Nohiba

I'm wearing Nohiba today for the first time in years, maybe 10 years, and I'm wondering why it got pushed back into the far reaches of my perfume closet. It's even better than I remembered it. So let me establish the bottle of Nohiba I have is the one with the paper label with the black pen & ink late Victorian design with the small red roses. I probably bought this bottle around 2001, before E. Coudray made what looks like a major design change to its bottles. And if they also brought out a new formulation in 2016, what I'm reviewing today is not that juice. Find the old stuff and hope it's as good as my bottle. Lots of cloves in this rose/carnation, and I love a perfumer who puts coriander in a fragrance as a top note and admits it. The patchouli and cedar go on and on and it lasts 6+ hours on my skin. Nohiba was always an elusive scent, and never a top seller. I don't ever remember seeing it in stores, but someone must have sold it before the internet. But it's exactly the sort of scent women who love spicy scents are looking for if they don't want to drench themselves in oud. Or want a short break from drenching themselves in oud.

This is my go-to sexy but subtle fragrance. I've been wearing it for years, long before the re-introduction. This is actually an old scent from the 1920s, originally called "Black Tulip" I believe, and it has that old world real perfume smell. A little goes a long way and it has great lasting power. The dry down is amazing -- it gets deeper and richer as time passes. On me it's a true Oriental, a little woody, spicy, smokey, incense-y with notes of carnation, rose, and sandalwood. I've never met a man who didn't love this scent. I wear the bath oil as my perfume. layered over the shower gel and body cream. This is definitely more of a colder weather fragrance. My review is based on my carefully preserved stash of the original formula. Unfortunately it's nearly impossible to find these days, so if anyone knows a reliable source please post it here.

This is a version of Opium that I love. Soft, spicy, carnation. If you like the old Opium you'll also like this - it doesn't whack you over the head though, it's quite refined and very good quality stuff, less aldehydic, which is no bad thing. Men like it (they tell me). I wouldn't be without this! 10/10.

...the most sensual perfume in my collection and most sexy one of all scents out there A 100% Women smells like this I am addicted to You Nohiba You work perfectly with my body chemistry ,every time kind of different ,depends of how warm my body is...So Lucky Me...

Not a huge fan of florals but that one has pleasantly surprised me. Rose accent here is minimal, which allows carnation to mark it's distinguished presence. The woody notes are subtle and not overpowering which makes the ideal evening fragrance. It is strong, vibrant and a little bit smoky, almost masculine. If you get Tuscany per Donna by Aramis and Karan's Black Cashmere, you will love this.