Fumerie Turque Serge Lutens for women and men

Received my sample this morning and applied it immediately. I've been wearing this now for approximately 2 or 3 hours. Initially I get a blast of honey, (wow so much honey!) and tonka bean with just a hint of sweet tobacco. The smell is very reminiscent of hay... It's been like this for all this time. Only just now is the smokey tobacco starting to come through more with just a hint of leather and the honey beginning to recede slightly. It is starting to weaken however and the sillage, which was quite large on first application, has reduced considerably, but it is still noticeable. Shall have to see how the rest of this fragrance pans out...

EDIT: 3-4 hours.

The honey is still a predominant component to this perfume, casting its influence over the leather and smoke, however now the rose has finally started to come through - the moment I've been waiting for! It's definitely a beautiful fragrance, I don't want it to end...

sorry for my english!!heard today, just sprayed always try to wait twenty minutes before smelling and preventing injury and not receive the shock of wood on which I have many expectations. After four hours now, I can say that it is a pleasant building in the style of Lutens but I have yet to study it, I agree with the reviewer who compared it to jazz, hard fragrance, very dense with notes...I will keep under observation ..

All I can add is that for me Fumerie Turque is an excellent conforting winter and WE perfume that feels a little trashy in the beginning. I can't wait until the heart opens half an hour later with warm leather and rose. Usually I hate rose in perfume but this one is delicate and makes the whole smoky leather effect so pleasant and warming. Lasting power is amazing (more than 12 hours). However I never wear it out of home. It's too strong on my skin. It's not a perfume for buziness meetings when I would prefer wearing Cuir de Russie layered with Feminité du bois, both more elegant than Fumerie Turque. This one goes with a self confident hippy outfit...

Well, let me share my experience with Fumerie:

- My wife told me it is a smell of an past due perfume, a female perfume of roses, a fragrance that was bought 115 years ago + a strong smell of an ASH TRAY that was never cleaned.

- My co-worker hates the perfume because it smells a strong smell of GLYCERINE used in fog-machines at nightclubs.

- I like it a lot because:
=> Its uniqueness.
=> Another name could be OLD CURTAINS OF THE BURLESQUE CABARET.
=> It has good sillage and excellent longevity.
=> Fumerie Turque REALLY BRINGS Turkish Cigar Store.

- I can wear it only when I go walk alone or when I am reading something at my library...

Been wearing this today. While I'm impressed with it in the abstract, I'm not falling in love with it. It's well built, clearly high-quality, and is very nice from initial application all the way through drydown. But it's rather sweet. Not in a sicky-sweet-candy kind of way, but in a "why are you trying to de-emphasize the tobacco?" way. The honey and vanilla are great, but IMO they're just too much, and they push it over the line from "tobacco with a sweetener" to "sweetened tobacco". I (think I) totally grok what SL is going for here, and it's laudable and expertly executed. I just prefer my tobacco with more kick, I guess!

When I was little, I would sometimes crack open my father's little humidor to take a peek at his cigars. Fumergie Turque reminds me very much of that. It's an earthy sweet smell, dried tobacco leaf. The leather is the next thing I notice, and the honey is very subtle on me.

I wore this today while outside raking leaves and it seemed to fit. The longer it's on my skin the more I enjoy it. While it is pleasant and complex, I don't picture myself wearing this in public very often.

Well, after trying this I can honestly say it was a huge disappointment for me.
Really hoped SL would come up with something better than this...
It smells more of an unpleasent incense smell to me and I guess i'm not an incese type.
Plus, even though it's quite strong, smells more feminin than masculin in my opinion.

*********. With respect to All *********

I bought the bottle and I have different opinion to what being written about fumerie turque.

Cons:
1) Top note is very unusual smell, just imagine eating honey in a room full of smoke. Yuk
2) The base note is powdery and smells like ladies makeup. This is pros for ladies.
3) The smell has no defined character, very dynamic. Need very long time to reach the base note. This might be pros for ppl like long dynamic scent.

Pros:
1) Nothing comes immediately to my mind, let me think for a while.
2) Extremely unique scent. Can't think of it's duplicate or similar one.
3) Very strong projection, very noticeable.
4) Quality raw ingredients.
5) Even if you are sitting alone, you feel you are with a woman. A woman with lot of makeup on. LoL, sorry I am being honest.

Small advice=======> don't make a blind buy. Spray a sample and wait till the next day.
Actually you may luv it as many do. Everyone seems luving it except me and my wife :)

oh, last info ************ it is sooooo feminine ***************

I so wanted to find this for a while, and a couple months ago I managed to find it at Barney's. The good news was that they had it, though it was the last bottle and opened. I tried a sample and within minutes I was completely captivated by this.

It was the sweet smell of honey and spices along with tobacco, and really captures the essence of a hookah bar. This was the most robust yet sweet smell I could imagine, a truly gourmand tobacco scent. The combination with tonka bean, suede, rose, spices, juniper berries and red currant is one of a kind. This is a simply gorgeous and elegant scent, reminiscent of a gentleman's club with worn leather chairs the the smell of fresh tobacco from a pipe.

What an adventure! This is a fragrance that will have you smelling your wrist all day, reminding you and transporting the wearer to a fabulous journey.

I received a sample from The Perfumed Court this Friday and have given it a test-drive for a couple of days, it's one I'm definitely going to have to get. I love the tobacco top-note, it's very recognizably tobacco without (at least on me) being "dirty ashtray, stale cigarrette smoke" tobacco. It's a gorgeous tobacco opening that develops into a sweet without being candied or cloying heart, with the signature SL drydown. I find does not project very far on me, stays pretty close to the skin. It's not overpowering or heavy. I'm a woman and I'd have no problem wearing this. The opening kinda/sorta reminds me of what Shalimar's tobacco note used to be.

Fumerie Turque is one of my top 5 frags. I use this very sparingly because it is no longer available in the USA. It is very smoky and lucious on my skin. I absolutely love the drydown on myskin. It is a noticeable, smokey tabacco scent that is better than at first spritz and the porcess to that point.

Not expensive considering what this scent does for me. Just 3 days ago, I was getting out of my car on a breezy day and a woman walking by, stopped, turned around and said; "You smell great!" It made my day and I fell in love with this gem all over again.

I respect this fragrance deeply, but I don`t think I will walk around smelling like sweet tobacco and honey..

Hi.

A sensual symphony.FUMERIE TURQUE is intensely carnal with a lively hint of sophistication.It has character and charm.Strong and Exotic woods perfume that reminds me a Oriental-Woody.Modern yet timeless.Warm,Unique,Classy,Rich, Erotic,Intriguing,Smoky, Expensive,Sweet and Luxurious.

Turkish rose and red currant blend with juniper accord over a spicy and rich tobacco while a purely sensual base is provided by notes of patchouli,smoky suede,vanilla,honey and a blend of exotic woods.It will pierce in a nice way and when you wear it everyone comments about how great you smell.

It smells great on a man.Excellent for Evenings and Romantic events in the WINTER.If you are looking for unique,enticing and intoxicating perfume that sets you apart from all the others prevalent on the market today,then FUMERIE TURQUE is the one for you.I highly recommend this EDP,you wont regret it if you have a mighty and mature character.

Sillage?Ok.

Longevity?Excellent on my skin.

Thank You SERGE LUTENS

8/10

Initially I get the smoke in abundance. I love smoky fragrances, especially CB I Hate Perfume's Fire from Heaven, so I was pleased with the initial scent. The dry down was rather unusual, the perfume became more spicy and I started to detect hints of cumin. I couldn't help but wish for the initial scent to continue as it was. Fumerie Turque is extremely longlasting, though sillage is quite subtle throughout.

Come on baby light my fire :-) *pfff* *pfff*

Fumerie Turque is the smokiest frag I have ever smelled and I adore it.
There is a huge difference between slightly smoky and full-blast smoky. FT is the latter without the shadow of a doubt.
Cigar was mentioned earlier and it is true. Pipe-tobacco smells different and so do cigarettes.

It is the kind of smoke you encounter in gloomy bars late at night, the jazz club image fits perfectly here.

On me FT develops only with a hint of sweetness, honey or beeswax remain in the very background, if noticeable at all. It is plain smoke lingering and sending me an association of the long-gone film noire era.

Fumerie Turque is Duke Ellington´s "Harlem Nocturne" for the nose. Sultry, gloomy, bohemien and addictive....it is the kind of scent that both Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart would have loved to wear.

Just for the record : I am still a non-smoker but loving this nevertheless.

My first thought was 'oh, god, it smells like I just lit a cigar', so this could be offensive to some noses!

The overwhelming note throughout is smoke, tho with different accords surfacing in combination throughout.

Initially, a sweet tobacco alongside the smoke likens one's personal atmosphere to that of a refined gentleman's lounge. I imagine the type of scent that would have greeted Jack in the the Titanic had he have ditched Rose after dinner and joined the other men in the smoking room for cigars, brandy, and congratulating themselves on being 'masters of the universe'.

Later I wondered if I just smelt like I'd been standing down wind from a bon fire, ... but no it is more refined than that, but I hope that gives an idea of just how smoky we are talking about here.

As it dries down the sweetness of the tobacco gives way to what I would describe as a coffee liquer, or even coffe beans in dark chocolate. (I know that is not in the notes, but that is how it smells to me.)The smokiness becomes very mellow at this point and blends more smoothly with the base notes than the top notes.

I'm really liking the dry down here, but not loving the opening. Either way tho, not something I would wear again.

Although touted as unisex, I would call this very definately masculine - and too much for a woman imo.

Edit - btw, I see it has wore off quickly on some people, ...I tho could still smell this on my skin 24 hours later. Huge sillage too - Definately a walk through scent I think.

Pure Pleasure...
pure, Rich pleasure in a bottle.
Sweet, Intoxicating Exotic Tobacco laced with Tonka Bean and Honey and Leather.
I want to say sooo much more ....
but it would just be repetitive to what everybody has been saying about this fragrance....
Go out and BUY IT!!!
You'll be glad you did ...
That Simple.....!!

Fumerie Turque Notes:
Corinthian Raisins from Greece,
Rare Hawaiian Organic White Honey, Turkish Rose Oil, Egyptian Jasmine, Smoked Leather, Beeswax, Balkan Tobacco from CYPRUS, Peru Balsam from El Salvador,Patchouli,Tonka Bean from French Guiana, Styrax,
Juniper Berry oil.

Just a yummy scent all around .....

When I first bought it, I was disappointed because it was not as good as I remembered it. I wore it nonetheless, but the more I wore it the more I liked it. After a week of feeling so and so about it, I started really liking it. Now, a month after my purchase, this has become my HG and my most used perfume. I can't say how much I love this perfume: it's cosy, calming, serene and addictive without being sweet or cloying. I can't stop smelling my wrist while wearing this and it lasts and lasts all day, although it stays close to the skin all the time. All I can smell is tobacco and vanille and just maybe a hint of honey. It's certainly not the most feminine of smells, but being a person who doesn't like to smell like others do or as others would expect me to (I certainly look like a florals' person) I find this my ideal perfume. The only other perfumes that have moved me as much and stuck with me for months were Passage d'Enfers and Ambre Fetiche.

Definitely worth trying more than once, since it might require some time to get used to. Surprisingly too, others have liked it on me from the start, as it reminds them of an elegant, classy and very slightly masculine soap. This is all I wanted the Chergui to be, which alas is way too sweet for me to love.

When I wear Fumerie Turque I think of Tom Waits. In my imagination, this is his perfume of choice. Smoky, melancholic, decadent, a bit difficult like jazz sometimes can be.

This is beautiful, a magnificent variation on smoke.

Listen to anything by mr Waits, because that is how this perfume smells.
BEAUTIFUL!

I sampled this one yesterday, and liked it well enough. It's a complex melange of notes that are sweet, fruity, a little smokey and leathery and foody, with quite a bit of rose at the center. Unfortunately the scent didn't last very long, a few hours at most. I like my perfumes to have strong base notes that linger on my skin all day, but Fumerie Turque seems to be all about making a grand entrance and leaving shortly thereafter. This one will have to get another trial.

I know balsam is not listed, but balsam is totally what I get from the drydown. Ironically, the balsam is what led me to loving this one.

When i smelled this, it was if I were in a gentleman's wood-paneled library, sitting on a vintage leather sofa as old books slowly released the scent of a recently smoked pipe.

Gorgeous scent journey... not certain if I'd like to wear this one yet, or if I'd rather smell it on my boyfriend. And I'm a big Tom Ford fan for wearing myself... so I'm not shy about 'masculine' scents... just unsure if smelling like a pip-smoked, wood paneled library leather sofa is my thing LOL

I think Fumerie Turque is one of the most beautiful creations ever.

Beautiful accords of juniper and chamomile at the top are then joined by the sweet yet bright fruity note of currants that deepen further as the scent progresses to rich notes of tobacco, patchouli, honey, suede and styrax.

Magnificent, absolutely MAGNIFICENT!

I finally found a Serge Lutens scent that likes me! I have tested so many, but they all start out nice and then almost disappear. The descriptions of this one intrigued me, even tho my husband and I are life-long non-smokers. But it doesn't really smell of tobacco, just a spicy, smoky scent. Doesn't seem to change much with the dry down, stays strong and interesting for hours. A winner, we both agreed.

I do enjoy smoking water pipe (hookah) once in a while, and the top notes of Fumerie Turque is so realistic that I even feel the taste of pulverised charcoal in my mouth. Very smoky, interesting and still both soft and lingering opening. I feel like I´ve just enjoyed a great, tast turkish dinner and ends the feast with smoking hookah and eat loads of turkish bakery, baklava and much to much of turkish delight, loukhoum. I´ve sit back on soft, velvet pillows and there is candles and insence burning and gold laced glasses filled with hot and sweet turkish tea. Like being a part of romatic and adevntourus orientalic story, like Thousand and one nights, maybe... but not as good as Sherazadeh to tell stories, even tough Fumerie Turque help my imagination a lot on the way.

Have you tried it? No? What are you waiting for, get a samples asap!

Fumerie Turque is a velvet jacket after a clumsy evening in a very smokey bar. The scent of the smoke and a soft pink musk and incense perfume left on the fibres, along with an accidently tipped up tray of fresh cigarette ash and the dried splashes of straight rum from someone's glass after being bumped into. Oddly enough, it's rather gorgeous. Especially on the drydown, it's a soft incense. Reminds me a little of Cartier Le Baiser du Dragon, but not as starkly sweet and with a little added huskiness.

Sweet tobacco and wood dries through to a strange sharp tobacco stage into a smokey, leather vanilla with spice and resins. It's stunning. It tells a story as it dries down, one of the most layered and well blended perfumes I've come across in years. It's not floral or foody in any way, not pretty at all, but it is immensely compelling and a compulsive wrist-sniffer. One of my all time favorites.

I thought that Caron's "Aimez-moi" has the most beautiful tabbaco note ever - well, I was wrong. Fumerie Turque is neatly oscillating between honey's sweetness and tobacco's vulgarity. A strong candidate for my signature scent.

I'm dying to try this one. I tried SL's Miel du Bois and absolutely loved it. I love any scent that has honey in it.