Méharées L'Erbolario

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7.8 / 10 504 Ratings

Méharées is a popular perfume by L'Erbolario for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is spicy-oriental. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Sweet

Woody

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cinnamon

Orange

Bergamot

Rose

Heart Notes

Gaiac wood

Patchouli

Cedarwood

Sandalwood

Base Notes

Amber

Musk

Vanilla

Ratings

Scent

7.8504 Ratings

Longevity

7.3394 Ratings

Sillage

6.5395 Ratings

Bottle

5.9365 Ratings

Value for money

8.7106 Ratings

Submitted by Baux, last update on 15.04.2024.

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/10/2021

8
Scent

Notausgang
9 Reviews

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Notausgang

Top Review 43

A brief comparison of Méharées and Musc Ravageur

Since Méharées is often called a cheaper alternative to the "Musc Ravageur" (MR), I wanted to compare the two. I have both worn a few times alone and also at the same time each on an arm to have a direct comparison.

Once the top notes dissipate (MR with a strong spiciness of clove and cinnamon, Méharées practically goes straight to the heart notes), both scents are very similar. Cinnamon, some vanilla, woodiness, musk. The spices in Méharées seem a bit milder and softer compared to MR. But I don't think that's too noticeable to someone who isn't looking for differences.

The biggest difference is in their longevity and projection: MR lasts for hours, I can clearly detect it 5 hours after applying a spray, while Méharées becomes a skin scent after about 3 hours. It lingers throughout the day, but is rather quiet.

All in all, MR is for me a bit more "magical" and sparkling, but also heavier and of course much more expensive.

I would say that Méharées is an excellent substitute if you're not sure you like that kind of scent, and I also suspect that I reach for it more often simply because it's a bit more unobtrusive and lighter. Very intense, loud scents are often too much for me, and I like that Méharées doesn't overwhelm me.

However, if you are very into MR, I don't see Méharées as a completely satisfying alternative.

What also bothers me about Méharées is the bottle, or more precisely the cap. The sprayer and cap are both made of a matte metal that gives a terrible "fork scrapes across bottom of pot" feeling when you take it off. Bah. Makes my skin crawl.

04/29/2018

4
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

FabianO
63 Reviews

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FabianO

Top Review 19

Clumsy casing, but filled with finely cinnamoned, vanilla powdered juice oranges

GoodSmeller than the previous speaker has already wrung out L'Ebolario by every trick in a linguistically very successful way. Maybe I still get 2-3 remaining analytical drops...

Yes, the flacon looks blatantly cheap, and the camel motif is also very similar to the illustrations on the classic green Karl May Bamberg volumes. In general - I find the illustrations and the naming somewhat misleading, I do not locate the fragrance in the deepest Orient, at best in southern Sicily with a telescope view to Tunisia
Sure, there is cinnamon in it and vanilla as well - but all in all, "Méharées" seems surprisingly fresh, lively in all its rather casual gourmandism. This may be due to the powerfully dosed, thoroughly juicy orange, which is at the same time contrasted by reserved spices.

Qualitatively, there is nothing bad to be said about this therapy. Extremely homogeneous orange, cinnamon, vanilla, a micro-quantity of rose and later a more expansive, inviting milk-cookoa-like patchouli form a feel-good scent at the interface between late summer and early autumn. Beautiful, despite its clumsy shell.

08/05/2018

7
Bottle 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Cafeliberte
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Cafeliberte

Top Review 24

Golden Warmth

There are scents that instantly take you to other places.
Often they are memories of places you have visited and which the scent evokes, and with only one spray you immediately travel there again. But they can also be places one dreams of, the wanderlust elicits a deep sigh, and the imagination conjures up the most beautiful images before one's inner eye. Even if in reality everything may be completely different. But it is nice when dream ideas make it possible to surrender for a short moment to a daydream that awakens longings and gives consolation, confidence, joy or distraction.

For me, Méharées triggers a journey into a distant and strange world that is still completely unknown to me. The sun determines life and is omnipresent. Nature is powerful and brings man to his limits. An interplay between a glowing hot desert sun and a starry night sky.
It is probably a very special melancholy that a person only experiences on his own body when he is seized by the vastness of the desert.

Méharées was in my hands for the first time when I was in Venice in winter. Very clichéd, but camels immediately trigger fabulous images of the Arabian Nights in me. The Méharées bottle doesn't score with extravagance, but I like the bottle because it doesn't show off, isn't richly decorated, but simply takes its place very calmly.
I had only sniffed at the bottle and was skeptical. I wanted to like him, but somehow he smelled like liquorice, and I can't stand liquorice. So I carefully decided for the shower gel and tested it in the bathtub of our hotel room. So there I was, after miles and miles of walking through the damp and cold Venice, pampering my maltreated feet and cold skin with a bubble bath that smelled of Méharées. I indulged in this fragrance and dreamed myself into a bathroom with mosaic decorated walls.
During my next stay in Italy and my visit to L'Erbolario I wanted to like him so much that I simply took the bottle with me.
On a warm evening in Tuscany, when the sun bathed the hills in terracotta light, I sprayed it before dinner. I still noticed something I felt at the time to be licorice-like, a hint of liquorice. How deliciously warm the scent lay on the skin like a veil of gold woven through it. Cinnamon, dates, myrrh, resin and dark woods - this is how Méharées smells to me. That's not even in the fragrance pyramid, but what counts in the end is the own perception that makes up the perfume. For me, it's not a gourmand, not a classic oriental. It is spicy-warm, the light sweetness is like golden resin and almost tart. I don't even feel it as a pure winter scent and it doesn't trigger any feelings of cosy Christmas markets in me. I even think it goes very well with heat, warm skin, dry air, hot sunbeams. In one way or another, the scent has something rough about it. I feel grounded and calm when I wear it.
On the evening I wore Méharées for the first time, before falling asleep, I read aptly in Achill Moser's breathtakingly beautiful book "Places of Longing":

The inhospitable, lonely landscapes of the desert, which trigger so many emotions - from intoxicating feelings of happiness to abysmal fear - were for me the place of longing par excellence right from the start.
Maybe every human carries one somewhere in his heart. We just have to go to find him.

08/19/2020

Alilove
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Alilove

Helpful Review 8

a little trip to other cultures...

By chance this rather unknown Italian caught my attention. I, as a multi-faceted perfume lover, was in search of deeper, wicked, almost mystical smells that were out of this world. On the positive side, the brand produces on a natural basis and knows how to promote this fragrance in a very interesting way. When the sweetheart arrived I was not disappointed despite the blind purchase. The first splash catapulted me thanks to the noble, but not too heavy Patschulis directly into the Orient; perfumed, kissed by aftershave and well-groomed camel drivers, who barefoot under the orange evening sun routinely start their way home through the hot desert sand... The cinnamon, moss and the wooden, slightly balsamic notes play their part directly on the surface and envelop the wearer gently and not too obtrusively. The fragrance is definitely unisex and reminds of exuberant Arabic festivities.

09/16/2020

Lukta
3 Reviews

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Lukta

Less helpful Review 11

Snuggle Water

Whatever the opinions about this (and other) fragrance differ and are often broken down into their components.............For me Meharees is a warm soft fragrant companion with which I feel 100% comfortable. I have fertich :-)

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