Alahine Teo Cabanel for women

Woody and resinous amber with a rose-y undertone. I'm a sucker for ambers and while Alahine is not among the most original interpretations of the main theme it is still thoroughly enjoyable. Powerful, long lasting and well balanced. Good quality stuff. Unisex.

Rating: 7/10

For me,t he first spray was a blast of honey. And then I came back and saw that there was none in the composition, and I was really surprised. because the first stages of Alahine smelled like honey straight from the hive, still in the honeycomb. When we were little, our neighbour had an allotment with beehives and made his own honey, and once or twice he brought some to us. And this was the exact smell!

Anyway, it changes a lot later. It still remains quite sweet, but the oriental side of it kicks in. So we get the ylang-ylang, some labdanum, a lot of jasmine and orange blossom, sandalwood.

I liked it, but I am not thrilled, I wish the first honey wave would remain there for longer, because the rest of Alahine is something I know from a few other scents. The lasting power is good though and so is the sillage.

Alahine is a Persian word. This perfume smells of deep, rich incense. It is the "odour of sanctity" and evokes the silence of monasteries.

this is mentioned everywhere as an ambery scent ut there is no amber listed in the notes... how this ?

Oh, this a rich, dense, deep honey-amber shawl!
It covers your skin with oriental warmth, its strong and at the same time noble accords comply every movement of their owner!

nice one. would not say distinctive but well done. Reminds me of Ambre Sultan with more flowers.

Um wow! I can tell this is high quality- it almost smells vintage. That said I am afraid I'll never be able to wear it..clove and carnation on my skin, very spicy and strong! Chemistry is indeed a strange thing. The drydown is pure amber, less dirty and very warm. Nothing artificial or sweet here. It's a try before you buy type of perfume and quite unique as well.

First I get amber, very sweet amber. Then I get some spice, a little tobacco and beeswax.

I love everything about it except the sweetness. It overpowers the whole perfume and takes away from the gorgeous blend :(

It was so sweet on me that I couldn't really pick up on the floral notes. It's also linear. It stayed super sweet amber, tobacco and beeswax on me. Unlike others, I could still smell it after 6 hours.

Alahine is romantic and elegant, but a bit linear amber-floral fragrance with a short life and no silage. It reminds me of Armani Mania, the old one - in the black bottle. And of DK Black cashmere. But most of all makes me think of Magie from Lancome's La Collection. Only Magie is much more balanced, rich and long lasting. Alahine is like a fragment of Magie. It is in my opinion a lovely fragrance, but not interesting enough to buy a bottle of it.

Something like Black Cashmere Donna Karan.Exotic,insensé,oriental,sensual.I like so much.

That is a beautiful perfume with a vintage air.It is woodsy with spices,you can easily detect jasmine and rose with a hint of pepper.Very elegant!!

After putting it on, I had an immediate "soul travel" back to my childhood;) I remember my great-grandma strongly believed in healing with natural remedies, and among them was burnt amber smoke (real amber, not synthetic one). She used it for earaches, burning a small piece of amber on a stove shovel and ordering me to put my aching ear next to its smoke. Now I fail to remember whether it helped, but I distinctly remember the scent of burning amber together with her own camphor body smell, and if she burned also some dried rose petals together with amber, it would be Alahine right away...P.S. I'm still on the fence with this one...guess I'll be ready to wear it when I'm about 85 years old;D

I'll preface this by saying that I'm a big fan of rich "amber" fragrances, and Alahine is no exception. As soon as I put on a tiny dab from my sample vial, I was enveloped in a cloud of "amber" (whatever that really is) topped off with delicious citrus. As the perfume dried down, it revealed a heart of rose, a dark red rose, surrounded by other generic perfume-y things. The scent is strong, has a lot of sillage, and lasted through the night so that I woke up smelling it this morning, an unexpectedly happy beginning to a dark, cold, rainy day. Because it's so strong I can see how it might be easy to overdo it, but in moderation this could be a staple amber-rose fragrance, definitely a use-up-the-vial scent.

Alahine has a short-lived but complex development. A surprisingly sharp opening promises aromatic treats, but settles down quickly into a classic, "fatty" amber. On top of the amber floats a pleasantly cool layer of flowers and citrus. No single top note stands out, but I think lavender lends it that fresh character, giving Alahine its cool-over-warm signature.

Lush,interesting, even beautiful, but like certain desserts, this amber is at times just too rich--at least during its middle, most ambery stage. There is a magical moment just before the drydown when it reaches perfection to my nose. The gorgeous drydown is a soft echo of that first spritz.

Alahine is not as strong and tenacious as many ambers out there, yet it is intense.

I'm picky about ambers, and lean towards the drier, more herbal blends (Ambre sultan, Ambre 114) or those that are sweet but not too rich (Ambre Narguilé). A unique blend, Alahine imitates none of the above, but leans toward the Ambre narguilé side of the spectrum.

Alahine is a must-try for amber lovers, even if you are bit finicky, like me. It might be the one for you.

Very well done fragrance. On my skin it works real well. I can smell the Ylang Ylang and Rose, but it is so perfectly balanced with the added spicyness, vanilla, and musk that I could barely find the floral notes. I find this to be a very beautiful scent on a cold day with a cup of hot tea. Its subtle. I would were it casually in the winter.

The opening is sharply aromatic, with bergamot and lavender (which is listed on my manufacturer sample but not here). It fades rather quickly into a smooth, creamy floral - heavy like good satin - dominated by rose and ylang. There is a vague spiciness at this stage that makes me say, "Christmas!" without knowing why, exactly. Fairly soon (about an hour in), Alahine settles into a rich, warm ambery scent that is more polite than you might think, for an oriental. I do smell quite a lot of patchouli, but I'm sensitive to that note. The sweetness of the amber (cistus) and vanilla smooth out the patchouli and make it very pleasurable.

A well-mannered oriental pretty enough to wear to work.

I like this Alahine very much and I've worn 2 vials till the end for a few days while on a journey in the south of Spain a few years ago. Now I still own a vial and I love to smell it. The only problem with this is that it becomes very powdery. On some days it has the typical diaper's edge of the ambery scents and it can be cloying. It's a different kind of scent, not very mainstream.

Alahine is a name of a girl from East.
The main topic of the fragrance is Amber! Tender, delicate, not-irritating and very mild, soft and smooth amber! For those who loves the ingredient.

I can hardly believe that a fragrance with almost all of my favourite notes smells so..., so... nauseating.
Alahine is very heavy on patchouli, I find it extremely cloying and totally overdone. Unbearable.
Please don’t get me wrong. My intention is not to bespatter. It's just a warning hint for people who - just like me - don't keen on patchouli, to avoid this fragrance.

I got a sample of this a few days ago, I had never even heard of the perfumer before. I've fallen in love with it, it's nothing like any perfume i've smelt before, it reminds me of india, it's so spicy, woody, earthy and musky. You can smell the Patchouli, which is something I love.