Habanita

8 reseñas

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• Selene

  September 3, 2014

  

  Controversial, elegant, sensual, exotic, rebellious, indomitable. Habanita is definitely the perfume representative of the 1920s, the aroma that ‘Flapper Girls’ should have worn. An attitude full of life and hedonistic, reforming the old and creating a new vision on fashion and makeup. The girls of the 1920s knew how to have fun and were pioneers in many things, leaving an important legacy. In its Art Deco-style bottle, Habanita already tells us that its aroma encloses all that. It’s worth highlighting that this decade was hugely influenced by Egyptian culture, especially by archaeological findings, which served as inspiration for several houses. It was born as an essence to perfume cigarettes and 3 years later, girls were already wearing it on their skin. When we talk about Habanita, we talk about Tobacco and Leather. These two notes dominate the perfume and are so well integrated they seem like one; both tobacco and leather are rather soft and talcated. Behind these two notes lies amber and vanilla, which makes the fragrance intoxicating and sweet. The sensation is like smelling a smoky aroma, with great flashes of tobacco and leather embedded in amber and vanilla. Many consider Shalimar to be the first oriental fragrance, but they forget that Habanita was created years before. In fact, although they are different, Habanita and Shalimar share a certain DNA: both use leather and vanilla as a vital part of their composition. This fragrance must be used in very small doses; its fixing power is incredible and it’s a fragrance with much body; with a little, we have the perfect result. It’s worth getting to know Habanita.

• Espartaco

  March 29, 2019

  

  I would never wear Habanita; it’s a perfume handled in a Siena range and smoky notes of heat, proudly showing off a toasted sweetness alien to my tastes, which are colder and drier. Habanita is like that unicorn everyone has heard of but few have tasted. It’s not because it’s not distributed or sold at Michael Jackson’s glove price; on the contrary, it’s easy to find online at a decent price. But it has had very poor distribution in stores; at least in Spain I’ve never seen it on a shelf. That hurts a perfume that already has difficulty in seducing new buyers with its magic, being an eminently old aroma. Poor distribution, a vintage aroma, and a name, Molinard or Habanita, that the general public doesn’t know. All the odds stacked so that any woman looking for perfume won’t even dignify looking at that insinuating black bottle of Art Deco shapes. I don’t value the old for being old; I like what’s good, regardless of where it comes from, how much it costs, or how people value it. This Molinard is a very old perfume, but with a superb composition. I dare to say it’s a must-mention when speaking of perfumery history. To say Habanita is good is to stay short: it’s a work of art. If UNESCO ever includes perfumes in its list of intangible heritage, it should be by right. Because the juice inside is a frozen instant with the capacity to make you return to the past and relive scenes of streets packed with cars, horns sounding, bars with a cloud of cigarette smoke and sweat, lots of sweat. But a perfume doesn’t stand because it takes you to the year it was created; it must be well made. Habanita not only has no cracks, but moreover, as a juice, it’s a magnificent thing, an ambrosia of oriental notes, a feast of great brushstrokes, an enjoyable, libidinous, and insolent perfume. What does Habanita smell like? Many things; the marasmo of notes, the avalanche of nuances your nose perceives is madness. It’s not that it has many notes, but that each is imbued with speed, partying, noise. None wants to join the other; all want to be the most beautiful, the one who takes the handsome guy to the party. Because that is Habanita: a festive perfume, a party, a mess that isn’t planned, arises and is done. Like a flamboyant, proud peacock, an extravagance. Habanita is an allegory of unrestraint. I won’t make a long summary of its phases. Just say it smells like its era, of heliotropes and talcated vanillas but with sparks of fruits and resins; the dry-down recalls the powdery sweetness of old books or leather cigarette cases stiffer than mojama. But the grace is that it also smells of youth, unrestraint, and scandal, of frenzied orgasms and dance floors muddied in sweat. It’s mind-blowing that a perfume with so many years makes you think of sex before elegant women or melancholic moments. This isn’t refined nor has good manners; Habanita is a voodoo orgy. My review is based on an old EDT bottle.

• charlotinable

  April 5, 2019

  

  If it can be found, I’ll buy it for its exquisite mystical notes. An essence conceived to perfume cigarettes in the beautiful 1920s. It must be elegant and sensual, majestic and glamorous. I must get a bottle or more, and even more so if it’s at an accessible price.

• Casablanca77

  February 7, 2020

  

  Habanita vintage is quite more stubborn than the current eau de parfum. But one must recognise a great merit: it has managed to adapt without losing its great pure character. This vintage, although it seems well-petted at first spray, quickly brings out its character and gives you a scent of pure, beautiful sweetness. Later, the sweetness and that aged leather settle and leave a fragrance of a very marked stubbornness. Perfect perfume for those who adore sweetness without being sweet, not recommended blindly. Anyone not used to these scents would be better off with the current one, which carries a softened, chocolatey benzoin more bearable in these times. Wearing the vintage requires more nose, but if you like what has no shame or boundaries, go for it, but beware as the opening can be a bit altered. It has resulted for me little more than smoking a Rossli cigarette; its tobacco knocked me out, but I’m sure I’ll make good friends with it, leaving the opening that’s already sealed by the years. EDIT: in many aspects it resembles the Habanita Eau de Cologne remarkably, except in the opening. With this we see that the new versions of Molinard continue to be artists who know what to do. Molinard deserves special attention; it is among the top three, with Galimard and Fragonard.

• jerry drake

  December 28, 2020

  

  The vintage version is literally a marvel, perfectly unisex. It’s incredibly round and has an appealing fill; it’s flexible and affectionate, but also stubborn. And, of course, this ‘Habanita’ is extremely sensual, seductive, and surprisingly comfortable as it develops. It’s like being trapped in a café in Paris on a cold day, having breakfast and watching the heavy rain fall on the other side of the glass. In my perception, there are slightly smoky, fruity, and floral notes resting on a base of leather and creamy, vanilla-ambered notes, making Habanita a comforting perfume of sweetness and warmth. This exotic, persistent bouquet, clearly woven with rose and jasmine, has an appeal that leaves you indifferent to nothing. An eau de toilette with great character that exudes class and elegance. Potent, cynical, yet at the same time deep and relaxing. Enveloping and erotic. This is Habanita: a goddess and a damn thing all at once, into whose ears you whisper lustful words. An incredibly tempting new discovery on my fragrance journey.

• svazquez7

  May 15, 2023

  

  Habanita EDT is a peculiar fragrance. It’s a bomb of talc and fruity resins. The truth is, it gives me a strange note of ‘raisins’ in the opening; it’s very strong and, although it has a very old-school aura, it is a sophisticated composition. I see it as more feminine than unisex, but to be honest, it does suit a man in a suit. I imagine it at a dinner, with cachet; if people notice and say you’re wearing ‘Habanita’, it has a tremendous charm that few perfumes have today.

• svazquez7

  June 26, 2023

  

  Every time I smell the vials of this gorgeous fragrance, it obsesses me more. A refined, luxurious treasure of the kind no longer made; I suggest you go for the gold-capped or square bottle. It has turned me so crazy that it even seems better than Shalimar to me.

• Sherazade

  December 16, 2024

  

  I first encountered this thanks to a singing teacher in the 90s; she wore it to death. A woman of class, super-refined. One day I’ll add it to my collection.