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Bayaan
Lattafa Bayaan Eau de Parfum 100ml is one of the house's better known releases of recent years and one of the busiest things it makes, with eleven materials pulling in several directions at once. The opening is fruit and spice together. Blackcurrant gives a tart, almost green sharpness, lychee adds a perfumed floral sweetness that reads as rose before any rose appears, and cinnamon and pink pepper run heat underneath both. It is a crowded first two minutes and it settles quickly.
The middle is the best part. Cardamom carries the spice forward in a drier, dustier form, orange blossom brings a clean white floral lift, rose deepens the whole thing, and praline sits beneath them with its toasted, nutty warmth. The combination of rose and praline is what people remember about this fragrance, a sort of sweet, smoky confection with a flower in the middle of it.
Underneath, it turns serious. Oud brings the dry smoke, vanilla keeps the sweetness alive into the late hours, and oakmoss supplies a damp bitterness that keeps the base from going flat and syrupy.
Performance is strong. Expect eight hours and a first hour with real reach, so be sparing with it in any confined space. Cold weather is where it makes most sense and evenings suit it better than mornings. It is marketed as unisex and in practice it is worn by both, which is unusual for something this sweet. Dating from 2023, it remains among the more interesting things in the catalogue.
Yara and Khamrah are the two releases that took the Lattafa name out of the Gulf, and the scents that followed them, this one included, have been aimed squarely at that wider audience.
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