Reviews Paris Corner Rifaaqat

Beast mode

Good dupe of YSL babycat dry down leaves a lovely warm vanilla scent. If you do buy this it’s a winter fragrance wouldn’t work any other time of the year.

really nice smell but definitely something for certain occasions and not everyday wear.

The only issue is lasting so just let it macerate for a while... rest all good

So this is a great fragrance, at a great price. It is trying to be Babycat, but at a fraction of the price. It very much gave me BBQ sauce on pork, served near a leather jacket upon first spray, but after a few weeks that had settled. What you get is a vibrant, sweet, sharp and leathery vanilla. Some spice, a tad synthetic, but very wearable. It doesn't have great longevity on skin but it will build up beautifully on clothing. It's become a favourite for my scarf and jacket!

Smelt side by side with YSL Babycat, its pretty close but the opening can be pretty harsh. Drydown is a nice and smoky vanilla suede. The opening is a rubbery burnt mess but it has disappeared as it matured. It is cheap enough to blind buy but it is polarising and can be offensive. As a dupe, 6/10 (Babycat is better blended and better in everyway except price tag) As a standalone fragrance, 7.5/10 (It strays away from the typical sweet vanilla and offers a mature take on it)

Never smelled the OG, blind bought this based on a review, I’m not a vanilla girly but this has my heart. My friends don’t love it, so I got lucky that I do, stay on clothes for days and days, it’s a beautiful warm, spicy vanilla, it’s not sweet or gourmand it’s a very grown up vanilla. Only thing is I don’t feel like this projects a lot, heard a lot of people say it’s beast mode, I’ll disagree. In my experience it sticks better to clothes than to skin but that’s most perfumes. Happy to reapply!