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Key Notes
- Top notes
- Lemon
- Heart notes
- Vetiver, Iris
- Base notes
- Leather, Patchouli
- Brand
- Lattafa
Lattafa Vurv Profumo Intensity Pour Homme Eau de Parfum 100ml is five materials and not one of them sweet, a short and rather severe composition, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than dressing it up.
Lemon does all the work at the top, sharp and bitter rather than sugary, and it burns off quickly. What is left underneath is the real fragrance. Vetiver is the dominant material, dry and rooty with a smoky bitterness to it, and iris sits alongside giving a cool, powdery, slightly metallic quality that makes the pair feel tailored rather than rugged. Then leather arrives, dry and a little smoky, the kind that suggests a new shoe rather than a saddle, and patchouli grounds it with damp earth and a dark edge.
There is no long evolution to follow. Within fifteen minutes the citrus has gone and the vetiver, iris, leather and patchouli core is what you wear for the rest of the day. Some people prefer that directness; others will find it plain, so it is worth knowing in advance.
At eau de parfum strength it lasts a full working day with restrained projection, staying close after the first hour. That suits offices, interviews, meetings and cool weather, and it reads unmistakably as masculine and rather formal. If your other bottles are sweet, this is the useful opposite to own, and it is the one to wear when you would rather not be remembered for your fragrance.
Lattafa Perfumes, which owns the line, is a Sharjah company making its stock in the Emirates. Its founder was a young man newly arrived from Pakistan when he took work in a relative's Dubai perfume shop, and what he learned there became a business selling attars, perfume oils and sprays made to a French template.
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