Deep Forest

The opening opens up with a nice floral accord. I smell violet, a little bit of rose, bergamot, wonderful orange blossom, even jasmine though not listed. I dont catch leather, clove, or incense in the initial opening. The drydown remains floral. The violet and orange blossom I feel really takes center stage. As it dries, it starts to get more earthy, damp but not it a dirty way. Its like a fresh dampness. Like wet moss in the woods. Im guessing the patchouli and oud is coming out. This scent is wonderful. One of the most unisex smells I have ever smelt. As a very big lover of prominent tobacco and leather smells as well as real oud from the middle east, this is a scent out of my normal wheelhouse. However i am a sucker for purple and white florals. Violet, lavendar and Jasmine i mix regularly into my oil based attars. Deep Forest doesnt remind me so much of a forest but more of an early spring meadow with mountains in the horizon not too far off. Its floral but not overtly bright. Its crisp and sharp, very refreshing with a touch of dark earthniness. The patchouli and oud really bring it down into a very slight darker accord. After about 30-45 minutes a soft leather note comes to life, but only at arms length or skin scent. Its a very complimentary note and by no means prominent. Later in the day the amber and woody notes sit nicely with the earthy florals. Vanilla is very slight and soft. The musk is there in a complimening accord, not strong. It reminds me of a particularly elegant white musk called Misk Naqiyya found in the middle east. Not your typical soapy white musk. This isnt grandma floral. Thisnisnt garden fresh floral or green. Its different. It reminds me of an air freshner but in a very sophisticated way. This would definitely get compliments from women as a man wearing it, but i cant imagine a man asking what it is. He would really have to appreciate perfume and cologne to ask. This is not rugged, not formal per say. This has dandy written on it, the very epitome of a dandy. Id love to experiment and layer with this. Ombre leather and this would really heighten the leather and purple/white floral accord. Or a strong tobacco. I feel its very versatile. In the cold of winter it would really freshen the day and its crisp cool floral compliments it. For summer, ite fresh but not bright and the cool vibe would really be enjoyable. Its a happy scent. Day, night. I cant think of a setting it wouldnt be appropriate. Its also strong and long lasting. I will definitely be buying a full bottle. Its so unique to what I normally wear. 10/10 hands down one of my alltime favorites.

Okay, let's set the record straight. This is not a bad fragrance, in fact, if you get past what you may have been expecting, you'll discover something quite beautiful. This is not a naturalistic scent, it's more an interpretation of a storybook forest in my opinion. Wearing this, I imagine wandering through a dark fairy-tale wood, stepping into an enchanted glen filled with blooming flowers, and noticing a little cottage in the middle of it all. On first spray, I get hit with a smooth leather and an intense bouquet of white florals. This is quickly backed by some citrusy and spicy notes - orange in particular stands out here and together with the leather and spice, gives it an almost orange chocolate chip vibe. After the first few minutes, this settles down into a woody fragrance, heavily accented by the scent of violets (which always remind me of red licorice). Projection is fantastic - I could smell this through the box before unpacking it, and I suspect longevity will be the same (will check in again later). I would say this is a good all-year-round fragrance, but will benefit from cooler weather. You do need to be able to rock more traditionally feminine smells as it leans more in that direction on the unisex scale. That being said, pairing this fragrance with a nice masculine wood fragrance really boosts the "forest" vibe as well as taming some of the more feminine elements. I found it paired well with Guilty Absolute by Gucci, but I imagine it would work well with any simple but high quality woody scent. If you're looking for something a little different but still beautiful, give this a go!

A masculine soapy/citrus/woody/floral musky fragrance! The hate this gets is way unnecessary and no offense to @Burgandy74 but this IS masculine and has plenty of qualities that make it that way. It actually has something in it that resembles Bulgari Wood Essence. I already know why it gets the hate, and it’s because it’s called “deep forest” and people had different expectations, if that’s the case it’s their fault. It doesn’t smell like a better niche version TDH or Encre Noir but it’s more soapy woody and clean with some animalic undertones. I love the depth it has. Great fragrance for any occasion as the versatility is high with this one. The more I smell it the more it reminds me of a fresh mountain morning in the summer, and it changes as the day fades into the night. This scents makes that happen! So good.

This is not an easy frag to like its not a love at first sniff . Ok than imagine that , when you smell flowers and you put the flower closer and closer to your nose at the moment when your nose is in the flower at that point the flower smell bad and a bit stinky that's the felling this frag give me at the opening the first 10 min are a bit off but if you give it some time it start to settle on skin and when time past became very pleasant oriental smell, all the life of the frag i get his oriental, flowery blue (color) vibe. I think the name should be "deep blue forest" . Generally nice frag just spray less or be patient in first minutes till it dry just a bit. Performance its awesome easy 8h on skin with nice projection and weeks on clothes. For sure not blind buy, but worth to try .check me on insta bigg1897 😊👌

Wow! Mancera has created a Masterpiece that justify the name 👍 Incense amped up Woody Floral Spicy Amber to create heavenly pleasure & comfort, Florals are mingling in between but never allow juice to touch extreme, Don't imagine that green herbal forest here 😄 it's a Bakhoor like Smokey Jungle near volcanic land. I felt that I'm ended up with searching smokey Bakhoor feeling in a fragrance after sniffing it. I'm a diehard fan of Mancera fragrances so this fragrance is second after RED TOBACCO 😍 It's not for everyone coz it's really Up-skilled, Complex, deep, dark Scent. It gives me a Spiritual Comfort with incense note 🧘 Heavy sillage and 12 hrs lasting gives it value addition to shine your collection 👍

Not sure I like the opening... and not sure on what occasions I'd wear it... however there is something about this scent that I absolutely love and which led me to purchasing a full bottle. I feel like it may be invoking fond childhood memories of walking in the woods on a hot summers day where there are also open spaces full of flowers in full bloom. To me it's unisex, perhaps leaning ever so slightly masculine, though I can understand people thinking the reverse. Last thing... this stuff is NUCLEAR... and I agree with other reviewers that the magic happens in the mid and drydown though personally I find that with a lot of the Manceras' I've tested.

This is great. Its woodsy, ambery, with a touch of vanilla and oud among other notes. I am glad i have this one. If my significant other wore this, i would love this on them! Good for the hot weather. I am not big on florals, which is why i wear unisex or masculine scents. What is there is in the background for sure. Lasts 8+ hours. Not surprising with mancera scents. I agree with Scotty123 below. I am not sure why the hate. It does have some depth. Enough for me to have 500+ perfumes, and been collecting for 3 years and this is my first review here.

I was scared of the comments and the comments was true but only for around 10 minutes! The opening is synthetic group of flowers but it goes to the middle not very quickly and the magic start. Nice battle between the flowers and the burnt wood and dusty winds a bit similar to replica by the fire place but this one got it is own character. Happy I bought this one it is piece of perfume art.

This one is trully mancera’s hidden gem. First impression when i spray, honestly make me surprise and not pleasing for some people. But day by day, Deep forest becomes more beautiful! Midnotes till drydown is the best part and really make me fly. Its monster for projection sillage and longevity. Easy 12+ with only 3 sprays. Dont get overspray bcause it’s so strong.

Aroma sumamente complejo, la apertura es desafiante pero el secado es espectacular, cruelmente infravalorado. Queda increíble en capas.

This smells like an oriental food shop.

green animalic leather masterpiece

READ ME! I DARE YOU! This is a gorgeous floral woody with an animalic undertones(only up close-on skin). There is one note not mentioned here, which is JASMINE! Which if used in high doses, could potentially give off an animalic scent. It reminds a tad bit of la religieus by serge lutens but that one is more musky animalic jasmine that leans feminine and has an old school vibe. This one though, is a true gem! Forget about the nee sayers! People on fragrantica are going mad! They complain about how the fragrance world is becoming generic and alike but once an opportunity presents its self to stand out from the mainstream, they cower away and hide behind ralph' club, aventus cloning and invictus type of smells.... Haven't we had enough of those blue mass pleasing, mainstream, very generic and money grabbing fragrances already? Flanker after flanker MASS PRUDICING...like freaking bugs......Le parfum this, parfum that, elixir this elixir that....for twats? Ok...yes, that was a little rant, those of you reading this and got triggered, you deserved it xD Ok, enough fun.... Yes! The opening is tough! For about 5mins.. I am talking about the initial spray! I sprayed once on my forehand, the juice is super oily! It basically took up to 15 minutes for my skin to actually absorb some of the essential oils used in this mega concentrated juice! It is mega in performance and it is one of those fragrances that smell better in the air than up close, not to mention, fills up a room! Maybe if you mildly spray in the air and walk through(MAKING A SCENT BUBBLE IN THE AIR) for best up close result. Try it...you'll thank me someday! And do not spray it on your neck...it will choke you out or might completely become nose blind to it. After 15 mins is where the magic happens. It takes me on a satisfying floral (that is not rose) journey of which i longed for a long time... This one leans masculine for the first 30 mins then begins to settle a bit into a nice sensual floral woody (no oud here) scent with ambery nuances. It smells like an early morning walk through a wet green zone(garden-forest) filled with all sorts of different varieties of trees, flowers, plants and damp leaves everywhere. You can still smell the rain from the night before. The sun is rising, the greens are drying up! Just beautiful! You must at least sample it. Don't mind the hate, i learned that people on fragrantica have nothing to do with i am actually experiencing. So many fragrances i turned a blind eye to because of reviewers and they turned out to be amazing fragrances once i actually smelled them my self! So discouraging, specifically in the niche community! According to fragrantica niche snobs, no scent is ever good. I rest my case 👻

This is my first bottle of Mancera and I must admit that I did a blind buy. The name Deep Forest really captured me and I quite like the components this perfume is made of. Must say that one thing (I wouldn't say disappointment) is that it doesn't give me the 'Deep Forest' feel. The top notes of citrus is probably being quite covered up by leather/incense.... upon initial sniff, the incense is strong... Many seconds later, I get the citrus part. And after that I get the woody/citrus.... I didn't quite like this scent initially... But decided to give it a few more tries. And surprisingly, it did grew on me. I like the scent even more now. Anyway, for a perfume naming Deep Forest, I am really expecting something more woody/green. And putting the name aside, this is actually quite nice smelling.

The opening of this one, is TOUGH! I am less inclined to give a favorable review based on that alone. It comes off extremely indolic and almost pungently offputting on my skin. Somehow I get more of the florals in the opening than I do in the mid or anywhere in the note breakdown. The mid is much better with the woody notes and spices playing nicer with the florals. The dry down is very leather, vanilla and amber forward. All in all, this one doesn't disappoint. I do get somewhat of a dark resinous leather badassery feel from it that is similar to Varvatos' Dark Rebel Rider to my nose.

If you've smelled rasasi sotoor waaw, this is very similar once you hit the mid. I had given my father the rasasi and then blind bought this mancera only to be in possession of such a similar dna. No regerts! It's a good one. I gave it to my old man because he really liked it and I have tons of others I can wear, not because I didn't like it myself.

No forests here. Smells like flowery pastures where animals are grazing. On my skin it starts very animalic musky and showergelly then calms down to clean musk, powder and flowers. Good not great and too feminine imho (coming from a man that rocks Pearl, Velvet Vanilla and Holidays with confidence).

Deep Forest is a bad name for this great fragrance. Deep Florals would probably be better. It starts off strong and intense but dries down to powdery florals that lean quite feminine to me. Reminds me of scented bar soap and is really enjoyable. Blind bought and got it at a great price!

Kinda nice floral animalic combo. Kinda difficult to use too. Might be too floral for some males and too animalic for some females. Like it in general.

#931 in my "Tour de Fragrance" The opening is very flowery bath powder. So my first thought was this would turn out to be too feminine for me, and it ultimately did. But most Mancera scents evolve quite a bit in the drydown, so I withheld judgement for several hours. There is a lot of oil in this as you will see by the sheen on your skin, so it's definitely EDP quality, not something that won't last till lunch like so many "EDPs" these days. Ten minutes in whatever was giving off that really strong jasmine vibe has settled down as this gets a bit woodier, more leathery, but still it's a flower garden vibe, not deep forest. I like the touch of incense, and surprisingly I also enjoy the clove, which happens rarely, and I can pick up the sharpness the synthetic bergamot adds. Fortunately it's not one of the synthetics that triggers a sneezing fit. Definitely not Calabrian, but there isn't a lot of it, so it's not ruining the scent. The bath powdery projection has tailed off some, but I still wouldn't wear this in a carpool, elevator or small office space, and this is still coming off feminine to me. An hour in this is still projecting more than arm's length as the barista taking my order at Crema picked it up and complimented it. Said it smells like something she'd wear and asked what it is. Two hours in I will not be not trading in my History Parfums "Swedish Forests" for this one. This still comes across like the Tacoma botanical gardens but less like bath powder. It gets less flowery but never really gets a green forest vibe. Six hours in it's a vaguely attractive woody skin scent that no longer comes off feminine, but who wants to wait six hours for a scent to evolve into a vaguely attractive skin scent just before it disappears? Not me. In sum, I strongly suggest guys not blind buy this. But I think it's a quality, long-lasting, attractive scent for women. Not as vanillic as most of the young women I know prefer. Probably more for forty and up.