Habik Men Lattafa 2025

This fragrance is well-deserved for its popularity. It features a spicy opening with a pleasant herbal note, likely due to the Artemisia. The longevity is impressive, and the dry down transitions into a smooth blend of sweet woody notes. This fragrance offers a more mature alternative to a scent like Spicebomb and is not synthetic. The bottle is aesthetically pleasing, although the plastic decorations appear to be fragile and are glued onto the bottle. The atomizer functions effectively. Six spritz on direct skin provides a lasting fragrance that can last up to nine hours with a two-hour strong projection. When sprayed on clothing, the fragrance can last for days. It is likely inspired by a discontinued fragrance from JPG, which explains its appeal. This fragrance is a safe and enjoyable choice for those who appreciate spicy scents.

I'm not a fougere guy at all, but this changed my taste.

The lavender in this stands out a lot but not soo much as to make it a full barbershop chokehold. The woody notes make the lavender creamy and smooth, and its soo addictive, this might be the best oriental release by lattafa recently. This can be used as a daily driver and is signature scent worthy.

10/10 would recommend.

As always, don't blind buy; always try a decant; smell good!

Spicy, sweet, green goodness. Long lasting warm-spicy gentleman's fragrance. I loved this from the start. Really surprised me how much I like it. I get a bit of an musky-animalic in the top note and I'm not sure how that works, but I sure do like it. It's a mild animalic note and doesn't last too long. The spicy green notes blend well with the sweet-creamy notes. I haven't compared it to PG version but have heard this is as good are better and is it's on character have has many similarities to JG. People like the clones but I always thought it's good to be different and do things with a twist no matter what you try to duplicate or replicate. I mean who follows a recipe to 100% as written? I don't.

I was waiting on this fragrance for about a year and just didn't get to it. I kind of hoped it would turn out more aromatic or airy from the artemisia and the sage but that's not what this is, and I think it's better for it.

Habik starts, without sugarcoating it, abrasive. It's a blast of pepper spice with a bit of greeness as an undercurrent, it's interesting to smell as an opening, but it definitely isn't for everyone. Luckily that harsh opening eventually smooths out. Around 20 mins the spice begins to dial down and a slightly sweet, slightly floral scent takes over that helps round out the rough edges of the opening. Over the next 15-30 mins it's in this perfect transition between the opening and heart where the fragrance is spicy, a bit creamy and a bit sweet. Overtime the spice begins to settle more and more until around an hour-ish it's a soft undercurrent, and what takes its place is this really addictive soft, slightly woody, creamy and in my opinion a relatively easy-to-wear base around autumn and winter. A base that otherwise, I wouldn't have expected to come out the other side of that opening.

Longevity and projection are beasts here, I've worn it a few times so far, and a couple times over the weekend where I could still smell it on my forearms the next day. My only complaint is that the spice isn't so obvious in the dry down, but other than that this is easily one of my favourites.

After some rather average fragrances from Lattafa recently, one of the largest and best-known Arabic perfume houses has once again released a scent that can be seen and smelled!

The well-known model is the now discontinued "Le Mâle Essence de Parfum | Jean Paul Gaultier," and Lattafa captures it quite well. The DNA is definitely clear and recognizable, even if the fragrance pyramid suggests something different.

For those who are not familiar with "Le Mâle Essence de Parfum | Jean Paul Gaultier," here’s a little fragrance classification:
I would categorize the scent as very distinctively woody-leathery. Light herbal and barbershop vibes resonate and give the fragrance a very masculine aura.
"Habik Men | Lattafa / لطافة" handles the theme just as well and only deviates slightly in nuances from the original. In a direct comparison, I find "Habik Men | Lattafa / لطافة" to be a bit less sweet; otherwise, I can’t identify any major differences.

The performance and longevity are also on the same level as "Le Mâle Essence de Parfum | Jean Paul Gaultier."
The scent lasts a good 7-8 hours on the skin, and on clothing, it can linger for several days!

I like the fragrance DNA of Le Mâle Essence de Parfum and am pleased that "Habik Men | Lattafa / لطافة" has created a worthy successor.