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zcj913Negeltzex – :
The first time I tried this I wasn’t entirely impressed. In fact, I hated it. On closer inspection, this spicy baby has deep and subtle layers that just set it apart from other lavenders. Patchouli gives it some dirtiness, tonka & (possibly?) vanilla make it a bit creamy. The oudh in the base makes it a bit skanky. Something genuinely different while also not straying from barbershop norm. Impressed with the Rania J line so far.
MPT – :
Very nice lavender herbal perfume.
Opening is bright lavender essential oil, then it goes warmer and sweeter, tonka get noticeable.
Base is similar to Penhaligon’s Sartorial in my opinion.
I like it a lot, really calming, good quality and balanced perfume.
timoha24 – :
Scent – sweet herbal lavender musk.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, during the day.
Projection – I didn’t get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 24hrs consistently.
mumsinsus – :
Poor sillage and longevity, sits close to the skin. Smell is nice but I am not a big fan of lavender. Received as a free sample and won’t be buying a full bottle.
Lesya60 – :
This one has been reformulated. Both versions are very good but different. For the first version Guest Colin Maillards review is spot on, for the current Lavande 44 refer to Moonsparrows excellent review. I recently found a bottle of the fist version however the current version is on my wishlist. I love Rania’s creations!
John_Kastilkov – :
Unusually warm and mellow, well-rounded scent where the lavender is beautifully blended in with the rest rather than trampling all over it. Like a lot of reviewers on this thread, I am usually a lavender-hater and found this one to be a different game altogether – this is definitely *not* the dry, dusty-screechy, herbaceous aspect you get with laundry sachets, or the zingy-punchy-lemony sort which often drenches the top end of men’s colognes. Lavande 44 is much warmer, softer, gentler and oriental-spicier than that; it has a lot in common with the middle range of the same brand’s delicious scent Ambre Loup, or the bottom end of its outrageous Oud Assam. So Lavande 44 ends up as an enveloping, soothing ambient sort of scent rather than the sharp smack to the face that fresher lavenders can be, or the choking blast from the past you can get from more ultra-traditional and feminine lavender fragrances.
I still couldn’t quite grow to love it somehow. In the middle phase it really did grow a little soapy/lotionlike for a while – not in a horrible way, but it cloyed a little. (But if you’re still on the fence: this never, ever, ever smelled fake or synth-screechy like a lavender air freshener or other spray horror). Projection was pretty impressive, on me, and longevity also good.
If you are in search of a specifically lavender perfume but can’t find many you like, this is definitely worth an experiment. But it wouldn’t be my top pick from this house.
gaver83 – :
Very, very middle eastern fragrance. So this is completely me. I love everything with this kind of vibration, warm, melancholic, balsamic, full of incenses. Oud in L44 is very prominent but also civilized, nothing dirty or kicking into your face. Perfectly balanced by the Mediterranean spices (aura probably created by vetiver) and sweetness of tonka or vanilla. Really it can be a heaven for balsamic fragrance lovers. Also it is very different than mass market offers (seriously I’m not stupid braggart who criticize everything common) but here you have gem that you never find in Sephora, Douglas and other big fragrance stores. In my opinion lavender is the only provocation/name created by author while oud, labdanum and patchouli are main heroes here. They dance together in the rustic house where people dry lavender attached to the ceiling. Perfect to change your mood if you feel bad, pushed or depressed. Go ahead and try, you won’t be disappointed. Spillage is moderate but longevity is really good. It lasts for hours, from the morning to the evening even on dry skin I have.
steatscythisa – :
I like this a lot, but it too closely resembles one of my own mixes. Take your favorite lavender essential oil or absolute and add it to your favorite oud or ouds and voila!
Yulya123 – :
Lavande 44 by Rania J- Absolutely Stunning! Moonsparrow you got me again. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this one. I read the note pyramid on this before trying it and after reading it, I knew I was in for something special and something I was sure to love. First I am a fan of Oud and Labdanum, Then seeing Oud paired with Lavender, Labdanum, Patchouli and Musk, I knew I was in for a passionate experience. It did not disappoint, it was love at first whiff! The instant I put this on, I was captured, whisked away and held for ransom and I pleaded with my family to withhold payment and leave the money in the bank. I don’t want to be returned. Damn! This smells good!
The way Oud and Labdanum blend in this is amazing, I love it. Then how Lavender orbits around them like a moon casting it’s luminous rays of tranquilizing fragrance upon them makes you want to relax and melt into the lilting aromatic medley. Musk, and this musk is the right kind of musk, adds a warm, sultry, sexuality to this beautifully crafted and brilliantly blended fragrance. Patchouli gives this a hippie, bohemian, free spirit flare.
For me the scent sparks images of making love to a beautiful woman in a bohemian setting inside her lusciously, decorative Gypsy Wagon and Lavande 44 filling the air with it’s bewitching, seductive, highly sexual and transcending energy.
Ok, with that description, you all know I love this fragrance. What’s more to love about it? Well, thank heaven’s it’s got ample, 12 plus hours of longevity and a medium to heavy sillage. The season for this is ALWAYS and FOREVER!
Rania J Lavande 44. Love it, Love it, Love it! Thank you Moonsparrow for introducing me to this masterpiece. Millions of Lavande 44 hugs and kisses to you.
gameover7 – :
Oops! Fragrantica skipped some notes in this fragrance: petitgrain and oud. Yes, oud is in the base and had I known that, I would have missed out on this gem because I cannot abide oud. Or so I thought.
I had resigned myself to the notion that I would never find the spiced lavender of my dreams, but here it is. I first tried it over a year ago; Fragrantican leathermountain gifted me a sample. I disliked it and for the life of me now I don’t know why, because I tried it again last week and did a 180.
It is richly aromatic, cool spiced lavender, and who knew that oud would underscore that bright herb so gorgeously? Tonka bean gives it a complementary smooth, sweet character, and vetiver, which I have always struggled with, integrates itself well enough into the composition that it does not bother me. It is even sexy, a quality I have never ascribed to lavender before. Very masculine I will say, but I do very well with many men’s fragrances. Sillage is medium and longevity is around 6 hours.
My search is over, I now own a full bottle, and couldn’t be more pleased with it.
castertroy – :
Spicy lavender at its best! Another gem by Rania.
bonnae1982 – :
Very beautiful lavender, love the opening, lavender and warm spices. It gets sweeter and sweeter in the first hour, then a bit sharper, then sweeter again. Then there are periods of dry, sweet, dusty lemon candy that I don’t like. On the fence so far.
robertronad – :
At first spray you get a wonderful warm sensual lavender making a good impression straight out of the gate. The patchouli lends a earthy spiciness to the scent which is soon joined by woods and everything is blended just right with the lavender.I have to say this smells good and barbershop like.
If you like lavender scents then this is a must try as its quite special.
Дашка – :
I’ll return at a later date to give this a proper review, but for now I just want to say that this was my other favorite discovery of 2015 (next to New Musk Man) and without a doubt has become my favorite lavender fragrance, taking the place of A Taste of Heaven which had been my previous favorite for years. It presents lavender in a few different ways during different stages of its development and each of them work flawlessly. Furthermore it remains clean and professional, as a good lavender should, but always very interesting and alluring. Performance is stellar. Its projection is just right and the longevity is 8 solid hours plus every time. Absolutely worth sampling, and if you’re a big lavender fan, just go for it…you won’t be disappointed. Excellent!
Lolimena – :
I guess lavender isn’t my thing. Reminds me too much of soap or men’s shaving cream.
This is just okay for me. I get lavender and tonka beans and musk. I love Ambre Loup, so I had high hopes for this one. Rania is a solid perfumer and one of the best in my opinion. But this one just doesn’t do it for me.
Average longevity 4-5 hours. Okay sillage.
sexMayowskews – :
I had high hopes for this as the Ambre Loup from Rania J is quite a special affair. But alas this didn’t live up to my expectations when comparing longevity and projection between the two fragrances. In fact after 30 minutes I found Lavande 44 quite flat, very close to the skin, though mildly pleasant the projection was weak and longevity rather short. Unless you count the following, (dry down??) mild acidic like odour that seems to last for a long time, (6 hours+).
Reading other reviews and this I feel I need to be fair and point out that it could be a reaction with my own skin chemistry and for this I would recommend sampling Lavande 44 before purchasing.
CeasiashizDib – :
if you like lavander, you gotta buy this !!
9/10
anna1481 – :
Wow! I love this one. I am an admitted lavenderphobe to the point where I tend to overlook reviews of any scent with lavender in the pyramid. I got this along with other Rania J samples included with a recent purchase. I’m not going to dissect it because I’m not sure I understand it. Nothing soapy about the lavender here. All of the ingredients come together to make this one of the sexiest fragrances I have ever tried. Somehow it smells like good, clean though slightly sweaty skin. I wish this came in 100ml and was a little less pricey so that I might douse myself in it. Wonderful.
degree – :
I received a sample of this in a trade.
This is a classic barbershop style fragrance and it’s virtually identical to Penhaligon’s Sartorial.
нуур – :
So where can I purchase this treasure?
yaluna – :
The best Lavender I tried…
qwerty1 – :
A pleasant lavender with the usual herbaceous vibe most lavenders give me, just like how most citrus based colognes have the same DNA. I don’t find it overly masculine, sitting comfortably in the unisex zone for me and I think most guys would feel comfortable wearing this. The tonka is more amplified in Serge Luten’s Fourreau Noir which is my favourite lavender based scent without the resemblance to sleep aids. Gris Clair of Serge Lutens is more aromatic a lavender than Lavande 44 or Fourreau Noir(which sometimes has a gourmand vibe on me depending on mood and hormones I suppose). The patchouli and vetivier are present but not to such degrees that would repel patchouli haters, I think both together with the tonka give the lavender more warmth and personality. I agree that this doesn’t project very much nor does it last as long as other Rania J’s such as Oud Assam and Ambre Loup, I find it faint going past the four hour mark on skin and clothes. It is a decent lavender without any artificial notes discernable to me at least. However I would only hanker after scents that command a more poetic description than “decent” and therefore I would have to pass on Lavande 44. I am definitely more an Ambre Loup girl.
TFAnydayproonia – :
As someone who usually dislikes lavander in perfumes, I have to bow my head to Rania J – this is GOERGOUS. Yes, indeed, forget about the barber shop lavander, here it’s earthy, aromatic and breathtakingly beautiful. The sweetness of tonka bean, the earthyness of patchouli and marvelous, marvelous spices. It all together makes this amazing warm, inviting and so uniquely beautiful perfume I HAVE to get my hands on.
Marvelous creation, try this even if you are afraid of lavander.
YdAv – :
Lavande 44 is like a dry, smoky and woody lavender sweater that i want to wear all year long!!!
I am feeling home when wearing this and even want to bade myself in it. That is probably why i am up to my third bottle of this heavenly juice!
This is MAGICAL and i thank you Rania J!!!
xxl11 – :
Forget how lavender based colognes should smell like, order Rania´s sample pack and try this. It´s a smokey/spicey/ lavender/vetiver that IMO is very special, it´s just lovely.
All ingredients are wonderfully natural smelling, and the lavender and vetiver are just heaven.
I could be wrong but I think there is a bit of agarwood in this also.
Tala020 – :
Interesting, as I love Lavender I have ordered the sample pack, I´ll be back.
missan
Псих – :
Wow, just wow. The most beautiful lavender perfume I know. It’s close to L’Occitane’s EdT for men, but it is more unisex, it is much better and softer. The opening is a natural lavender, like the essential oil (I love that so much!), than the lavender tames down and on my skin vetiver goes front. Raunchy, strange and perfect. Try it, if you love lavender.
And you thought I could only write grumpy slating reviews…
kanfeta-marmeladka – :
Firstly, I would like to thank Rania for the sample pack. I have thoroughly enjoyed each sample.
Lavande 44 opens with a burst of natural lavender however first impressions do not reveal the secrets within. Upon opening, the lavender is strong and dry, very much resembling the high quality dried lavender I buy when visiting lavender farms. I feared this would be a one horse show with lavender the star and vetiver giving it the dry masculine edge. But no, this was not the end of the story by a long shot.
The tonka and patchouli soften this creation to make a sensual and intriguing fragrance that belies the note pyramid. As the perfume develops it moves from being masculine to comfortably unisex.
This perfume will appeal to lavender lovers looking for something different, and will also appeal to those who don’t like lavender. Do give this a try, it won’t disappoint.
xea523speagoessenda – :
This is a really delicious smoky and spicy lavender.
Now i like lavender as a roomspray but this is the first lavender i wish i could bade myself in.
This makes me very curious for the other Rania’s!!!
9/10 (a 9 because of the lasting power)
321262roma – :
Lavande 44 is quite a strong fragrance and it took me a few tests to understand it.
On initial spray it almost takes my breath away – the lavender is, I agree, very masculine and sharp in the beginning and the vetiver is intense, too.
Within a few minutes the scent settles and the lavender loses its sharpness but it stays strong, aromatic, herbal (almost bitter), masculine and it feels very cold!
Vetiver gives the composition a fiery-woody note that starts off as ‘burning’, then goes on to become ‘smouldering’ before it finishes as ‘glimmering’.
At the same time the earthy/mouldy patchouli note becomes more and more apparent.
I swear I sniff a bit of cocoa powder in the late drydown – this must be the tonka, I guess.
All in all this fragrance is quite unusual and bold!
The contrast between the cold lavender and the hot vetiver makes me picture a scene in my head:
A ritual.
Wood being burned at an outdoor altar at twilight.
Lavender is placed around the fire in a circle.
It is cold and the night is closing in…
After the initial scent cloud Lavande 44 settles down and the sillage is quite pleasant (not too much, not too little – just the way I want it).
The lasting power is quite good too – the fragrance lasts for around 6 to 8 hours on my skin.
boroda39 – :
mon préféré des 3 parfums. Un peu masculin au début il devient crémeux mais grâce aux épices il reste frais et la lavande est magnifique. je n’aime pas les parfums de lavande mais là je doit dire que je suis tombée sous le charme et que je le veux !!! un très bon sillage et mon échantillon à fait des jaloux 😉 merci à Rania J pour les 3 échantillons et la rapidité d’envoi ;))
oxyandserg – :
Thank you Mister_chaz and Lobster2010 for your comments.I’ve just read them. Thank you again. 🙂
Rania
Ikd9lsmdSf – :
I think, I need to update my review:
First of all, I’d like to thank Rania for the samples, it was a nice surprise!
Lavande 44 starts with herbal and spicy lavender and patchouli, and develops into woody-lavender with soft sweet-creamy base (tonka bean?)on my skin. I think, patchouli is worth noting separately, because here, it smells almost like bitter dark chocolate!
I really enjoy this interpretation of lavender: it starts masculine, but gets softer in the dry-down, so it is quite unisex. My only concern is that the fragrance sits close to the skin and doesn’t project very much. Other than that, it’s a really beautiful lavender-centered fragrance!