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.

I've got about 30 Lattafas and this is my number one from them, no doubt. Totally unisex. Black cherry, saffron and lots of incense. It's thick, rich and bold. Not a teenage cherry, it's dark and grown up. Smells exactly like Tom Ford's Smoke Cherry, but it beats with with longevity and sillage by miles. I'm an oversprayer, but I'm careful with it as it's nuclear. Mine sat in a draw for a few weeks after opening, so perhaps that made it stronger as it's often the case with Middle Eastern perfumes. The presentation is also very impressive, both the box and the bottle look absolutely beautiful and are of high quality. I don't understand how Cherry Smoke's dupes are often reviewed and this fragrance is almost never mentioned. Such an underrated gem from Lattafa. 10/10 for me.

Without letting the bottle rest after its journey, I sprayed this fragrance on my wrist. The first thing that hit my nose was a pleasant scent of cherry liqueur 🍒. I also detect woody-balsamic notes,also guaiac wood being quite prominent, giving the fragrance a slightly earthy and smoky touch. There’s a faint pine undertone, likely due to the resins. Altogether, the ingredients create a beautiful, soft, and cozy scent. If I had tried this fragrance blindly, I probably wouldn’t have identified it as an Arabic scent—it has such a deep and nuanced character. Again, these impressions are from warm skin. The fragrance is very unisex, I can imagine it on both women and men. It’s better suited for autumn and winter.

Delicious, deep, dark and delightful! Probably inspired by TF Cherry Smoke or Lost Cherry, but not a copy. I get the juicy, smoky, sweet black cherry immediately, embedded in a deep dark resinous incense base. Within just a few minutes the cherry is backing off a little, but a delightful remnant remains for the entire life of the fragrance. The quality is amazingly good, smells luxurious, could easily be a £300 perfume. Totally unisex. I’m not super impressed by the performance though - it’s not as potent as I’d like, could have been stronger, and doesn’t seem to project beyond arms length at best. Longevity is ok but not great. Even so, it performs much better than TF Lost Cherry.

Layering this with their Brioche Vanilla is like pairing a warm buttery croissant with aged leather-bound romantic era poetry because it’s rich, unexpected, and oddly intoxicating. Think vanilla custard spilled on antique furniture with a sensual balance of sweet and stately. The creamy gourmand of brioche vanilla brings buttery softness while 1505 grounds the composition with depth and an air of dark chocolate covered cherry refinement. Together, they create a layered, indulgent contrast that will confuse all that enter your personal space. Perfect for cool evenings, date nights, or whenever you want to smell like a luxury dessert served in 18th century Versailles.

This is almost identical to Cherry Smoke from TF. I’ve got both sprayed, one on each wrist, and I’ve been smelling them side-by-side every 15-20 minutes for the past two hours and they are like, 95% similar. Both on skin and in the air (have a couple of friends smell them as well, they all agreed). The only difference I’m really picking up is this one has a stronger cherry smell, whereas the TF cherry is slightly more subdued and goes away quicker. This one also drys down a little sweeter, whereas Cherry Smoke is a little smokier. But again, this is nitpicking and smelling side-by-side otherwise you couldn’t tell the difference.

This is really good. Mine has macerated for at least a month. I haven’t smelled any of the smells like scents, but I probably have 6 other cherry perfumes in my collection. I don’t think any of them smell like this. Maybe Modern Muse Le Rouge Gloss possibly and only slightly. This is smokey cherry powder. Leans masculine. I was reading a review recently where someone said that saffron can come across as motor oil. I don’t get that here, but it is medicinal and kind of ew at first, but within ten minutes it is a very comforting scent. I am very happy with this blind buy. Smells expensive and smelled good even pre maceration.

Going off initial spray: Starts off very bright Cherry, like TF Lost Cherry. But very very quickly goes into a deep, sweet, dark, black cherry, slightly bitter/tart, maybe almondy, wrapped in a light smoke. Right under the sweet/tart Cherry, i get the woods in the background. Very smooth, but i occasionally get a little hint of something ever so slightly medicinal. Beautiful. Ill update as time goes, but this stuff is fantastic. Definitely giving me night time, cold weather, dim restaurant with city views, and even vampiric vibes as weird as that sounds. Very dark, sensual fragrance.

Straight to the top of my favourite Lattafas, not because of really lovely cherry opening (I did not test any cherrysome frags from Tom Ford), but the only Tom Ford that I loved to bits and was wearing a lot was Sahara Noir and 1505 the only fragrance that doesn't burn my nose by ambroxan-alike molecules, it is easily recognizable to me base of Sahara Noir, balsamic, opulent, incensy, warm-woody,and incredibly comfortable and enveloping. I suppose everyone taking in or taking aback by certain combination of ingredients, in this case, luckily to myself, everything is perfect.

TF Cherry Smoke but better in every way. Stronger projection, better longevity, the cherry note is more prominent and lasts longer, and an unbeatable price point. Also, unlike other ME dupes, this required no maceration. As long as the formulation never changes and it doesn't get discontinued, I will forever buy this. Work in a hospital so i and others frequently go nose blind to most things, got a compliment from a patient about arms length and 10 hours after application, at that point it was mostly just dark slightly smoky woods.

HOLY MOLY this is strong. Unisex leaning masculine, I'd say, theoretically, but to my nose this is more masc than unisex. Opening is like a overriped cherry that falls from the tree and splashes you on impact with red juice, but then the drydown is very dark and serious and churchy because of the frankincense, styrax and all that jazz. Quite niche and challenging for the mere nose of a young passionate perfume lover. But alas, I'll make it work somehow. It smells incredible but it's quite intense for me.

This one of the few times a dupe is better than the OG. Compared to TF Cherry Smoke it has more depth, and part of the scent is almost gourmand. It is like a cherry pie mixed with almond (although its not in the notes) in a smoke form put into a bottle. It also has better longevity on skin and clings to clothes for days. Oh, and it is also less linear than TF, which is rare for Lattafa and Arabian perfumes in general. I'll say this is one of the better ones from the house.

I utterly love it. The cherry note starts off a bit medicinal, but it soon melts into the smoky incense, creating a beautifully blended drydown. There’s something mysterious about it. Dark, enchanting, with a distinctly witchy energy. The longevity is rather impressive, and the sillage as well. I’ve had loads of compliments while wearing it and it’s remarkably close to the TF's one, if not better considering the price, obvs.

Female review - I have over 300 scents. Avid collector/hoarder of fragrances. This is very close to Tom Ford! I'm getting more OUD to it. Not necessarily smoke but a definite oud. I got this for my mother in law. She loves Tom Ford Lost Cherry but hates the performance of that scent. This one PERFORMS. Nice sillage and it lasts. If my mother in law wants this bottle, I will definitely buy another bottle for myself. Nice!!

Excellent woody/sweet yet slightly tart cherry scent. The cherry almost has a slight medicinal aspect to it, like the flavour of a cherry soother (uk sore throat sweet), toned down in sweetness and blended with some woods and very light incense. I love it. The Mrs likes it too. More masculine imo, and hers. Excellent presentation as always with lattafa. Performance is good, long lasting, decent sillage.

This is my favourite perfume in my collection. Woody and incense-y notes are quite prominent on my skin, on me this is a really sexy, witchy incense-cherry scent. It is so mysterious and sexy and I feel like a bad B wearing it. I tested it against TF and this is much nicer, it lasts longer, it is drier, the blend is more appealing. It is such a beautiful perfume, especially for the price point.