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106390 – :
Does not smell at all like the notes listed above: citrus, oakmoss chypre, bitter/herbal
Not a spicy floriental at all No fruit. No floral. No candy and vanilla. Is mine counterfeit or what???? I will put it away to smell another time.
fgjhimobryg – :
It definitely has a bit of a cheap air about it…it’s not horrible, but I’m not in love with it. Very very sweet and quite “old fashioned”, a little smoky too. Not very potent either save for the top fruity notes.
viktor5 – :
Havana Pour Elle a drugstore cheapie but goodie from the 90’s. This pretty fruity perfume dates from 1996 and it shows it’s age the moment you smell the opening notes and get a whiff of the scent from the bottle. Not crazy about the packaging but the fragrance is to die for. I’m a fan of fruity florals and this is like a Brazilian Carnival in Rio type of fruit. Smells of a delicious banquet table with dozens of fruit bowls. True to it’s name it does evoke Havana, the girls are in floral print dresses and dancing with handsome young men at a nightclub by the beach. It’s also taking me to Miami Florida specifically Little Havana during a Festival. When it opens I detect a sweet but deep juicy plum and apricot with peaches. There’s melon, green apple and mandarin orange note so it does smell like either fruit shampoo or a fruit smoothie. The melon is probably the one note I can pick up on the most. Smells like drinking melon juice. Delicious.
The middle stage with those floral notes are soapy kind of soft flowers. At first I could detect the rose which is more of a pink baby rosebud not strong but detectable through the other notes of ylang ylang which is quite tropical as a flower smelling of banana and a vanilla flavored powdery heliotrope. This heliotrope is the dominant note and the whole thing is a gorgeous blend of heliotrope and vanilla, or rather vanilla cream.
The ‘cream’ comes through in the dry notes probably the honey which is also mixed with tonka bean and vanilla paired up together. There might be some amber but I do get some honey and vanilla. There is a gourmand aroma to this fragrance but not in today’s gourmand context. It’s definitely a vintage gourmand, or early gourmand scent, with honey and vanilla taking over in the end. Do you like honey and vanilla? This is for you then.
At one point when it is finally very dry and disappearing my skin which responds well to honey-vanilla, it turns into a warm almost musky kind of your skin but better buttery sun tan lotion kind of smell. Smells almost tropical, and suits my skin in summer time. This perfume is fit for summer wear sundresses and maxi dresses worn with sandals and sun hats. Beautiful, feminine, mature, festive and fun. This smells great you guys. Too bad it’s obscure and underrated. I am so happy with my purchase. I bought my vintage Havana from sellers on eBay. Honestly that’s the only place you can get your hands on a vintage or discontinued fragrance that still smells as good as new.
narval5 – :
Yowza!
I want to love this SO BAD, and I will give it another go as the weather warms up, my suspicion is that I can’t do tobacco in fragrance, despite my love for Vivienne Westwood’s Boudoir, which has tabacco in it’s base notes. This has some incongruous notes to my nose, the melon clashes with the smoke and yet it is SO SWEET. I do feel like this has potential to be a wonderful tropical scent perfect for the beach or the bar in the summer, but right now it’s not sitting too well with me and it’s a scrubber. I do like sweet scents but this is just very sticky and very heady. I smell the melon, and I smell the heliotrope. Both of these notes I like when separate, but mashed together like this, I’m not quite sure what to think. I get no cedar from this at all, and I am yearning for a little more because I feel it would add some freshness to the whole feel of it, and take some of the sugar and syrup out of the whole thing.
But as I wait for it to develop, the giant melon cigarette smell tones down and I find a sweet, resinous honey left over, which I really like. This may be one that is reserved for days where the weather is 90+, or when I’m at the pool or beach. I feel like this needs body heat and sweat to become a really sexy animalic honey skin scent. If I could only get past that smoky-rotten-cantaloupe at the beginning!
tohi – :
One of my favorite female fragrances ever! Incomparable with any other scent. Lush, tropical, special and strong. My goodness why did this vanish….Havana for Men came back, so please make a comeback for this one as well, I beg you Aramis!!!
zve011speagoessenda – :
A delicious fruit fragrance. It has a lot of notes I like in the top middle and base notes! The peach and melon and citrus is juicy, sweet but not too cloying. It’s like the fruit-flavored fragrances like Yves Saint Laurent Champagne or Tresor by Lancôme or Donna Pavarotti. It’s really good peach and melon/apple/citrus juice. The flowers include ylang, heliotrope and rose. Gorgeous flowers. And then there’s honey and vanilla which give it a kind of malt flavor. Very creamy, sweet, rich, and sophisticated. I love this fragrance. Too bad it doesn’t get more attention. It is also reminding me of a lighter toilette version of RUMBA by Balenciaga. This is a party perfume. I can wear this at summer parties, cocktail parties, beach parties, pool parties yacht parties and for Caribbean cruises. This smells like the Caribbean like a sexy Caribbean island girl who lives on the beach, you don’t know what she does for a living but you’re always wonder does she…. she’s very young and sexy and walks on the sand barefoot. She is always gone by nightfall. Sunshine, honey, flowers and fruit. A true summer fragrance.
GoaSpirit – :
Fragrance Review For Havana Pour Elle Aramis
Top Notes: Melon Apple Mandarin Peach
Middle Notes: Heliotrope Rose Freesia Ylang Ylang
Base Notes: Honey Vanilla Tonka Cedar
A Caribbean breeze caresses the interior of a stylish white stucco house in Old Havana’s most expensive residential district. A gorgeous thin Cuban woman with fair skin and dark hair, dressed in a cool form fitting white halter top dress is fanning herself while having a fruit cocktail on the balcony. This is the female companion to Havana for men and she is beautiful young thing, even if her wealthy Cuban cigar smoking husband is much older than her with salt and pepper hair and a beard. This is the sexy scent of summer ennui, of having nothing to do under a hot summer sun – on a tropical island paradise. The fragrance opens with flavors of fruit: mandarin orange as it begins, then a peach and melon combination. An apple scent is also there as the fruitiness of the fragrance begins to turn into flowery scents: the rose (a citrusy and apple scent of it’s own) blooms and it’s a very lovely rose and introduction to the floral heart’s performance. These are only four flowers of rose, heliotrope, ylang-ylang and freesia. This pairing of flowers actually go very well together. Unfortunately the freesia is lost in the headier scents of rose, heliotrope and ylang-ylang. The dominant flower is the heliotrope. This is a beautiful but soft heliotrope with a vanilla fragrance. The vanilla and Tonka bean notes are matching up with the heliotrope. If you love heliotrope plus vanilla (a la L’Heure Bleue but lighter) this scent is a satisfying vanilla scented slightly powdery heliotrope. The ylang ylang a yellow flower is matching up with the honey accord. This turns into such a delicious sweet honey smell. The honey is not strong so it doesn’t smell like beeswax or a honeycomb, just a lovely perfumy honey in the style of Elie Saab. The aroma of this perfume is sexy, flirtatious (not seductive) like a pretty woman who enjoys being looked at from a balcony or window but is inaccessible, sheltered and living in a world of her own. That’s just the feeling I get wearing this perfume. It has a maturity but not “old lady” aspect. This is the smell of a married woman who might enjoy the attractive idea of getting other men to go crazy about her – but only by looking at her and not touching her. This is also in it’s practical use a summer scent, something to wear to the beach or on vacation. Very sweet and pretty perfume.
cif689bedyWelty – :
Tobacco is a prominent note here. It is sweet vanilla and exotic fruit tobacco with some rum and cherry pit around. The texture is velvet, lasting power is impressive.
A bit too sweet for me at the moment, I would add lemon zest or black pepper, but in any way it is a masterpiece in Aramis family.If you like such ladies as Habanita and Gloria go for it.
bad109 – :
Havana Pour Elle starts off with a combination of peach and melon, reminding me a tiny bit of Tresor, in its relatively mellow character and non loud notes. Later, a few quite sharp notes are added (mandarin and heliotrope?)but the overall composition doesn’t turn harsh. I think the name Havana is appropriate, as it succeeds to remind of a sunny island, ripe fruit, and cigars being rolled in the background. I would love more of the cigar-smokey element in this, and less of the fruits…
I also bought Havana pour Elle in the pure perfume formulation (thank you eBay!). It is so gorgeous! It is definitelly more mellow than the EDP, with less of the harsh notes and more of the sweet, ripe fruits and vanilla. Now I think I’m covered for a lifetime:)
Comparison to Theorema in my oppinion : apples and oranges. They couldn’t be more different!
riscelika – :
Action! I completely agree with your recipe for HAVANA pour elle.
I would also add tabaco!
pobeday – :
Hi Weegee!
The notes of this GEM are the following:
– Magnolia
– Lily of the Valley
– Citrus
– Turkish melon
– Tagetes
– ‘queen of the night’- Cactus
– Sunflower
– Mango
– Pine apple
– Orchid
– Vanille
– Amber
– Sandelwood
And another 2 notes I do not know the translation of!
And Weegee, I am one of those people linking Theorema to Havana. I agree totally that they are not the same in first instance, because Havana is VERY strong compared to Theorema. The similarity is to be found it some characteristics and construction of the formula. I would also say, they keep balance in the same manner only is Havana amplified in strength.
For example.
1. Theorema is a creamy allrounder and it’s creamy effect can be found it the nice combination with Nutmeg and real CREAM. Havana has it’s creamy effect from the Magnolia and even more the ROSE HIP.
2. They both contain CITRUS!
3. Several wood types are found in both;
4. Where Theorema balances with Jasmin, Havana balances with Lily of the Valley.
5. They both share in the base the common notes of Amber and Sandalwood. These similarities in construction and balance make me link them to each other.
But of course everybody is entitled to their own experience of a fragance. ANYHOW: it is a gem!
скачун – :
The last time I smelled anything like this was in the early 1990’s when I was walking through a tobacco warehouse where thousands of bales of dried tobacco were stacked and ready for auction. Sadly, my adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky bid farewell to the last of these historic warehouses some years ago but the fragrance remains, in my bottles of Havana Pour Elle.
Intoxicating & masterful blend, this one. Unique in my collection – and that’s saying something! Makes me feel “more like me”, if that makes sense to anyone
Sweet pipe tobacco laced with honey and infused with aromatic spices, none of which I can pick out individually. There’s lightness here that lifts my mood and suggests sunshine rather than smokiness.
Sprays on oily and lasts for days on fabric and a good 24 hours on my skin and hair. Powerful sillage.
Becoming more & more expensive so grab a bottle before it becomes unaffordable.
NOTE: To my Theorema-loving-nose there’s NO similarity to Theorema whatsoever. I even did a wrist-to-wrist comparison, using Theorema in both parfum and edp concentrations. PLEASE try before buying if you’re expecting a Theorema clone – to my nose they’re not even distant relatives. Theorema is a solidly feminine fragrance while Havana Pour Elle could be unisex, on the “right” man.
CROSS 43 – :
It is quite funny that Aramis decided to give Havana pour Elle almost the same shape of bottle as the Tsucany per Donna. This perfume is as I would say, a super concentrated Fendi Theorema. It is like Theorema ten times the strength. I was very happy Maen is loving this one, because I never hear people about Havana pour Elle but all the time about Theorema. I now have a maximum size Theorema, bought it when Fragrancex had a couple available all of a sudden, but I really think Havana pour Elle is MUCH better! Why bother the high price Theorema when this gem is ten times the strenght and sillage?
Good luck!
Action
smax7 – :
What is this, only 4 people rating this one? People, people, it is like a super Theorema, if you ‘re into melon, this is a MUST MUST MUST have!
win777 – :
This perfume is so daring. I cannot help feeling that the name ‘Angels and Demons’ would have been more suitable to this one. It’s opening is so spicey, it almost smells piquant.Then the drydown is so beautiful…vanilla and honey. I really don’t know what to make of it…
gwerti – :
At the first smell it’s horrible! Very very smoky, too much tabacco and spices! This is at the top…
But when you across the shell, it’s magically exotic, you will travel to some place among the dances, lights, human heat, spicy food, with Latin air…! The passport to Havana or other Caribbean isle.
This is a typical and pure spicy floriental!
Smoky at the first 10 min., candy with tropical fruits at the base and finish with honey, vanilla and hints of tonka bean!
Powerful, beautiful and perfect to summer nightlife!
I love Havana!S2