Les Eaux de l'Est : Buveur de Vent
Liquides Imaginaires (2019)

Incense, quality cedar and leather were the first notes I got with this one. There are a few spices involved with this fragrance as well. Seems to have that Tauer's Lonesome Rider leather in this. Nice, even bottle worthy IMO. 7.5/10

Buveur de Vent opens to a splendid cypress note, beautifully dry and hedgy, wafting like incense, into the customary sour pulp of petitgrain and bergamot, that digs its heels into dusty leather straps sheathed in herbaceous greenery and balsamic classicism of tarragon, sage, galbanum, juniper, lavender and mate, blowing en masse as smoky flora, tastefully enriched by a resinous base featuring an equally splendid oakmoss note, cloaked with cedar and sandalwood and in particular, the ornate birched amber of labdanum, that simply deepens and offers a slightly sweet nicety to the composition as a distinguished knock-on wood, managing to gracefully embrace sentimental nuances and delicately revamp the vegetal drift for today’s exorbitant niche…Yes, Buveur du Vent is a redolent aromatic that hallmarks the verdant spicy fumes of celery’s past (Yatagan, Clubman Special Reserve, Cabochard) but one with a contemporary pulse that whiffs like a zesty parchment of papyri, one anointed vinegary on a sylvan base, that salutes the legume heyday with a prevalent oriental twist that breathes as a luxurious zephyr… Riding with the wind, indeed!

Dusty woody leather...
A strong aromatic-dusty fougere opening with bitter-spicy undertones, skillfully mixed in middle stage with leather and woody supporting notes (cedar, cypress and oakmoss).
Just dipping along dry-down into light sweet territory, but overall remains a masculine (and slightly bitter) spicy-woody-leathery scent. Good performances, a classy non-sweet composition in a beautiful bottle, recommended.