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Havana Aramis 1994 Eau de Toilette

7.9 / 10 348 Ratings

A popular perfume by Aramis for men, released in 1994. The scent is spicy-woody. It was last marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Earthy

Smoky

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Basil

Bergamot

Green notes Caraway

Caraway

Mandarin orange

Tarragon

Heart Notes

Tobacco

Carnation

Cinnamon

Fir

Geranium

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Base Notes

Musk

Patchouli

Amber

Leather

Oak bark

Sandalwood Vetiver

Vetiver

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumers

Nathalie Feisthauer, Xavier Renard

Ratings

Scent

7.9348 Ratings

Longevity

7.6285 Ratings

Sillage

7.2272 Ratings

Bottle

6.7275 Ratings

Value for money

8.588 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 10/25/2025.

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Reviews

39 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/22/2012

9Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Top Review 9

If This Is What Havana Smells Like I Really Would Love To Visit...

Oh yeah, now we are talking! Aramis Havana is an incredible scent indeed. It has so much going on I could not even begin to properly describe it effectively. That said, the best way I can think of to give a relatively good impression of what it smells like, is fresh rolled tobacco leaf used to wrap cigars mixed with bay rum and a hint of smoke. This is über masculine, and quite powerful. Quite frankly, Havana represents just about everything I love about wearing powerhouse scents. Definitely belongs in every man's collection and it is quite reasonably priced to boot. I love it so much, I just bought another bottle. 4.5 stars out of 5.

07/14/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Top Review 6

Celery Fougère

The re-released Gentleman’s Collection by Aramis is like a series of love letters from Estée Lauder to men. This line is top-notch and a spectacular synopsis of the history of Aramis. Other men’s fragrance lines should take note and be threatened.

Havana is an instance of more being better. The complexity makes for richness without confusion. Some dissonance, yes. Enough to keep a feeling of complexity from top to drydown. Actually the dissonance up top is a glorious riot. You can tell it’s a woody fragrance, but aldehydes, camphor, grapefruit? Is that celery?

Havana is also a great example of how the best Lauder perfumes can be well-considered nods to existing genres without simply being category-fillers meant to flesh out a line. Havana could be considered a fougère---there’s lavender and coumarin---but a bay rum fougère? A juniper fougère? A celery fougère? It also seems to have learned from the best of the men’s 80s powerhouse fragrances and is joyfully potent but not heavy.

In two respects I’ll differ with most reviewers comments. I don’t get tobacco. Booze, yes. Tobacco, no. And while most seem to see Havana as a warm scent, to me it stays camphorously cool from start to finish. Wait. Maybe that’s it. Is menthol cigarette listed as one of the notes on the Aramis site?

04/28/2015

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Avoirdupois
79 Reviews

Avoirdupois

Very helpful Review 4

Sí Señor!

Oh Boy! This is a serious, earthy "means business" man's cologne! This is one to intimidate.

Wear it confidently to the big game, to that poker match, club gathering, out on the town, to your board meeting. You'll impress, no doubt.

My only downer with Havana is the cinnamon content which I found a little high, but I am quite sensitive to this flavour, so it may not affect other men as much.

Havana is a masterful combination of oils which produce an invigorating immediate effect, carrying through a slightly flowery middle, to a fantastic woody, leathery, warm, smoky dry-down: a memorable fragrance in a perfectly-shaped fist-size bottle. Love it !

12/22/2014

Rickbr
190 Reviews

Rickbr

Helpful Review

My biggest surprise was discovering, when searching for its notes, that Havana was created in the 90 years, more precisely in 1994. If you don't know this detail, you quickly associate this perfume to the 80's, that time when masculine creations had a big, herbal and unsmilling aura. Maybe what makes the differente between the fragrances of this time and Havana is that it goes beyond the aroma of woods and dry herbs, it's a complex harmony of several elements around what links it to its name, the tobacco accord. This is a spicier and drier tobacco that becomes a little bit more sweet and boozy as the scent develop on skin. The opening is mainly herbal, it makes me think of perfume alcohol made of bitter leaves with something more sweet and citrus. This inicial moment reminds me of a brazillian classic of the eighties, Natura Sr N, but this resemblance goes as fast as i notice it, when i start to detect the dry and smoky combination of tobacco and fir, with a dry spicy aura of clove, cinnamon and carnation. Until this moment Havana is tipically for me on eighties lands, but from the heart until the base that things transform, when the tobacco starts to develop a vanilla and almondy side and a subtle liquer-ish tone, counterbalanced by an abstract and discreet woody accord. I don't know if this reformulated one i'm wearing is faithful to the original one, but it certainly has quality, keeping the connection with its name and i think it's worthing being tried if you enjoy fragrances with a more retro aura.

06/24/2021

6Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

8

Old school tobacco

Havana doesn't need a long prose full of stylish metaphors. He is a man of few words.

Funky moist tobacco.
Spicy at the top, woody-leathery in the end.
Uncomplicated, full of charisma.
Quorum without the sweat.
Brilliant.

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