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Musk Collection

Forbidden Flower Areej Le Doré 2024

7.9 / 10 128 Ratings

A new perfume by Areej Le Doré for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is citrusy-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Citrus

Floral

Animal

Spicy

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Grapefruit

Hemp flower

Skunk accord

Heart Notes

Jasmine sambac

Night-blooming jasmine

Sandalwood

Base Notes

Indonesian lime

Turmeric

Benzoin

Cedar

Coriander

Ginger

Patchouli

Vetiver

Vanilla

Ratings

Scent

7.9128 Ratings

Longevity

8.2113 Ratings

Sillage

7.6114 Ratings

Bottle

9.2109 Ratings

Value for money

7.485 Ratings

Submitted by Jakobkn, last update on 11/23/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Musk Collection collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Siberian Musk III

Afrikaan Botany

My Village and Siberian Musk

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/30/2024

9Scent

Holscentbar
105 Reviews

Holscentbar

2

Resinous and musky flowers

I believe this is one of the most versatile works in the musk collection. It opens green, resinoid cannabis (the most realistic ever tried) like having a bud in your hand, to become at times more musky and sparkling. The evolution looks like a green cola with a slightly dark, light indolic flower background. Everything is truly balanced and slightly creamy given by the sandalwood at the end where the more musky animal part that was present at the opening magically emerges to my nose. I could place this as SM's brother but less animalic and with a similar sparkling structure

05/22/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

2

Skunky solvent oud

Forbidden Flower is not a flower and ‘forbidden’ is all wrong too because that is a word that promises something naughty but nice. This is not nice. Vibe: Industrial waste but make it grape-flavored. I have worn Forbidden Flower on the skin exactly one time and that was still once too many. I am smelling it now again from a paper strip in the hope that I can figure out – in a more rational manner – what exactly it is about this thing that makes it so traumatizing. I mean, technically, I know it must be the skunk. But why.

This is a deeply disturbing scent. In the opening notes, the aroma of fruity green leaves and milkweed mixes with the inorganic fumes of acetone, mouthwash, mercury, and what I can only describe as the liquid from a leaky battery. The fumes are so potent that I feel light-headed and more than a bit high. It smells both like the school supplies closet (solvents, paper, magic markers) and a long-abandoned farmstead with metal farm machinery rusting away between the weeds and ditches that a family of wild cats or indeed skunks have marked repeatedly as their personal pissing patch.

This mix of organic and inorganic stinks is deeply original but unpleasant, in a similar vein to M/Mink by Byredo (which Forbidden Flower does not resemble at all except in its metallic weirdness). It eventually dries down to a rubbery, latexy accord technically assembled by a doughy benzoin, patchouli, and cedar but the blackest myrrh in all but name. This sort of thing – vaguely similar to Narcotico (Meo Fusciuni), But Not Today (Filippo Sorcinelli) and Vierges et Toreros (Etat Libre d’Orange) in that they are all dark, bloody-metallic takes on the cedar/patchouli leather theme – is just stomach turning to me, even if at an intellectual level I admit that it is original and high concept.

09/10/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Antro
32 Reviews

Antro

1

Deception.

Its decepts you like nothing else. the hemp plant tempts you but you are not sure should you, but the hemp is decepting you with this amazingly fresh grapefruit. the hemp is covered top to bottom on this juicy grapefruit juice and you give in.

the first few hours are hemp and grapefruit juice and the skunk is there but its not the main player in there. its not even super animalic or fecal.

As it dryes the florals and base notes start to play the main role. the grapefruit has faded but the hemp is still in there. it has done 180 degrees turn and its totally different. im not biggest fan of citrusy stuff but this is something i truely would see ending up on my shelf at some point.

09/25/2024

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Evannell
38 Reviews

Evannell

1

Forbidden Flower

I might not be familiar with the actual forbidden flower's smell. What i get at the opening is mashed white flowers' petals. Mostly jasmine. And then something rubbery comes to the surface. Gets a bit toilet-like, yet not in a bad manner. Almost sexual. Wow. Some turmeric/ginger vibe is floating in the background. What i love the most is this really natural feel. One of a kind.

03/21/2024

8Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

Mads361
9 Reviews

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Mads361

Very helpful Review 12

The Forbidden Plant

The name says it all

The scent has been extremely interesting to me since the announcement of the name, as I suspected a use of hemp. An absolute novelty at ALD, according to Russian Adam. That this step is quite bold is, I think, obvious. But I take my hat off. The execution shines in all its facets.

The forbidden plant grows beyond itself. The Hemp-Oil is clearly noticeable and sneaks through every room and into every nose.
The grapefruit is also distinctly perceptible. But not overly sour. I would say it’s zesty-bitter. The color scheme has also been beautifully adopted here.
Orange-golden, the bottle radiates an idea of cool summer evenings.
Together with lime, ginger, and turmeric, it’s a spicy fresh adventure in the woods.
Flowers sprout from the earth.
In the bushland, a skunk stumbles by, leaving a hint of its fragrant aroma. The animal is clearly perceptible, yet in no unpleasant way, as one might assume given the animal.

In the drydown later, I also perceive a bit of vanilla and imagine smelling slightly damp, sweaty moss.

I think I will experience quite a bit with this scent in the approaching season, and I am glad that Forbidden Flower will accompany me on my journeys.
In my opinion, it is definitely worth a try if you appreciate high quality and new things, and if Siberian Musk III is a familiar scent to you. Because one thing is definitely certain, you will hardly find anything comparable. It is unique and outstanding.

The bottle and craftsmanship, like with the classics, and admittedly, already familiar, are top-notch. The presentation is impressive.
Instead of a golden cap and plaque, now in black. Strikingly simple and mysterious. The font suggests ancient diaries and documents from long-lost times. It just fits.

A scent, so mysterious and powerful.

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Statements

41 short views on the fragrance

MrIDK

20 days ago

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

6

Candy like lemon opening, has a slightly animalic tinge; vague chocolate in the background.
Musky base becomes more apparent in the drydown.

FashionFrag

6 months ago

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

3

It stinks so nicely!
On one side you got grapefruit, white florals. The other, animals, cannabis. Underrated ALD

Holscentbar

2 years ago

9Scent

3

Green and floral, crisp like cola and citrusy with spice! Wow

Escentually

2 years ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

2

Green 7-up & resinous cannabis opening, indolic narcotic jasmines mid w sweet vanilla & creamy sandal base. Hypnotizing

Omarareej

9 months ago

9.5Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

1

As citizen of the Netherlands I’m known with the scent of hemp. I can tell you this is a very natural green weed perfume. I’d recommend it!

AlexD76

1 year ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

1

A complex blend of notes, from the skunky top to the woody base, evokes the untamed wilderness.

Seejungfrau

2 years ago

6.5Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

52

83

Grapefruit bitterness seeps through an Asian-inspired, insubstantial summer pallor.
Floral and milky, whisked together.
Airy and rubbery.
Skunk degraded.

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Eggi37

2 years ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

48

82

Under bright citrus sun
With pretty jasmine on
LemonHaze & chill
Skin sweats musky
Zesty-sour
Grapefruit spritzer cools down

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Floyd

2 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

47

43

Grape-eyed fur animal
Herb-spicy leather
The path through withered
Carrion flower petals
Attractant trail
In earth wood chips
Of delicate smoked woods

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