Serge Lutens
Chergui
Oriental Spicy · 2005 · Christopher Sheldrake
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Romantic/Evening
- Typical season
- Summer
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Across published reviews, most people register this first as tobacco.
Reviewed profile
Sun-warmed hay and honeyed tobacco melting into amber. Golden, syrupy and softly narcotic, warmth you can almost feel.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Full Feeling
Nothing half-felt.
This isn't a fragrance that sits quietly. It wraps around you and stays there. The full experience was always the intention.
How Chergui smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Chergui reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Chergui reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is among the highest in the catalogue for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chergui sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 75th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chergui sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 84th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chergui feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 94th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chergui is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 86th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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