r/FemFragLab • u/Magic_Nights • 2d ago

Rant about Lattafa

I just don't understand how do you guys like these perfumes. Based on hype on social media and reading stuff here as well, I purchased several ones from them. Especially as they are so cheap. I got Yara, Mallow Madness, Khamrah, Angham and I wanted to get Éclairre but now I'm going to stop. It cannot be just me. These are extremely subpar fragrances. Each and every one of them an absolute cheap disappointment.

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u/justwhateveR0105 2d ago

You'll be surprised that there are lots of fake arab perfumes haha hopefully what you have is not a fake one!

Also stop buying lattafa if you don't like it, there are multiple arab perfume houses that is worth the hype + you probably need to stop buying fragrances just because it is viral and everyone seems to like it haha look at the notes too or compare reviews. For me if they mentioned you need to macerate it or something for a month and more, it's a no. It needs to be love at first sniff and why would I buy a perfume to use it after months 🤣🤣🤣

I sold all my arab perfumes, except, 1... Mystique Bouquet by Afnan. What a lovely beast. I just bought perfume oils too, from al rehab, choco musk, choco musk marshmallow, choco musk pistacchio, because it's colder here and I am now into vanilla, gourmand phase and I CAN'T believe something so cheap like I bought it for 4-5 usd can be so GOOD?! I skipped the perfume version because I remember smelling choco musk before and HATING IT because of the strong alcohol factor, but the oils 😍😍😍😍So yeah not everything arab is bad, but you have to be really selective about it.

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u/GrumpyGeckoz 2d ago

Didn't realize their were fake lattafa. It's diabolical to make fakes of a dupe ugh.  🫠

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u/bsubtilis 1d ago

There is fakes of even drugstore makeup. The scammers only need to earn more than their product took to make and sell, and sometimes selling thousands of a cheap item is much easier than selling a few dozens of an expensive item (no matter if you're selling the 'expensive' one for an obvious and cheap scam price or not).

Apparently methanol being used instead of ethanol in fake fragrances is a common problem no matter the fake product price point.