Aziyade Parfum d`Empire for women and men

one me, the only thing i can smell is cumin. while i like the spice in my food, i do not want to smell of it, so this one is not a keeper for me, glad i only got a sample.

Parfums d'Empire AZIYADE is a woody oriental which opens slightly sour but soon thereafter smooths out into a rather spicy, slightly sweet composition suitable for lads and lasses alike. The wood notes are dark and seductive, and there is much less “pulverized incense effect” than in WAZAMBA. Actually, the wood seems more like oil-burnished mahogany or cherry or teak than carbonized incense. There is a bit too much cumin (and carob?) for my taste, but I'm sure that many oriental lovers will appreciate this creation.

Post-Christmas I had a week of sniffing delicate, light & airy waif-like scents - full of whimsy & sweet floral breaths....& then I cracked open my test vial of Aziyade from Nanano & it almost blew my head off!

Aziyade took me straight back to Christmas...not my festive week but one amped & ramped up to theatrical standards - red & gold, velvet, jewels, spangle, spices, candied fruits, brown sugar, ... eat up eat up!.....mulled wine, burning logs, pot pourri, fancy linens, oranges studded with cloves, port, plums in brandy...pass the indigestion tablets!

This scent is a mini disconected movie: drift past a crumbling theatre: old-fashioned waxy red lipstick, hot lamps, scented candles, greasepaint, divas. Now skip back to a saccharine childhood & add some super-sonic Big Red Cinnamon chewing gum, a can of flat cherry cola & a plastic doll head.....turn the volume up, up, up & you will experience the whirlwind of the over-confident Aziyade.

If she were a woman she would be large & sexy, with red lipstick, an artsy scarf, slightly drunk, bejewelled & festooned in glamour from head to toe, the life & soul of the party, dahhhrling, mwah, mwah.

But, for all its overt opulence & quirky overload I ended up with a soft spot for Aziyade. She is fun. Ok, she tends to out-wear me but I like her punchy attitude, daring me to be loud, proud & dramatic.

Like fancy dress, it is better to be whole-hog than half-cocked.

This is definitely my favourite scent from the line.
Slightly similar to Wazamba, which for me was unfortunately too heavy and spicy and abundant in the notes I am not all that fond of.

Aziyade is really delicious, fruity-incense-spice. Actually now when we are so close to Christmas, it really fits in with the festive spirit. The first part here is all about fruit, cinnamon and cardamon, fruit dipped in hot syrup, spiced up and served hot. Then we get the lovely incense and vanilla and earthy patchouli. So not all that foody, but definitely had got the gourmand accords in there.

The lasting power and sillage are very good (4 hours and counting).

This is an extraordinary scent. It starts with a lot of lovely fruity notes. But after a few seconds I smell sweat. I think it's the cumin. A pinch of cumin is good (especially in oriental dishes) but not such a lot in a perfume.

out of all the 12 samples I had from this perfume house , this is the one I am indefinably going to buy
I cant add anything else as all the positive comments has been said already
I love it Its just beautiful.
I am not as experienced as you guys but this is just heavenly

I am slowly working my way through all the Parfum d'Empire. So far, each and every one is well crafted, using quality ingredients, and resulting in rather serious concoctions.

This one however, is a different animal altogether.
It falls within the gourmand family.
It's actually a fun and frivolous creation, very reminiscent of a spicy Tutti Frutti bubblegum, if there were such things.

Very unexpected, but joyful, pleasant, and great for days when life isn't to be taken too seriously.
The result, I feel, is a sweet syrup of plum, with a slight acidic edge, (probably coming from the pomegranate), sprinkled with a light dusting of spices and some smooth vanilla.

A true gourmand fragrance, for the brave woman to wear. Not sure if I would feel comfortable wearing it in public as it is very heavy on the cumin which can be interpreted by the bystander as that unwashed sweaty armpit smell, but I am enjoying wearing it at home. The cumin mixed with the stewed fruit in syrup smell makes it VERY different from anything else in my fragrance wardrobe.

Whenever a reviewer says that a particular fragrance makes them happy, I tend to cringe and fear that the perfume in question is of the cutesy, annoying and uninspired sort. Well, today the joke seems to be on me, because Aziyade does indeed make me happy. I'm not jumping for joy or smiling feeble-mindedly at strangers, but it just does make my day slightly better. The plum combined with vanilla and cinnamon are just sweet enough to make me think of a delicious dessert.

Since to my experience most men love an authentically edibly sweet perfume on a woman, I'd say there's a fair number of blokes out there who would even consider licking Ann Robinson if she wore something like this.

Great travel campfire in pine mountain wood - on me. Casts a spell

My signature fragrance… best of the best. Nothing is like this masterpice. Sweet, fruity, juicy and FULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of spices. Mysterious like trip to the orient.

I am instantly intrigued by the description and must sample... I wonder will it transport me to mysterious, sensual wonders of the mind's eye? Let's see. . . At first application I am smitten. I savor this fragrance for at least 10 minutes before I remember I'm supposed to be writing a review. Ok, I am intrigued but have to reapply as I have missed the opening. (Forgive me) At second application I stay focused enough to tell you I am mesmerized by the spices. I never saw the pomegranate . If it was there it was just a whisper. I can imagine a simmering pot of sugar and water, vanilla, cinnamon, shredded fresh ginger, candied orange rinds, (not marmalade-y), dates and prunes. I guess that's the dry plum mentioned. Add vanilla and cinnamon to taste. As these are melding together the bad boys patch, musk, incense and frankincense make their appearance, softly blending with the simmering pot ingredients. So artfully blended the lines between, top note to dry down are lovingly blurred.
Applause! Applause! Mr. Corticchiato, take a bow!

This was my favorite out of all the samples I recently ordered. Spicy, warm scent full of cinammon. To me this is a comfort scent, perfect for cold weather and easily wearable all day long. The lasting power is quite good, as with all PdE perfumes but is not as loud as others. It does remind me of Frapin 1270 as another reviewer mentioned, but I like this one better, because it's not as sweet. Cinammon and spice lovers should definitely try this one.

love this perfume,to that's what perfume is all about - adventure, exotic, mistique... Something so different from boring everyday stuff you get on highstreet. Love it

Being obsessed with exotic Eastern scents, I first sampled this one because of its name and story. But I realized that the notes really complement each other wonderfully and though this is very sweet and sticky, there is a slight darkness, which makes this one of my favorites.

I love it, but mostly upon spraying it. and the first fifteen minutes or so. It's just delicious and sexy, seems to fade away quite quickly and does not linger. i wish it did. I've been a Magie Noir wearer for years, and this just stole my heart.

In Aziyade is as abundance of oriental fruits and spices, that it reels in head. I feel, as if fly on me nectar orange, peaches, pomergranate, I feel, as if I have charged my body coriander, pepper, caravay. Scent is baroque, is like smell Dionizos drink . It very abundant , hedonist, heavy, joyful, full oriental luxury perfume. Vey thick , notes are crowded. Is clear smell of sweat ( cummin?), but is not unpleasant smell. It can be erotic perfume, as framer author of smell Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, though for me more erotic is a bit hard, no too pleasant, for example - mysterious Mitsouko. But what - problem taste, but Aziyade is fine, because is juicy, very color and unusually cheerful. I do not know , if I will buy Aziyade, because it's loud and provoking. But is very fascinatis...

When I first sprayed this for at least 20 minutes or so, I thought, why does it smell like a nutty lemonade? I think it might eb the crystallised dates which, especially when first sprayed, give it that 'fizzy' scent. Anyway after an hour or so out come the cinnamon and other spies and this combined with the subtle sweetness of the opening notes, smells lovely. It has impressive sillage. I don't have a problem with the cumin. As for the vanilla/patchouli musk drydown, well it's there but only very faintly in the background. But still it lends a nice deep sensuality to the blend. It doesn't smell totally unique to me, it reminds me a bit of Sushi Imperiale (which I also have) and Frapin 1270. (I've never smelt Dinner by Bobo). All in all a nice sensual oriental fragrance. Luckyscent's description is, once again, spot on.

Why pomegranate, why??? It would be just great without it. Resionus, with dried plums, very much like Femme Rochas EdP (not EdT), but that pomegranate makes it smells like Coca Cola poured over dried plums.
Still very good, but without that Coca Cola note, it would be really perfect.
Btw, I don`t detect any cumin here, but I don`t get it in Femme either.