Bakir Long Lost Perfume for women

Does anyone know how the Ava Luxe version of Bakir compares with Long Lost Perfume's Bakir? I see they've started making an EDP as well as the previous EDT at LLP, but nothing I've tried really compares to the original. Any suggestions?

Does anybody know any fragrance that smells close to Bakir? It was such a unique perfume and it's been stuck in my brain since the 1970's. Nothing else seems to compare.

Bakir was my first love. I fell for it at 20 -- I bathed myself in it, rinsed my hair in it, loved everything about it. I adored it until it was discontinued (with no notice, leaving me with a small purse-sized metal flask with persian-inspired decorate, which I still have).

My first husband, Afghani, laughed his head off when I told him the name of it -- apparently, in Dari, ba = of, and kir = penis. Though, that's likely what we all want from our perfume, isn't it?

I bought the long-lost, but it's just not the same. Maybe I've changed, or my skin's changed, but it's blah. I haven't loved a fragrance like that since...

I'm sniffing the original as I type, my own bottle from around 1980. So little is left that I list it as "had" rather than "have".

There's an "old" smell of deep forest in fall or spring and the sour animalic sharpness of forest creatures both big and small does definitely run through it.

Original Bakir is like the thick dark stuff that's left in the bottom of an old & much-loved bottle of perfume. The color of Long Lost's juice is way too pale compared to the original but Juliette's review sounds as if she sniffed the real thing! I really LIKE it and I agree with her description.

Kterhark is right: send for a vial of the original juice, for the experience. Then do as I'm going to and get a bottle of the new stuff to actually wear. There's nothing quite like it around anymore and it seems a shame to let this become a memory when there's new juice that comes so very close.

About the "Long Lost Version":
A total failure for me. Greenish, but quickly morphing into an animalistic, off-putting kind of scent.
It's an incomparable fragrance indeed, incomparably "messy" - with overtones of urine and other bodily fluids (no, it's NOT similar to Secretions manifiques, btw). As ever so often with scents I dislike, this one stays on and on and on - for at least 48 hs.
One of the weirdest and most unpleasant olfactory experiences I had so far (and my God, I've smelled my way through almost everything now). Curiosity can sometimes lead you to "places" you wish you'd never entered... in retrospect - that's how I feel about the money I wasted on BAKIR, which was a blind buy. It has now found a new home in Poland and I'm glad there are people around who enjoy this fragrance. It is indeed unique and absolutely original.

(ORIGINAL REVIEW, not Long Lost's version)

I've been on a kick lately to try discontinued, classic fragrances, and Bakir was one I chose because of the notes. I htink this was marketed to men, but for the first time I can say this is truly unisex.

im really loving this one. (Sample bought from The Perfumed Court) to me it wears 'high', as in , I don't get the heavier, earthy base notes. It also wears 'wet', and I"m not sure what spice is causing this but there is a definite bite happening here.

this is plain classy. I'm not sure if i would wear this in a conservative setting, this is more for my private appreciation. There is nothing I can compare Bakir to because it is unique, and considering I've now sampled over 250 perfumes that is saying something.

Eventually I will try the Long lost version to see how it compares to the original. But if you are reading this as a perfume lover interested in something noteworthy, by all means shell out the $10 to give this a try.

This makes a great oriental for the summer. I've worn it during 90 degree muggy days and it was great. I don't really consider it to be very "dark". The raspberry top note carries thru all the way to the end on me. Normally, I hate any cologne with raspberry in it, but this is very well done and it is not a fruity cologne in any sense of the word. Very unique, a must-try.