I ordered a tiny sample just to see what the big deal was about this scent. I didn’t expect to like it and I definitely do not, but for very different reasons than most people in the reviews.
I think this scent pulls differently depending on skin chemistry more than some others might, so take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, but a lot of the reviews are a little dramatic. I don’t think it smells like genitals of any kind (unfortunately - that probably would’ve been better lol) but instead, on me and on paper, it smells like a sterilized hospital room. When I first smelled it, it genuinely reminded me so much of seeing a relative on their deathbed in the hospital that I teared up. I wouldn’t call this a clean scent, but it smells a bit like a dying person who just got a sponge bath with hospital soap that’s unscented but still has that sort of smell that I can only describe as hospital to it.
I wouldn’t call this offensive, I think it’s probably a great scent for some people who like powdery, aquatic, slightly sour scents, but for me, the scent memory is too strong to even try to wear it for a full wear test to determine longevity. When I scrubbed it off, I could still smell it faintly on my skin, so I imagine it’s quite long lasting.
To be honest, it reminds me of NAP without the powder finish.
This is a beautiful winter fragrance. It’s described as a turkish coffee on their website and I really think they nailed it. I wish there was a more prominent coffee note, but it is spicy and heady and beautiful as is.
It is a beast mode perfume, extremely heavy and extremely long wearing, so beware for the office and casual occasions. It gives my mom a headache, so maybe save for date nights.
It smells exactly like it’s described — cognac on the opening, dries to a warm, woody, cinnamon-vanilla. I don’t get anything else but it’s WAY too overpowering on the cognac for how strong it is. I smelled like I spilled whiskey on myself. I don’t know if it was just my skin chem disagreeing with it, but it’s very much not for me. I really, really wish I liked it more.
Unbelievable fragrance. Seems to be identical to AA and it is in the realms of Ombre Nomade in terms of strength and projection. The fact that someone can create a scent like this always amazes me, it develops so well and lasts 10 hours and smells different throughout. It smells like an old church. I really like this brand, Dan produces some great stuff and seems like a nice guy. This and Tokyo Black are such valuable fragrances of a bygone TF era.
I cannot possibly sing the praises of Zara's Bohemian Oud highly enough. I don’t think ten choirs of angels could do it. But let’s just say you took a pillowy bit of the marshmallow fluff those angels were floating around on and stirred it into the lightest, fluffiest chocolate mousse you can imagine, served it in a hand-carved bowl made from some sort of resinous holy wood, and topped it with the incendiary floral of a dusting of gently toasted black pepper, then you might have an inkling of what we’re all singing about. Bohemian Oud is a splendid delight made that much more fantastic because at less than $30, it is a freaking steal. Buy a bottle. Buy 12. This stuff is marvelous.
Libertine Sweet Grass is a scent that ticks all my boxes and tickles all my fancies and I am not trying to sound like some sort of horny perverse gremlin about it, but those are the phrases that best describe how perfect I find this particular combination of notes. It’s a dusty honey, dried tobacco, and a sort of balsamic oakmossy ambery situation that all smells very much like something glamorous trying to play it lowkey. Like Sofia Loren in a farmgirl apron napping in a hayloft in the heat of a late summer afternoon. Sure, that’s a threadbare gingham dress she's wearing and there’s chicken feed in her hair but come on, you can’t pretend that’s not Sofia Loren. And that’s a bit how this fragrance makes me feel, both uncomplicated and easy-breezy, but utterly beguiling and drop-dead gorgeous at once. And actually…now that I think about it, shouldn’t that be the criteria we use when looking for a fragrance? Something that feels so simple to slip into and yet yields an incredible wow factor? That’s what Sweet Grass does for me.
Milky gossamer wings, the effervescent glimmering frost and fizz of stardust, and the pearly aura of Glinda the Good Witch mingle gigglingly in this opalescent, sparkling Venusian fairy-spa water fragrance.
I tell you what, for the longest time, for years, I was like no, no sweets or gourmands for me, thanks, not my thing! And now it’s weird, it’s basically all I want. And yet…I don’t actually want to smell like literal cake. Like a baked good. Yes, the smell of glaze drizzled atop freshly fried hot doughnuts is mouthwatering, but I just don’t want that to be the scent that clings to my clothes or that precedes my bod with I walk into a room. I don’t want the smell of leavening agents or the chemistry of eggs and flour and sugar, or really even, a sweet, fluffy crumb. Simply put, I don’t want to smell like food. I want the artistic rendering of cake, a cake run through the filters of someone’s imagination and maybe in the end it’s not really cake at all, but still... you know it when you smell it. Annabel’s Birthday Cake is a bit like this. This is the fragrance from the elusive flowering cake vine, a rare species of flora that only blooms once a year on the date of one’s birth, pearly pink petals that exude the scent of rich, fruity vanilla bean and heliotrope frosting and closes after a brief 12-hour window with a soft, powdery breath of white chocolate musk.
This version of Burberry Hero begins with the fleeting season of apricots and musing on how easily they bruise, how you’ll never again know the childhood euphoria of that pretty smocked easter dress the color of rice powder and coconut with ruffles and lace and three pearly buttons but you will never forget the unabashed joyful flavor of a mouth crammed full of jelly beans. What Hero where and who is it that smells like the sour cream powdered sugar sweetness of picnic ambrosia salad, all pools of Cool Whip, and marshmallows soaked in the juice of tiny mandarin oranges and pineapple syrup, but not that really–rather the phantom of that atomic summer fruit confection, the faint lingering fragrance of it, at the bottom of a polished cedar bowl.
There is a lovely painting by Gaston Bussiere of a pair of frolicsome nymphs bathing in a pool of purple iris. If you could bottle that scene and its cool, playful atmosphere of ephemeral spring florals, the greenest violet leaf, and some sort of woody-musky-powdery mystical fairy soap flakes, you'd have L'Iris.
A long time ago I wrote a review in which I referred to Aquolina’s Pink Sugar as the bark of the cotton candy tree. Well, that was a confectionary botanical specimen in its sapling stage. A Whiff of Waffle cone is that tree a millennia later, after the rise and fall of civilization, the obsolescence of any number of gods, and you know, after it's seen some shit. It’s still rich and redolent of carmelized burnt sugar and toasted marshmallow, along with a luscious velvety smoked vanilla custard and something like marzipan syrup incense…but imagine all of that with a jaded attitude and wearing a beautiful old leather jacket and puffing away on a pipe with warm nuances of dried sweet grass and balsamic woods in the chamber. Why is this tree smoking? Man, it’s a million years old, it can do whatever it wants. It’s earned that right.
What is going on?? Under 20 USD at this caliber? Smells like 9pm and Ultra Male, performs like them, 5 star al around.
Another 5 star fresh fragrance from Lattafa. Good for hot days with plenty of performance; crazy scent bubble and projection. Careful with the sprays on this one (great atomizer btw).
Easy 5 star fragrance right here, if you like sweet fragrances. I never really did, and this one is changing that. Lasts all day and projects like crazy, so careful with the sprays. Cool weather or indoor fragrance only. Top 5 Lattafa all day. NOT an Angels' Share clone, but great nonetheless.
5 star classy fragrance for the mature gentleman. Very close to Sauvage Elixir.
Not my favorite fragrance, still growing on me. Not a bad fragrance, but not my style. I think I'm the right setting it can be pulled off, but I have yet to come across that situation.
5 star top 5 Lattafa! Cooler weather,, masculine leaning tea and vanilla with fig. Very unique scent profile.
5 star fragrance, easily top 3 Lattafa right here. Very close to Paragon, sweet and woody with great performance.
Top 5 Lattafa right here! You can wear this anywhere, anytime, nice fresh and aromatic scent. Can't go wrong with this one.
This one is still growing on me. The rose/oud combo is unique, definitely not for everyone and definitely not an Atomic Rose style fragrance. Insane longevity and sillage - you WILL get noticed.
Wonderful, excellent underrated fragrance! Not a clone of anything; one of the few times Lattafa came with an original hit.
Great woody, masculine fragrance that's close to the Tom Ford at a great price. Get it if you can.
Very close to Tuscan Leather. Not really my style, but a great scent, very heavy, dark leather. Do NOT wear in the summer, do NOT wear to the office!
Decent dupe for the price. You have to like rose for this one, guys can pull this off but it does lean feminine.
