Lattafa Lail Maleki 100ml EDP — A Honeyed Fruity-Floral Amber
Lattafa Lail Maleki is a warm amber Eau de Parfum where a spiced fruit-and-citrus opening gives way to jasmine, honey, gardenia and orchid, and finishes on sandalwood, amber, caramel and musk. It is a mainline Lattafa release from 2018 — not one of the premium sub-lines such as Pride, Niche Emarati or La Collection D’Antiquités — and this is the full-size 100ml (3.4 oz) bottle at £12.99, 100% authentic and dispatched within 24 hours. If you have been searching for Lattafa Lail Maleki in the UK, this is level with the cheapest price we could find anywhere, with delivery included.
Lattafa Lail Maleki Notes
Top notes — fruity notes, spicy notes, citruses. Lattafa does not break the opening down any further than that, and in wear it behaves exactly as the vague listing suggests: a broad, jammy tropical-fruit accord lifted by a citrus edge and warmed by a soft baking spice. It is sweet from the first second rather than fresh, and the citrus is there to stop the fruit turning syrupy, not to make this smell like a cologne.
Heart notes — jasmine, honey, gardenia, orchid. This is the part of the composition that gives Lail Maleki its name and its character. Honey is the dominant note by a distance — thick, golden and slightly waxy — and the white florals sit inside it rather than on top of it. Gardenia adds the creamy, almost buttery weight; jasmine adds indole and a faint animalic edge; orchid rounds off the sharp corners. It smells expensive in a very old-fashioned way, closer to a 1990s floral oriental than to anything currently on the designer shelf.
Base notes — sandalwood, amber, caramel, musk. The drydown is where the fragrance earns its price. Caramel pushes the honey further into dessert territory, amber supplies the resinous glow, and sandalwood and musk keep the whole thing from collapsing into pure sugar. It is a soft, skin-warm finish rather than a woody one — the sandalwood is textural, not loud.
A note on the notes — worth reading before you compare listings. Lail Maleki is one of the more inconsistently reported fragrances we stock, and our own earlier draft of this page carried the wrong pyramid. Several UK sellers publish a completely different composition: pineapple, aldehydes and cinnamon over rose and jasmine, with sandalwood and amber. One large fragrance database also carries a sparse, unrated record with a woody-oud pyramid and no launch year at all. What Lattafa itself publishes — and what the majority of retailers who copy Lattafa’s own text carry — is the fruity/spicy/citrus, jasmine-honey-gardenia-orchid, sandalwood-amber-caramel-musk pyramid above, with a 2018 launch date. That is the record we trust, and it is the one that matches the bottle. Our best explanation for the pineapple version is that it has been back-fed from the fragrance Lail Maleki is most often compared to, which does contain pineapple — more on that below.
Lattafa Lail Maleki Review — What It Smells Like
The short version: honey, white flowers and caramel over a soft sandalwood-amber base. Rich, sweet, unapologetically feminine-leaning and considerably more grown-up than the price suggests. A cold-weather evening fragrance, not a desk scent.
The scent. Lail Maleki opens sweet and slightly boozy, with fruit and spice arriving together rather than in sequence, and the citrus burning off inside about ten minutes. What replaces it is the honey accord, and that is the whole fragrance from there: a dense, golden, faintly waxy honey with gardenia and jasmine folded through it. The florals stop it reading as edible, and the caramel and amber underneath stop it reading as sharp. By the second hour it has settled into a soft, warm, slightly powdery skin scent that stays close and reads as genuinely luxurious. If you have ever smelled a proper floral oriental from the 1990s — the kind of thing that came in a heavy glass bottle — this is in that lineage.
The catch. We cannot give you an honest longevity figure. UK retailer copy for this bottle routinely claims “over 10 hours”, and that is marketing text, not data. The independent databases are no help either: one carries no community ratings for Lail Maleki at all, and the other’s record is contested. What we can say from the composition is that honey, caramel and amber are long-lived materials and a fragrance built on them does not vanish — but expect the loud, projecting phase to be short and the rest of the wear to be close to the skin. We would rather tell you the data is thin than repeat a number we cannot source. The second catch is simpler: this is sweet, and it is sweet the whole way through. There is no dry or fresh phase to rescue you if honey is not your thing.
Who should skip it. Anyone who dislikes honey, anyone shopping for an office-safe daytime fragrance, and anyone who wants a modern, transparent, clean-musk style. This is the opposite of that.
Is Lattafa Lail Maleki a Dupe? What Is It a Clone Of?
Type B — inspired by, and consistently compared to, Histoires de Parfums 1804. Multiple independent dupe indexes and dupe retailers list Lail Maleki against Histoires de Parfums 1804 (George Sand), and the comparison holds up structurally. 1804’s own published pyramid is Tahitian gardenia, Corsican peach and Hawaiian pineapple, over clove, nutmeg, jasmine, lily of the valley and rose, on sandalwood, patchouli, benzoin, vanilla and white musk. Lail Maleki shares the fruit-and-spice opening, the gardenia-jasmine heart and the sandalwood-and-sweet-resin base. It is the same idea at a fraction of the cost.
What it is not is a Type A carbon copy. Lattafa has never named 1804 as an inspiration, the two are not identical, and every source making the claim is a dupe index or a dupe seller rather than the brand or a fragrance database. Lail Maleki is sweeter, honey-forward and more linear; 1804 is drier, more indolic and more complex. Buy this because you want a rich honeyed floral oriental for £12.99, not because you have been promised a bottle-for-bottle swap. Our Lattafa dupes guide explains how we grade Type A close matches against Type B inspired-by compositions, and Lattafa vs designer perfume covers what you actually give up at this price.
Closest in our own range: Hayaati Florence for a fruitier, praline-and-vanilla take on the same sweetness; Jouri for candied cherry and peony over vanilla and tonka; Bade’e Al Oud Sublime for apple, lychee and rose with a darker base; and Queen of Arabia if you want the creamy-vanilla-amber comfort without the honey. The rest of this style sits in our Lattafa fruity and gourmand collections.
Price & Size — Lattafa Lail Maleki Price in the UK
Lail Maleki is £12.99 for a 100ml (3.4 oz) Eau de Parfum with free UK delivery — about 13p per ml, or roughly 950–1,000 sprays from the bottle. For context, that is under a third of the per-ml cost of most designer 100ml bottles.
Across UK listings surveyed in August 2026 we found Lail Maleki lattafa price points ranging from £12.99 to £19.99, with several sellers showing a £24.99 list price before discount. We are level with the lowest UK price we could find rather than below it — we are not going to claim otherwise — and delivery is included here. Treat anything at or above £24.99 as full list rather than a deal, and treat anything under £9 as worth checking carefully for authenticity before you buy.
Bottle, Size & Authenticity
Lail Maleki is sold as a 100ml (3.4 oz) Eau de Parfum spray in Lattafa’s standard mainline presentation, with a decorated carton — the gallery images above show the bottle and box as you will receive them. The 100ml is the only EDP size we could verify in stock anywhere; a handful of UK listings mention a 30ml in their URLs but serve a 100ml product on the page, so we would not rely on a smaller bottle existing.
Lattafa also produces a Lail Maleki 250ml concentrated perfumed deodorant body spray in the same scent. We do not stock it, and we found no boxed Lail Maleki gift set from Lattafa. If a set is what brought you here, the 100ml bottle on this page is the fragrance itself.
Every bottle carries the official Lattafa holographic authentication seal. Our UK authentication guide shows exactly what to check on the seal, the QR code and the carton if you are buying Lattafa anywhere else — worth reading, because a sweet, heavily-copied bestseller at this price attracts fakes.
Performance & When To Wear It
This is an autumn and winter fragrance. Honey, caramel and amber are cold-weather materials, and in summer heat the sweetness turns cloying quickly. Evenings, dinners, weddings and Eid suit it; a warm office does not. It is also a good cool-weather layering base under something drier.
On application, two sprays is genuinely enough — this is dense juice and a heavy hand with it is the most common complaint. Expect a strong first hour or two and then a close, warm skin scent for the rest of the day; as above, we are not going to put a specific hour figure on it because no source we trust publishes one.
Like most Lattafa releases, Lail Maleki improves after a few weeks resting in a dark drawer. Our maceration guide explains why a fresh bottle can read sharp, boozy or solvent-like on the opening and settle considerably once the oils have married — and it matters here, because the honey accord in particular smooths out noticeably.
Who It’s For & Styling
Lattafa classifies Lail Maleki by Lattafa as a fragrance for women and men, and the major fragrance database that carries a full record lists it the same way; one other database files it as masculine, which we think is simply wrong given the gardenia-and-honey heart. In practice it leans feminine and wears beautifully on anyone who likes sweet florals regardless of who it was marketed at. We list it across both our Lattafa for women and unisex collections, and our by gender guide explains how we make those calls.
Style-wise it is an occasion scent: evening wear, warm fabrics, velvet and gold rather than linen and trainers. It reads as generous and confident rather than discreet, which is exactly the point of a fragrance called “royal night”.
Lattafa Lail Maleki in the Range
Within the Lattafa range, Lail Maleki is one of the house’s longest-running sweet orientals — a 2018 release that has stayed in production while dozens of newer launches have come and gone, which tells you something. At £12.99 it also sits well below almost every one of the house’s best sellers on price.
It has also spawned flankers. Oud Lail Maleki is the darker sibling, taking the same name in a saffron-rose-and-oud direction, and Lattafa Lail Maleki Moroccan Blue is the 2024 release — a citrus-and-aromatic-spice opening over amber, florals and musk, landing on agarwood, patchouli and sandalwood. Moroccan Blue is a genuinely different fragrance, not a reformulation: it is woody and oud-driven where this one is honeyed and floral, and it is the one to pick if the honey here sounds like too much. We stock Moroccan Blue too, so ask if you would like both.
If you are shopping by note rather than by name, our Lattafa perfumes by note page maps the whole catalogue, and Lattafa collections sets out how the sub-lines differ.
Tried, Tested, Trusted
At Royal Scents we specialise in Lattafa, and every scent we list is assessed by our team before it reaches you. Lail Maleki is one we recommend for evenings and cold weather rather than as an all-purpose signature — and we would rather tell you that the published longevity claims are unsourced and that the note pyramid on half the internet is wrong than let you find out after the bottle arrives.
Every bottle we sell is 100% genuine Lattafa, carrying the official holographic authentication seal and sourced through legitimate supply. Free UK delivery, 30-day no-questions returns, and dispatch within 24 hours.
Lattafa Lail Maleki FAQs
What does Lattafa Lail Maleki perfume smell like?
Honey, white flowers and caramel. A spiced fruit-and-citrus opening burns off inside ten minutes and leaves a thick golden honey accord with gardenia, jasmine and orchid folded through it, resting on sandalwood, amber, caramel and musk. Rich, sweet and old-school luxurious rather than fresh or modern.
What are the Lattafa Lail Maleki notes?
Top: fruity notes, spicy notes, citruses. Heart: jasmine, honey, gardenia, orchid. Base: sandalwood, amber, caramel, musk. That is the pyramid Lattafa publishes and it is what the majority of retailers carrying Lattafa’s own copy list.
Why do some listings show pineapple, aldehydes and cinnamon for Lail Maleki?
Because a number of UK sellers carry a different record entirely — pineapple, aldehydes and cinnamon over rose and jasmine. It is not what Lattafa publishes. Our best guess is that it has been imported from Histoires de Parfums 1804, the fragrance Lail Maleki is most often compared to, which really does open on pineapple. We have corrected it here rather than averaging the two.
What is Lail Maleki Lattafa a dupe of?
It is best described as a Type B inspired-by rather than a clone. Multiple dupe indexes list lail maleki lattafa dupe against Histoires de Parfums 1804 (George Sand), and the fruit-spice opening, gardenia-jasmine heart and sandalwood-sweet-resin base do line up. Lattafa has never confirmed it, and Lail Maleki is sweeter and more linear than 1804, so treat it as a homage rather than a swap.
How long does Lattafa Lail Maleki last?
Honestly, we do not have a figure we would stand behind. Retailer copy claims over ten hours; that is marketing, not measurement, and the independent databases carry either no community ratings for this fragrance or a contested record. Expect a strong opening couple of hours followed by a close, warm honey-amber skin scent. Two sprays is plenty.
Is Lattafa Lail Maleki for men or women?
Lattafa lists it for women and men. It leans distinctly feminine through the gardenia-and-honey heart, and one database files it as masculine, which we think is a mistake. We stock it as both women’s and unisex — if you like sweet florals, wear it.
What is the difference between Lattafa Lail Maleki and Lail Maleki Moroccan Blue?
They are two different fragrances that share a name. Lail Maleki (2018) is the original: honey, gardenia, orchid and caramel — sweet, floral, feminine-leaning. Lail Maleki Moroccan Blue (2024) is a later, separate release: bergamot, citrus and aromatic spices over amber, florals and musk, landing on agarwood (oud), patchouli and sandalwood — woody, spiced and much drier. There is also an Oud Lail Maleki, a third variant in a saffron-rose-oud direction. Moroccan Blue is not a stronger version of this one; pick by whether you want honey or oud.
How much is Lattafa Lail Maleki in the UK, and is there a gift set?
£12.99 for 100ml here with free UK delivery. Across UK listings in August 2026 we found the lail maleki lattafa price between £12.99 and £19.99, with a £24.99 list price on several sites — so this is level with the cheapest we could find. We found no boxed Lattafa gift set for Lail Maleki, though a 250ml matching deodorant body spray does exist.
How many sprays should I use, and when should I wear it?
Two. This is dense, sweet juice and over-application is the usual complaint. Wear it for autumn and winter evenings, dinners, weddings and Eid; it is too heavy for a warm office or a summer afternoon. Give a fresh bottle a few weeks in a drawer before judging the opening.
Note pyramid taken from Lattafa’s own published product copy and cross-checked against several independent retailers carrying it; where UK listings publish a conflicting pineapple-aldehyde-cinnamon pyramid we have said so and explained which record we trust and why, rather than averaging them. The 2018 launch date and the women-and-men classification come from the fragrance databases. The Histoires de Parfums 1804 comparison comes from multiple independent dupe indexes, not from Lattafa, and 1804’s pyramid is quoted from the brand’s own site. No verified independent longevity data exists for this fragrance, so we have not quoted a figure. UK price range from UK retailer listings surveyed in August 2026. Last reviewed August 2026.
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