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Maahir Black Edition
Thirteen materials and not a sweet one among them: Lattafa Maahir Black Edition Eau de Parfum 100ml is the dark, difficult version of a fragrance that was never especially easy to begin with. The opening is all pepper and spice. Pink pepper and black pepper arrive together, one bright and one rasping, and saffron sits underneath with its dry golden bitterness. It is an austere start with no fruit and no citrus anywhere.
The middle is the unusual part. Rhubarb brings a sharp green sourness that nothing else in the composition would have supplied, cade is distilled from wood and smells of tar and bonfires, labdanum adds a sticky papery darkness, and gurjun balsam contributes a dry resinous smoke. Four materials, all of them difficult, and together they make a middle that smells of a workshop rather than a wardrobe.
The base is six deep and it is where the fragrance earns its following. Leather is the dominant one, dry and worn rather than new, with cedarwood and guaiac wood adding sharpness and tarry smoke, patchouli adding earth, treemoss a damp bitter green, and musk the only softening influence in the whole thing.
It lasts. Ten hours on skin is routine and projection is strong for the first three, so two sprays is the maximum anyone needs. Deep winter, evenings and formal occasions suit it; it is wasted and uncomfortable in heat. It is aimed at men, and it is a difficult fragrance in the best sense, the sort of thing that takes a few wears before it makes sense. It has been in the catalogue since 2019.
Lattafa began with traditional blending and now produces French styled compositions in parallel, which is why its catalogue can read like two houses sharing one logo.
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