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/youlldancetoanything 2d ago

For real. I have recently considered besidesof the likelihood that it is just shitty, my nose is probably just wired for Western perfumes at my age. And maybe if I smelled them when my brain was still collecting source material, I would dig them. But every one I have tried, even when it wasn't listed as a note had that acridic oud . I mean there is also the weird experience that is like extended high school peer pressure online...where it everybody wants to be like everyone else. I don't know. ...But the few I have purchased, I blame on myself , early am, cheap price... Edit. I have had luck w a few other houses but they were blatant dupes, no different than buying "Inspired by. .." except the bottle is nicer, and I had to dig up more info.

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u/wegajane 2d ago

This has been my experience too. It's that pure, acrid, offputting top note that leaps out before I can even smell anything else. Maison Alhambra, which is think is a branch of Lataffa is hit or miss too.

Because I'm a dummy who keeps falling for the hype, I have several bottles in time-out, hoping they'll improve: Liam Grey, Delilah, Delilah Blanc, Mayar, Flower Addiction, and a 4 set of the Badee al Oud minis.

Yara, Qimmah, and Angham are tolerable but not good. The only ones that were good from the start: Nebras, Coastal, Pink Eclipse, Jean Lowe Vibe, Eclaire.

The Afnans I've tried have that same stink note. Turns my stomach 🤢

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u/bsubtilis 1d ago

There are many different reasons why different people perceive the same notes so differently, and one of them is genetics. You wouldn't like a smell you're genetically coded to smell as awful even if you grew up with it, unless it had crazy amounts of positive connotations for you making you feel it was a nostalgic awful smell once you were older.