Mal-Aimé by Parfum d'Empire
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7.6 / 10 131 Ratings
A popular perfume by Parfum d'Empire for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is green-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Green
Spicy
Fresh
Earthy
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Corsican stinkwort Blackberry brambleBlackberry bramble
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Corsican stinkwort Nettle absoluteNettle absolute ThistleThistle
Base Notes Base Notes
Corsican stinkwort Orris rootOrris root

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7.6131 Ratings
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7.2105 Ratings
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6.4105 Ratings
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7.681 Ratings
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6.758 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 08/27/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the Collection L'Héritage Corse collection.

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Blasius

10 Reviews
Blasius
Blasius
5  
Élégance marginale
This isn’t a fragrance meant to seduce. It doesn’t try to shine. It’s for those who know what it feels like to be pushed aside. Mal-Aimé wears its name like a scar. A green, bitter, scratchy truth. The scent of rejection, of mud on your shoes, of wild plants crushed without a second glance.

From the start, it bites. A sharp, piercing green — almost medicinal. You get dandelion, thistle, nettle — the kind of herbs no one puts in a bouquet. It’s fresh, raw, unapologetic, like wind sweeping across an abandoned field. Wild carrot brings a dusty, rooty dryness, while chamomile softens things just enough, like a quiet hand on your shoulder.

Then it shifts. The scent digs down into the earth. Hay and moss rise slowly, as if the countryside is reclaiming its place. It stays dry, a little scratchy, but now the heartbeat slows down. Less rage, more acceptance. And something elegant sneaks in: cistus, warm, faintly animalic, giving the rough edges a quiet dignity.

It lasts well, but never shouts. It fades slowly, like a memory you stop telling but never forget. A loyal, discreet, persistent presence.

Mal-Aimé is for those who find beauty in silence, in weeds, in off-road paths. A perfume for the overlooked, the ones who never got picked. And for those who one day realized that their strength was exactly that: being different.
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DrB1414

254 Reviews
DrB1414
DrB1414
3  
Not your average "green" perfume
A different kind of Green fragrance. That is how Mal-Aimé feels to me. It strikes me as a bone-dry, herbaceous, earthy perfume rather than your standard vegetal green. It feels like the juice dried up inside the shrubs. It also has this strong salty and musky aroma, which, alongside the earthiness, are most likely facets showcased by the main ingredient, the Fragrant Inula plant. The nettles come strongly in the opening, almost abrasive, but soon tame down. The blackberry accord is non-existent on my skin. It's just super dry and shrub-like, earthy, warm, salty, and musky for the whole time. I love it, but it's easy to see how it might be very challenging to wear and enjoy for most people. It might be Marc Antoine's most unique and most challenging perfume. Not the way Ruade, Tabac Tabou, or the cumin-loaded Oeilleres is, but in how vividly it evokes the aroma of sun-scorched meadows. For me, it is a deeply nostalgic scent, like all well-made agrestic perfumes. It makes me think of roaming the fields in Summer, napping and rolling in hay, and eating cooked baby nettles (an incredibly delicious local dish). Green? Not really. I think of it as herbaceous, earthy, arid, with zero sweetness. The salty and musky facets make it more alluring and interesting. Not only a highly unique and creative perfume but also a time portal in place and time for the right person. A must-try for agrestic perfume lovers.

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TonyB882

26 Reviews
TonyB882
TonyB882
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Des mauvaise herbes - quelle bonheur
This fragrance has a massive dose of what the French call which means "bad herbs" i.e. weeds, literally translated. As an avid gardener, I hate having to pluck out the weeds in my garden, however, I've always loved the green, sappy smell of the native species we have here in Massachusetts. This really captures that spirit, it's like sitting down to weed the garden on a warm summer afternoon. No geosmin, just lots of damp, crisp green lushness. It's fresh, green, spicy, with a teeny tiny powdery undertone. Absolutely phenomenal, as is anything produced by M. Corticchiato.
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Intersport

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Intersport
Top Review 32  
Un-
The L'Héritage Corse releases, meanwhile, define a coherent next round at Parfum d'Empire that, despite an older rewrite, perhaps only really and unambiguously started with Corsica Furisoa (2015). Many of the previous releases have always followed the pillars and little basics of perfumery with ample sophistication: Leather, amber, fougère interpretations, florals, citric, chypres: since Corsica Furisoa, the focus has been on idiosyncratic ingredients and terroir, gladly referring to specific distillations that reference Corticchiato's academic career - the researcher as author and vice versa. In the case of Mal-Aimé, this goes so far that the specialist whose know-how is behind the extraction of the central ingredient is also attributed a leading role in the narrative and construction of this perfume
Mal-Aimé, a charming, mischievous title that makes me think of Bel Ami backwards, or similar Romance word constructions for folkloric-unfinished-but-delicately-loved things like mal-assadas. Although Mal-Aimé, for all its green-ness, seems somehow familiar, its outstanding quality is how refreshingly unfamiliar, unscented and under-defined this perfume seems in large part. Mal-Aimé celebrates its un-: herbal clearly, but what of it exactly - leaf, stem, root, bleed, pollen included? Herb or flower? To smell such an un- is first and foremost a liberating pleasure.

The impossible as well as excellent image of a green immortelle from Profumo's statement is basically all it takes to get an idea of Mal-Aimé. Green walnut shells? Or as a detour via Corsica Furisoa, a complementary, passe piece, counterpart to Mal-Aimé that addresses many things inverted. If Corsica Furisoa is tangy, resinous-sour, bitter-high-percentage, and in the microtonal range more multifaceted, louder, and thanks to tomato leaf and mastic as a perfume also more familiar; Mal-Aimé is oily-voluminous, warm-bitter, digestive-like, more discrete, reduced-concentrated in construction, and above all, more unknown. Such spectral contrasts could be taken further; a certain fuzziness of this approximation will remain.

In high humidity, Mal-Aimé evaporates quite quickly and is extremely purposeful in its development: fresh attack with a subtle spirit note, this herbaceous-bitter and only briefly present before the volume becomes rounder, denser, warmer and stickier - a honeyed viscosity, similar to the sensation as the leaves of cistus in puntco 'stickiness'. The elecampane takes control, the iris root is somewhere part of the whole but mostly intangible and much remains wonderfully association-free.
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PeteRalon007

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Healthy weeds
(Background: Parfumos send me samples, I then test the perfumes sent without any knowledge and describe my response - that of an inexperienced dilettante)

Oh, not an easy candidate. In the masterfully accentuated top note, I am beguiled by what seems to be wood glaze with the beams of medieval half-timbered houses, framed by green gardens full of sensual celery and coriander, freshly harvested from dark, loamy earth - similar to JF by Floris. This is followed by a delicate, floral cloud. Oh God, flowers, my Achilles heel. When in doubt, everything except roses is always asters, a point that my wife regularly teases me about. Slightly sweet, waxy and somehow I imagine it smells like ambrette seeds and iris. Molecular in type and rather unusual fragrance art for the discerning exotic in the outer reaches of olfactory fetishism. Tends to be linear and leaves me feeling like I'm on a lonely, quiet country road or in the ruins of a castle in summer. Swallows included. After several hours, I am left with question marks and confusion. A composition reminiscent of country life, fresh vegetable crates from a natural stone organic farm and a bitter-nutty pinch of pepper. My money is on the signature scent of Fred Feuerstein!
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KuraiKurai 4 years ago
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8
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6
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A curious but realistic teleport to roadside weed fields. Nettles, thistles and all types of thorny bushes softened up by an iris note
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 4 years ago
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It opens with weed/nettle tea, very herbaceous and spicy. It also smells like hay with very little sweetness and iris that softens the scent
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SleepychypreSleepychypre 8 months ago
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Photorealistic haystack. Green hay getting a little dank, dry hay that’s warm & fragrant. Neat, but wish I got more unique Corsican plants.
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bleuparfaitsbleuparfaits 4 days ago
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6
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6.5
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The beginning reminds me strongly of gyokuro or a kabusencha, evolving to a more watery, cucumber-like scent later on.
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EastasiakEastasiak 8 months ago
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very green and a tad bitter
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MetaphysicalMetaphysical 10 months ago
8.5
Scent
This is unusual in a good way. Green, but dry instead of 'dewy.' Bitter, but still smooth. Lovely orris presence. Would be great in summer.
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BamBamNYCBamBamNYC 11 months ago
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Very bitter green that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Smells like yerba maté in the drydown.
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DressUpWitchDressUpWitch 1 year ago
Herbal, I suppose, but strongly resinous-sweet with a note of tart berries. A little medicinal.
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HolscentbarHolscentbar 1 year ago
8
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Beautiful spicy green, slightly bitter aftertaste, as if it were a light herbal liqueur. Handsome
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ErswanErswan 1 year ago
8.5
Scent
If you need a fragrance for summer gardening or a walk thru dry fields in hot sun with chirping bugs and long grass, this is the one.
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