If Andy Tauer’s masterpiece L’Air du Desert Marocain evokes the open spaces of a boundless desert sky racing above our heads, then Au Coeur du Desert, based on the original cult classic, is its heart – a quietly beating center of gravity bound to the earth. Although it shares with its progenitor the same dry crackle of cedar and resin, Au Coeur is an altogether more intimate affair, with a melting softness that envelops rather than exalts. Au Coeur du Desert is a luxurious extrait that uses higher concentrations of the keynote ingredients that gave the original L’Air its soul: coriander, cumin, patchouli, cedar, ambergris, and resin. To our noses, Au Coeur has a smoother quality of patchouli, warmer woods, and a higher dose of ambergris, its salted golden warmth throwing all the other notes into stark relief. In terms of texture, Au Coeur is dense silk to L’Air’s smoke.
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VonP (verified owner) –
This and Tauer’s L’air du Desert Marocain are beautiful works of art, fully deserving of the high praises. For those who are looking at this after falling in love with LdDM, you will enjoy this one as well. It has the same desert-DNA but the airiness is choked down and instead you have a woody heat that rises from the bellows of this scent.