If Andy Tauer's masterpiece L’Air du Desert Marocain evokes the open spaces of a boundless desert sky racing above our heads, then Au Coeur du Desert, based on the original cult classic, is its heart - a quietly beating center of gravity bound to the earth. Although it shares with its progenitor the same dry crackle of cedar and resin, Au Coeur is an altogether more intimate affair, with a melting softness that envelops rather than exalts.

Au Coeur du Desert is a luxurious extrait that uses higher concentrations of the keynote ingredients that gave the original L’Air its soul: coriander, cumin, patchouli, cedar, ambergris, and resin. To our noses, Au Coeur has a smoother quality of patchouli, warmer woods, and a higher dose of ambergris, its salted golden warmth throwing all the other notes into stark relief. In terms of texture, Au Coeur is dense silk to L’Air’s smoke.

Those who love L’Air du Desert Marocain will be relieved to find clear echoes in Au Coeur, but those who found the original too dramatic will be delighted to find a version built on a more human scale. The DNA is intact, but its light is more the hazy glow of dusk rather than the glare of the midday sun, while still remaining unmistakably, wonderfully, quintessentially Andy Tauer.

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$215

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Au Coeur du Desert by Andy Tauer is this beautiful fragrance that is inspired by or based off of the original L'Herre du Desert Moroccan, which is one of my favorite Tauer fragrances and one of my top fragrances of all of them. I love it.

So what they did with Au Coeur is kept a lot of the same DNA. It feels very similar. However, it's supposed to be a little bit deeper, a little bit kind of quieter, although I don't want to say too quiet because it definitely wears strong and long lasting.

There's this lovely amber green that sort of replaces or at least compliments the amber that's really prominent in L'Herre du Desert. There's some lovely spice notes in here. It's a little bit smoky, a little bit woody, a little bit floral.

It's just rich and dark and sensual and really interesting and I love the dry down. Check it out. Au Coeur du Desert.

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This is the house’s magnum opus. Spicy, balsamic, dry, gorgeous. It’s richer and thicker than LDDM. I feel as I can only wear this in the nighttime whereas the former can be worn anytime. If LDDM was a watercolor painting of the desert, this is the same painting but in oil. Fantastic. Lasts for ages. I sprayed it on at midnight and can still smell it at 5pm. Stays on clothes forever. My fav Tauer at the moment. Makes me feel as if I’m a Bedouin gazing at the stars in the night sky in the Sahara.1010

By Michael - Student from Lynwood on 7/24/2025

I admit, I don't get the love for this one. Smells ordinary to me - slightly metallic marine notes. That's it. *shrugs* It stays the same throughout - never morphs or deepens - at least it didn't on me. But clearly, I seem to be in the minority of posters. Maybe try a sample and see how it develops on you.

By Just Me - nocturnal commenter from Earth on 4/25/2024

I can tell that this fragrance is beautifully made, but wow does this hit me in the face with a memory of my grandpa’s overly strong aftershave. I’ve been on the hunt for something specific - what would Dune’s spice melange smell like? I tried this after sampling ELDO’s Spice Must Flow, which was nice but a bit too sweet for what I wanted. This is not sweet I can see a Fremen Sietch smelling this way, and I think if it didn’t remind me so strongly of old man aftershave, I’d feel a bit more positively.

By AJ - Event coordination from Los Angeles on 10/28/2023

One word: Masterpiece!!

By Karen A - Sr Graphic Designer from Sarasota FL on 1/21/2023

A completely different fragrance , fascinating art work, no doubt one of the best, open your mind and your fragrance life never going to be the same .

By Carlos Daza - Engineer from Nashville on 4/15/2022

L'air du desert was my go-to for ages until this. It's strangely deeper but slightly more wearable. I combine it with Perfect Veil and it's a sublime, signature combination that stops people in their tracks in a good way.

By Pamela - Art and Communications Director from Boulder on 12/20/2021

Akin to a first growth Bordeaux , leaning towards Haut Brion in that select group. Nevertheless, Latour brings RD Reckless to mind. While Lafite R settles at Elysium P. Suffice to say brio and vibrant energy favors ACDD. If just one of each in my cellar and wardrobe, Haut Brion and ACDD. A close second being Margaux paired with Puredistance M. Bon nuit.

By GMK - Wine Industry from San Francisco on 7/16/2021

Absolutely exquisite. Suffice to say all the 5 stars reviews are spot on. Imagine a sundrenched outdoor sauna in a Buddhist temple. The aroma of dry resinous woods and swirling incense in the warm air. Longevity is remarkable and silage is impressive. Up there at and around my No. 1 scent.

By gerry - wine industry from San Francisco on 5/27/2021

Beautiful heart deepening in the desert. Rich, intense, dry, spicy amber with leather and vanilla. Same scent profile as L'Air Du Desert Morocain. Just deeper, richer and longer lasting and blooms more as it gets to the base but lasts. Get this extrait over the edt. It's well worth it in performance alone. Top quality artistic fragrance.

By Jay - n/a from n/a on 4/25/2021

Excelente fragancia me encanta su olor misterioso cremoso especiado.

By Antonio - from Puerto Rico on 12/3/2020

Excellent. I love it.

By Christy - N from Puerto Rico on 10/30/2020

Honestly, i didn't like this one at all. After see several reviews where they praised this perfume as one of the bests ever, i did purchase it blindly, and i'm regret about it. It doesn't even smells that good. I really expected something supreme, but the only supreme in this one is the leathery scent. This probably works on cold weather, but saddly, where i live is hot almost all year, so it will be hard to wear and appreciate, but still, the scent is definitely not one of my favorites. I do not recommend a blind buy with this one. I'm only giving it two stars because of the long lasting, but other than that, i'm dissappointed.

By Max Ruiz - Entrepreneur from Yucatán, México on 8/30/2020

Honestly I requested this as a gift for my birthday after reading the reviews and boy I was not disappointed. This scent is extremely complex and it's a fantastic scent that smells different to everyone. Spicy but dry, strong but mild and just lovely. Smelling it on yourself is such a joy I can't explain but it's worth every penny. Nothing but compliments and it stays on you for hours.

By Darnell - Operations Manager from San Antonio, TX on 7/13/2020

I tried on a sample and I have to say there is a before and after Au Coeur du Desert. It changed my olfactive perspective. The more you smell it, the more you loved it!. I can´t wait to get a 50 ml bottle.

By John - Counselor from North Bergen, NJ on 6/24/2020

I actually ordered this with an impression I got another anticipated purchase. I was disappointed that I didn't have what I thought I had (I must've changed my mind on the fly while purchasing, and forgot). However, when I opened it, I smelled the sprayer before spraying, and I noticed a beautiful scent. Later on that day, I applied it and I was in love. This has actually become my favorite fragrance! It had me wanting to find other fantastic offerings from this House, since this is my first purchase from them!

By Kenyone J. - Network Architect from Carrollton, TX on 6/8/2020

well, i guess i shouldn't have gotten this as a blind buy. I read all the reviews, watched a bunch of youtube videos and i thought 'wow, i've got to have this'. Big mistake. I don't get much projection or sillage, and the dry down is literally BO...it must be the cumin, which is weird since i absolutely love Penhaligons Halfeti and that has cumin note as well. Anyway, do not blind buy this scent. I need to trade it bottle for something else...Just 3 stars for the opening, 0 stars for dry down.

By adrian - chemist from Freehold on 5/12/2020

This is my first time buying here and i'm really happy with this purchase. Au Coeur du Desert is a complex fragrance with incredible longevity, on my skin 12h+. It's very hard to explain the scent, but i can feel a high quality leather with a soft rose and ambergris. Very luxyry fragrance to use on special ocassion. Really recommended the fragrance, and Luckyscent!!!

By Willy - Business Continuity from MIAMI on 5/7/2020

Superó mis expectativas, es que no puedo dejar de olerla. Tanto a mi esposa como a mi...nos encanta y la usamos ambos. Tiene una duración que sobrepasa las 12 horas. Es una fragancia que con el transcurrir del tiempo va evolucionando, al principio se siente con mucha intensidad pero poco a poco se va equilibrando. Es delas que no se va por delante, sino que va dejando una estela rica,

By Gabriel - Maestro from San Sebastian, Puerto Rico on 3/19/2020

Arid, dry, warmth, spices. Au Coeur du Desert (not unlike L’ADDM) is one of the most evocative scents I have smelled — it is one of those scents that is a true masterpiece of a composition, more evocative and atmospheric than a list of notes. On my skin, projection is soft and feels closer to the skin, but the scent lingers for a while.

By Premshree Pillai - Software Engineer from Brooklyn, NY on 3/8/2020

the smell is great but i believe the smell don't last much

By darwin navas - maintenance from Farrockaway park on 7/6/2019

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