Manuel81

All this I wondered when I first heard about Lattafa.
This fragrance is very different from all the other fragrances in my collection.
Very masculine oriental / spicy. Smells primarily of cardamom, cloves & cinnamon, thereby wholly unsweet.
The first 30 minutes prevails an intense leather note ... To my amazement, the fragrance smells very natural, and zero synthetic.
Use it gladly to layern with sweet spicy / powdery fragrances such as THE ONE EDP / DIOR HOMME INTENSE / Givenchy Gentleman or Givenchi PI.
Fortunately cheap enough for a blind purchase.
Worn solo me personally too fierce.
Durability loose 12 hours.
Sillage with me on the skin maximum a 7.

... Gyvenchi Gentleman... Sounds interesting to you?.. In a nutshell, yes... It is.
Unfortunately, remains on the skin after 3 hours with me nothing but vanilla.
On clothing, the whole thing looks different... And since it is anyway an autumn / winter fragrance... So also no problem.
Regarding sillage almost comparable with DHI.... regarding durability, easy 8 hours... On clothing several days

From then on it gets highly interesting, and "Sorry".... Unfortunately Horny.

I admit, I am a fan of the Sauvage series, and except for the EDT I have all in my collection, only the EDT is a little too scratchy for me, which is why I prefer to WRITER.
Now to the fragrance.
The top note is indeed exceedingly exhausting ... For me, this smells first and foremost extremely spicy... And intensely after licorice.
Since I knew that from the outset, I really only briefly after the aufprühen dran gerochen, and am leisurely strolled through the Expert.
Only a good 15 minutes after the aufprühen I have then dedicated myself to the fragrance.
And what can I say.... BARBERSHOP in conjunction with Sauvage EDP pulled me in the nose.
It was once something completely new and unknown.... And yet somehow familiar.
So a mixture of Yves saint laurent Rive Gauche pour Homme, and stop the well-known Sauvage DNA... Just great.
However, in my opinion, not a fragrance for guys.
I turned 40 a few weeks ago, and honestly have no problem wearing this fragrance.
Dior is clearly breaking new ground, away from sweet / spicy.... Powdery fragrances... Towards more masculinity.
Most recently it was Dior Homme 2020 which was completely out of line, and has been a permanent fixture in my collection for 1 year.
Durability and sillage are quite strong, and the atomizer is insane.
Absolutely extensively test I recommend here.

Had it been ONLY according to the reviews here, I would probably NEVER have gotten to know this fragrance, but luckily I got a sample of this fragrance a few weeks ago
The top note belongs for me probably to the best ...(in the woody segment), what I have ever smelled !!!!
Citrus fresh / woody ...and at the beginning minimally spicy .
The fragrance is the hammer ... and the drydown is wonderfully spicy / woody .
No sweet / sticky mainstream, but a masculine / noble men's fragrance that is addictive
If only it were a little stronger ...it would be my new signature scent !
The Sillage is unfortunately VERY restrained ....and yet it is quite good from the projection point of view .
I think my environment perceives it better than I do, that is at least my first experience after just 3 days .......because I have already been approached 3 times about this fragrance
The durability on the skin is about 6 hours .... on a shirt loosely 2 days .
My advice here is to simply test it ... I don't know the original, by the way

...I stumbled across my old signature scent yesterday by accident... ...that I had thought for years I would NEVER be able to smell again
But from the front ........
It is the year 2003, I ... who was just 22 years old, was on holiday in southern Germany
In any city, in any perfumery I bought any perfume .......IMPORTANT on this holiday was ONLY this sample of RIVE GAUCHE that they gave me ......the rest of the day I spent to find a perfumery, which has this new fragrance in the assortment
From the first second I was hooked on this perfume .... I just had to have it, no matter what it costs
For many years it was MY fragrance, and I have been asked about this perfume dozens of times

In 2011 the fragrance has been relaunched ......which I only found out years later .......and again I had bad luck, because again it was simply not possible to get to this fragrance
And if it does, then at utopian prices :(
Yesterday I was again in the City Gallery, where Douglas & Müller are only a few meters apart, looking for the special .
I had written several scents on my flag .... and I didn't really want to go to Müller .... one scent was from Yves Saint Laurent ... and when I came down the escalator and the view went straight towards MÜLLER, I saw the various YSL scents from a distance, at that moment I decided to go to Müller
While searching for the actual YSL fragrance, I couldn't believe my eyes ......there was actually still a bottle of YSL Rive Gauche :)........It was a VERY short visit to the miller, and I had a 2 meter wide grin on my face all the way home.
The nice lady in the miller told me that especially this fragrance is not listed in her online repertoire, and also only VERY rarely arrives in limited quantities .
Never in my life would I have thought to be allowed to take up this fragrance again in my collection .

By the way, my bottle is not black, but completely transparent, and on the side it says

ACCORDS
LAVANDE
GERANIUM
PATCHOULI
VETIVER
BOIS DE GAIAC

2003

Regarding the Sillage the original was stronger in my opinion .... but what the heck, the durability is about 8 hours on the skin, on clothing definitely longer
The flacon is ok, even if I liked the "can" better .