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Vol. I – Alchemy Studies

Psychotrope Malbrum 2015

7.8 / 10 150 Ratings

A popular perfume by Malbrum for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is resinous-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Resinous

Spicy

Woody

Smoky

Sweet

Fragrance Notes

Cashmeran

Elemi resin

Frankincense Pimento

Pimento

Styrax

Cedarwood

Cypress

Ambergris

Gurjum balsam Saffron

Saffron

Sandalwood

Ambrinol

Sandal Mysore Core®

Timbersilk™

Perfumer

Delphine Thierry

Ratings

Scent

7.8150 Ratings

Longevity

7.9124 Ratings

Sillage

7.3129 Ratings

Bottle

7.9115 Ratings

Value for money

6.440 Ratings

Submitted by TheDrake · last update on 11/27/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Vol. I – Alchemy Studies collection.

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Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/30/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Landshark321
758 Reviews

Landshark321

1

Outstanding resinous/smoky/spicy blend with just a hint of savory, varnish

Psychotrope, from the Scandinavian brand Malbrum Parfums, is a 2015 release, a spicy resinous blend with notes of incense, elemi, pimento, saffron, and mixed woods. Dense, rich, a little and sharp and savory, it offers a spicy, slightly smoky intersection that is not too exaggerated in any one respect. I regard the woods as being more in the background to the resins and spices, but certain they provide some modification to preclude the experience from being wholly a bomb of, say, incense and saffron. Pimento adds a bit of flavor, and perhaps is the source of the savoriness that I perceive, and it has a varnish-adjacent aspect in the background that I like, which reminds me of the unrelated Dua original, Wood and Cognac.

Psychotrope (along with the rest of the line, seemingly) is extrait concentration, priced at $135 for 30ml, sold in the US via the house site, the boutique Perfumology and some other points of sale like Max Aroma. For a fragrance of this potency and sophistication, I think it’s reasonably priced as a little should go a long way, even in cooler climates.

8 out of 10

10/10/2025

6.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Raluko111
462 Reviews

Raluko111

2

We wouldn't party together

Smoky, sweet, sweaty darkness that doesn't entice. That funk of a sweaty armpit of someone who consumes too much cumin spiced food. Or rather the old, ripped burgundy velvety fabric of a seat in a hot movie theater where someone who consumes too much cumin spiced food sat and smoked a cigarette while watching an X-rated flick. Anonymous, suspicious, somewhat animalic. Messy, lurid, chemical broth.

01/10/2017

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Can777
257 Reviews

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Can777

Top Review 43

Drink Me!

So it always said on the little bottles that Alice found in Wonderland.
Today the motto is, ..Spray Me!
Psychotropic, what a fitting and promising name for
such a dangerously intoxicating scent.
The good Delphine Thierry must have given herself a proper dose to create such a trip in a bottle.
What kind of psychopharmaceutical elixir are you?
Well, if anyone knew about certain substances,...who else could it be?
Me,...of course!
But this "stuff" is different, very different.
No, not one of Cans' sexual attractants in a bottle,...No, very different.
It brings you.....
Exactly!,....down!
The composition is a chemical masterpiece.
Psychotropic smells like, yes, like a steaming, resinous, and mystical
forest floor.
Mysteriously and pleasantly relaxing, calming.
This scent does something to your psyche, it cleanses your soul and
leads you back, back to the essential,...to yourself.
It organizes your thoughts and aligns the chaos in your synapses.
It heals the soul pain that one might think they don't have, but actually carries within.
It clears the mind, crystal clear.

It is a potion, yes,....that it is.
But every potion has a very important ingredient, among all the others, the
main ingredient.
Here it is called,...Styrax, also known as liquid amber.
An ancient active ingredient from antiquity.
A resinous plant sap, obtained from the Styrax tree.
It was used by all highly cultured civilizations of antiquity as medicine.
It was applied both internally and externally, for the healing of wounds.
And it was also burned and inhaled,...for the healing of the soul.
It helped with fears, depression, memory loss, and emotional pain.
It was considered highly concentration-enhancing and brought back inner peace.

Today we call such things psychopharmaceuticals.
Styrax is the main component of this perfume.
It just oozes with it.
A substance that truly creates beautiful dreams.
The stuff that dreams are made of, yes, that it is,...truly and corporeally.
I have been wearing Psychotropic since this afternoon, and I feel good, exceptionally good even.
Whether it is due to Psychotropic, I can't say for sure, but one thing I can say.
I feel happy and secure, even now in this moment.
Strong and extremely grounded.
Yes!,...very positively intoxicated by myself.
Psychotropic, what have you done?
But whatever it was, it is wonderful and beautiful!
I am going to spray again, hoping that this state of peace never ends.

Updated on 05/31/2017

03/09/2018

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 37

Beautiful even without -who knows

A resinous-smoky sweetness opens with a concentrated woody, yet sour spicy twist. I think of chips. Aha, does the top note go through the stomach here? A scent with glutamate? Perhaps this is a first reference to Cashmeran - so to speak, a glutamate among fragrance ingredients. However, this quickly gets covered up as essential oils unfold, with cypress and allspice becoming plausible.

But already after a few minutes, the bitterness turns into a sting in the background, while a sweet resin spreads, which indeed reminds me of Miller Harris' La Fumée, including its twist with "Arabie" behind it. Even parallels can be drawn to (albeit overall much hotter) Interlude Man. Decent references! Particularly noteworthy and immensely beneficial to the mentioned Miller Harris similarity is a fine, creamy aura that encapsulates the resinous notes. The flattering sweetness adds its part.

As time goes on, I notice a shift towards wood. Its appearance initially references Duro and thus likely points definitively to Cashmeran. The dark woody note induced during the second hour is delightful. It darkens the scent significantly compared to the English one, and the closeness fades, yet: no abysses open up at least.

After five or six hours, one can occasionally think of brighter woods. The focus lies - pyramid or not - in Psychotrope definitely on resin and wood rather than on smoke. If I had to choose between the first two, I would opt for wood; especially in the projection, which is ruled by a dark, thickened-sour, almost ancient wood note, for which the resin, to put it pointedly, acts as a character-strengthening aid.

Later in the afternoon, I amusingly pick up my chip thought again with hints of something sweet-sour. This time refined with honey? Otherwise, the creaminess has essentially disappeared. The wood may not have become harsh, but it feels sharper than before. Moreover, the resinous part becomes stronger again. If the scent is to be called creamy, it would now be in a rather resinous and viscous way.

It is late afternoon before a bright-smoky, green-sour substitute makes its first appearance as incense. And it indeed becomes the clear protagonist of the old fragrance days, possibly secretly aided towards the end by a style-related green vetiver addition. The long-dominating wood has been set aside. Nevertheless, aromas "from further ahead" keep shifting and swirling around - just with strongly shifted weights. Signs of fatigue or quality loss? Not at all.

Conclusion: Although the similarity of Psychotrope to Miller Harris gradually fades, both share a certain - yes! - elegance. Today's candidate can be considered suitable for a suit. I certainly do not feel "psycho" with it at all. Investment banker or psychopath-in-the-boss-suit jokes should please be omitted at this point, as that would undermine the statement.

We should simply ignore the LSD chatter in the accompanying text and remember that psychotropic substances are not to be equated with drugs, but that the term encompasses a wide range of substances, including relatively harmless staple foods like caffeine.

That seems to me a reasonable approach: Let’s consider Psychotrope as an exciting and stimulating fragrance with a rich array of aromas, wonderfully executed. We really don’t need to beautify, sniff, smoke, swallow, inject, or whatever else.

I thank Yatagan for the sample.

12/29/2016

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Ergreifend
529 Reviews

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Ergreifend

Top Review 31

The Power of Loneliness

Being lonely does not always mean wandering aimlessly somewhere in the world and cutting off every branch from the outside world.

Loneliness has so much more power than one might think. Unfortunately, it is often crossed with negative aspects. Those who are lonely breathe heavily or hardly at all. Those who are lonely spend all their time in dark and dirty rooms. Those who are lonely paint their soul's wall in black. I have heard, read, and visually brushed against all of this many times.

However, loneliness means much more; it is not just about being alone, but about disconnecting for a certain period of time. From the rest of the world. Out of the noise. Out of the overly bright, artificial light - into a twilight atmosphere. Out of the sound - into the deepest gorge, from which no sound escapes.

Psychotropic - even the name sketches gray drawings in my memory. A dark forest, where the moon gently brushes the branches with its light. A gnarled resin mixes with noble wood. Somewhere, an owl can be heard. Deeply immersed in this play with thoughts, I am almost dozing off. Psychotropic has something quirky. Something mystical. Something that calms me and lets me sink into sleep for brief moments. A scent that is painted gray-black from the inside, but repeatedly brings with it rough and deep red moments. For a blazing fire always emerges. The scent initially feels cool, but then it becomes warmer. It keeps the wearer in a sensitive phase, as if one were gently holding a dandelion in their hands, without letting it be blown away by the wind. Then, after a certain time, the scent abruptly sets the wearer down on the cold ground, which already carries noticeable moisture. Misty veils stretch far into the scent. Long, so far - until the eye and heart can no longer follow and automatically shut down. Like a machine that simply does not want to run anymore in certain moments.

After the brief shutdown pause, movement returns - slightly musty, with a whip from the animalistic corner, crossed with saffron. Everything is enveloped in smoke, which mixes in a refined way. Warmth enters every cell, closing all doors to the cold, emotionless outside world. One is for oneself. One thinks and feels hardly anything now. Numbness emerges massively. Some things do not matter. In this moment, everything is irrelevant! The room is soaked in gray-black. Even the music is devoured by the dead thoughts, as if it were not there at all. Silent mouths sink into the ear and never resurface.

Psychotropic may not be to everyone's taste - for the shallow way, with the musty note and something animalistic that lashes through the forest with smoke and resin, has something very unique, almost offensive. Something that is not always and everywhere perceived.

I like it for myself. Then, when I sink back into some thought nirvana and let all my footprints in the sand fade away - so that I cannot be easily found. I linger there for a while, for the scent easily lasts a day. But the thoughts continue for days - like the tireless hamster in its wheel, desperately trying to create some light in its little chamber.

Updated on 12/29/2016

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55 short views on the fragrance

Saradonin

1 month ago

7Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

4

Danish butter cookies from the sewing kit tin, over some dry woods and resins. Quite nice, but nothing exciting.

Evannell

2 months ago

5.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

1

A bit of elemi and cypress, quickly replaced by cumin and fake ambergris. A sweaty man who ate roasted nuts, wearing a cheap woody perfume.

leocoll4

2 months ago

LOVE this omg. nutty and savory and so yummy. cumin averse stay far away bc it def has that accord

Eggi37

2 years ago

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

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35

Spicy medicinal saffron presses on the nervous system
Forest therapy
Draw sweet resinous woods with green cypress needles in smoky fog

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Theris

2 years ago

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Elemi whispers round tones
Cypress trees drop needles
On saffron-colored ground
Incense mist crosses
Calmly through the forests

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Midnights

1 year ago

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Memories of autumn in Lhoka
Resin drops
In the cool saffron smoke fog
Butter almond cumulus clouds
Piling up above the forest *

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Yatagan

9 years ago

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Psychoactive monster that licks your face with a resin-and-incense tongue, devours you spiced with saffron, and gently spits you out!

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NuiWhakakore

4 years ago

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Psychotropic burst of colors
sticky sweet resin brown
dark brown spice pigments
light brown wood
amber incense glow
and the pink Big-Bad-C

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Stella73

8 months ago

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Medium green incense
With Thierry's light sweetness
Instead of cinnamon, there's allspice
The forest at BASF
Brings calm#

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Bosworth

2 years ago

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Resinous, spicy, woody, with a hint of sweetness. Just a touch of smoke. Everything feels warm and rounded. Nothing is off-putting. Pleasant and somehow cozy.

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