Italia

Decant review: Italia opens with a fruity sweetness with slight honey glow paired with a clean floral character and some spice sprinkled in. The sweetness initially smells almost cereal like, reminiscent of Fruity Pebbles.. The scent is balanced in density, not as airy as Xerjoff Naxos but lighter than Maison Asrar Muharib. A slight sharpness is present but not unpleasant, and there is very little tobacco detectable at the start. Around the first hour the sweetness begins to shift from fruity toward the honeyed warmth. Vanilla starts to appear, and light spices grow in the background, warming the scent. A subtle tobacco note becomes detectable as the fragrance gradually grows denser and warmer. The tobacco is less noticeable than Muharib and Naxos. The lavender is present but blended into the composition rather than standing out individually. As the fragrance develops further, the sweetness dries out and the spices become more noticeable. The scent transitions into a warm cinnamon vanilla profile, supported by dry tobacco that adds an earthy warmth underneath the sweetness. In the late drydown, the fragrance becomes a soft skin scent dominated by vanilla, with faint tobacco still detectable providing a slightly dry warmth. 6 hours on skin, Moderate projection early, gradually pulling closer to the skin after a few hours. I have smelt Naxos, Muharib, and Italia so to summarize I will compare them. Rayhaan Italia is an “in between” scent in the Naxos DNA, offering a good middle ground between the airy, floral, and golden sweet Naxos and the dense, warm, and spicy Muharib. The defining aspect for me is how fruity the opening is, assuming that is an emphasis on the citrus. Each of the three has its pros and cons and it just comes down to personal preference (and your price range lol). If you like the DNA you will like this because it is done well. 9/10

Overall thoughts and scent profile: This is honey fragrance first and foremost. If you don't like honey then don't buy this. Other than that, you get a slightly dark tobacco note that borderline almost smells chocolatey, the lavender and lemon combo are barely present but they give it a kind of "lemonade-y" vibe, in fact I'd say the fragrance smells like honey lemonade, with a tobacco note. It is really good and premium smelling, you can tell that it uses high quality ingredients, but It's still a niche scent profile and it may not be everyone's cup of tea. Overall not my favorite scent profile however premium or niche it may be. Presentation and bottle quality: Incredible presentation, the bottle looks and box feel very premium and look great, I appreciate how smell yet premium looking the box is, the bottle has a very premium magnetic bottlecap, and the pressurized atomizer is very high quality. Performance: Very strong. On skin you get strong projection and sillage for the first 2-2.5 hours with it being more intimate for another 9 hours or so, on fabrics it's borderline nuclear, you get a huge scent bubble, and it easily lasts a whole day, maybe like 20 hours. Blind buy factor: It's not polarizing, but it doesn't smell amazing to me either, like I said earlier, it is a niche scent profile so it's not super mass appealing like a designer scent would be, I'd recommend sampling it (or the og naxos) first, maybe get a 2ml decant, and then get a decision. If you know you like honey then you could also blind buy it. Final rating: 7.5/10

So I know this is a clone of Xerjoff Naxos which is a fragrance I've never smelled so I can't compare, or say how close it gets. I will say this is fantastic! Super masculine loud in your face woody tobacco right off the bat. I was not expecting that. I figured it would be more like the Blonde Amber clones being softer and sweeter. I wasn't expecting to get Bogart Pour Homme. This is basically exactly like Bogart Pour Homme at first right down to the burning sensation on my skin. Now after a couple hours the tobacco fades a little bit and the vanilla, honey, and other sweeter notes peek their head out a lot more. The tobacco is always there pretty strong though. It lasts many hours and projects out really hard for many hours too. I love this stuff, and I freaking love Rayhaan. I wasn't expecting this to be so close to Bogart Pour Homme. I had to go look at when Naxos was made, and it was 2014 or 2015. Bogart Pour Homme was made in 2004. Now I don't know if Naxos is cloning Bogart, or maybe Bogart copied something else and Xerjoff did the same, but the resemblance is uncanny. Rayhaan Italia is basically honey Bogart Pour Homme, and I love it for it.

I gave it a week to macerate a bit before giving my first impression, it smells like the designer version of naxos, if you know what I mean, vanilla, very sweet, also cashmere I can detect, sometimes the lavender can barely be detected, but still the honey, tobacco and some of the freshy notes are a bit lost, all are here but still my nose can’t distinguish them from the whole scent, amazing performance, and I guess it will develop to be a lot better after like 2 months of maceration in terms of both smell and performance, as it got better than the first 4 5 sprays a week ago. I still like Fierte Luna more as I feel it has better quality and blend and it feels denser as well, but I had it for longer time and it macerated quite well before smelling that good. But as it is now, it smells way way better than voux elegante which I had for more than 5 months. Still I like it as it is now, off course I will update after a month or 2 or once I detect any changes.

I don't leave reviews often but man !!!! the first 5 minutes of spraying, all i got was a blast of medicinal honey and that's it. 10 min later this turns into the most seductive, sexy, sweet honey bomb (still lowkey medicinal but perfectly balanced) Projection is at least a solid arms length+ as i can smell it as im typing and i normally dont smell my fragrances projecting off my skin that often. Longevity is just ridiculous. Idk what it is but the honey is so thick that it just sticks around forever That being said even though this fragrance is 8.5/10 in my book, it isn't for me. The medicinal smell makes me nauseous after smelling it all day but people seem to enjoy it. And even though I haven't smelt Naxos in almost 2 years, this does come close enough to tickle that memory in my brain with the way how the quality of this fragrance is blended, the way how the honey comes through and the Layton-esk methanolic/medicinal smell comes through