Big fan of Omer's work and this is no exception, the most striking thing about it for me in the opening and despite a strong lavender presence it's the animalic undertones that really show themselves early and leave you under no illusion that Zeybek ain't fuckin' about. These animal notes are perfectly weighted, musky (and I do mean deer musk) mixture between sensual, cozy ambrette and mildly pissy, animalic musk. It reminds me of shangrilide and leathery aspects of castoreum, but cleverly dosed into a very clever fragrance which switches from an aromatic, herbal top, laden with hay notes into a kind of smoothed out, lightly metallic but creamy musk. It almost has shades of musk ravegeur in the drydown, floral, lilly like (probably the narcissus?) perhaps the sweet vanillic creaminess of tonka, which you really can't smell in the opening but is very prominent when settled. I get herbs, fennel, celery salt, spices, eugenol, cloves but it's all backed by that animal feel. I think it's very, very good, interesting perfumery and totally in keeping with the style of the perfumer and brand. His work often feels like a good curry, levels and waves of spice and flavour that build and develop on your palate.
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6 years ago
Zeybek, from Pekji was released in 2018. The perfumer behind this creation is Ömer Ipekçi. The notes are Bergamot, Hay, Lavender, Leather, Lemon, Musk, Narcissus, Tobacco, Tonka Bean, Vetiver.
Big fan of Omer's work and this is no exception, the most striking thing about it for me in the opening and despite a strong lavender presence it's the animalic undertones that really show themselves early and leave you under no illusion that Zeybek ain't fuckin' about. These animal notes are perfectly weighted, musky (and I do mean deer musk) mixture between sensual, cozy ambrette and mildly pissy, animalic musk. It reminds me of shangrilide and leathery aspects of castoreum, but cleverly dosed into a very clever fragrance which switches from an aromatic, herbal top, laden with hay notes into a kind of smoothed out, lightly metallic but creamy musk. It almost has shades of musk ravegeur in the drydown, floral, lilly like (probably the narcissus?) perhaps the sweet vanillic creaminess of tonka, which you really can't smell in the opening but is very prominent when settled. I get herbs, fennel, celery salt, spices, eugenol, cloves but it's all backed by that animal feel. I think it's very, very good, interesting perfumery and totally in keeping with the style of the perfumer and brand. His work often feels like a good curry, levels and waves of spice and flavour that build and develop on your palate.