Ana Abiyedh Rouge Lattafa / لطافة
Smells like 540 BUT...
So i bought this recently (June 2020) from a seller on Ebay for roughly £15 GBP. Having owned a few cheap frag's from Arabian houses i was hopeful for this one since the comparisons between it and 540 are so close and that is an expensive frag to go buying...
After it arrived i sprayed it a couple of times onto a card, and then a couple more onto my skin... I left it a few minutes but i must say even from application i couldn't really get any significant smell from the bottle. Nothing was being picked up by my nose.
10 minutes later, i tried the card.... nothing (literally smelt of nothing). So i went to my skin, i got the faintest (and i mean faintest) scent of BR540. Considering i'd sprayed it 10 minutes earlier onto fresh clean skin, i am baffled how anyone can say this performs in any way whatsoever. No projection. No sillage. No anything to be honest.
Yes - smell is subjective... but come on... i've honestly had room diffusers more noticeable than this scent. Plus my partner also commented she couldn't smell it unless she got really really close to my skin.
Considering this says its a Parfum concentrate, It's such a shame. The traces that i can detect are 95% original to 540 profile and for the price if this performed this would be an absolute gem to have in your collection.
Maybe its my skin, maybe its the batch (mine says its from Jan 2020), maybe its maybelline?!... who knows.
I've contacted the seller i got this from to check if they've had any similar issues from buyers or not. But from this experience i'd say buying this bottle is a 50/50 gamble, and i'd try and buy from an e-tailer as you may be more able to get credit or a refund if you buy a bottle and find it to be nothing but coloured odourless water.
After it arrived i sprayed it a couple of times onto a card, and then a couple more onto my skin... I left it a few minutes but i must say even from application i couldn't really get any significant smell from the bottle. Nothing was being picked up by my nose.
10 minutes later, i tried the card.... nothing (literally smelt of nothing). So i went to my skin, i got the faintest (and i mean faintest) scent of BR540. Considering i'd sprayed it 10 minutes earlier onto fresh clean skin, i am baffled how anyone can say this performs in any way whatsoever. No projection. No sillage. No anything to be honest.
Yes - smell is subjective... but come on... i've honestly had room diffusers more noticeable than this scent. Plus my partner also commented she couldn't smell it unless she got really really close to my skin.
Considering this says its a Parfum concentrate, It's such a shame. The traces that i can detect are 95% original to 540 profile and for the price if this performed this would be an absolute gem to have in your collection.
Maybe its my skin, maybe its the batch (mine says its from Jan 2020), maybe its maybelline?!... who knows.
I've contacted the seller i got this from to check if they've had any similar issues from buyers or not. But from this experience i'd say buying this bottle is a 50/50 gamble, and i'd try and buy from an e-tailer as you may be more able to get credit or a refund if you buy a bottle and find it to be nothing but coloured odourless water.
Ndlennon