Reviews
Young Cossack (in Russia Cossacks have a more positive reputation than abroad) is a lovely animalic hay-tonka accord that would make a wonderful masculine, with or without sabre and horse.
Luca Turin
5 out of 5 stars
A beautiful, fresh, woody green opening, wormwood and galbanum take my breath away. The woody green notes are brisk, and mingled with herbacious green scents, like a cold dry morning on an expansive grassland, the vegetal aromas waft gently. There's a warmth arising from the smoky notes and the cumin, and a dusky leathery accord, lightly animalic, but earthy. There's a rich, heavy tobacco. This really reminds me of days gone by, heavy, muscular horses in sweaty, lathered, leather tack, pulling hay laden wagons. Their drivers smoking tobacco pipes, leather tobacco pouches never far from hand. Dirty dusty roads lined by a verge row of thick green vegetal weeds, galbanum, immortelle, wormwood, and beyond a grassland leading to light, dry woods. This is one beautiful quite complex, leather chypre that is very, very worthy of owning!
Mizpanda1
For me, it consists of three parts: a dark, smoky horse leather saddle smell, wild herbs (wormwood, again) and mosses, and the dusty smell of dry soil (labdanum, again). Great story-telling from AZ. Whereas this might seem like a derivative work with notes being a permutation of what you can see in her other fragrances, I really think that this is the reference fragrance for her characteristic herbaceous-mossy-woody-dusty accord made of wormwood+labdanum. This DNA is very prevalent in her work but this is definitely her tour de force.
greyhound93