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WAM Mallo 2023

8.2 / 10 68 Ratings

A popular limited perfume by Mallo for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is smoky-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Smoky

Spicy

Resinous

Leathery

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Birch

Castoreum

Labdanum

Rose otto

Leather

Tuberose

Vanilla

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Antonio Lasheras Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

8.268 Ratings

Longevity

8.660 Ratings

Sillage

8.162 Ratings

Bottle

8.245 Ratings

Value for money

7.727 Ratings

Submitted by multiple users, last update on 10/12/2025.

Interesting Facts

100 pieces were made.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Vicki-Lin

No 25: Birch Tar and Russian Leather

№ 03 - Lonestar Memories

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/23/2023

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

SUNNYNOSE
19 Reviews

SUNNYNOSE

2

Animalic

#sotd

WAM by MALLO Parfums

First of all, a fair warning, it's NOT for faint hearts. It's an art in a bottle and a top tier 100% unique fragrance which plays around smokey castoreum, burnt leather and crushed rose petals.

It's highly animalic, with 42% of perfume concentration hence be very gentle on the sprayer.

The perfumer didn't even try to keep it tamed, he literally Unleashed the power of leather and castoreum that it's polarizing in a sense that if you are not used to such beastly fragrances, you might get overwhelmed.

After 2 wearings, it's in one of my top beastly fragrance and one to must have if you love Oud, leather, castoreum, rose.

This fragrance would make you so noticeable that people would ask you what you wearing. With a strong performance of 10 plus hours, I couldn't be happier.

If you love Oud, go for it.
If you love leather, don't even think twice.
If you love castoreum, don't look further.
Animalic and challenging

04/16/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Markblackink
20 Reviews

Markblackink

1

For smoky animalic lovers with Antonio’s natural touch

I must say I love animalic, dark perfumes.

I’ve known Mallo and met Antonio at Exence in Italy.
First, I bought SOD, then ARC, JIZ, ARA, and HOZ.
I’ve always appreciated something different from my usual preferences in his perfumes.
Excellent raw materials and a kind of humble approach, mixed with sober elegance—like a clear, polite statement of love for nature, citrus fruits, and wildflowers—paying homage to the classics but always with a modern, unique touch.

WAM, in particular, is something else—alongside SOD and HOZ—even though nothing is as animalic, dark, and smoky as WAM.
A beautiful smoky leather fragrance, long-lasting and evolving from smoky notes to leather, with a subtle raw vanilla/flower nuance.

By the way, WAM keeps Mallo’s sober, unique, and spontaneous touch.

That’s why I don’t agree with those who say, “stay away from this if you are faint-hearted.”
Mallo always has a gentle touch, even when he uses castoreum in such high concentrations… but before you buy it (if you can find it—it’s very rare), check my collection.
I love uncompromising perfumes.

07/30/2023

3.5Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Ergoproxy
1130 Reviews

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Ergoproxy

Top Review 42

What lands in the mailbox.....

... gets tested, that’s my motto. And I don’t look at how it has been rated beforehand. Even though scents are known to evoke and/or influence emotions, I always try to approach each composition completely without emotional reactions. Sometimes I succeed more, sometimes less well.

Here’s one thing right off the bat. If you can’t stand that an artisan scent is not treated positively, you should stop reading here. I make no secret of the fact that I can derive very little pleasure from this olfactory concept. However, if you feel triggered and end up getting upset, that’s your own fault.

I need to preface this with some explanation. We know that taste largely arises in the nose through olfactory receptors. For me, this means, for example, that cheese tastes to me as it smells (not to say stinks), namely mostly like spoiled milk.

With perfumes, it often happens to me that unpleasant smells can linger as a taste for a long time.

So it was with WAM, to somehow create a transition
to the scent.

Here, once again, it was a penetrating smoky note that, for my perception, smelled like an overfilled ashtray throughout the entire wear. After about two hours, I could then detect something like a resinous sweetness, but it didn’t really manage to dispel or even soften the ashiness for my nose. The floral components didn’t really come through for me, and over time, a bit of animalic quality added itself, which, in my opinion, didn’t do the overall impression any favors, quite the opposite.

Now, fans of this fragrance direction often like to point out that one should give the creations time. This raises the question for me: How long?

So yesterday, I spent the day feeling quite uneasy before my left arm. Have I given enough consideration to the chance I was offering, and do I thus have the legitimacy to evaluate this composition as what it was for me?

Someone once wrote to me that one should be more benevolent towards the mentioned artisan brands in reviews. Or even better, if one can’t relate to them, one should not test them at all, let alone evaluate them. I see it quite differently.

Well, on the one hand, I don’t know in advance whether a composition will prove pleasant or even wearable for me, and on the other hand, I don’t want to be told what I can test and certainly not how I should evaluate it. But I don’t impose this on others either. As long as no one is directly or indirectly slandered, an opinion should, if not accepted or tolerated, at least be endured with a certain equanimity. Furthermore, I always act according to the principle of equality. What a big brand has to endure in terms of opinions, a niche brand should also somehow withstand. Equal rights for all who bring their products to market.

I always try to adhere to the rules that apply here when writing statements and comments and subjectively reflect my impressions. If I ever violate this, I can accept that an entry of mine might be deleted. I am aware that the operators of the site must also pay attention to a certain proportionality with critical content; otherwise, Parfumo would eventually no longer be there for us, and that would be a shame.

Before I get virtually tarred and feathered by one or the other person, remember, in the end, it’s just a perfume that hasn’t revealed itself to me and not a state affair.

07/17/2023

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Marieposa
90 Reviews

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Marieposa

Top Review 41

The Truth About Sleeping Beauty

If the railing of the small balcony hadn't been made of stone, she wouldn't have been able to dangle her legs. Wrought iron, like the artistically twisted grilles in front of the tower windows, would have heated up too much. But instead, she watched in fascination as the fire licked almost up to the soles of her sturdy leather boots. It must have started when one of the birches in the grove before the wall caught fire. Right there, where the beavers from the nearby river gathered at night, and she fervently hoped that the animals had followed their instinct and moved downstream.
At first, the black smoke burned in her eyes, then a sweet, slightly fruity scent awakened, drawing her in magically. It didn't take long before the fire spread to the thorn hedge on the outer wall. Every time the flames caught one of the heavy rose blossoms, it burst into a cloud of purple smoke.
She tightened the dusty leather coat she had wrapped around her silk flower dress around her shoulders and checked to see if her gloves had slipped. In itself, she didn't believe that the inferno raging down there could harm her more than the massive stone walls of her tower, but still, she would have found it unfortunate in her situation if she were mistaken.
A gust of wind must have blown into one of the lower windows, for the heat sent flaming fragments of the curtain and glowing dust particles dancing up to her. She reached out with her hand holding the cigar before taking a deep drag, and at the moment she exhaled the smoke, she poured a splash of gasoline into the fire with her other hand. How quickly the color of the flames changed! Just to have a comparison, she tried it again, but this time with the little pot full of sweet, viscous resin.
The leather of her shoes was now bubbling, and the dress seemed to be melting under the coat. Only her skin remained cool and unscathed.
Everyone had fled. And everyone thought she would be sleeping. Well...

**

WAM is a fragrance that can quickly push birch tar refusers to their limits even in minimal doses with its top note. The scent stands in the tradition of Russian leather fragrances and initially roars its heritage into the world with a hefty dose of smoky, singed leather. I really enjoy the smell of birch tar, but I must admit that this is not my favorite phase in the scent's progression. After about five minutes, the fragrance calms down, the smoke turns to haze, making way for slightly sweet birch sap and this almost fruity note reminiscent of melting iron, as well as a hint of leathery labdanum, which is still entwined by flames.
As the fragrance reduces its volume, it reveals more and more facets: The scent of dry logs, just before they catch fire, mingles with the spicy aromas of fine tobacco leaves, various smoky notes, and the scent of coarse leather and castoreum, before (at least in my perception) dried rose petals increasingly take up space, catch fire, and dissolve into little clouds of red smoke. In the background, I perceive camphor notes and the sweetness of a tuberose, which blends with balsamic labdanum. At this stage, the fragrance is still striking, but it has completely shed its initial brutality and demonstrates emphatically how multifaceted and, above all, how beautiful smoky notes can be, without losing sight of classic perfume structures. What started so rough and coarse suddenly reveals a fine balance between seemingly opposing worlds, a touching fragility, and bittersweet undertones. This is extraordinary, bold, unexpected, and very special - especially considering that Antonio Lasheras is a self-taught artist. Chapeau!

05/18/2023

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Ropanski2020
27 Reviews

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Let it out, Antonio!

There are the small artificial trinkets, the burning logs, the great infernos, or all-consuming fire rolls in bottle size. And then there is WAM:

"Helsinki - 1:00 PM: Singed sauna benches, my backside is sticking - well done. Berlin 11:45 PM: Safe on Köpenicker Str. filled with colorful treasures, oxygen is running low - well done. My place 3:35 AM: Juniper ham sandwich forgotten in the oven, the smoke detector is annoying - well done!?"

…this is what I originally noted as a draft for a statement. That the scent ultimately offered me much more and appealed to me became evident only after several tests.

WAM is said to have a rather high fragrance oil concentration of a total of 42% (!). Therefore, many will certainly have the expectation of acquiring a powerful, heavy smoky, and at the same time room-filling olfactory experience with the purchase. This is, as much as can be revealed in advance, not necessarily the case.

WAM is not loud, harsh, and certainly not glaringly projecting, nor is it suffocatingly enveloping, completely laden with pollutants; rather, it is dense and cuddly (warm) in the base. The atmosphere of combustion is palpable, yet not overwhelmingly perpetuated to the point of becoming boring after a very short time. No pyramid scent mishmash that seeks to obscure details in favor of *POWER*.

This reveals the special nature of WAM, not solely relying on the linear power of fire but allowing for nuances where they are least expected, which can still be felt on the skin even after several hours. This skin sweats due to the crackling heat; the enveloping leather bears burn marks. The initials reveal: You belong to me.

WAM joins the ranks of smoky dark woody fragrances that already present with prominent examples. Here, certain (non-implicit) reminiscences of well-known figures like Vicki-Lin, "Woke Morisco - Moshpit Pavarotti | Ensar Oud / Oriscent", "EO Black | Ensar Oud / Oriscent", etc. are clearly awakened; not least due to the generated scent profile. Of the aforementioned, I recognize the strongest parallels to "Woke Morisco - Moshpit Pavarotti | Ensar Oud / Oriscent", which, however, comes across as much greasier, coarser, and ultimately also soot-blackened.

In contrast, WAM has its own degree of combustion, one that is not solely measured by the blackness of charred surface structures (crusts). Because here it is surprisingly more complex: It smells neither of mere forest fire nor solely of bitumen, nor of heavy used oil or a cold ashtray. Initially, it is the strong ethereal emissions of the crossed logs, shortly thereafter the fine leathery nuances that give the scent its own, smoky texture. After several hours, a complex mélange of strong wood and finely drawn tobacco notes emerges, embraced by lightly roasted vanillin, which does not harm the scent profile but rather takes away some sharpness to become slightly more balsamic.

Colleague @Soap has wonderfully captured it with the *introspective journey*. Embarking on this is the actual experience; the supposed weight that hits you or that you should expect if you want to fully immerse yourself in this scent profile. After the rather weaker releases of JIZ and Cubalibre, Antonio Lasheras has significantly raised the bar again with WAM (and also with BD!). The response is correspondingly positive. His current output knows how to convince in terms of quality. He himself did not expect this, his current success. For a small *one-man business*, where everything is handcrafted (to my last knowledge), mostly in small batches and with sufficient consideration of natural ingredients, partly from the surroundings (Spain), this is a remarkable success. Keep it up, dear Antonio!

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