CHERGUI - SERGE LUTENS

🟠 CHERGUI – SERGE LUTENS
Launch Year: 2001
Olfactive Family: Oriental Spicy
Concentration: Eau de Parfum
Perfumer: Christopher Sheldrake
Source: GCMS Club by Archives Gilbert Bendoni
Number of Ingredients: 58

Desert Wind in a Velvet Cloak. Smoke, Sugar, and Sandalwood.

Chergui isn’t a perfume.
It’s a mirage that smells back.

Built around a glowing skeleton — Iso E Super, Galaxolide, Hedione — it hums like warm air over dunes.
The sweetness is immediate: Coumarin, Vanillin, Ethyl Vanillin — the illusion of honey drying on skin.
But it’s smoke that lingers.

The base simmers with contradiction:

Vertofix and Norlimbanol add burned hay and leather.

Florol, Linalool, and Linalyl Acetate fake floral softness.

Olibanum, Sandalore, and Musk T raise the temperature — incense trapped in cashmere.

Then it shifts again:

Basil Oil, Guaiol, Camphor, Carvone…
mint tea at midnight, bitter and green.

There’s no clear note — only resonance.
Chergui haunts more than it perfumes.

🧡 Chergui isn’t a story. It’s a place.
One where dusk never ends.

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