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Liam
ليام
Lattafa 2023

Ranked 79 in Unisex Perfume

8.1 / 10 2004 Ratings

A popular perfume by Lattafa for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is creamy-sweet. It is being marketed by Lattafa Perfumes Industries LLC.
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Main accords

Creamy

Sweet

Spicy

Powdery

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cardamom

Black tea

Fig

Heart Notes

Labdanum

Iris

Vetiver

Base Notes

Vanilla

Sandalwood

Tonka bean

Patchouli

Ratings

Scent

8.12004 Ratings

Longevity

7.71891 Ratings

Sillage

7.31878 Ratings

Bottle

7.01855 Ratings

Value for money

9.21840 Ratings

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What the fragrance is similar to

Gris Charnel Eau de Parfum

Gris Charnel Extrait

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Reviews

131 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/02/2025

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

okayzac
18 Reviews

okayzac

Top Review 5

Punching above it’s weight class

Liam taught me that fragrance doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive. I’ve always known this, but this was the first affordable fragrance that truly delivered the same punch as a luxury bottle for me.

While I do think Gris Charnel is the nicer fragrance and wears better throughout the day, the difference feels marginal—certainly not enough to justify spending 10 times the price.

Wearing one on each arm, I can tell them apart. Liam has a slightly synthetic sweetness, whereas Gris Charnel feels smoother and more natural. Liam starts with warm figgy tea notes but transitions quickly to a synthetic sweet musk and vanilla. In contrast, Gris Charnel maintains more of a true tea scent that lingers. I’ve read that Liam might be closer to the extrait version of Gris Charnel, and based on these differences, I can see why. Overall, Liam feels slightly more linear, less exciting. But hey it was less than $30.

On that note, Liam’s longevity leaves a little to be desired—I often want to respray halfway through the day. However, its sillage is decent. Maybe leaving it sit for a while will increase longevity. Could also help take some of the synthetic smell off the top.

Maybe I don’t have the most refined nose to pick apart every nuance, but Liam is close enough and makes me happy. Most importantly, it doesn’t give me buyer’s remorse. I blind bought it, and it’s been my best blind buy yet.

Updated on 03/02/2025

05/22/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

Very helpful Review 6

Lovely, brightly-spiced fig tea with a dash of milk

Though famously a dupe of Gris Charnel, I love this as a perfume in its own right – it is a bright, citrusy green fig leaf brewed in rubbery black tea, with the masculine prickle of cardamom and a cooling veil of icy iris milk straight from the fridge. Both aromatic and creamy, I feel like a lighter version of myself when I wear it. Woodier than the original Gris Charnel and sweeter than Gris Charnel Extrait, it straddles a happy middle ground that is not so one or the other than you feel guilty for wearing a dupe.

Further, unlike Gris Charnel Extrait, which unspools into a messy, synthy woodsy affair upon reaching the four hour mark, Liam Grey holds on to its smooth quality until the bitter end. It smells like the milky masala chai I drink from a local coffee house. Perfumes like Liam Grey make me think someone at Lattafa has realized that not everything they turn out have to have that rubbery synth edge for a perfume to be beautiful and long-lasting. I would never spend BDK prices of a bottle of Gris Charnel, partially because I already own a scent in the same genre (Remember Me by Jovoy) and partially because I think only Caron has the right to charge over 300 euros for a genuine extrait (though I wouldn’t pay Caron prices for the state of Caron output these days). But I was and am happy to take a 25 euro gamble on a bottle of Liam. For me, it is a ridiculously high return on investment for a scent that gives me everything that the original does.

07/11/2024

10Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

SubtleMIG
4 Reviews

SubtleMIG

Very helpful Review 3

Iris by Liam

Instant favourite. The first spray out of the bottle had me worried for a moment. It wasn't necessarily bad, but it was extremely alcoholic and an overload of synthetic notes that reminded me of the chemical cloud in a barber shop or a hothouse. A bit of both I guess. I'm not always that good in naming familiar smells accurately. I also somehow keep thinking that this is what I always imagine YSL fragrances smell like until I try them on and get a migraine. No hate; so far their stuff just hasn't been for me.

What stands out the most—what I'm able to tell apart—is the combination of fig, black tea, cardamom, tonka bean, vanilla and iris. The iris in particular is perfection here. I don't mind when iris is overpowering as it can be in some really great scents. Here it is not that though. After the opening, which is still alcoholic, but in a really great heady, intoxicating kind of way the iris sits at the front and center. Instead of stealing the show at the expense of what else this fragrance has to offer though, it electrifies it. Like what bubbles do to a lemonade it gives this fizzy quality to the whole thing.

I've bought quite a few cheapies this year and this with Lattafa's Al Noble Ameer have been my absolute favourites. For me the performance has been pretty good with this one. I feel this was just made for my skin. It starts to get weaker after a few hours sure, but it's still very much perceptable after that. It just doesn't project super loudly, which I kinda prefer. Also, after it's only perceptable as a skin scent I feel it is pretty strong in that department. You will know it's there over twelve hours easy—as a softer patchouli scent. It is
simply a lovely scent from start to finish.

Oh, and it's definitely a Liam not a Noel.

12/13/2025

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

MagicMeiko
31 Reviews

MagicMeiko

Very helpful Review 3

A great alternative to BDK's Gris Charnel for EVERYONE

This Lattafa fragrance is one of their best and does a couple of things better than the fragrances from bdk, but also some things less than the originals.

Positives:
• A lot cheaper than the bdk perfumes
• Focuses more on the creamy and sweet aspects of this scent profile that you feel more in Gris Charnel Extrait
• by making the spices less pronounced it removes that typical "spicy men's fragrance" vibe that some people might get from Gris Charnel Eau de Parfum and makes this much more unisex

Negatives:
• it's less tea-forward than Gris Charnel Eau de Parfum and Gris Charnel Extrait
• while the fig is there, you easily get noseblind to it, making the wearing experience less fruity
• it's less spicy and focuses more on creaminess and sweetness

But at the end of the day, Liam is my personal favorite out of the three mentioned perfumes. It's cheap, performs really well and does the "creamy fig and black tea" trick really well. By toning down that bite from Gris Charnel Eau de Parfum it makes this perfume feel much smoother and softer, allowing virtually anyone to wear this perfume and feel comfortable with it. Chapeaux, Lattafa!

(Also bdk's owners are douchebags, don't buy their perfumes. Get this instead!)

01/06/2025

9.5Scent 10Longevity 9Sillage

RoelW
1 Review

RoelW

Helpful Review 3

Gorgeous after a month of maceration

This perfume has been such a pleasant surprise! I came upon this perfume because I was intrigued by a description I read of Gris Charnel. I read online that Liam Grey was a good dupe, and because the price was very low I just bought it without thinking it over. When it arrived and I put it on I definitely thought it was an interesting scent that was unlike any perfume I owned. I definitely liked it, but I was not in love with it though. The scent was a little too... sharp, and I missed some of the creaminess that I read in different reviews. What else I read in certain reviews was that this perfume, like many arab perfumes, needed some maceration to fully bloom.

Therefore, I left the bottle alone for over a month and I kind of forgot about it, until I picked it back up today. I sprayed it on and immediately I liked it so much better than before, the creaminess was absolutely present and everything smelled like a beautiful blend of spiciness and creaminess, like the best chai latte you'd ever drink. Furthermore, when my supervisor came into the office I was working in, she immediately said that someone was wearing an amazing perfume as she kept smelling the air. I was a little embarrassed because I never wanted to overspray at my work, but she told me it was an amazing scent and it was not too overwhelming at all. I am writing this review about ten hours later, and I can still smell this scent on my wrist and it is still amazing. One of my best purchases ever!

Updated on 01/06/2025

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