Coven Andrea Maack 2013

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7.8 / 10 183 Ratings

A popular perfume by Andrea Maack for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is earthy-green. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Earthy

Green

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Labdanum

Vanilla

Heart Notes

Oakmoss

Cedarwood

Base Notes

Clove

Galbanum

Perfumer

Céline Ripert

Ratings

Scent

7.8183 Ratings

Longevity

8.0146 Ratings

Sillage

7.1152 Ratings

Bottle

7.2122 Ratings

Value for money

7.241 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 03/20/2025.

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Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/06/2022

Mlleghoul
422 Reviews

Mlleghoul

4

A hungover Witch-King of Angmar

I’ve received so many samples of Andrea Maack's Coven from Luckyscent over the years and for some reason I can’t recall any of my previous thoughts on it....which I interpret to mean that it never really impressed me as especially good or bad. This time, however, it’s really left an impression. With notes of soil and moss, Coven is meant to embody a shadowy woodland walk, and I think it's clear the results are pretty divisive. One reviewer notes, and I am paraphrasing here, that it smells like dumpster juice. My own partner thinks it smells like an exploded car battery. I can’t deny that there is a sickly sweet rot at play here, like the dark shadows of Dol Guldur slowly encroaching the Greenwood forest as the feral wizard Radagast the Brown watches in horror while the vegetation blackens and decays before his eyes and many of his beloved animal friends are sick or dying. As it dries, the whiskey becomes apparent, and a strange, sour cumin note emerges to combine with the mossiness and the sense of black mold and mildew and it conjures a sort of hungover Witch-King of Angmar, badly in need of a bath.

11/22/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

2

And again...

Are you ready for the millionth sort of post-modern “soil-concrete” scent squeezing the desperate hell out of an idea which was barely enough for one scent? Yay. Coven opens with a particularly irritating smell of something halfway uncooked rice and damp paper on a rather confused sort of earthy-spicy-floral base accidentally spilled on wet soil. And so remains for a while. But when you’re almost ready to let the last bit of hope go, there’s a nice slow transition revealing a sort of weightless, synthetic floral-green heart with a warm albeit rather cheap sort of tobacco-infused designer woody-boozy feel (that reminds me so clearly of a scent I can’t remember at the moment – maybe Versace Man on steroids). Overall decent, but basically it evolves from a boring wannabe avantgarde thing, to a boring ordinary designer thing. Either it’s genius or...

5/10

05/13/2018

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Pigfarmer
11 Reviews

Pigfarmer

Helpful Review 2

rethinking green

coven is a superb abstract frag that says 'green' but forces one to reconsider what 'green' as a smell really means. it's damp but vibrant, woody but rather 'waterlogged' - mossy in a pond rather than on a tree - and weirdly resinous without any cliche ambery or liturgical references. rather than being a "millionth" iteration of whatever, coven is an fact quite original in approach for green and is one of maack's most appealing frags

11/15/2022

6
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 6
Scent

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

5

Dark soil

Sunshine does not exist in this place. This pitch-dark piece of soil is dampened by the rain and glowing from the slow but inevitable decay of undergrowth. Welcome to Coven.

Apart from an eerie first impression, this perfume has an odd choice of notes to achieve that effect as well as an interesting development over time. The opening combines vanillic-balsamic notes with a petrichor-type of earthy effect. This all is topped up with a dense layer of clove-oil. Quite a tough opening, to say the least.

Slowly some life seems to spring in the form of moss and galbanum. By the time these notes have fully emerged, that unsettling sensation of the opening has gone. And now somehow this blend of soil, dirt and decay actually starts to get.. uhm, well, comfortable! Who would have thought, huh!

It is safe to say that this is not an easy wear and really something you need to be in the mood for. I reckon it does well outdoors, especially on colder days.

01/13/2024

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Shpeeep
9 Reviews

Shpeeep

2

Mysterious cottage in the woods

I have a 2ml tester of this, recommended by a niche perfume store. On first spray, I was not expecting to smell cocoa butter and shea butter in an oil burner that has just a hint of residue left from some magnolia and complex woody essential oil blends deepened over years of use. To be honest I was a little trepidatious that this would be feminine with a hint of forest just for edginess but not really unisex at all, because of the name. But I can see why it's described as unisex, it smells like well moisturised skin and piping hot marsala wine in an old cottage kept fresh with thoughtful use of dried plants - and I can totally see some sensible witches being responsible for such a scenario. I am getting a lot more sweetness and oiliness and warm spice than I expected, and FAR less realistic botanical greenness or wood. The oakmoss comes through a tad, but not in the mossy forest bog creature way I guess I was hoping for. I definitely feel more like a mysterious suave ghost and an elegant cottage witch on a date on a warm autumn night than I feel like a genderless dryad. Initial drydown is slightly musky but still warm sweet butters. Must wait to see how it develops.

Edit: it develops into a hot oil bath infused with moss and lichen and sips on a sweet and ever-so-slightly bitter digestif, and it lasts reliably for 8-10 hours as a skin scent you (and anyone close enough to you) can huff when you need a mood lift of a hug-like boost of strength. It's not what I thought I was looking for, but it's one I would be delighted to add to my collection.

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