Lattafa Mayar Cherry Intense 100ml Eau de Parfum

Lattafa Mayar Cherry Intense 100ml Eau de Parfum

Cherry jam spooned over dark chocolate. Mayar Cherry Intense is the red one — a proper gourmand that smells like a boxed chocolate you weren’t supposed to eat before dinner, and ate anyway.

Somebody in Dubai took a jar of cherry jam, a bar of good cocoa and a bottle of vanilla, and decided restraint was for other people. Mayar Cherry Intense is the result — a fruity gourmand that is sweet, dark, slightly filthy and absolutely not trying to be tasteful about it.

One wearer described it as a box of Mon Chéri tipped into a blender with two big spoons of berry jam. That is exactly right, and if that sentence made you hungry rather than nervous, this bottle is for you.

Top — Strawberry, Bergamot. The opening is the most divisive part of the whole fragrance, so let’s be upfront: it is bright, sugary and a little synthetic. Some people get mouthwatering fresh strawberry. Others get a cherry fizzy drink, or something faintly medicinal. It lasts minutes, not hours — and what comes next is what you actually bought it for.

Heart — Cherry Jam, Cacao. This is the fragrance. Thick, dark, jammy cherry — not fresh fruit, but the cooked, sticky, spoon-out-of-the-jar kind — with cocoa curling underneath it. Not a hot-chocolate cocoa. A bitter, dusty, dark-chocolate cocoa that stops the cherry from tipping into cough syrup. It is genuinely delicious, and it is where every good review of this bottle comes from.

Base — Vanilla, Amber, Patchouli. The landing is warm and grown-up. Creamy vanilla, a golden amber glow, and earthy patchouli underneath giving the whole thing weight and a slightly dirty edge. This is the part that makes it wearable on a man as easily as a woman, and it’s the part that hangs around long after the fruit has gone.

Reviews split on the cacao, and you should know which camp you might land in. Some wearers get smooth, creamy milk chocolate arriving within minutes and staying. Others barely register it and experience this as a straight cherry-strawberry gourmand.

Often compared with Cherry & Cacao. Authentic Lattafa Mayar Cherry Intense 100ml Eau de Parfum, held in the UK with free tracked delivery.

Fragrance notes

• Top: Strawberry, Bergamot
• Heart: Cherry Jam, Cacao
• Base: Vanilla, Amber, Patchouli

Longevity: many wearers report it lasting the full day and well into the evening, with real projection in the first few hours. It is a cold-weather scent: autumn, winter, evenings, dates. In