Lonesome Rider
Tauer (2016)

SOTE 7/4/19 : sampling Tauer Lonesome Rider this evening. Opening has eau de cologne vibes (citrus and seeming very slightly fresh/aldehydic), becoming a bit powdery - possibly the violet - (which might contribute to the aldehydic effect), and with iris in the background. A leather note coming through (a lighter version of the Bel Ami kind). Tiny hint of rose (more than just a hint, revisiting this in 2022) . Some incense (the church kind). Then woods in the base. Still getting wafts of citrus well after the opening. How does Tauer or any perfumer manage that ? And some smokiness, but it's very restrained.

10/6/22 : I think some reviewers below may be confusing this scent, Lonesome Rider (discontinued), with the smoky campfire of Lonestar Memories.
This is nothing like Lonestar Memories. I'm not sure what animal or vehicle the lonesone rider is riding. It's more a quiet scent for a evening of thought and reading at home (no fireplace or woodstove needed).

Although it does not have any booziness to it, it has a similar vibe to ELdO's Je Suis Un Homme, though not as heavy.

I wish I smelled all the promised florals, iris, and such, but Lonesome Rider smells exactly like a Texas barbecue joint. Its woods are comprised largely of mesquite, the scrubby little trees that grow from the 98th parallel west of Ft Worth all the way through New Mexico, where the high desert plains take over, Saguarro and other giant cacti start to appear, and the scent of resiny wood is replaced by clean, hot, minerality sand.

I love a good funky leather, and I had great hopes for this one, but I don't think it os for me. I think it is probably the castoreum and another ingredient that smells exactly like bottled liquid smoke.

I appreciate anyone's efforts to capture their impressions of my home state. Lonesome Rider is a little too much of a caricature, the kind of thing that comes from the same set of assumptions that cause people to believe that all Texans actually ride horses as a primary mode of transportation, all tote big guns everywhere “cuz we got a right to do it,” ans generally behave obnoxiously because we're outlaw crazy people with little education, exposure to the world outside of our starte, or interest in dental care.

I don't really mind the stereotypes, they don't particularly hurt anyone so long as people realize that's all they are, and I even recognize the kernel of truth that resides therein. Some Texans are exactly what you might imagine if you've never been here, but this is a really big place with at least five distinctive regional
subcultures, and it's important to remember that the percentage of intelligent, sophisticated, well-mannered proper in any given population is about the same anywhere you go in the world. Some people just attract more attention or, often unfortunately, weird disproportionate political power.

I do believe that Andy Tauer has spent some time in Texas. Most likely in Austin–it seems to be where everyone who visits wants to go–and perhaps also out to the artist's colony in Marfa, where he would have seen and smelled mesquite trees in the sun. Marfa seems to have a special fascination for outsiders (Memo
has a very pretty Tuberose scent named after it, and it attracts filmmakers and musicians in addition to the painters and sculptures who have long made their homes there). Maybe it's the famous cemetery lights (look it up). Maybe Lonesome Rider has something to do with Josh Grobin in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men (a movie that brings back so many vivid memories of my early childhood). Comparatively, Lonestar Memories, with its pitch tar and pine, reminds me more of East Texas and the hill country that encompasses Austin. It's still a raunchy,
smoky leather, but t lacks the sweetness that I find in Lonesome Rider, that, with its smoky profile, never fails to give me a craving for a trip to the local smokehouse, or to one of my absolutely favorite places in the state. I won't post the name here (it's a pretty well kept secret), but if you private-message me, i'll tell you.

Definitely worth a try. Lonesome Rider is thick with what I've seen other people on Basenotes call “tauerade,” Tauer's analog to the famous ratio of jasmine, rose, iris, vanilla, benzoin, and herbs that seems common to all the great Guerlains. Tauer's perfumes often have a similar aignafure–pertrol, castoreum, labdanum, pine tar–and a gasoline jasmine (guess that's part of the petrol accord) that especially distinguishes many of his masculines.

He does love his petrol. Who else would create a spring green floral like Hyacinth and a Mechanic? That, incidentally, smells more like
the Texas I know in the spring–the sweet but pungent scent of Eastertime bulbs combined with driveway and lawn mower fumes, and the scents of an afternoon spent working in the garden while my partner works on his project car. Those are my Lonestar Memories, at least today–not as romantic as Loneaome Rider, but the satisfying olfactory portrait of a spring Saturday well spent. Nice, in a personal way. Worth trying? Sure, if you like dirty leather and good barbecue. I'd raise a thumb or two, but they're covered in sauce and someone is hogging all the paper towels

What a lovely fragrance. It doesn't remind me of lonestar memory or any of the Tauer parfumes I have/tried. I can't really distinguish the notes from each other, but it smells rather sweet and somewhat creamy and have a very linear progression which suits me just fine. Long longevety but silage is not that great.
It's one of my favorite fragrance at the moment.

I wish I could hate it like "Lonestar Memories" but this stuff is so boring that it doesn't even deserve my hate.

This is really hard to describe. It's gross and wonderful. I'd describe it as dirty leather and incense.

For me this is a beautiful plush iris, rose and leather fragrance with a hint of smoke. There is a bit of initial citrus-spice when it is first applied, which with the sweet-ish iris and leather makes the scent feel a little bit non-edible gourmand for the first 15-20 minutes. After that, it settles down into a floral, leather scent with a bit of smoke, musk and smooth wood. And stays like that for hours - it lasts all day and nearly into the next morning on me. It also projects quite strongly so one spray is quite enough to last all day.