Incense Flash by Tauerville
Men Women 2015
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Leading answer I own it
711 votes
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Leading answer Like it
260 votes
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Fragrance profile
About Incense Flash
Incense Flash by Tauerville is an aromatic woody fragrance for men and women. Launched in 2015, this composition was created by perfumer Andy Tauer.
Woods and mosses Musk, amber and animalic
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Longevity
Leading answer Long-lasting
98 votes
Sillage
Leading answer Moderate
134 votes
Character
Leading answer Leans masculine
28 votes
Value perception
Leading answer Fair price
19 votes
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4 reviews
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This incense breaks away from the ecclesiastical or erotic clichés of the 2000s. It doesn’t smell mystical at all; it smells like dry 80s leather, as if you just walked out of a car garage. Imagine a Gucci Guilty Absolute with incense: that manufactured leather made of oil scraps and black grime, barely dusted with a hint of incense you hardly notice at first. It smells like a motorcycle workshop, leather sofas, plastics, and tar. It’s rough, super masculine, and even a bit unpleasant; it’s not looking for your affection. It evokes an abandoned sawmill in a hostile landscape, an open field where nature struggles to survive, or a stalled construction site with shrubs growing around it. It’s brusque, unfriendly, and smells like a dying campfire, dry bushes, leather briefcases, motorcycle oil, jerry cans, rubber soles, charcoal, and raw wood. Only after three-quarters of an hour does a more bearable musky sweetness appear, but I didn’t like it because I prefer sacramental incenses without waiting for the industrial smell to fade. It’s not bad, just for fans. Longevity and projection are good.
This is my first Andy Tauer and I couldn’t be happier with this debut: pure incense, gorgeous all around. Although it tries to recreate an incense accord, it’s not flat; it has immense depth and two very distinct phases that make it a master of the genre. It starts with a woody incense, literally, like fresh pine wood just sawed. If you’ve ever cut resinous pine, you know what I’m talking about: a fresh, very resinous aroma, with that slight smoky tone from the friction of the saw. It’s so realistic that even though I’m far away, it transports me to the heart of Doñana, a true pleasure. Gradually it smokes up, becoming more resinous with a balsamic tone; the leather isn’t very strong but adds a bit of dirtiness to the scent, bringing it closer to what we all know as incense. It’s dense, balsamic, and almost liturgical. Either phase puts me in ecstasy. The performance is good, lasting 8 or 9 hours on skin, though the sillage is moderate—very noticeable at first, then it stays close to the skin. At this price point, it could have been better. It’s for cold and temperate weather, with a night-time leaning; on a cool summer night, who would say no? For incense lovers, it’s a must-have, an essential try. It’s pricey for 30ml, but the quality shows.
Dry incense and leather give it a fairly animalistic touch. If you like incense in all its forms like I do, you’ll love it. Ideal for cold or fresh climates and days.
Incense Flash is a piece that appeals to hyper-realism, as Andy Tauer fragrances often do, and to a fascination with incense. It’s so realistic, thick, and rough that it leaves Avignon by Comme des Garçons in the dust. It’s truly a flash of incense: raw, realistic, dry, penetrating, and rough. There aren’t many nuances; basically, it’s incense and maybe some vague woods. It contains an immense hint of a common piece of charcoal. It’s simple, forgetting the gothic abstractions usually attributed to incenses; it’s rustic, smoky, like something just burned. It has moderate to impressive sillage and longevity. It doesn’t require overthinking to enjoy; you just need to love incense a lot. On the other hand, it’s quite expensive and I don’t think it justifies the price, but whatever.