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Les Classiques

Kismet Lubin 2016

Version from 2016

8.3 / 10 290 Ratings

A popular perfume by Lubin for women, released in 2016. The scent is spicy-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Powdery

Oriental

Sweet

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Petitgrain

Bergamot

Lemon

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Bulgarian rose

Rosa centifolia absolute

Base Notes

Bourbon vanilla

Opoponax

Labdanum

Perfumer

Thomas Fontaine

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Ratings

Scent

8.3290 Ratings

Longevity

7.8242 Ratings

Sillage

7.2242 Ratings

Bottle

8.2233 Ratings

Value for money

7.163 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 10/26/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Les Classiques collection.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Sublime

Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/20/2021

Hafshin
11 Reviews

Hafshin

3

Resinous and lovely

It starts with a soon to fade blast of citrus and roses with a creamy undertone. You would also get some greenness from petitgrain. It has a creamy and powdery vibe, which becomes more prominent as the first phase passes. There is also a resiny and ambery vibe available that would warm your nose, which I guess is from Opoponox and Labdanum. These notes with the addition of vanilla would also give it some sweetness which is under control and is not bothersome. After the passing of the middle part, you would lose the rose (or at least, it's like this on my skin). And what is left is a resinous and somewhat sweet scent till the end. This fragrance is pleasant, beautiful, and long-lasting.
Final Verdict:
Do you want a sort of unique for the cold weather?
Do you want a resinous scent with some controlled sweetness and a floral vibe which accompanies it till mid?
Then test this one and be the judge of its scent for yourself. I love it, so you might as well.

06/19/2025

Amelina
13 Reviews

Amelina

2

Easy classic

Never would have expected to fall for this one, but the bright citrus opening hooked me. The lemon stays and gets creamier and powdery, associated with a lovely vanilla.
It's more complex than what I just described, there's a resinous quality, light patchouli, something akin to the guerlinade.
But that citrus knits a thread throughout the whole evolution. It brightens the perfume, uplifts it, making it an oriental that I, the green /citrus / freshie lover, can wear.
It feels elegant but not stuffy, classic but not outdated, it has sillage and longevity like it's 1925.
Very glad to have met Kismet.

02/17/2022

9.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Leimbacher
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Leimbacher

Top Review 39

Destiny's Child

"Kismet" (2016) is w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l. There’s no other way to put it. A powdery dream from the upper Milky Way of perfumes. A classic, almost Guerlain-esque accord, simple and gentle. And in perfection.

Whether one wants to tell me that "Kismet" brings happiness or turns the fate of its wearer for the better - I would believe anything about this perfume! Gourmand touches, but never too dessert-like. Delicate yet strong in its character. Every single ingredient perfectly refined top quality. From the bergamot at the beginning to the barely-there patchouli in the heart to the underlying vanilla from milk glass as its backbone. Lemon cream in a pleasant way. Simply amazing. Every woman becomes Marilyn Monroe for a few enchanting hours. Or Grace Kelly. A grand spectacle!

Bottle: elegant, art-deco
Sillage: powdery restraint
Longevity: perfectly good 7-8 hours

Conclusion: "Kismet" can stand alongside Guerlain's greatest classics - which says everything about this royal powdery darling!

12/07/2020

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Ttfortwo
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Ttfortwo

Top Review 34

Relationship Status: It's Complicated.

Inspired by Sniffsniff's worthwhile comment, I started thinking about Kismet and why I don't wear it, even though I find it really beautiful, very beautiful indeed.

Well, I also don't wear Shalimar, at least not in the literal sense of "apply and go out on the street." But at home, for example, I wear the extrait from time to time as an emotional support and to maintain morale, because I find that Shalimar is demanding and edgy and wants to be observed attentively, thus keeping my mental activity lines nice and high.

Why I mention Shalimar: Because Kismet still comes across to me - no matter how much this is denied in the fragrance twin statements - as the well-mannered half-sister of the smoky and growling Guerlain oldies.

Kismet is round, soft, and much gentler, and it is certainly not a reissue of the old Kismet fragrance, but rather an interpretation of the old template with modern means, and that brings me to my Kismet dilemma.

The idea of "Kismet" smells distinctly older than the execution, it (the idea) actually has an unmistakable vintage signature. Some statements also clearly aim in this direction. But: The execution lacks a very important part of what makes a true vintage oriental for me, among other things, the beastly aspect. The underlying, sometimes delicately grim and edgy. Kismet is feather-light and beautiful, but it takes no risks at all; everyone will love it, as charmingly lemon-vanilla-cake-fluffy as it smells. One could also say that it is just a bit boring.

Furthermore, it unfortunately lasts disappointingly short on my skin. Well, my fragrance-eating skin is to blame for that.

On clothing, Kismet also doesn't last forever, but significantly longer; however, the pretty citrus top note is almost completely skipped, as are most floral aspects, and a very, very quickly established matte powdery, vanillic scent veil takes over, which is long-lasting but lacks significant recognition or uniqueness.

The relationship "Kismet and I" doesn't work, at least not convincingly enough; it's like my relationship with non-alcoholic sparkling wine or (much worse) non-alcoholic gin substitutes. In those cases, I prefer to skip it altogether.

Now, Kismet is relatively expensive, so I don't want to apply it "on the side." For the big moments, however, there is far too little fireworks for me.

03/21/2020

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Parfümlein
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Parfümlein

Top Review 34

Kismet - unfathomable fate in the mirror of a fragrance

I have the greatest difficulty not getting lost in "Kismet." This perfume belongs to the scents that make me absolutely nervous because they are just TOO good, making you want to constantly smell the perfumed spot on your body. I go completely crazy over the depth and complexity of the fragrance, hardly daring to stop sniffing for more than five minutes, as I might miss one of the numerous facets of this dream scent.
"Kismet" seems most distant to me right at the beginning in the top note. On one hand, it is beautifully citrusy, which I love, but on the other hand, I perceive very harsh, almost TOO spicy oriental spice notes. This strikes me as relatively harsh, yet also incredibly interesting. Anyone can do citrus - in "Kismet," the citrusy opening is a challenge and instantly catapults you to a Moroccan bazaar on a hot summer afternoon. As I said, the beginning is not even that beautiful, in my opinion. But then, with full force, an oriental-floral heart note unfolds, which I find absolutely wonderful and which gains some earthiness through a light patchouli background. I personally do not know centifolia, but I can clearly perceive that the rose is very, very spicy because the initial spiciness has made its way into the heart, and that the rose also has a slightly candied quality and brings a hint of marzipan; all of this is set against a curtain of patchouli - the rose indeed appears sweetly disguised as a mysterious Oriental in the theater. Wonderfully, the patchouli prevents a fresh-sweet body lotion tone from sneaking in here - on the contrary, its presence creates an incredibly serious, solemn depth. I find this to be an extraordinary artistic achievement.
When finally, at the end, a delicate sweet vanilla note appears, which I do not perceive as strongly as many have described it here, the initially harsh-spicy scent flows into a sweet paradise of seductive Arabian delicacies. The light almond note, which is still minimally recognizable in the base note, as well as the oriental sweetness of opoponax and the soft resinous tone of labdanum, turn the vanilla into a grand, mature fragrance that has nothing in common with the childishly peaceful sweetness of my beloved winter gourmands. This base note grants the heavenly calm of sweet fullness.
A truly extraordinarily beautiful scent that I love to wear especially in these bitter times. Because it is so complex, it constantly holds new surprises within it and prevents me from getting bored at home. Because it is so expressive and evokes some associations, it fuels my imagination and invites me to small daydreams between two work tasks. And because it is so wonderfully artistically designed, it feels so serious and mature, giving me the security I seek and miss in my current situation. Added to this is the incredibly beautiful bottle, which feels so heavy and precious in the hand. A fragrance that certainly deserves its name.

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