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Anaerakneed – :
I had an uncle who used to chain smoke heavily and wear your stereotypical ‘masculine’ perfumes up until his death. This smells like I remember him smelling. It’s quite shocking how familiar it is.
As others have noted, it opens with oud. It seems to be a slightly less putrid oud than the one in Oud Assam (also be Rania J), but it shares a very similar DNA. It’s medicinal and funky but not blue cheese and vomit, which is, to me, a good thing. There’s very little that separates this from Oud Assam for the first 1-4 minutes on skin. It can be quite confusing and can make you question if you sprayed the right bottle.
When the oud dissipates eventually, the tobacco takes over with something else (resins or incense maybe?) there too. I think, despite the other reviews, it’s a fragrance that you really have to go digging for, and concentrate to get, notes other than oud and tobacco. Cardamon is there if you think about it, but it doesn’t jump and say “hey I’m cardamon and I’m here.”
This really doesn’t match my personality at all. Wear what you want and all that jazz, but I really can’t see how this is in anyway feminine, or in any way youthful. For me, it’s a scent that you would expect to smell on a 40-50 year old business man who has over-sprayed and is stinking up the elevator. It’s not very pleasant to my nose and doesn’t smell like the quality it is marketed as being. Lasts forever though! So that’s something!
slarcachAlult – :
To cite Luckyscent that IMHO describes the scent in its best: “fungal dampness of the oud to the creamy sweetness of the tobacco leaf.”
This is definitely masculine. Very prominent agarwood, tobacco leaves, leather and myrr. More of a fireplace, not in a romantic way so to speak. Very heavy and not really pleasant.
Alex_killer – :
I was really curious to try this perfume because I’m a tobacco addict…in perfume only because I never smoke in my life. The spicy note (pepper) and leather note also caught my attention.T. Habanero is an interesting one because perfume with tobacco note are often more sweet than dry. This one is really a dry one and a complex one. Nice but I don’t like the smokey note. It’s more a fire camp note than a cigar note. For that reason, I not sure this one will join my collection.
Zyklon1986 – :
T. Habanero opens with a blast of medicinal (i.e genuine) oud, peppery spices and incense. It can be challenging to the uninitiated but what comes afterwards is pure bliss.
The warm mid-tones gradually rear their heads after 10 minutes from the initial blast settles. Tobacco mixed with frankincense and myrrh. The base is warmest due to the woodsy tones.
T. Habanero has vibes of Tauer’s L’air du Desert Marocain in the sense that it is dry, peppery, spicy and warm. T. Habanero and Ambre Loup are my favourites from the line. I thoroughly enjoy their avant-garde approach to the traditional Middle Eastern perfumery.
9/10 but if you ask me why not a 10/10? My answer is, it’s a 10/10 🙂
ruslanroman – :
At first I was a bit divided about T. Habanero. I could not decide whether I experienced a yet unfinished experiment or a masterly crafted rugged tobacco scent. After wearing it a number of times I am now completely convinced that the latter interpretation is true for me.
T. Habanero opens with a burst of a challenging oud variety spiced with pepper. Once the oud settles a bit T. Habanero evolves to the best spicy tobacco I have experienced. It’s easy to recognize Rania Jouaneh’s signature on this scent. In T.Habenero i find references to Oud Assam as well as Lavande 44.
In the dry down T. Habanero turns resinous-woody but still with an oudy edge.
To my nose T. Habanero is the masterpiece in Rania J’s impressive and very artful collection.
kam321 – :
Nice quality & quantity juice thx;-) Rania J.
trecck – :
This is pretty linear on my skin – I didn’t notice much change from opening to drydown. The notes here mesh really well together. I get roughly equal parts tobacco, oud, pepper, incense, and sandlewood. None of them overpower the other, but are great in combination. I’m wearing it on a cool spring day, but really look forward to wearing in the fall and winter. A winner.
kochub – :
Yep, opens up with strong oud note that quickly changes to one of the best tobacco fragrances ever. Rania is quality and performance and while the oud is potent it’s also fantastic. More evidence that the price of the scent is not at all proportional to the quality. This destroys other tobacco fragrances costing twice as much.
FurOFlowcor – :
I am currently wearing T habanero, its definitely my favourite so far from the house. The offensive top notes that people below refer to is 100% real OUD/Agarwood, she uses this in all her creations. I can definitely say that her creations are the first time I’ve actually been able to detect this note in a fragrance that claims to have real Oud.
Deroxknzph – :
The opening to this scent is a little challenging with what smells like sweet Cambodian oud and dark tobacco. After a while it starts to smell quite nice with the sweet Cambodian oud mixing in with the fermented like dark tobacco. I used to have a bottle of real sweet Cambodian oud and recognised the smell almost immediately whilst smelling this fragrance.
After a while the incense can be smelled and the scent becomes soft and spicy and quite pleasant. Cannot help think that this scent would make a great aftershave than a Edp.
vyu996speagoessenda – :
Tabacco morbido, suadente, affascinante, dal cuore legnoso.
Evolve aprendosi alle resine dolcemente intense di mirra e olibano.
Il fumo, moderatamente speziato, (pepe, cardamomo e peperoncino habanero si distiguono chiaramente…), si diffonde quieto ma costante dal polso, fedele a se stesso.
Volute a spirale di tabacco e mirra avvolgono un oud nè austero nè ruvido, ma elegantemente smoky e unisex.
Un profumo che non deluderà i o le tabacco/lovers.
Personalmente amo il tabacco che esalta e sposa la rosa, in Habanero il tabacco resta serenamente single.
Croznot777 – :
I had read of the opening notes on T. Habanero, and I would describe it as a musty, mildewy church basement. This awkward phase lasts around 30 minutes and is followed by the segue scents of myrrh and tobacco. This fleshes out to a nice leathery, oud and a tobacco that’s almost burnt in nature. Very nice, but a bit sharp to this nose. Thumb neutral here.
Mr.Alex – :
The dry down won me over on this one, just like ambre loup did. She is quite an amazing perfumia. The opening with this was like a love hate for me, the sweetness the darkness battling it out, but mixed with my skin scent after about 30 mins I get a wonderful wonderful aroma one just has to experience. I mean looking at the notes here I was expecting something a little different but I have to say I am quite impressed with this offering and Amber loup. I have full bottles of each. The longevity on these fragrance s are like extrait status, beast mode ! I did notice after I paid $150 for a bottle at twisted Lilly I could have got it $98 at first in fragrance, so look around. If you would like to sample these offerings just visit here website directly. I got all of them shipped in a week for like $25 bucks. The perfumer is really nice and will email you right back. She was also proud to notify me she only uses natural oud in her fragrances nothing synthetic. Beast longevity. Must try guys, must try!
BudmO – :
quite offensive top note! and i can tell it’s Rania’s style cause i can sense her stamp in this fragrance quite clear. the top note reminds me allot of Lavande 44 but louder and extremely boisterous. Very harsh and kind of disturbing…
However, & as it calms down, the fun begins …. as i start sensing a chocolate gourmand note! not quite clear but eludes through the scene! kind of plays hide & seek but slaps you with joy once u get near! deliciously dark offensive and superbly alluring! and as it calms down more it goes juicy and hefty to establish a base of joyment and mystery!
honestly.. i have absolutely no idea why am i running through the dark side these days when i purchase samples! and ironically this process goes unintentionally!
As a final word, this is captivating and deserves a grand Salam 🙂
adveveproof – :
Tobacco, oh beloved tobacco, I’m still awaiting for you.
I had so great expectations….
unwearable for my chemistry.
MIxa256 – :
What an experience for the first few hours!!!
Rich, deep, complex and utterly amazing oud + tobacco combination, full of spices and blasts of animalic sexiness. Loud and clear leather with a sweet, intoxicating myrrh and resins!
You’ve got to try this for the opening at least. Purely unisex and very, very good!
The heart/drydown though goes a bit downhill for me, I mostly get resins, but not the sweet kind – there is a distinct sourness on me which I’m not the greatest fan of as it seems a bit too masculine, though I do enjoy masculine scents at some times.
Excellent longevity (more than 12 hours) + a decant sillage.
I was impressed with Lavande 44 by Rania J (and I absolutely adore having it in my collection) and the first few hours of this trump even that.
FoorieReinuip – :
Offering a twist on the typical tobacco form, T. Habanero weaves together several divergent olfactory threads with great success.
This scent opens with a paradox of sorts: a traditional tobacco structure that’s rendered complex through the introduction of resinous, herbal, and earthy facets. There’s a stout and spicy cardamom, a plausible oud, and an expansive myrrh, all suspended over a shrewd moss, which reveals itself late into the scent’s life. The tobacco is somewhat reserved, yet pervasive, striking an impressionistic balance between spaces where cigars are prepared and the unlit cigars themselves. What’s so notable about this seemingly discordant coterie of notes, though, is that it feels as though they shouldn’t work together quite as well as they do. But that’s one of the scent’s highlights—T. Habanero is extremely well put-together.
Tobacco aside, the myrrh stands out the most, followed by the cardamom, and the merging of the two notes yields a smart interplay of sweet and acerbic characteristics. The myrrh reminds me of Armani’s Myrrh Impériale but sidesteps that scent’s overbearing sweetness by the use of herbs that clear a space for the tobacco. But for as conservative as the tobacco is (and it’s a dry tobacco, too), the impression of humidors, cigars, and smoking environments is continuously called into mind. It’s slightly less literal than other tobacco fragrances, but there’s an unmistakable sophistication about the whole affair that pushes the scent more in the direction of antiquated than contemporary. After a couple of hours, the scent drifts a tad prematurely into a moss base that isn’t quite as fetching as the opening, yet it strikes me as the most appropriate option for a scent such as this.
So, T. Habanero’s composition can perhaps be summarized as a tastefully understated herbal tobacco couched in semi-sweet myrrh and shaded with a leathery oud. Although this is not completely to my taste (I lean toward more anarchic scents, and cardamom and I rarely see eye to eye), for fans of refined, elegant tobacco scents, this one does a fine job of setting itself apart from the rest.
gea705JeomiWogkig – :
ESXENCE MILANO 23 MARCH 2014 , I COULD APPRECIATE THIS AMAZING FRAGRANCE
Many Thanks Rania Jouaneh for Your Cordiality <3