La Collection d'antiquités 1505

I got this because my bottle of TF cherry Smoke smells great but has very poor longevity . I needed to get that scent but not for 3 digit prices. Enter fragrancebuy.ca and fragrantica to supply a road to an alternative product. I have to say this is amazingly close to my TF Cherry smoke and hits all the same hot buttons. Standing here reviewing it I am just enveloped in a cloud of cherry that never gets too sweet or tart and a fog of leather incense . It's my best description. It sprays on as Cherry Leather with a hint of cinammon that recedes as it dries down. It has in incense like note that gives it a mysterious smoky quality. A slight sharp animalic or honey spike. It's just a sultry mix of sensuality. I wore it for the first time on the weekend and while fueling my car I got the olive note they mention in TF. I'm not getting that this morning but to be fair it's another temperature in the office and wearing way more clothes. This on the thicker side of scents. I would say it's a date night or leisure time scent. I'm wearing it at the office and it feels a bit wrong for the setting. It's rich and enveloping. It's definitely unisex leaning masculine . Obviously different body chemistry will bring different notes to the forefront. If you like Cherry Smoke this will be your kind of thing. I have no concern with wanting it to be an exact TF dupe but I can say they smell very much the same to me. A great frag by Lattafa Pride. The packaging is over the top though. The huge gold box to hold the bottle with the watch on it is a lot of work and cost for a clone product. In the end the scent speaks for itself and outperforms my TF bottle that so turned me on and let me down. I'm glad companies like Lattafa sell you the product you want at a great value. Im glad for their success.

Opening: A pleasant cherry liquer pralines opening. Sounds quite gurmand, not synthetic. My other thought is some sort of good quality cherry liquor. It is a bit sweet but sour as well. Really all-round and pleasant composition. 8/10 Later: You can feel cherry pralines throughout the whole perfumes "life" but later on you can feel some resin, guiac wood, leather and woody notes. Again, it's really well composed. 8/10 Projection and sillage: Projection and sillage are quite crazy, I had strong projection for several meters for at least 6 hours. As a skin smell I could easily feel it the next day. 9/10 Price:quality 9/10 Overall: It's extremely well composed parfume in its price range. Quite rarely you can get such a complex parfume for ~35$ in an offer. As a men, it's a gurmand smell that you might just wear for your own pleasure, since I don't think it's the kind of magnetic parfume. If you like cherries, like me, it's a great choice in an economic price. During the summer it might be a little bit too sweet so I'd advice wearing it on colder nights when the temperature is 20 oC and below, I think that especially below 10 oC it shines. Overall grade: 8.5/10

The opening is unexpected and quietly intoxicating. A dark cherry note emerges first, not bright or playful, but lacquered and mature, like preserved fruit resting in aged wood. It is softened immediately by warm resins and muted spice, giving the impression of sweetness filtered through time rather than sugar. The cherry does not shout. It glows. As the fragrance settles, that cherry becomes deeper and more textural, folding into amber with a velvety warmth. The effect is emotional rather than edible. It feels nostalgic, almost archival, like the memory of indulgence rather than indulgence itself. Candlelit rooms come to mind. Heavy drapery. The calm confidence of objects built to endure. In the dry down, the fruit recedes into the structure of the scent. Resinous woods and ambered warmth cling close to the skin, intimate and dignified. What remains is an echo of cherry stained into the wood, subtle but unmistakable, like a trace left behind on polished furniture long after the room has emptied. This is not a fragrance for the moment. It is a fragrance for reflection.

I heard a guy reviewing it on YouTube saying it's a very masculine scent. In my opinion no way! I think he's trying to convince himself it smells very masculine. This is similar vibe to smoke cherry from TF. It opens with sweet boozy cherry and turns into a cherry bubble gum. Then the resin notes start coming in and the cherry bubble gum becomes beautifully blended into balsamic incense. The cherry stays quite bright and zingy but sits under the incense blanket. For my taste it definitely leans feminine and is an excellent choice for a nighttime black dress and lingerie, intimate setting. Very alluring scent. When I just bought it, it didn't project strong and stayed close to the body. However, this has changed over the year. It became much smoother, stronger and the incense gained much more depth. I think this is a great scent for the money if you like smoke cherry. Don't expect it to be exactly the same, but you'll get similar vibes.

Another great Lattafa. Quality blend here. This is unissex but leans masculine, which is awesome for guys who like the cherry note. I've never smelled Cherry Smoke, but i'm familiar with Lost Cherry and that one is way more feminine. The cherry note though is only center stage during the opening and it's so good, wish it kept that juicyness throughout the full duration of the fragrance. As it dries down it gets woodier and smokier which still smells great and very regal, but that opening man...it's just too good to last only for the little time it does. You can still smell it on the drydown but it's way behind the incense/balsamic route it takes. Projection is arms lenght, and longevity goes well into 10h. Strictly a cold weather scent and i wouldn't overspray this, the incense part of it could get obnoxious if you douse yourself in it. For this DNA, a full bottle of this is a bargain.