A look at three fragrances from Pekji‘s first collection: Zeybeck and Battaniye, plus a mini review for Ruh.
Pekji Collection One sample set. photo: my own.
[Edited to add: my samples are old ones from after the time Pekji reformulated his fragrances to make them IFRA-compliant. I don’t imagine that the fragrances have changed much since then unless he’s reformulated them yet again. I have no knowledge of that, so I’ll just assume that my circa 2016 or 2017 samples are what the current bottles smell like. Forgive me for not clarifying that at the time of publication. I, like many of us these days, are mentally exhausted.]
Pekji Zeybeck:
(Review Thread) 1. Pekji's Zeybeck, a green, aromatic, floral leather with notes of grass, hay, lavender, narcissus, leather, vetiver, citrus, animalic horse fur/saddle aromas, & more.
Call me crazy, but it made me think of Germaine Cellier's Jolie Madame gone to the countryside pic.twitter.com/6TOGz4ngPW
— Kafkaesque (@Kafkaesque_Blog) November 16, 2021
Pekji Battaniye:
(Review thread) 1. Pekji's Battaniye (2018), a patchouli labdanum woody amber whose name means "blanket" in Turkish.
It opens with: styrax ash & singed wood campfire notes; an earthy medicinal patchouli; syrupy honeysuckle and amber honey; dry cedar; woody vetiver; & dark earth. pic.twitter.com/M4SFWtF4dm
— Kafkaesque (@Kafkaesque_Blog) November 16, 2021
And a two-tweet review for Pekji’s Ruh includes Luca Turin‘s comments on the fragrance:
At its core, it's primarily an *extremely* sweet saffron rose-oud, a combo that's been done to death, but this feels diff., thx to loads of cardamom & the soft waves of leather, incense & musk lapping at the syrupy florals. FYI, Luca Turin got way more coffee than me or others. pic.twitter.com/2bSMR6RXXQ
— Kafkaesque (@Kafkaesque_Blog) May 9, 2020
You can order Pekji samples, bottles, and a discovery sample set from Luckyscent and from Pekji itself.