Habanita 2012 Eau de Parfum

Version from 2012
Habanita (2012) (Eau de Parfum) by Molinard
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8.0 / 10 390 Ratings
A popular perfume by Molinard for women, released in 2012. The scent is spicy-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy
Oriental
Resinous
Smoky
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
MasticMastic Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang GeraniumGeranium PetitgrainPetitgrain
Heart Notes Heart Notes
HeliotropeHeliotrope JasmineJasmine MimosaMimosa NutmegNutmeg Rosa centifoliaRosa centifolia VetiverVetiver CedarCedar
Base Notes Base Notes
Malayan patchouliMalayan patchouli VanillaVanilla AmberAmber Mysore sandalwoodMysore sandalwood OakmossOakmoss
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Scent
8.0390 Ratings
Longevity
8.9317 Ratings
Sillage
8.1318 Ratings
Bottle
8.4315 Ratings
Value for money
8.3103 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 01/24/2025.

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MadameVizard

13 Reviews
MadameVizard
MadameVizard
Top Review 9  
The Whip and the Body
Review based on the current formulation (EDP, squared bottle).

Habanita is a perfume for a dominatrix.

Do you know the bizarre 1963 Italian film La frustra e il corpo, starred by Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi? Lee plays the part of a sadistic nobleman who takes a pleasure in flogging his love interest (Lavi). Sadomasochism and women abuse does not seem to be likeable things, are not they? Surprisingly enough, it is a hauntingly beautiful movie, with a darkly romantic atmosphere and fascinating characters.

Now, turn over the story, and make the Lavi's character the active one in the film. Give her a whip. Drap her in a black leather corset and a cloak. And Habanita could be her perfume.

No jokes with Habanita, a full- grown woman draped in black leather and furs, a cigar in one of her hands, a whip in the other. She likes strong drinks and eats bloody steaks, she uses strong words and calls the things by her name. But, in the inside, she is a tender, sweet woman who takes that pose in order to conceal what she thinks it can be taken for weakness. She is a muscular, dark, Latin woman, very much in the style of the Julio Romero de Torres or Hermen Anglada-Camarasa heroines. But she has a heart. She is very much like a she-panther with her babies.

For me, it is indeed a nice surprise to see how this fragance, that can be easily dispatched as "old lady fragance" is still sold, and in excelent form. No ruined by disastrous reformulations like many other beautiful perfumes of yesterday.

Sillage and lasting power very good.

A must try for all perfume lovers.
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Rosymel

122 Reviews
Rosymel
Rosymel
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A well crafted classic, but not for me
This is a good example of a perfume that I can recognize as being very pleasant, well crafted, and classic...without wanting to wear it myself. It opens with a blast of amber and musk, a little bit—but very little—animalic. It soon settles to a surprisingly clean powdery ambery musk. It’s strong, confident, not exactly overwhelming, but strongly present. I admire it, but it’s not really my style. It’s old fashioned but in a glamorous way, not dated. I can see someone like Sophia Loren, or Catherine Deneuve wearing this. Intriguing! There is an odd dusty smell that accompanies the dry down that I particularly like.

The late Fabienne Christensen (Possets) created a similar scent, Eve, which I regard with a similar respect while recognizing it isn’t for me.
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DorothyGrace

85 Reviews
DorothyGrace
DorothyGrace
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Stains Yellow
Apparently I tried this six years ago (just saw the statement I wrote then) . It would seem my opinion hasn't changed and the Wintergreen note is still heavily present. Regretfully (because I don't like it) I bought two samples, one this version and the other the Habanita Edition Exclusive which was billed on the site from which I bought my samples as being extra oriental by pushing up both the sandalwood (which I can't detect) and the amber, and decreasing the rose and oakmoss. The Molinard site itself doesn't say it is a tweaked version and I can't tell the two apart but that could be because of how heavy I find the amber notes in both and how I couldn't in any case detect the florals, patchouli, and oakmoss.

Habanita on me starts hopefully enough with a floral vanillic amber, maybe a touch almond like , thick and heavy. As it wears it becomes more cloying as those initial notes strengthen, turn powdery, and are then joined by a discordant Germaline or Wintergreen.

One hour in and I had to give it three good soapings to wash it off. My skin now smells floral soapy and that is quite nice although still radiating too strongly for me despite the application being tiny from one of those little 2 ml sample sprays, and still with the out of place Wintergreen.

When I went to wash the perfume off I noted that the perfume had coloured my skin bright yellow like a tincture of iodine stain. The three washes with bar soap did not remove all the colour and my skin is very noticeably stained yellow. I would say this needs to be kept away from light coloured clothing.
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Yenn

34 Reviews
Yenn
Yenn
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Polly f***** Shelby
I felt I was going to like this one. I was afraid of the mimosa, but except the Incense, everything is very well blended and I can't distinguish individual notes, except perhaps Molinard musky jasmine once it begins to be sweeter.

From the bottle it smells beautiful: warm velvety soft cinnamon. When I spry this, is velvety powdery dark, very smoky but with a touch of floral seewtness. This is it! This is the cinammon and Incense perfume I was looking for! The thing with both notes is that perfumes with them, usually smells very on your face, very sharp, very abrasive. In Habanita everything is perfectely balanced, it is very warm and soft while being very potent. In this phase it evoques me a woman from the 20s, like Polly or Lizzie Shelby from Peaky Blinders! This is the kind of perfume you want to wear with your Besame cosmetics intentense red!

When it starts to fade is more brown than black, and very sweet but never loses its potency and warmth. Sincerily in this phase it remembers me the incense from the beachwalk's hippies I used to love as a teenager in summer. But this is good news to me because the thing is that I was starting to think that I was going crazy because the incenses in perfumes dont smell like what I remember hippies's incense was, but I have finally found it! I have found an Incense that smells how I think incense should smell! This is more accurate of what I was expecting Bewitching Jasmine to be.
Frankly, the notes list and reviews have confused me a lot with this one but in reality, Habanita smells exactly what I thought the first time I read its description. I am finding Molinard's perfumes very straight forward in that
regard: what the description says is what it is.

Perhaps this is the most dissapointing thing about Habanita. I expected something very different and unique but in fact is a very nostalgic smell from the 90's to me too. It remembered to me something I couldnt grasp but it smells super familiar and nostalgic and then, my father said it smells like my grandmother's perfume end everything clicked: I was suddenly transported into a catholic church with her saluting with kisses a lof of relatives I didnt know or remember. So that was the mistery and it has all the sense of the world because people says that a perfume smells like a grandmother as something peyorative, but they have been young too and glamourous and fashionistas and they have lived on periods of time which fashion trends I love, so... I am Happy with the asociaciation, the only problem is that people of my age can have these asociations too because this was a very usual smell from the 90's and this is a very unsexy thing,7 but well...

Marketing is funny and strange with what it calls "exotic" and this perfume is sensual, and with a misterious warmth but also hippies of the beach and medditative and "grandmothers" (aka beautiful women from the 20-40s) and even ancient princesses from Mesopotamia
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Pepdal

238 Reviews
Pepdal
Pepdal
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Hubba Habanita
I got turned onto this one by some of my trusted acquaintances and initially tried this at the beginning of the year. It is definitely one that needs time spent with it as it reveals a bit with each wear. Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy.
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KimJongKimJong 5 years ago
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It's like Lagerfeld Classic with dark flowers instead of tobacco. Men can also wear it.
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OvaissaleemOvaissaleem 5 years ago
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Powdery, Spicy, Smokey, Woody and Musky. A masterpiece from Molinard in a classy, gorgeous and elegant bottle.
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BertolucciKBertolucciK 1 year ago
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Opening with mimosa, heliotrope and nutmeg with a balsamic amber. Drydown with resinous vanilla on a woody, smoky and slightly animalic base
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DorothyGraceDorothyGrace 9 years ago
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On me, this developes an overpowering wintergreen (or Germolene) antiseptic smell. Is this mastic?
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YennYenn 8 months ago
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Very classic, meditative warm dark powdery pleasant cloud , spicy and smoky, with nostalgic feeling
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Maximus001Maximus001 3 years ago
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A beautifully bottled brave and complex fragrance. Outstanding...
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MSCRomanMSCRoman 5 years ago
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I like it, but on me it smells like aftershave. Maybe I would have liked the original formula better?
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