03 Lonestar Memories Tauer Perfumes for women and men

I agree with Mr. Doody, this is so strange, so interesting...and I can't quite decide whether I love, or hate it. The first hour is hard for me to like: It smells like the taste of a shocking licorice a friend from the Netherlands brought. Not like any licorice I had ever had before here in the US, this was dark, diabolical, unendurable (had to spit it out!).
-Several hours after spraying it is soft, warm, and makes my head spin. This could be powerfully good on the right cowboy!

Sillage is moderate (I'm glad).
Longevity is excellent, I could still smell it the next day.

this is some distinctive stuff!

can't entirely figure out what i think about it though! it isn't my kind of fragrance, methinks (but i'm not sure!). it's like you see a painting or an interior design and you know it's fantastically implemented - but it's not for you. that kinda feeling. i mean you SHOULD love it 'cuz it's so interesting and different, but you don't. that kinda feeling. all that said, i keep sniffing my wrists! it's damn neat stuff!

lots of tobacco to my (perhaps untrained) nose (not listed in the pyramid - odd). maybe it's the sandalwood/myrrh in some dark form? during the dry down (though hours after i put it on) i swore i smelled root beer or sarsaparilla - it had that sweetness to it. it does not now.

imo, you should definitely file this under "you need to try it out". don't buy this one blind!

longevity appears to be high. sillage appears to be medium to low.

UPDATE

a couple hours later, the damn stuff is still holding up, and now the sweetness has returned. what sort of necromancy has mr. tauer poured into this little blue bottle exactly?!??!?!

If you love Bandit, you might love Lonestar Memories too. If you think Bandit is bold but not bold enough, or if you expected it was even bolder, then go for Lonestar Memories. At first it's an explosion of smoke and leather, very strong, almost unbearable. Allow it to dry and settle on your skin. After two-three hours you have a marvellous scent still powerful, but less aggressive. It might be more for a man than for a woman, given its spicy undertone, its woods, leaves and earth smelling, but dare it when you are super elegant on mundane occasions. Unconventional style you will get. You will be admired and complimented a lot. Dare be personal and do get rid of intense flowery scent for the evening, do dare this one!

I have to say, I’ve never spent so long contemplating the rating of a perfume on Basenotes as I have with Andy Tauer’s Lonestar Memories. I’m between neutral and thumbs-up. Ultimately I’ll give it the thumbs-up, as it ‘s so well composed and really rather daring. My hesitation is over the fact that it’s not always a pleasure to wear. I identify the same things in LM that the negative reviewers have noted, but overall I tend to like the specific parts that they don’t.

Tar, carrot seed and wood with a bit of florals place LM somewhere beyond leather. Knize Ten and Etat Libre’s Rien are mild in comparison. LM has a much more burnt quality than the other two. ‘Tar’ and ‘burnt’ do to an extent add up to ‘snubbed cigarette’ but mostly the charred feel is like burnt wood. Not the smoke of burning wood, but old campfire.

LM is similar to Tauer’s earlier l’Air de Désert Marocain, but far less comfortable. The amber and incense of l’Air are replaced with rubber and tar in LM. By the heart, LM smells equally earthy and woody tied together by the almost sweet rubber note. The drydown is the best part, though. The floral note (jasmine? carnation?), which really only appears in the heart, lasts until the finish where LM seems like a dry, smoky, floral tea.

I couldn’t wear this every day, but it makes me think when I do.

Lonestar Memories smells like an Oilman wearing an amber fragrance at a barbecue (well, sort of). This is quite a challenging composition. It opens with a blast of spicy-smoky leather that smells halfaway between tear gas, tar, burnt rubber and, yes, barbecue. Myrrh and amber make their appearance right away adding a consistent dose of sweetness while the smoky feel remarks its presence throughout.

While Lonestar Memories is anything but easy to wear I'm still compelled by its daring smell. I tend to classify it more as a conceptual fragrance than a body one but it's definitelty a successful example of perfumery as an art.

If you're into pretty/clean fragrances, stay carefully away as this is anything but lovely.

Now I see where Lisa Kirk took the inspiration for her Revolution.

Rating: 7.5-8/10

Strange. The first thing I smell is nutmeg and other spices, although the leather and smoke are certainly there, too. The model cowboy must have had his pockets stuffed with spices to use when cooking his gourmet grub over the campfire while applying his floral-scented hair treatment.

As it dries down it becomes smokier, woodier, and more leather-like. This is not the hard-core outdoorsy scent that so many reviewers and advertising blurbs seem to suggest, but rather the scent of a beautifully made antique leather pouch that’s been used to carry spices, dried flowers, and smoky tea.

After a couple of hours during which the leather note is present, the fragrance dries down to a carmelized vanilla amber that remains close to the skin. I like Lonestar Memories a lot, and will definitely wear a spritz now and then from my little 2-ml decant.

This stuff is simply beautiful. Truly unisex, it smelled great on both my husband and me, with a dry, crackling earthiness and only a hint of tarry bonfire. It's underpinned by a lovely amber which keeps it sweet, definately more Brokeback mountain than John Wayne and I would be more than happy to wear this every day - if I could afford it!!
I must add that my husband felt that this is the one which reminded him most of Morrocco, rather than L'Air du Desert Marocain! They definately both have the desert vibe, your own memories can tell you which one!!

A fleeting vegetal dryness to open, then some sweet jasmine and incense.

After the sweetness subsides, cedar comes to the fore creating more woody dryness, then suddenly, "Rawhide!!!"

I can't help thinking of cowboys either at this stage--rough leather, hot ash and smoking campfire. Then the sweetness of the cistus (aka labdanum, rockrose) weaves in and out creating a deeper smouldering allure.

Ultimately the tonka and sandalwood in the base allows Lonestar Memories to finish as a snuggle with your cowboy around a campfire at night--a hint of a medicinal myrrh undertone with cured leather, tobacco and all.

After the first sniff I knew Lonestar Memories is no for me. But I just had to appreciate it; I love perfume that tell a story or create interesting imagery, even if they dont suit me.

Lonestar Memories for me is actually not a scent of Wild West. Somehow it makes me think of post-apocaliptic future. A desert? Yes, but spotted with strange machines. Emptiness, loneliness. A cowboy on a mechanical horse. An abandoned chappel. Scent of dust and sand. A little wodden in from time to time, run by an old guy who has seen it all.

It is interesting and unique, but much as I love the picture, the fragrance doesn't seem to go well with me overally.

This is a unique and uncommon perfume. I am extremely fond of its wily charms.

In a blink or you will miss it moment, there is a peculiar scent upon opening which I find utterly intriguing but also a bit off limits - like a secret men's club. Of course, I am not conversant with carrot seeds or clary sage so who can say if they are the exclusive domain of MAN??

But before this mystery can be resolved (ie about a minute later), a smokey tobacco lends itself to creating a leather analogue. Since no actual leather or tobacco are listed in the notes this seems to be a genius composition - creating something so realistic from horizontal components instead of the more obvious and seemingly sensible approach of including the actual notes.

In the heart on my feminine skin, it is quite inexplicably sweet especially when more masculine wood representations permeate to create a robust, clean, wafting aura of a scent.

The drydown is dusty and loses some of its impact as the tonka smooths out any rough edges.

Since this is a unisex perfume with an obvious male bias, I was permitted a patch of fiance's skin to test the results. His skin was not so accepting; it smelt like a doused campfire, stale cigarette smoke and hot sweaty trousers which had been ruined from a hard day of riding a recalcitrant horse.

Sorry honey, this one is all mine! Mwoaaaaaahhhhh!

My wild child-womanhood dream!! If I would have met a man who wears THAT perfume I ve done everything to be his girl!! I smell all the fine things from the beginning: adventure, finest saddle horse leather,smoke, wood, incense, some wild jasmine.. and that man is taking me in his arms only to throw me on his mustang and then he d jump on that horse too and off we go ... through the deserty dusty plains, the pine woods not far away along the the route and I get a feeling, that all my wishes will come true..we arrive at a camp fire and my man is sweating a little so his smell becomes sweeter and more cedar-like and I m melting in his arms again, my nose buried in his neck..and the mustang is giving a soft blow through his nostrils and I m in my smokey leathery horse heaven..Oh that perfume!
Alas, in real life my husband would not wear this beauty and I am wearing it myself to have a little dreaming on.. Great creation Mr. Tauer!

Smells like leathery/suede with tobacco, there is some warmth from the tonka and sandal, but it's tempered by the myrrh. I can see why some might like this, esp on a man, but I don't like it. It's a bit too wild west for me :)

True America ;o) leather, smoke, wood, tobacco, a scent for a cowboy, like on its packaging ;o)

Smokey opening. Carrot is very light and adds a bit of sweetness. Drydown brings just a touch of cedar with the tonka and myrrh more prominent. I don't get too much jasmine thankfully. I really like it. I know it's a mens fragrance but I think the right woman can wear this one too.

The initial burst of barbecue spice and heavy wood smoke quickly mellows into a fantastic earthy accord that is smoothed by myrrh and sweetened with jasmine. For me it leans more to the masculine side - I love it on my husband but I wear it too when I want to feel that rich, strange warmth of campfires under desert skies. Tauer fragrances have a wonderful dreamlike quality - truly inspiring!

In the Great American West, there are areas where sagebrush extends to the horizon in all directions and one can get deep whiffs of dry dusty air scented by the all that sage. There are also Pinon trees that give a sweet pine/cedar scent especially when burning, its smoke a fragrant almost mystical scent. Unfortunately, I get very little of either in this fragrance. However, at first blast, this does come off as a good leather scent, something dirty and worn like a saddle glossy with wear. Clary sage is known to smell like leather when combined with the right ingredients and this is what I like best about Lonestar. However, before long this turns into more of a woody gourmand. In turns, Lonestar fades into something of a woody spicecake that is mediocre at best and while I do like LM, I'm not crazy for sweet drydowns. In the end, there's nothing really Western about this fragrance unless the cowboys are stopping by the cafe for a spiced latte after a long day in the saddle. Good for women and men alike and best worn in colder weather, this fragrance has typical Tauer longevity and sillage, which is great.

After opening with a shower of piquant spice and smoke, Lonestar Memories settles into a soft floral underpinned with spices, leather, and fine, charred wood. An engaging and long-lasting scent, perfect for a man or a woman. Lovely!