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Doraphilia Miguel Matos 2019

7.7 / 10 48 Ratings

A popular perfume by Miguel Matos for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is leathery-animal. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Leathery

Animal

Floral

Spicy

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Bergamot

Lilac

Heart Notes

Leather

Mimosa

Narcissus

Iris

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Leather

Costus

Castoreum

Civet

Patchouli

Tree moss

Perfumer

Miguel Matos

Ratings

Scent

7.748 Ratings

Longevity

8.545 Ratings

Sillage

8.246 Ratings

Bottle

7.343 Ratings

Value for money

7.813 Ratings

Submitted by Maggy4u, last update on 10/23/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/05/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

CivetOnly
35 Reviews

CivetOnly

Helpful Review 8

Grandma, is that you?

It's rare for a modern-day release to capture the essence of vintage fragrances. Doraphilia is bold, transportive and should be considered as a tribute to the golden age of perfumery. Miguel Matos went out of his way to make sure it smells oldschool.

Don't expect a typical leather perfume. In fact, all of the aspects you would associate with women's leather goods - be it leather handbags, jackets or pants - play an important role. Soapy aldehydes, powdery florals, an absurd amount of civet... at times, it really feels like sifting through your grandmother's closet.

While aldehydes manage to sparkle some brightness, the scent is civet-forward and pissy. This gradually recedes into a pleasant, musky, warm undertone, but the opening isn't for the faint of heart. That said, the lush flower bouquet is even more intense. It manages to smell both dated and incredibly beautiful.

Other than powderiness, narcissus and lilac bring green, indolic nuances. Add a honey-like mimosa and a musty, spicy patchouli to the mix and you're in for a wild ride. There's a soft, but present leathery undertone, accompanied by earthy, furry and mossy facets, making it perfectly wearable for the male population.

Doraphilia lives up to its name and pays a kinky homage to fur, leather and chypres. If you aren't familiar with Miguel's products, go easy on the trigger. Somehow, it fills a room and lingers in the air, sticks to clothes like glue and curses you with a pissy, floral aura.

01/22/2020

7Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

PallasCC
17 Reviews

PallasCC

4

Vintage leather done the right way

If you are in the market for a vintage-inspired leather perfume, Doraphilia will be right up your alley. I have smelt and owned a great variety of leather-based scents, however, if I had to pick the one that speaks to me the most it would be Miguel Mato's creation.

The perfume is evocative of the interwar period during which all worries seemed to have vanished to be supplanted by jazz music and beautiful flappers dressed in expensive furs enjoying a cigarette or two. This scent is a perfect companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, the Great Gatsby. The aldehydic opening is evocative of the classic perfumes from the past, á la Coco Chanel. It does not take a lot of time until you are surrounded by the tension between the heart notes and the base. That is when the animalic notes and the leather are fighting their away to the center stage while being tamed and sweetened by the floral heart of rose, mimosa, iris, ylang-ylang, and narcissus.

This back and forth continues well into the dry-down. The scent deepens, acquiring some tangy bitterness that comes (in all probability) from the oakmoss and earthy patchouli coupled with flower. The leather is not longer sweet and polished; it starts displaying a somewhat more rugged texture.

Overall, Doraphilia is very aptly named for what it represents. It is a time journey into the past, without being excessively outdated. Feat not! It is a post-modern perfume that skillfully displays the beauty of each ingredient. It deserves the highest praise. Well done, Miguel!

Disclosure: This review is based on my own purchase from Miguel Mato's website.

10/04/2022

9Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

3

Matos/Doraphilia

Usually it’s out of my way with Matos perfumes. I have my (quite critical) opinion about his perfumes. Well ... it's hard, because with so many different perfumes that he creates - I would prefer differently, but my consolation is that there are individual scents that I like very much. This is a rare example, just like Tabacco Smeraldo.

Doraphilia is a fragrance that takes me back to the past.
A wardrobe ..., an open wardrobe and a place to play hide and seek ... among the furs and skins hanging there. More precisely - the furs in which the woman walked and on which you can still smell her perfume… floral perfumes.
This is how I perceive this smell. The beginning is quite strong, leather and fur and FLORAL (I can sense violet for sure). Over time, the flowers move away
to the background and fade away, and the most important thing is the smell of fur, lightly rubbed to the skin (not an unpleasant smell) and slightly earthy patchouli.
If Miguel wanted to convey this atmosphere, it was a “hat off the head”, it turned out great for him.
Unisex and fall / winter fragrance.

09/22/2020

7.5Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

Chizza
361 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 26

Fur Fetish

Often, I find that I rate fragrances worse after getting to know them better following an initial test. The initial euphoria fades away. I rated this scent a 6.0 at first, even though it is leather. Some may know: I do like leather. The fragrance is called Doraphilia, and I postponed testing it again for several months because I believed the lack of connection, the lack of access at the time, was due to the animalic notes. However, the scent lingered in my mind, never quite letting me go, and now I am here to write the first comment on this Miguel Matos creation and to banish the spirits I called forth.

For untrained noses that cannot handle animalic notes or leather, this can be described as quite daring. That would be a very euphemistic way to put it. The fragrance does not undergo significant development but is a classic concept scent. Doraphilia, fur fetish, that sums it up. Only that the fur is still on the living animal. Thus, the first 15 minutes pass very intensely; after that, the leather is merely fresh.

The leather does not pour out of the bottle but offers us somewhat unusual facets at first glance. It took me a long time to filter out the floral notes.
Now, the entourage of this rather fresh leather does not consist of gentle flowers. The lilac sharpens, in a way, the rough element of the leather, aldehydes are clearly perceptible, as echoes of past decades in terms of perfume. The floral heart is, apart from the violet, difficult for me to identify, which I can only appreciate regarding ylang-ylang. If someone wants to test ylang-ylang with leather, there is one from the house of Guerlain.

Minutes and hours pass, and the leather of Doraphilia remains, does not change but retains its vintage touch. This is not dirty leather; it is clear, pure leather but not polished to a high shine, nor is it raw. It is indeed more about what was once hidden behind the leather, about the animal, about animal strength, certainly also about animal instincts, when I read the intention behind the fragrance.
The individual ingredients align perfectly as well. Costus tends to be earthy, animalic, and somewhat reminiscent of violet. Civet and castoreum hardly need explanation. The notes and the scent fit well together.

It's hard to say for whom Doraphilia is suitable. One should like leather, one should be able to identify with leather of the old style, not to forget the animalistic note. Above all, the beginning should not deter anyone, and one should not see this as an entry into the world of such perfumes. Today, it will be a shorter comment from me; on the one hand, I wanted to advocate for the fragrance, and on the other hand, to show that all fragrances deserve a second chance. I now appreciate this creation.

09/06/2021

8Scent 8Sillage

UntermWert
58 Reviews

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UntermWert

Top Review 25

Glamorous-Elegant Animalic in a Floral Setting of Transgressions

Cruella DeVille, glamorous and wrapped in plenty of animal fur. Surrounded by a cloud of the most opulent and expensive perfumes, a bit shabby yet Upper Class. Expensive jewelry, red lipstick. Ruthlessly, she takes what she wants and appears shameless, transgressive, greedy.

Who was her fur stole, I wonder?
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Doraphilia opens with a lush-aldehydic lilac bouquet and briefly gives the impression of violets, which are actually not present... Slowly, the animalic notes, moss, and patchouli come through - leathery, hairy, and herbal - while the other flowers form a wild, colorful bouquet. I can distinctly smell Ylang-Ylang, while the rose is (thankfully for me) not particularly prominent. Everything is intense, alert, and wild. As it develops, the flowers recede more and more - in the end, a very soft iris calms the beast, leaving the scent of warm fur. For me, it is definitely not a dog smell (as I have my issues with that), but Costus and castoreum are consistently present, powerfully evoking an impression of a predator enclosure. I do not experience the scent as stable-fecal or urine-like, as the civet remains rather in the background during my test. Instead, there is a very pronounced impression of fur-animalic, as many reviewers have already described. One might also experience the scent as somewhat human, with a hint of "unwashed skin," but (just) not unpleasant. Doraphilia definitely walks a fine line. So, for those who found Ambilux too spicy-animalic, this scent will certainly make them wrinkle their noses. I am surprised at how well I cope with the overall composition; however, this scent feels distinctly more untamed. When it wafts from the periphery of my wrist, I find it quite pleasant, but the coziness of Ambilux is missing.
A wild animal cannot be denied here. Familiar and dangerous.
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Doraphilia is a very exciting and artfully composed scent, with an untamed animalic quality that initially hides in an elegant vintage floral bouquet and then transforms it into a backdrop of transgressions. I recommend the review by Foxear, "whose animal" is a werewolf. That captures it perfectly.

(with heartfelt thanks to 4sonicyouth for this extraordinary olfactory experience - truly a cinematic experience ;-)

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