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7.6 / 10 135 Ratings
A popular perfume by Parfum d'Empire for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is green-spicy. It is still in production.
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Green
Spicy
Fresh
Earthy
Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Corsican stinkwort Blackberry brambleBlackberry bramble
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Corsican stinkwort Nettle absoluteNettle absolute ThistleThistle
Base Notes Base Notes
Corsican stinkwort Orris rootOrris root

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Submitted by OPomone, last update on 11/04/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the Collection L'Héritage Corse collection.

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Blasius

10 Reviews
Blasius
Blasius
6  
Élégance marginale
This isn’t a fragrance meant to seduce. It doesn’t try to shine. It’s for those who know what it feels like to be pushed aside. Mal-Aimé wears its name like a scar. A green, bitter, scratchy truth. The scent of rejection, of mud on your shoes, of wild plants crushed without a second glance.

From the start, it bites. A sharp, piercing green — almost medicinal. You get dandelion, thistle, nettle — the kind of herbs no one puts in a bouquet. It’s fresh, raw, unapologetic, like wind sweeping across an abandoned field. Wild carrot brings a dusty, rooty dryness, while chamomile softens things just enough, like a quiet hand on your shoulder.

Then it shifts. The scent digs down into the earth. Hay and moss rise slowly, as if the countryside is reclaiming its place. It stays dry, a little scratchy, but now the heartbeat slows down. Less rage, more acceptance. And something elegant sneaks in: cistus, warm, faintly animalic, giving the rough edges a quiet dignity.

It lasts well, but never shouts. It fades slowly, like a memory you stop telling but never forget. A loyal, discreet, persistent presence.

Mal-Aimé is for those who find beauty in silence, in weeds, in off-road paths. A perfume for the overlooked, the ones who never got picked. And for those who one day realized that their strength was exactly that: being different.
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DrB1414

264 Reviews
DrB1414
DrB1414
4  
Not your average "green" perfume
A different kind of Green fragrance. That is how Mal-Aimé feels to me. It strikes me as a bone-dry, herbaceous, earthy perfume rather than your standard vegetal green. It feels like the juice dried up inside the shrubs. It also has this strong salty and musky aroma, which, alongside the earthiness, are most likely facets showcased by the main ingredient, the Fragrant Inula plant. The nettles come strongly in the opening, almost abrasive, but soon tame down. The blackberry accord is non-existent on my skin. It's just super dry and shrub-like, earthy, warm, salty, and musky for the whole time. I love it, but it's easy to see how it might be very challenging to wear and enjoy for most people. It might be Marc Antoine's most unique and most challenging perfume. Not the way Ruade, Tabac Tabou, or the cumin-loaded Oeilleres is, but in how vividly it evokes the aroma of sun-scorched meadows. For me, it is a deeply nostalgic scent, like all well-made agrestic perfumes. It makes me think of roaming the fields in Summer, napping and rolling in hay, and eating cooked baby nettles (an incredibly delicious local dish). Green? Not really. I think of it as herbaceous, earthy, arid, with zero sweetness. The salty and musky facets make it more alluring and interesting. Not only a highly unique and creative perfume but also a time portal in place and time for the right person. A must-try for agrestic perfume lovers.

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TonyB882

26 Reviews
TonyB882
TonyB882
4  
Des mauvaise herbes - quelle bonheur
This fragrance has a massive dose of what the French call which means "bad herbs" i.e. weeds, literally translated. As an avid gardener, I hate having to pluck out the weeds in my garden, however, I've always loved the green, sappy smell of the native species we have here in Massachusetts. This really captures that spirit, it's like sitting down to weed the garden on a warm summer afternoon. No geosmin, just lots of damp, crisp green lushness. It's fresh, green, spicy, with a teeny tiny powdery undertone. Absolutely phenomenal, as is anything produced by M. Corticchiato.
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Intersport

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Intersport
Top Review 33  
Un-
The L’Héritage Corse releases now define a coherent next round at Parfum d'Empire, which, despite an older re-issue, perhaps truly and distinctly started with Corsica Furisoa (2015). Many of the preceding releases have always oriented themselves with considerable finesse around the pillars and small basics of perfumery: leather, amber, fougère interpretations, flowers, citrus, chypres: since Corsica Furisoa, the focus has shifted to idiosyncratic ingredients and terroir, often referring to special distillations that point to Corticchiato's academic career - the researcher as author and vice versa. In Mal-Aimé, it goes so far that even the specialist whose know-how is behind the extraction of the central ingredient is given a significant role in the narrative and construction of this perfume.

Mal-Aimé, a charming, mischievous title that reminds me of Bel Ami in reverse or similar romantic word constructions for folkloristically underdeveloped but deliciously beloved things like Mal-Assadas. Although Mal-Aimé, despite its greenness, somehow feels familiar, its outstanding quality lies in how refreshingly unknown, un-smelled, and under-defined this perfume appears in large parts. Mal-Aimé celebrates its Un-: plant-based clear, but what exactly - leaf, stem, root system, flowers, including pollen? Herb or flower? To smell such an Un- is primarily a liberating pleasure.

The impossible yet excellent image of a green immortelle from Profumo's statement is basically all it takes to get an idea of Mal-Aimé. Green walnut shells? Or as a detour via Corsica Furisoa, a complementary piece, counterpart to Mal-Aimé, which addresses many inversions. While Corsica Furisoa is zesty, resinous-sour, bitter-high-proof, and in the microtonal range more faceted, louder, and thanks to tomato leaf and mastic also more familiar as a perfume; Mal-Aimé is oily-voluminous, warm-bitter, digestive-like, more discreet, reduced-concentrated in construction, and above all, unknown. Such spectral contrasts could be further explored, a certain blurriness of this approach will remain.

In high humidity, Mal-Aimé evaporates quite quickly and is extremely targeted in its development: fresh opening with a subtle spirit note, this herbal-bitter and only briefly present, before the volume becomes rounder, denser, warmer, and stickier - a honey-like viscosity, similar to the sensation that the leaves of the cistus exhibit in puntco 'stickiness'. The elecampane takes control, the iris root is somewhere part of the whole but mostly elusive, and much remains wonderfully free of associations.
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PeteRalon007

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Very helpful Review 8  
Healthy Weed
(Background: Parfumos sends me samples, I test them without any prior knowledge of the perfumes sent and describe my reaction - that of an untrained amateur.)

Oh, not an easy candidate. In the masterfully accentuated top note, I am seemingly enchanted by wood varnish reminiscent of the timber framework of medieval houses, framed by green gardens full of sensual celery and coriander, freshly harvested from dark, clayey soil - similar to JF by Floris. This is followed by a delicate, floral cloud. Oh God, flowers, my Achilles' heel. Everything except roses tends to be asters for me, a point my wife regularly teases me about. Slightly sweet, waxy, and somehow I imagine it smells of ambrette seeds and iris. It has a molecular type and is rather extravagant scent art for the discerning exotic in the realm of olfactory fetishism. It tends to unfold linearly and leaves me internally on a lonely, quiet country road or a castle ruin in summer. Swallows included. After several hours, question marks and confusion remain. A composition that evokes country life, fresh vegetable crates from the natural stone organic farm, and a bitter nutty hint of pepper. I’m just going to guess it’s Fred Flintstone's signature scent!
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3
A curious but realistic teleport to roadside weed fields. Nettles, thistles and all types of thorny bushes softened up by an iris note
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3
It opens with weed/nettle tea, very herbaceous and spicy. It also smells like hay with very little sweetness and iris that softens the scent
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2
This is unusual in a good way. Green, but dry instead of 'dewy.' Bitter, but still smooth. Lovely orris presence. Would be great in summer.
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1
Photorealistic haystack. Green hay getting a little dank, dry hay that’s warm & fragrant. Neat, but wish I got more unique Corsican plants.
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2 months ago
1
Almost experimental, personal; it seems to be a “study in green” that I think works well, original.
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1
The beginning reminds me strongly of gyokuro or a kabusencha, evolving to a more watery, cucumber-like scent later on.
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1
very green and a tad bitter
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1
Very bitter green that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Smells like yerba maté in the drydown.
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1 year ago
1
Herbal, I suppose, but strongly resinous-sweet with a note of tart berries. A little medicinal.
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1
Beautiful spicy green, slightly bitter aftertaste, as if it were a light herbal liqueur. Handsome
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