Sunday, May 02, 2010

How real men smell

Yatagan from Caron is one of my favorite frangrances. Caron introduced Yatagan in 1976 and ! categorized it as a "flowerless" oriental chypre fragrance; it was created by perfumer Vincent Marcello. Yatagan contains petitgrain, lavender leaf, geranium leaf, pine, fennel, basil, artemisia, oak moss, musk, woods, patchouli, castoreum, labdanum and styrax (Liquidambar orientalis). The elegant yatagan, or Turkish swo! rd, was used by janis saries for over 300 years (mid-1500s till the late 1800s). These swords bear the name of a southwestern Turkish city called Yatagan in Denizli Province (named after its Seljuk conqueror, Osman Bey, or "Yatagan Baba", who was a blacksmith). Yatagan city was famous for its swordsYatagans were not only weapons but works of art, incorporating expensive materials like ivory, silver and copper gilt; the yatagan hilts were often encrusted with jewels — diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and coral. (via now smell this)





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