'air de Rein but without the musty base and the potency; this is my only concern as I can't help thinking the perfume could have been ramped up a bit in the perfumer's lab - it's pretty weak and practically non-existent on the skin after an hour or so.

Tonight, I felt the need to spray Dzing. I will try to describe it, through this craving of mine... I wanted sth warm, spicy, risky, special... Of all the perfumes that I know, only Dzing would satisfy me. Too bad I don't have it!

Edit: but now I do have it! It's the best leather scent in my opinion. The animalic saddle leather blended with the most delicious caramel and tonka combination, the spiciness of ginger, create a sexy but also comforting and complicated effect, being rich but yet ethereal, sweet but not gourmand. Giacobetti at her best!

Another trippy one. You're sitting right in the front row of the circus. You can smell the animals, the cedar chips, and fresh hay on the floor in front of you where they are lined up waiting to perform. You can smell the crowd: hushed and breathless, united in their nervous anticipation and awe under the hot lights. You can smell the bag of crackerjack that rests on your lap and the worn cracked leather seat you're sitting on. An olifactory magic trick!

At a first thought and smell Dzing can be considered as a nice and quite simple vanilla/leather scent. Sober, honest and well crafted, but if you go deeper you'll probably get in touch with an incredibly visionary fragrance recalling of huge antique libraries filled with well kept ancient leather bound books lit by casement windows, mouldy walls and the dust fluttering in slices of lights. This is a very evocative perfume that everybody should at least try as there is only one like it. Chapeau to Olivia Giacobetti.

Rating: 9.5/10 (I don't give it a full 10 just because of the weak lasting power)

Dzing! Just as you hear the name of the perfume! It is the same with what you hear! Sharp and fire, full of adventure.
I imagined of African landscapes the moment I tried this on!!!!
I keep the memory of it, not going to buy this soon. Maybe next winter!!!
This is one of the best scents L Artisan has given so far.

Awesomeness is on fire! I'm really amused and delighted to read her reviews in which she pans fume after fume after fume, niche or not.

I have owned Dzing and Black for a long time, but haven't known what to say about the two of them.
Dzing shares some qualities with Bvlgari Black, but then again, it's completely different. Whereas Black is dedicated to rubber and the abundant vanillic drydown,

Dzing is a mix of envelopes while you lick the glue (just like Turin said), old books, saffron, and birch tar. Birch tar = the smell of Finnish summer cottage life; nightless nights, still lakes, self catched fish, and birch whisks used in sauna. To me, it's the cozy birch tar that adds the exclamation mark to Dzing!

The exclamation is well deserved, because one of my L'Artisan experiences include a person walking under the wind, nearly glued to me. There was a lot of space around so I suppose that after smelling this humorous perfume, something in her head went Dzing!

The only thing circus-like about Dzing is its terrific sense of humour.

How do you make black rubber, motor oil and caramel smell delicious, funny, surprising and comforting, all at once?

Ask Olivia!

The answer is in the bottle...

This whole fragrance makes me feel strangely nostalgic. I definitely get the Bandaid thing in the opening, but then it mingles with the sunny warmth of hay and horses and caramel, so that it stirs the most magical memories of childhood--the uninhibited, imaginative bygone days when we weren't afraid to dream out loud or take risks or spill our guts or love without condition to the moon and back. Yes, it is different, and yes, it takes some getting used to. But thank God for it. Sometimes, a perfume is not for anyone but yourself. Scents in general, even the crappy ones, have the ability to transport us, to carry us on an internal journey, which can be a very personal and exhilarating experience if we can just let go of that "what-everyone-else-thinks" mentality and chance the ride.

Does this really smell of a horse stable? Yes - initially - but in a good way. This soon gives way to the deepest, most sophisticated, expensive leather scent I have ever smelled. I adore Cuir De Russie so I did a comparison - Cuir de Russie is lighter, gentler and creamier. Dzing is unapologetically leather through and through. Fascinating and compelling.

UPDATE: the longer I wore this, the worse it smelled. I almost gagged. had to wash it off. I made my husband try it and he said the same thing - after half an hour it smells like poop. mixed with sweat and straw and staleness. icckkk!
Original Review:
well, I'll give this points for creativity and accuracy, but boy does it stink. It DOES smell like hay, leather saddles, sweat and circus animals, but who wants to smell like that? there is a little sweet candy thrown in for good measure, but it can't take away the smell of dirty circus animals (elephants?) in a cage of wet straw, with a good dose of sweaty leather. I am amazed that they could copy this smell so accurately, wow! demonstrates fragrance is an art form. but WHY would I want to smell like a stinky circus animal? puzzles me!

when i tried DZING! first time there wasn't any leather on me. Wood. Very intensive and warm. But i hoped leather so i was desapointed. But i tried it second time - in the morning after shower when my skin was warm and wet. And.. Wow !
it's true, new, soft leather. Iteresting, strong and a little bit rude, but very inviting and brave.
i agree that maybe it's not very female scent, becouse it's really very stong and intensive, but if your personality match with strong woody leather scent i think when it's most interesting and surprising perfume of that category.
lately the scent became softer : leather calmed down and ginger with musk took the top.

Really unique perfume with one minus - longevity is really bad :(

Sherapop is right on! How can Luca Turin love a fragrance that smells like Bandaids?? I get the same plastic note from Addict, also, but with less pungency. Dzing really is a "trying too hard" to be different fragrance. Sort of like Womanity in that regard. These houses keep trying to discover the next miracle fragrance and that is wonderful, but why does it seem like they produce their experiments and we, the public, are their guinea pigs?
Having said these harsh words, I must say that I love Olivia Giacobetti's other creations.

I guess that I fall more into the Bandaids than the "warm oily saddle encrusted with dung to which hay has clung" camp when it comes to L'Artisan Parfumeur DZING! I chuckled upon reading this on the manufacturer's card: "Pour que chaque jour soit un spectacle." So...that would be a rodeo? There would have to be some Bandaids on hand in the event of bucking bronco debacles, so it actually makes a lot of sense.

DZING! definitely boasts a creative combination of notes, and for that I'll agree that it's "interesting". As a perfume? Hmmm...that's a different story. I'm not a fan of rubber notes--whether in the form of tires or Bandaids--and although hay notes I sometimes love (Jean Patou 1000), I have yet to train my nose to appreciate the down and dirty smell of dung--not even with a touch of tonka and saffron. This is really marketed to women? Cela m'étonne. (Not that I'd necessarily want to smell it on a man...) Désolée.

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UPDATE: Okay, I just read the entry in The Guide. LT says DZING! smells like paper! Maybe he forgot to put the perfume on the paper strip he sniffed? He gives this 5 stars and writes, "L'Artisan Parfumeur is, for reasons unknown, planning to discontinue this marvel, so stock up." Ha! Let me break it down for you, Luca: women don't like to smell like Bandaids and dung.

I can honestly say I've never smelt anything like this before.... in a perfume. But I have experienced this smell before.
DZING is the smell of well oiled saddle leather mingled with the sweet auroma of horse sweat and stables. For all you horse lovers out there you will know what I mean! That wonderful smell that you inhale and can't get enough of. The smell you inhale when you kiss the soft nose of a horse you love. ( Yes I was mad about horses)
Yet DZING is also refined, gentle and intoxicating. To wear it is not to smell as if you've just mucked out the stables. Quite the opposite. It is the smell of someone who pulls up in a luxury car to watch the polo, sips wine, pats a horse from the winning team, then leaves, perhaps with a little manure caught in the heel of their boot....
Magic!!

My very first impression of Dzing! was olive brine. Which lasted for about a minute and was replaced by fresh ink, still moist and slowly melting into thick high quality paper. Then I get the sweet dry spices, and more of the sourish salty brine which by now is more like sweat. It is indeed very fleshy. Animalic. Dirty. By this time it's settled in my mind: if I had to describe this fragrance in one word it would be exactly this. Dirty. I see where some of the reviewers get those manure connotations, it does waft around in barely noticeable strings of aroma here and there throughout the whole performance of Dzing! All the less noticeable with time, until they disappear completely and make way for the smooth, sexy, very earthy drydown.
There is something else going on too, something slightly metallic that prevents this scent from becoming an odor is floating slightly above the rest of the notes. The lovely, inky olive brine never quite goes away too.
I must admit, this is the kinkiest, most indecent, raw stuff I've ever smelled on myself.

Very, very unique, but for me in a bad way. No, no I do not want to smell like this ever. For first 10 minutes it smells like beeswax, then settles to dirty leather with tobacco, just like one that bikers after a rough night could have. Very, very unique, but smelling like this? Really?

Yep leather and dung, then after an hour or so some slight sweetish vanilla comes out, but whatever, I don't wanna smell like this ever!

I love Dzing! I "get" the comparison to Bvlgari Black, which I also love, but can't wear, as Black is just too much for me, but Dzing! hits the spot. Odd, but entirely livable. I don't understand those who feel they need courage to wear it - though I certainly felt that way about B. Black. On the days I just don't know what scent to wear, when florals are too sweet, Dzing! is usually the perfect choice. It is excellent for the work environment, because to my mind it is subtle, dry and stays close to the skin. It is my husband's favorite scent on me and one of the only perfumes he has ever commented on without being asked. It is one of the few full bottles, I am sure to replace.

The first burst is a tobacco-leather note, the second is a wet hay scent that made me smile.

This is a scent on the masculine side of unisex - and I'd say it's intriguing and kind of sexy, in a "hey, let's go make out behind the barn" kind of way.

If I had to abstract my feelings about this fragrance, I'd simply say "saddle".
It's weird, but fascinating blend of sweet leather, sharp spices and strange animal/plastic notes. Similar to Tea for Two and absolutely outrageous.

Can't get enough.

More unisex than woman fragrance here. Leather, ginger and safran are the notes I detect for now. I like it more than Dzongkha. Yes it's weird but sexy and funny, but not for myself.


8/10

After reading everyone's comments about dung, with twisted fascination I jumped at an opportunity to try this fragrance. I'm quite relieved that it smelled nothing like dung on me. In fact, I am head-over-heels in love with this strange fragrance!

Off the cap, I smelled band-aids and a little ginger.

On my skin, I got notes of oily leather, hay, smokey incense, and ginger. I found it incredibly earthy and therapeutic. But I kept pressing my nose to my wrist, because the scent reminded me of something very familiar...

A rural ski lodge! Hot ski wax and smokey wood fire! I grew up with this smell, and having spent many hours waxing my skis in quiet solitude in the dead of winter, I am elated to find a scent that induces the same peaceful state of mind.

At times, I also detect a little rubber, and to be honest, I never knew rubber could smell so sexy. My mom even loves this fragrance on me. I can't wait to spend my hard-earned money on it.

So, I recieved this sample & admittedly only wanted to try it so badly because it has a saffron note amongst what I thought was a great mix of other notes to soften it down. Did I like it? I loved it! This is absolutely me.

My obsession with saffron: Safforanah is one of the nicknames I hold dear, because it's one of the nicknames my granny has for me. also, I like how saffron can cheerfully stain water that's why I put it in the boiling water before the teabag.

I prefer this over other saffron based fragrances I've used for its very balanced and caramely scent.

Elegant, yum, and definately not a horror movie!

Leather? Yes, and lots of it. Dung? No way. Cotton candy? Only in a drunkard's dream.

On me Dzing! moves in 3 stages: from wet leather, through damp wood flooring and finally to old books, unsweetened vanilla and leather. The best part for me is that under that intoxicating blend --for many hours -- there's a slight but constant flavor of the skin scent of the man who used to take me to all of those old bookstores in the damp and colorful days of autumn in upstate New York. Dzing! isn't just a fragrance, it's a haunting refrain of whatever memory it attaches to.

Dzing! doesn't smell pretty but it does smell very appealing. Sprayed on paper, Dzing! enhances the smell of paper - for me it's Old Books, specifically. Sprayed on my skin, Dzing! blends as it warms and becomes my least feminine AND least masculine leather... it's what I'd expect my dream-state animal self to smell like: it's me, much enhanced. A keeper, for sure.

asilverfire is right: It's very like Bulgari Black in a lot of ways. First on I get Tonka Beans. Immediately this is joined by tar. Then I get tonka, rubber and wood smoke. That changes to tonka and the smell of my clothes when I've been out on the motorcycle, which I think is exhaust. The whole thing ends up as tonka with faint whiffs of ozone, leather and exhaust. Very interesting experience, but not sure I could wear it as a perfume.

Smell of a stable, horse's fur, leather saddles with smell lollipops, sugar cotton, emerge fascinating, warm, joyful composition. But it's not easy scent. It can scare physiological, animal notes, but when it will accustom - wildness and it will feel candies, it is possible to fall in love in it. I already have fallen in Dzing , but when majority peoples wear completely other parfums, I'am not courageous else to wear Dzing, but this frantic smell so fascinates me ...

question, does anyone find similarites between this and tuscany per donna?

What I found most interesting about Dzing! was that after the first 30 minutes or so, I found it to be very similar to Bvlgari Black on my skin. I wasn't expecting that at all. The top notes are very different (Dzing has the earthy hay smell, BB has hot rubber), but after that - I couldn't believe how close they were to my nose. Dzing! is not quite as sweet, but the similarities are definitely there.

I like this, but I only wear it ever so often...especially when I want to feel like I'm outside at a county fair and not stuck in an office! :)

This is a glorious example of what a spirited perfumer can create when it does'nt have to work with uptight major brands executives that think only in profit numbers. Dzing is always beside me even if i don't wear it often, but it's like an old faithful friend. This odd leathery woody and ambergris salty and insulting creature shouldn't be discontinued! It's a shame!

An odd and oddly endearing perfume that, like the uber-serious boys I hopelessly yearned after most of my young life, seems somehow more substantial and worthwhile because of, not in spite of, its oddness. Whereas some reviewers liken the scent's opening notes to dung, I get a hallucinogenic triad of vanilla, novocaine, and band-aid. The drydown, rather than calling to mind hay as opined elsewhere, conjures for me osmotic impressions of high stacks of impossibly elegant stationery, or (even better) the rare books alcove of an old city library. Dzing!--the first oddball I have ever loved to finally love me back.

I have realise that I have cravings for this fragrance. Now there is only a few drops left in my sample, but I eventually have to get me a full bottle of it. I still don´t really like it, but I kind of love it... Sounds weird I guess? It´s like sushi, when I eat it I can sit thinking "oh, I am eating raw fish, do I really like it?" but then after a while I still have to go and eat moore sushi. (Maybe I will do, on monday or tuesday...?)

This is an odd fragrance. I kind of like it, even if it smell like I am surrounded by cows... (or elephants I imagine). If you can stand that odd smell of dung you notice that the leather in this fragrance is really nice, after a while, an hour or so, you can smell sawdust, cottoncandy, moore leather, something warm and spicy... All together a very well done fragrance, longlasting and unique. I think people either love it or hate it, I love it, but I am not sure I think it smells good!? It smells interesting, exciting, dirty and very weird (as mentioned above). Not an everyday fragarance, but something to put on once in a while when tired of nice, soft powdery florals and seductive but ordinary orientals.

i agree with aiona, this smells like dung for the first hour. dung and rubber....then you get the drydown which smells like sweet hay. odd. maybe it would smell better on someone with different chemistry.

Wow. This really does smell like dung. Just initially, though. But really. Honestly. The first hour, it smells like LEATHER and DUNG.

And then after an hour or so, you've stopped wading through the cow pens at the fair, and you've moved on to the food booths where it's all cotton candy and funnel cakes -- sandalwoody amber and vanilla.

What a weird fragrance.