Iris Malikhân Maison Crivelli 2020

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7.8 / 10 456 Ratings

A popular perfume by Maison Crivelli for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is powdery-floral. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Sweet

Leathery

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Orris butter Amber

Amber

Galbanum absolute Leather

Leather

Mastic

Musk

Vanilla

Cypress

Mimosa absolute

Perfumer

Marc Zini

Ratings

Scent

7.8456 Ratings

Longevity

8.0387 Ratings

Sillage

7.5389 Ratings

Bottle

7.5348 Ratings

Value for money

7.0276 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 09/11/2025.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Italian Leather Eau de Parfum

Copper

Iris Ebène

La Baguette

Irish Leather Eau de Parfum

Dior Homme Intense (2011)

Reviews

22 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/26/2022

9
Pricing 9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Artistscent
18 Reviews

Artistscent

Very helpful Review 8

This is a human perfume, incredibly warm and accepting.

Orris butter is the heart of Iris Malikhân, complimented by a mastic note.

Mastic derives from the mastic tree and hardens in tear-shaped droplets like countless other resins. It has had multiple uses traditionally, something to chew on to relieve bad breath or to enjoy for its bitter then pine-like flavour, as painting varnish, as a stabilizer in loukhoum (in which the flavour is expressed as a terpenic cloud of sweet, fluffy goodness), in desserts, in preparing smoked foods, in beverages, ice cream, as well as in an important holy ointment in ecclesiastical matters.

In Iris Malikhân, mastic is represented in all of its facets, the perfume can be sweet, paying tribute to its use in desserts, but also smokey at times, having a roasted quality that pays homage to its use as a means of spiritual communication.

Bitter, green facets of galbanum poke out through during the heart phase, weaving in with the mimosa, cypress oil and the mastic. Mimosa is an inspired note, powdery, slightly green with woody nuances which tie in with everything going on in this perfume.

The sweet and bitter notes create an interplay in the perfume, the amber winning out as the two sides twist together. It lays the groundwork for the leather accord that comes out in the drydown, creating the smoky aspects of the composition.

Iris Malikhân is complex, a marriage of elements swirling in synchronization; they sweep you away to a landscape of irises blooming in an arid field next to mastic trees gleaming with pearlescent tears, the heat of the desert sun warming your heart.

01/19/2025

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Raluko111
362 Reviews

Raluko111

5

Dark Chocolate Iris

Now I love me some iris and the first 20-30 minutes of Iris Malikhan are everything I could have asked for and more: a dark, bitter, chocolatey, leathery iris that has my nose glued to my wrist. What an unusual combination! Maison Crivelli is a house that really puts a lot of thought and passion into its perfumes and everything I have tried so far has made me curious enough to order their entire discovery set. Unfortunately, the dry down of Iris Malikhan is such a let down! The iris disappears, giving way to the most common place vanilla. Now I don`t hate vanilla or anything, but the contrast to that amazing opening is too disappointing. Sigh.

06/10/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

Helpful Review 2

Charred orris ice-cream

Iris Malikhân is immediately two things. It is a leather bundle charred in the grate, so smoky and bitter it short circuits to the word ‘chemical’ in my mind. But equally, it is a thick iris-vanilla cream that fills the room with a haunting sweetness. It took me ages to figure out that second is causally linked to the first. Unwrap the scorched, blackened skin of the leather bundle, blowing on your fingers for relief, and you reveal the slightly singed, chalky orris roots that lie within, the violence of the char the catalyst to releasing those cocoa-thickened vanilla spores.

For six months, I have struggled mightily with the burnt part of Iris Malikhân. I believed that it was just like any number of other sweetened iris-suede scents out there – Dior Homme Intense (Dior), Bois d’Iris (Van Cleef & Arpels), Vanille d’Iris (Ormonde Jayne) and so on – just not as good or at least more ‘on trend’ in its use of those intrusive liquid smoke aromachemicals that brands like Maison Martin Margiela, seem to be so fond of.

Funnily enough, it was all those upvotes on Fragrantica for Iris Malikhân smelling like Dior Homme Intense that made me revisit the perfume and try to reframe it for myself. Because that comparison definitely doesn’t tell the full story. I’ve smelled Dior Homme knockoffs before (like D600 by Carner Barcelona) and there is more artistry and kink in this one’s little finger than in all of those. The weird Pastis-like note of artemisia or mastic upfront makes this clear.

The moment I was able to mentally reclassify the harshness of the opening accord as part and parcel of a leather tanning process – which in and of itself involves chemicals – was when the clouds cleared and Iris Malikhân clicked for me. Whereas before I was gritting my teeth through one part to get to the other, I now experience the fragrance as a whole, where the tanning chemical front end is key to unlocking and releasing the full fatness of that licorice crème anglaise, infusing it with a hint of anise, bitter chocolate, and woodsmoke. If I squint, I just about get leather. Heck, I can sometimes make out the shape of the purported orris root. But like Dior Homme Intense, Iris Malikhân is so much more than a sum of its parts.

01/16/2025

6
Pricing 5
Sillage 9
Longevity 7.5
Scent

LastWonder
484 Reviews

LastWonder

3

Iris Isn't the Main Character

This fragrance has a pervasive creaminess that kinda smothers everything. Its not a gourmand vanilla cream, more like an expensive lotion that adds a soft and sweet quality to everything. Its leather gloves that are worn by a woman who wears designer lotion. Its a dark chocolate that is just shy of being too bitter. Its a little bit of peppery spice but the bite it taken out of it. This is a good fragrance but I expected Iris to be the main character, not the vanilla.

This fragrance lasted all day, about 7 hours on my skin. This is an aromatic fragrance that turns into mostly a skin scent. It costs 117€ for 30ml and 247€ for 100ml. If you are really interested in exploring an Iris fragrance, then I recommend checking out Feu Secret by Fzotic.

02/04/2025

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Ceesie
120 Reviews

Ceesie

Helpful Review 1

Orris

This is my gateway drug into the world of iris. I never paid much attention to that note or ingredient but this is some next level smell.

Upon first spray you’re greeted with this powdery dusty sweetness. Sometimes iris goes into the territory of carrots but that’s not the case here. I find the smell totally unique, going more into a creamy, nutty kind of direction like peanut butter. And yes there’s this creamy, buttery aspect to it as well. That makes it so weird and special.

I see the majority of people are classifying it as a feminine smell, I disagree. It’s just a smell, totally unisex. No components that make it masculine and no components that make it otherwise.

It doesn’t last too long on skin. I’d say 6 to 8 hours. On clothes though, I could still smell it after 2 days. It’s pretty linear, doesn’t change a lot, but oh so nice.

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