4th Collection

Koh-i-Noor 2018

Koh-i-Noor by Areej Le Doré
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8.2 / 10 69 Ratings
A popular perfume by Areej Le Doré for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is animal-floral. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Animal
Floral
Oriental
Woody
Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Siberian deer muskSiberian deer musk Indonesian lemonIndonesian lemon
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Indian oudIndian oud Mysore sandalwoodMysore sandalwood Champaca flowerChampaca flower JasmineJasmine Tonka beanTonka bean Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang GardeniaGardenia PatchouliPatchouli
Base Notes Base Notes
BenzoinBenzoin Jasmine sambac absoluteJasmine sambac absolute TuberoseTuberose AmberAmber
Ratings
Scent
8.269 Ratings
Longevity
8.761 Ratings
Sillage
8.060 Ratings
Bottle
8.555 Ratings
Value for money
7.021 Ratings
Submitted by Ravenous, last update on 06/03/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance was part of the collection "4th Collection".

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Jotade

16 Reviews
Jotade
Jotade
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Koh i Noor
This is a huge, animalic floral oriental perfume. It opens up with Indonesian lemon combined with Siberian deer musk which gives a dirty vibe to the citrus. As it starts to dry down, the champaca, ylang ylang and jasmine sambac absolute appear on a base of Mysore Sandalwood and 30 year old Indian Oud. This is a nice scent which reminds me to Wallimah of Areej le Dore. Unisex perfume with good sillage and longevity.
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ClaireV

731 Reviews
ClaireV
ClaireV
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Buttery animalic floral chypre
Koh-i-Noor opens with a duvet-like whoosh of cheesy, stale musks that somehow manage to be saline and sweet all at once. Gardenia is probably responsible for the curdy, cream-cheesey saltiness, the Indian tuberose too. In general, I get the same ‘rancid floral butter’ impression as the wonderful lostinflowers by Strangelove NYC, which makes sense as lostinflowers also uses real gardenia absolute and an Indian attar approach to perfumery.

The florals, compressed into a big block of yellow butter, exhibit a texture greasy with costus, civet, and a goose fat facet that I can almost taste at the back of my throat. Like Oudh Infini (Dusita), the sensation is akin to swallowing creamy goat curd and getting that delayed response mechanism to the underlying funk, whereby you think at first, oh this is mild, but then that goat flavor starts to fill the back and sides of your mouth until there’s no room for anything else. Honestly, I’m both repulsed and attracted.

There’s an interesting dual texture thing going on, though. The oily costus-musk and big ole block of Indian floral butter is backlit by a hugely powdery rose or jasmine nag champa note. The dance back and forth is fascinating; sometimes you tune into the sweet powder, sometimes the scalpy wetness is all you can smell. The musks and florals smell expensive, luxurious – but the nag champa note is sweetly, cheaply powdery, like when you put your nose too closely to a stick of Indian incense and inhale too deeply, getting particles of incense dust in your nose hairs. This lurch between expensive and cheap is the real hook here. It’s what reels me in, making me sniff myself compulsively throughout the day.

Koh-i-Noor shares something of Chypre Palatin’s civety funk and powdery floral, but in truth, I find it to be far closer to vintage, pre-reform Gold Man (Amouage). I once worked with a guy who was drop dead gorgeous, but whose personal hygiene was so poor that every time he’d lean forward at a meeting, a waft of unwashed crotch, pasted down in several layers of deodorizing powders and sprays, would drift upwards to my nose. Gold Man, the vintage version at least, squirrels after much the same effect, which is to say it layers oppressively powdery musks and florals over a deeply funky base of unwashed crotch. However, Koh-i-Noor distinguishes itself from this company by way of that floral nag champa note. It’s the dance between the expensive (cream cheesey) musks and cheap, fizzy headshop incense powder that makes Koh-i-Noor such a fascinating fragrance. It’s the most interesting scent in the 4th generation of Areej Le Dore fragrances, although on a personal level, its constant lurch between greasy and dusty leaves me feeling a little queasy.

The far drydown is where the naturally powdery sweetness of the deer musk comes through, and fleshed out with sweet amber and florals, it smells incredibly moreish, chocolatey even. If you’re like me and love the collected smells of the incense aisle of your local Asian shop, the air thick with the powdery scent of individual nag champa sticks, musk cubes, cheap barkhour, and the entire range of Al Rehab oils, opened and sniffed by customers before you, then you’ll find 75% of Koh-i-Noor to be comforting and familiar. The stuffy, greasy wall of musk and florals at the start will be less familiar and even off-putting; but if you’re a fan of the powdered floral funk of the musks in vintage Gold Man, then you’ll be able to take the opening hour in your stride too.
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Maggy4u

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Maggy4u
Top Review 17  
Jewel In A Bottle
When I first read the name of the fragrance, Koh-i-noor, a few of my synapses fired with images from my childhood. This name was always emblazoned on a small metal box with pins of my grandma. Made in Czechoslovakia. It is obvious that Nikhil, alias Perfume Guru, probably didn't refer to these pins when he found the name. The legendary Koh-i-noor diamond gave the name to the diamond. Translated, the Mountain of Light. The epitome of worldly power, which many rulers of the past liked to claim as ornamental to their heads, just as they sometimes even lost their lives for it. Its eventful history has been well documented since 1300 and ends in the Tower of London, where who is exhibited as part of the Crown Jewels. Just a copy, of course.

A unique specimen and absolutely no copy, is the jewel of the same name of Areej le Doré. Planned Floraler Orientale to represent the roots of the diamond, Koh-i-Noor turns out to be Chypre. For the further consideration, simply forget the pyramid please.

The start with the warm opulence of musk and the incredibly realistic lemon is in itself a poem. Very quickly, perfectly coordinated floral components are added, which interlock so finely that it is difficult to work out one of the players at all. At this moment, however, very strongly pictures of one of my current favorites impose themselves on me. Haute Luxe by Roja. Although Roja is a little more flowery and lacks the complexity of musk in an understandable way, the two are still close in their ideas.

Koh-i-noor manages to present not only a reference to a (at least) 800-year-old diamond myth, but also an almost classic fragrance. I would even go so far as to take a look into the past (but also the present) of perfume art because of the low-scale perfumery. Thus all fragrances were composed in Grasse times or in the Orient. Made from natural ingredients. Far away from restrictions and species protection, which above all had to confront the mass market.

If this fragrance was more of a question mark for me, he picked me up completely. I can fully recommend it to anyone who likes floral chypre. But he's not really oriental. Which makes me very happy. :)

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Rosie88

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Fiery and wild
Koh-i-Noor, the diamond, bright, sparkling, precious...

The opening of Koh-i-Noor is intense, strong and anal sounds surround me, quite dirty, but not "stinky"...

...the Indian oud and the Siberian musk seem to have mated... for me the openig is already a bit "below the belt", but I like it ;-)

To perceive finely is also something sparkling-citric, but really only very fine and enigmatic... the animalistic dominates in excess...

Later, I perceive distinct jasmine sounds... not the lovely jasmine, no rather this jasmine, which many people cannot stand, the animalistic wild jasmine... She is not "pissed off", no simply animalistic and wild ...

Then, a little later, a warm suppleness emerges, woody, creamy, slightly resinous... but always with the "animal" in the foreground...

This way the scent will last for a long time...

The scent is what I would call animal resinous with a delicate floral undertone...
Not sweet, not smoky, not spicy and also not oriental...

For all those who don't like animalics, here is some caution and for all others - go for the "horny" stuff ;-))

But the fragrance should be dosed rather sparingly . it is really "wild" ;-))
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Verbeene

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Verbeene
Verbeene
Very helpful Review 10  
flowers of paradise
wild animals. peaceful together. clean, flowery air. clarity inside and out.
the memory of paradise we all probably still carry within us - in this fragrance it becomes tangible and alive.

the opening is passionately fresh: like cold air, which immediately stretches to the root of the nose and opens the nose wide inside.
under this almost austere fresh and bright expanse, softer tones vibrate: flowers of great delicacy: so skilfully fused together that no single flower is pushed into the foreground. oud only as a barely perceptible darkening of the flood of flowers.
while the scent warms and gilds inside, the deer musk on the outside creates a subtly animalistic expanse and austerity.
i feel reminded of "siberian musk" and find here a gentle, rather female opposite pole.
a composition as artistic as it is natural, dazzling and mysterious.
unsuitable for "cladding"
a scent for truth seekers
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