Berlin by Miguel Matos
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8.0 / 10 23 Ratings
A new perfume by Miguel Matos for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is animal-leathery. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Animal
Leathery
Spicy
Synthetic
Smoky

Fragrance Notes

CuminCumin VanillinVanillin Animalic notesAnimalic notes Tonka bean absoluteTonka bean absolute Calabrian bergamotCalabrian bergamot ISO-E-SuperISO-E-Super LeatherLeather OudOud AmbergrisAmbergris FrankincenseFrankincense OakmossOakmoss SmokeSmoke SaltSalt

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Ratings
Scent
8.023 Ratings
Longevity
8.022 Ratings
Sillage
7.522 Ratings
Bottle
7.022 Ratings
Value for money
7.313 Ratings
Submitted by Chizza, last update on 07/16/2025.

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Pricing
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Bottle
9
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Finnsta

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Finnsta
Finnsta
9  
G'schichtn aus'm Paulanergarten?
Hundreds of bottlings later, a new signature has been created after 2 years of searching. It was a long, but rewarding and beautiful journey to knock a fragrance like Tuscan Leather off its throne.

A few hectoliters of water later, 4:30 in the morning, sunrise, birdsong, the smell of exhaust fumes, smoky wet clothes, distant bass droning, tinnitus. Eyelids twitch, eyes flutter. Between anarchic punks and Nazis, dubious capital multipliers, dealers and customers, questionable clientele, confused tourists and rampant border crossers. The steam of subversion mingles with the smell of success. Culture clash...

And ¡me in the middle of it, in a state of realization that I like to absorb my environment in all its facets just as much as the night and the scent absorb me. A vortex that pulls me ever deeper - out of the matrix and into the void.

A fragrance that feels me, understands me and drives me forward - a transformative catalyst of my self-realization - shameless self-expression, flow-state, ecstasy, self-forgetfulness, ego-dissolution, transcendence - an amplifier.

Pavlov waves his paw cheekily and knowingly and asks if I want to go partying again next weekend. The bells are ringing, but I can only understand what's going on, the sound of them disappearing into the neural noise.

The beast inside me growls and autonomously drives me another step into the morning fog. The mind dissolves as time slows down - or does it speed up? The circadian rhythm is now just a distant construct in my mind. With my head on cloud nine and my feet 10 cm off the ground, I float along the blue and orange threads on the display to the next subway train and end up in my bed via teleportation. That's one way to get through the weekend.

Lasts from Friday until Monday morning into the afterhour. Sillage is suitable for clubs and big cities ;)

I have never received more compliments for a fragrance in such a short time (*help*), a year's worth in a month, so that's the order of magnitude.
So the fragrance seems to want to flatter me too, but it's got it thick as a fist.

The sprayer is not wrong, cheap but sprays well. The concrete-look sticker is also nice, I love exposed concrete and brutalism ... (3000, THE LOVE DOESN'T COME FROM BERLIN; but I know where) ...

... but the bottle has a black ring around the top of the atomizer, which is not in the picture. This really looks extremely modest and somewhat diminishes the overall impression. But as we all know, it's the inner values that count ... on Mondays at the latest.

I award 11 out of 10 possible dB, turn up!
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FloKro1992

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FloKro1992
Very helpful Review 13  
A part of my city
i also tested the fragrance for the first time in 15West and can recommend the store without reservation - especially if you want to discover something that you want to experience olfactorily away from the "luxury brand mainstream".

As a native Berliner, I was very curious to see how a perfumer would capture the city. With a multicultural city that is not only characterized by one scent, I was very curious and at the same time had a very clear idea after Marc explained to me how Miguel Matos' journey through Berlin went.
Initially, I thought somewhat naively that it could also be something spring-like when the sweet-smelling lime trees bloom in Berlin and the city awakens from its winter slumber. It could just as easily have been a culinary potpourri of classic currywurst, kebab, Vietnamese cuisine, a Viennese bakery or, in short, what the Bergmannkiez has to offer.

But it should be the Berlin club scene and, above all, the techno scene. And I'm being honest. Capturing the club scene as a wearable fragrance didn't seem possible to me, because my scent associations ranged from vodka bull, fags, sweat, a mixture of all the perfumes that are currently being hyped at TikTok, fog machine fumes and a boozy corpse who has already overdone it with the pre-drinking.

What the scent does, however, is almost unbelievable.
The opening hit me like a steam hammer. 5 minutes of a mixture of animalic, smoke, sweat from the cumin, something pungently synthetic and leathery. In short - overwhelming
After the initial shock has subsided, this fragrance becomes very exciting. As a lover of Leder 6, I did find some parallels. The Berlin is the big brother of Leder 6, the more experienced of the two, has been in the club for much longer and parties even more uninhibitedly in skimpier leather, but with much more physical contact. This pairing of sweet notes, leather and animal notes makes it a party excess for the nose. Nevertheless, the overload is gone and you can only feel the hammering basses massaging your nose and imagination. A trance is created from which it is difficult to escape.

It is incredible and, above all, incredibly good. Its sweet woody base, which is accompanied by a light smokiness, becomes softer and softer and ends in a body-cosmic embrace that makes you forget. You no longer remember when you entered the club, let alone the day you left it.

For me, the art of the fragrance lies in its dominance, roughness and simultaneous sedan chair. Definitely not the office fragrance category. However, I can well imagine that this fragrance could do the rest with a spritz on a somewhat sparkling date.
It's definitely worth experiencing, just like the Berlin club scene is. At the same time, many will think to themselves afterwards: That's enough for now.

Challenging, complex and exciting - a fragrance that is like an experience and definitely worth a test.
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TheDunkPapaTheDunkPapa 2 months ago
8
Bottle
6
Sillage
9
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Surprisingly vivid recreation of bubblegumy, e-cig vapor with moderate animalic muskiness and rosy components, smooth leathery drydown.
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WusubiWusubi 5 months ago
8
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Transports you to an indoor rave.
Animalic saltiness. Dry, metallic incense like a fog machine.
Spiced leather, warm sweetness for balance.
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AlexD76AlexD76 9 months ago
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
8
Scent
Dark, industrial & intense, Berlin is a sensory journey through the city's nightlife Experience the contrast of warm spices & metallic notes
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