Sacred

Coming from the watch makers industry originally, Louis Cardin ventured into the fragrance world over 40 years ago, and in Sacred, they came up with an absolute gem of a fragrance launched back in 2011. Known for fragrances with longevity of 12-24 hours and value for money in an overpriced fragrance world, Sacred is true to form, in 100ml EDP form, it's affordable directly from their website at around £33 and even cheaper online from other fragrance shops. You can also get a Sacred deodorant and a 1.2 ml sample. The note line up is for sure a gourmand lover's dream (that would be me, then), and the promise of Vanilla, Caramel, chocolate and the inclusion of both white musk and black musk (long lasting synthetic note used for longevity and potency), plus sandalwood (A wood note from trees in the Santalum genus), and amber make this one interesting to me. I picked mine up for a ridiculously low price of just £15, and on first spray I was a little bit confused and a tad disappointed with the chemical-like aroma blast that greeted my nose. Happily that soon subsided and the magic began to happen. Sure enough, a sweet, gourmand, delicious mixture comes through and is a crowd pleaser, seductive, alluring, sensual, completely inoffensive and highly addictive. Projection is fairly modest and sillage similar, a few feet and will not choke anyone around you, but that's no bad thing as this is one to enjoy wearing just for your own pleasure, and anyone getting close enough to you will love the aromas coming from your skin. As an older man, I feel this suits my fragrance hungry flesh very well, and it instils in me happiness, an air of confidence and contentment as the gorgeous caramel and vanilla wafts in the air as I move. My wife loved it immediately which is always a bonus! Linear, yes perhaps and that is no bad thing as once it has settled, it's utterly gorgeous, but this fragrance is also intriguing. The woody notes blend very well and offer a complexity to the sweet gourmand notes, and keep up the interest factor, and I just can't stop taking in the wafts from my skin. Spray cautiously on light coloured clothes as the dark juice will stain, though on darker clothes it's fine and stays for easily twelve hours, often much longer. For the money I'd be happy if this was even half as good as it actually is, as it is, with such beauty and elegance that lasts on my skin easily ten to twelve hours, a no brainer! A beautiful fragrance that now has become a staple in my collection.

At the start it is amazingly sweet but I still kept sniffing my arm as it was very addictive. I've got many scents as most of you probably do and I just got Armaf Odyssey Mandarin Sky at the same time and put them both in the cupboard for a couple of weeks as I ran out of display space. After that time I took this out and sprayed this and the Armaf on different arms as they were sitting next to each other in the cupboard so I gave them a blast and I was very surprised as a freak selection they are very close, only the Armaf was a bit more citrus and probably more acceptable to some on opening and although the Armaf is certainly no slouch in the initial performance department, this was definitely stronger and ever so slightly more sweet. Pretty mad that I picked these two out of 200+ that they would be so similar but they were there and if you're into fragrance you know you can't use them all, all of the time and you need a reminder and also with potential maturation with most middle eastern fragrance you want to check how they turn out. This was strong from the start and I don't know where I will wear this as it is super sugary, but I love it, it is up there in sweetness with Credible Oud from the same house which is pretty much like Mugler's Alien, which is obviously female leaning but I also love and it's slightly different, and I'll keep a bottle in my inventory as long as it's available and it's amazingly cheap. Fantastic sweet offerings, fairly linear as this first hour or two goes but as it is, the Armaf and Sacred are inseparable to my nose. To ensure I didn't go nose blind I used Ibrahim Al Qurashi Dominican Tobacco on my hand as a scent breaker which is like dark tobacco ash so that assured me that I wasn't losing all of my olfactory nerves. It's a winner and cheap as chips. Amazing similarities accidentally found, at least to me with AOMS, but all good.

Amazing semi one dimensional gourmand that works wonders on its own. Has that longevity and that caramel note is probably the star and is holding the whole composition together in terms of my nose. For this price range I think you can’t go wrong with this at all.this is a fragrance that’s been gatekept for a very long time and it’s probably gonna stay that way I’m sure lol. I personally would layer this fragrance realistically speaking rather than wearing it on its own. I think this would smell good with kismet for men or Bentley man intense. Louis Cardin should really focus on a new range of gourmands because they’ve mastered this very easily. Longevity:9/10 Price:10/10 Projection:6/10 Easy to reach for levels:8/10 Bottle design:7/10 Weather:cold Time:evening/night time Seasons:any just wear it ugh Overal fragrance rating:8/10 Performance Update after macération: Longevity:10 hours(6-7 sprays) (Go crazy with the sprays) Projection:3-5 hours potent asf Sillage: between within arms length and 1-2 ft I personally layer it with Lattafa mahir black + Maison Al Hambra herod The trio creates a Bvlgari man in black type of vibe.try it out

My no.1 blind buy, cheapie find, compliment getter and most highly recommended fragrance, what more can I add? I watched a few reviews of this scent on YouTube but it was Chris at the Frag Mental channel that sold it to me with his passionate support for this amazing perfume. Sacred isn't overly gourmand in my opinion. It is slightly less sweet then a typical gourmand fragrance and has a poppy zing which I love and that keeps a freshness to the scent deep into the dry down on this. As others on here have eluded to, this may be the black musk but its almost a minty zing and could be geranium in my opinion. This lasts on my skin 11+ hours and it's eternal on clothing. Fantastic scent trail and it projects beyond 6ft for a good few hours. All being said, this is a slightly feminine leaning unisex fragrance that I love wearing as a man. I find I can wear it most of the year especially as we only get a few days of hot weather each year here in the UK! So avoid the extreme heat and it's very wearable. I highly recommend but at same time I don't want too many people to know about this affordable gem 😁

This smells exactly like a rich, confident girl boss, total baddie vibes. Just a heads-up: it can stain your clothes, so I don't recommend spraying it directly onto your garments (though you can wash it out if it happens). This is literally my signature scent and such a massive compliment-getter! It might not be for every girl, but every baddie would love it. It doesn't really work for hot, summery weather, but it's perfect for nighttime or when you're chilling in a full-blast AC room, lol. It's also amazing for meetings and gatherings because it just radiates confidence. I’m already on my third bottle, so you know it's good. While it might not be everyone's absolute favorite, it is 100% worth the money. One thing to watch out for: there are a lot of fakes out there, and it can be hard to tell them apart. Your best bet is to check the color of the liquid and the actual scent—that’s how you'll know it’s the real deal.

"in your face" honey-like sweet opening, brought me diabetic bomb upfront. Pleasant and joyful yet appetizing, I'm craving dessert while sniffing at it. Strong woody note started to surface afterward, kinda smell like eucalyptus and resin like. Completely out of topic but I'm imagining a glass of cold root-beer with vanilla ice cream and caramel topping sprinkled with pepper x clove powder. Longevity: 19 hours on my T-shirt and counting. I thought I got a fake since the silver stripes of the bottle peeling off so easily(yes bottle's quality is quite questioning). Very good deal on the price, I bought 2 bottles instead of 1, I love sniffing the residual smell on the sprayer, gives me nosegasm.

Well...what can I say?! It is beautiful...after watching lots of reviews on YouTube and seeing it was a gourmand fragrance which reviewers said would be perfectly unisex....I've finally bit the bullet and bought a bottle. It is a beautiful deep, boozy, ambery, vanillic chocolate fragrance and not in a sickening sense at all! I also get a polite, smooth oud smell. Definitely get the oriental vibe! This is going to be amazing in the cooler months, so tempted to get a back up bottle! I'd also like to say how fantastic the customer service is! They reply rapidly to messages and go above and beyond to help and assist you.

wonderful dark chocolate and caramel perfume. The opening is a spicy chocolate, with the hint of caramel and vanilla right from the start, and then the spiciness and caramel disappear, leaving the yummy chocolate as the diva throughout the lifespan of the fragrance, with vanilla and sandalwood as background singers. This is a potent juice, very delicious, and stays a long time. It easily reaches 10 hours with strong to moderate silage. I can see this kind of scent is released as the flanker of A*Men from Mugler. A worthy blind buy.

This is a delicous and long lasting scent. I can smell it 12+ later, projects for four plus hours on my skin. It's predominantly chocolatey, but has other notes to round it out. Better about 15 minutes in as the opening is slightly sharper than the next 11 hours. Genuinely unisex but pretty sweet, so that has to be your thing It's a little on the high end for a cheapie, but you don't need to overspray as it's strong stuff. I love it! I'll keep it on my regular rotation for nights out with Spice Bomb Extreme.

A bit powdery and very sweet, although I can't tell what it actually smells of. Probably caramel and vanilla with some baby powder weirdness. I don't get chocolate, more like some type of cake or dessert, but it also doesn't smell like that completely. It's a hard to describe, a bit strange and unique gourmand scent, but very good. It is unisex, maybe leans a bit feminine. I have received compliments with it. Great cheapie. 8.5/10

Hidden Gem Alert A great value and compliment for the Money ! Sweet beautiful vanilla, smoke, dry chocolate and black amber with a white musk ! It is a fragrance with that yin and yang effect. a 7 to 9 hour fragrance wit good projection and great sillage. I really do love this one for 40 or 50 dollars usd. Compare to Armani stronger with you - if you don't want to special order this through ebay or instigram

I ordered a full bottle after testing a sample of this beauty 😍😍😍 Oh,dear! I love its sweet beginning and then it turns into a different perfume... Thick like honey, warm and dark from the choco touch... The persistance is beyond this world and the sillage is huge Besides this, I find it completely rounded and chic, not offensive or rough at all Just LOVE it

Amazing fragrance! This is a beautiful fragrance that is a compliment beast. Every time I wear it at work, people ask why does it smell like brownies or chocolate and vanilla. I say “that is me lol” it for sure brings a warming feeling with it on. I would highly recommend if you are looking for a really nice gourmand fragrance.

Just bought 2 bottles of this scent. I love, love love the sweetness! On me, opening note is the vanilla, then comes the caramel and hint of dark chocolate, after that comes the powdery scent. Be careful not to spray on white clothing as it leaves light pinkish stain.

this fragrance is a beast mode in terms of longevity. it beats almost every single fragrance in my whole collection that is 5x more expensive than this. A heavy vanilla scent with middle eastern twist. great value for the price of ($20-$25) totally worth it.

It is definitely worth it. But never wear it in summer. Got so many compliments for this perfume. Might feel a bit heavy to your nose but it's not. Give it a lil bit time. It's soooo amazing. My go-to winter perfume.

I absolutely love this fragrance! It is very sweet, cozy and gourmand. Smells like a woody powdery caramel with hint of chocolate. The longetivity is also great. For a cheap price like this i would definitly rebuy.

You will either love this or hate it. Very unique. Not blind buy safe. Fortunately I love it once I am over the first 3 minutes. Great longlivity and excellent value for your buck. Recommend

MMM Yummy! This one's a linear gourmand long lasting scent. Pretty straight forward and the notes above are pretty accurate. Does what it's supposed to do perfectly. I love it.

You can buy sacred directly from Louis Cardin website. They offer the cheapest price in USA. https://louiscardin.us/products/louis-cardin-sacred-3-4-oz

Very nice scent. Good performance. Very good value for money. For a much better review just read Miguel Matos article about it here on Fragrantica.

this fragrance is like velvety rich chocolate with woody notes and spices mixed in. its nice and lasts a long time on my skin.

powdery sweet incense , beautiful well balanced scent, will definately be adding this to my collection. great find.

Underrated fragrance. Compare it to the hype Lattafa Kamrah & Khamrah Qahwa get. Better. Stronger. Cheaper.

Beast mode powdery sweet incense. Very feminine. Great stuff especially for the price. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

I just pray they will never discontinue this

Me and my wife really love it. 9/10

I bought into the hype on this after watching some YouTube vids and bit the bullet and ordered two bottles straight from Louis Cardin's site(UAE company operating in UK), after using their 20 percent Black Friday discount. I did not like it much the first time I sprayed it and my reaction was similar to Azarro's Wanted By Night in that I almost regretted buying this. It was not the heavy chocolate cologne I was looking for. I also picked up on this green plastic lip sticky undertone that I just couldn't stand. Having said that I kinda like it now and have let the hype distort my perception for the better. I get a lot more sweet caramel and cake smell than the nauseating sharp plastic and people seem to like it too. It reminds me of Baklava. It's an alright frag for less than 50 bucks, which is how much I paid. Don't expect it to last 12 hours. The performance and longevity are just about above average, nothing beast mode. 6, 7 hours max with 6 sprays. Maybe 8 hours with 10 sprays. The dry down is a lot more masculine than the opening which leans kinda feminine. Last but not least, I was very impressed with the extra care the folks at Louis Cardin gave to my order. They really went above and beyond by packing this from inside the frag box too. These guys are really nice. Update I put this on last night on September 1st, 2022 and it was still on me when I woke up 12 hours later! The projection and longevity are really good. It's just a bit too sweet and linear.

I'm new to fragrances so I watched a few videos on top 10s and this was on a few of the cheap ones so I bought it. Alot of the reviews talked about how good this was so heres my honest opinion on it from a fragrance noob. The box it came in looked cheap but lets be honest who cares about what the box looks like its all about the smell. The bottle cap is plastic and cheap, if you pick it up by the cap it will come straight off with no restriction. In videos and on pictures the bottle looks like it has 2 metal pieces going across but actually they are stickers and they aren't very good. As soon as i took it out of the box the stickers started peeling. Now for the scent, I smell a hint of vanilla, chocolate, spices and a slight hint of nuts. The projection isn't great I would say people can smell me at arms length at most. It is a nice warm smell that will be nice in the cold winter but not for others to smell you. All in all its a cheap fragrance with a nice warm smell. I wont be purchasing a second bottle however. If you are wanting something for others to smell when you are wearing it this isn't it. EDIT: After 10 hours I can still smell it others can within 6 feet as well. It smells alot nicer now than It did in the first few hours. EDIT2: Its now 20 hours later and I can still smell it on me.

A much more powdery, spicier and muskier version of Al rehab soft. There is a citrus notes (maybe lemon) that present in the background even though it is not listed on fragrantica . The sweetness is not the forefront of the fragrance compared to soft or pink sugar. This would be ideal for those who love powdery, sweet fragrances that has some spices for a bit of mystery . This is ideal for the Autumn season, the spices combined with the powder is very warm, puts me in mind of a glass of spiced cider. The fragrance is unisex imo, the powdery notes are balanced with the spices. I would not purchase a full bottle as I'm not a fan of powdery and spicy fragrances .

The opening is messy and confusing, a little harsh too, but once it dries down it starts making more sense. I get a musky, dark, and powdery caramel. It's somewhat incense-y. As many others have said, I don't feel the chocolate at all, but I do get a faint dirty almond. It's quite floral-spicy due to the saffron.. dare I say very. This leans slightly feminine for me, which I don't mind. I thought I'd love this a lot judging by the notes, but it turned out to be more like "pretty decent". Maybe a 7.5/10.

The opening is confusing and initially gave me a sense of regret. Soon after, it turns into something reminiscent of vanilla coke—perhaps from the caramel or the almond-vanilla blend. The saffron cuts through the sweetness and may be responsible for an unexpected hint of freshness. As it dries down, it becomes both boozy and powdery—though that may seem contradictory. In the end, it smells more like a good body splash than a full-bodied perfume.

Amber heavy base with a bit of Oud. Caramel and vanilla in the middle. Slightly chocolatey, and slightly floral, maybe jasmine. Very Powdery almost lip-sticky, but only if you smell it up close. Cinnamon top and I can smell slight cloves with it, and a mix of oriental spices. In the air it kinda smells like a cinnamon apple pie covered with vanilla ice cream. Very strong, and very projecting. One spray can fill the room up. Overall great 8/10

A nice and sweet frangrance, almost christmas cake like in its dried fruits and spice. Definitely a more male direction with this but I can smell why it would be unisex. Rock solid chunky plastic cap, bootle chape and size it really nice to hold with my slightly larger hands, but a shame about the silver stripes on the bottle which were poorly applied so peeled them off altogether. Recommend 100%

I keep sniffing my arm. This reminds me of something. I just can’t place my finger on it 🤔. Sampling this after a year and I know what this smells like. Immediately I sprayed this on my arm, the first fragrance that came to mind was Intense Cafe but when I sniffed my arm, I got Pink Sugar and JS Fancy. It’s sweet and powdery. I get caramel and chocolate 🍫.

Definitely a sweet caramel ,chocolate,spicy gourmand scent at least off my skin. Great value and lasts for 10 hours. Definitely a winter scent and leans slightly more male imo. But unisex all the same. Well worth a punt..

Smells like the notes listed, Gourmand caramel chocolate goodness. Allow it sit for a while if you have a new bottle, mine sat for 2 years before I revisited it and it smells delicious.

This opens very sweet and yummy but this vanishes in the first 15 mins and then its just all musky powdery oud. Oud aint listed but that what I smell. Moderate sillage and longevity

It's definitely value for money, it's a good winter and night time fragrance, sweet, gourmand, a bit spicy in the opening, but overall it's good, I like it 👍🏼

Sacred by Louis Cardin 🍯🍮🧋 Sacred is a very complex gourmand type of perfume, it sweet, animalic and strong projection from open to dry down. As review below said there is no chocolate in here(even someone they have found it) but I can’t find any of chocolate in it. Sacred by Louis Cardin opening so harsh with oud combination with vanilla, spices and something powdery, and dry down to caramel sweet vanilla. If you looking for smooth creamy vanilla type this isn’t for you, Sacred has a thin syrupy vanilla scent (not creamy milky type), and sometimes it reminded me of amber syrup type of “coconuts sugar or brown sugar” feeling. What a men type of Sacred making for? This fragrance is for “Oud lovers” who love the combination of Oud in the gourmand direction, and you have to like the perfume in direction of Middle Eastern style. If not this isn’t for you! The quality of scent itself? By honestly this cheapie type fragrance and you will get the quality as money you have pay for it. The scent is synthetic (caramel, Oud, vanilla), to be fair, it a good scent with complexity of notes if you don’t mind of synthetic smell. It’s sexy, yum, and lasting so long. Please test it before you buy it, not for everyone. Scent: 7.5/10 (Not bad, Dry down much better) Projection: 9/10 (Very good for 4-5 hours) Longevity: 9.5/10 (Great) ⚠️ Again warning ⚠️ **Don’t listen to the YouTuber who sponsored by the brand, try it first, this isn’t for everyone**

Just blind buy it.. A bit lean to feminin side i think.. This thing scream so loud!! in a negative way, because the powdery & boozy smell is too overpowering / not smooth.. I give it to my mom.. It fit on mature women IMO.. Amber is a main player.. I can also detect incense and small hint of oud in here.. Scent : 6/10 Projection : 8/10 (2-4 hours moderate to heavy) Longevity : 7/10 (easily 7+h) Sillage : 7/10

I agree with a lot of the reviews below are saying. Chocolate is most definitely missing, everything else is indistinguishable. On my skin, it just smells like a generic sugary, caramel fragrance. It’s not awful but not quite what I was looking for as I wanted something with a more prominent and darker chocolate note. I much prefer Al Rehab choco musk oil to this which costs a fraction of the £30 I paid. In general, I also think that you can get better quality Middle Eastern fragrances than this for much less money. Maybe it just doesn’t agree with my skin, or it’s a watered down reformulation, or maybe it’s just hype.

I get a thin sugary, bland amber. Nothing exciting and with very little depth. It wasn’t expensive so I’m ok with that but not FBW and very cheap smelling on my skin. I don’t seem to have the same experience as so many others. Must be just a skin chemistry quirk (shoulder shrug).

I don't get the caramel or chocolate, all I get is powdery floral and it was a bit disappointment to me.

It's a cheap and boring scent. Smells like Aquolina Pink Sugar with some synthetic wood.

Very powdery on my skin and I get no caramel and chocolate. Opening is slightly spicy.

Sweet synthetic car freshener mess

UPDATE I believe the reason that I don't like this frag is due to a note of Hedione. Now, everyone has different chemistry and biology that makes us experience scent differently so please don't drag me for this review. To me Hedione smells like bitter body odor. I think it's also in ALIEN MUSC MYSTERIEUX, SIDE EFFECT, and PSYCHEDELIC LOVE. ORIGINAL REVIEW As I have a fondness for unisex gourmands, the description made this fragrance sound sweet. Unfortunately there is a sharp note that puts me off and doesn't really settle down. I wonder if it's the black musk? That's the only note I am unfamilier with. I did not have the same experience as jazz.love, I do not think is smells like Khurafi by Lattafa as that scent is very smooth and this one contains something harsh (possibly black musk as they don't share that note). Although I can see how if your chemistry works with it well, that note might smooth out and you'd end up with a sweet oud/wood that is similar on your skin. I never get the chocolate or caramel on my skin either (same as Khurafi by Lattafa) Guess this one just wasn't made for me. Wish I hadn't bought a full bottle and special ordered it!

I literally made an account to write a comment just to plead with you not to buy this lol. This is such a horrible scent, especially for men. It smells very synthetic and cheap, which is expected given the price. If you're expecting some chocolatey fragrance, and if you're thinking this comment is just an anomaly, please save yourself the money and don't buy this.

Blind bought it based on YouTube reviews especially Curly's. It's a disappointment. Smells like cheap attar. I'm totally regretting buying it.