{"product_id":"lattafa-fearless-edp","title":"FEARLESS Edp","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLattafa Fearless: Passion Fruit Over Cocoa, and a Tobacco Note That Is Not Quite Tobacco\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLattafa Fearless is a men’s eau de parfum that reached the brand’s own store in early October 2026, in a single 100 ml size. Passion fruit and grapefruit open it. Cocoa and lavender run through the middle. Tobacco and cedarwood hold the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat last note deserves a second look. Nicotine sits on the European list of substances banned from cosmetics, so tobacco absolute reaching a perfumer here has already lost its nicotine. The tobacco in Lattafa Fearless is a real leaf extract, stripped of the thing that makes tobacco tobacco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLattafa Fearless: the short version\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat it is:\u003c\/strong\u003e Men’s eau de parfum, 100 ml, released in early October 2026.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSmells like\u003c\/strong\u003e: Tart tropical fruit over a cocoa and tobacco core, with lavender holding it dry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFamily\u003c\/strong\u003e: Woody and warm spicy. Not a gourmand, despite the cocoa.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBest for\u003c\/strong\u003e: Cool-weather evenings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWatch out\u003c\/strong\u003e: One database carries a record under the same name with entirely different notes. It is not this fragrance, and Section 4 explains why.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLattafa FEARLESS Fragrance Notes:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTop Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Passion Fruit, Grapefruit, juniper berry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMiddle Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Cocoa, Lavender, Cinnamon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Cedarwood, Tobacco, Patchouli, Benzoin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lattafa Fearless pyramid on the brand’s own product page matches what the major fragrance databases carry. Independent sources therefore confirm these ten materials, rather than everyone copying one listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe absences matter too. No vanilla, no oud, no amber three materials that anchor most of what Lattafa sells. Leaving all three out is as deliberate a choice as the passion fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe accord breakdown for Lattafa Fearless puts warm spicy first, then woody and aromatic, with tobacco, patchouli and lavender close behind. Sweetness ranks mid-table rather than at the top, which matches how the cocoa behaves on skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat does Lattafa Fearless smell like?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLattafa Fearless opens tart rather than sweet. Passion fruit brings a sulphurous tropical edge, grapefruit adds bitterness, and juniper lifts it with something dry and gin-like. It is a bright entrance, and a brief one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the structure turns over. Cocoa arrives on top of lavender, which looks strange written down. Lavender runs herbal and camphorous. Cocoa runs dusty and bitter. Cinnamon bridges the two, and the result reads closer to a tobacco pouch than to dessert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base is where Lattafa Fearless settles. Tobacco, cedarwood, patchouli and benzoin all move slowly. Benzoin carries a soft resinous sweetness that rounds the cocoa off, while cedarwood keeps a dry woody line running underneath. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContrast is the through-line. Something bitter sits against something sweet at every stage, and that tension is what stops the cocoa collapsing into a dessert note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe tobacco note cannot legally be tobacco\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTobacco absolute comes from solvent extraction of the leaves of Nicotiana tabacum, the plant that fills cigarettes. Left untreated it carries nicotine, and suppliers put that figure near nine percent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicotine and its salts appear at entry 246 of Annex II to Regulation 1223\/2009, the European list of banned cosmetic substances. A perfume on sale in Italy cannot contain it at all, and that includes Lattafa Fearless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo perfumers buy the denicotinised grade. Suppliers label it in exactly those terms, and the conformity paperwork circulating in the trade reads Tobacco (Nicotine Free) Absolute. Published IFRA guidance then caps that material at roughly one percent of the fragrance concentrate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery little room remains. Most of what reads as tobacco in Lattafa Fearless comes from elsewhere: the hay, honey and dried-fruit facets of the absolute itself, plus the cedarwood, patchouli and benzoin stacked around it to suggest smoke and leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe point for a buyer is straightforward. A tobacco note is a composition, not an ingredient. Two fragrances can both print the word on the box and smell almost nothing alike, because it describes a target rather than a bottle on the perfumer’s shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy the passion fruit opening is the unusual part\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavender forms the spine of the fougère family, the oldest and most conventional structure in men’s perfumery. Warm hay-like sweetness normally sits beneath it, and tobacco fits that slot naturally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLattafa Fearless keeps the skeleton and drops a tropical fruit on the front of it. Passion fruit is rare in a men’s release and turns up far more often in feminine florals. That single substitution is what makes the fragrance read as current rather than classical. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrapefruit and juniper do the corrective work. Both run bitter and dry, so the fruit lands tart instead of sugary. Juniper “berries” are not berries either but seed cones, which is where the resinous bite comes from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho Lattafa Fearless suits\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCool-weather evenings, on someone who wants gourmand warmth without a straight vanilla profile. Lavender and grapefruit hold Lattafa Fearless on the dry side of sweet, so it lands as a tobacco fragrance with cocoa in it rather than a chocolate one. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaytime and office wear look plausible in winter. How well that works depends on spray count more than anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you already wear sweeter Gulf gourmands, this sits one step drier and more bitter than most of them, which makes it the easier of the two to wear in a meeting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow long does it last?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing trustworthy has appeared yet. Lattafa Fearless is days old, and the performance figures already circulating online are guesses rather than tests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat can be said is structural. Tobacco absolute, patchouli, benzoin and cedarwood sit among the slower-evaporating materials in perfumery, and this is an eau de parfum rather than a lighter concentration. Both facts point the same way. Neither of them is a measurement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LATTAFA","offers":[{"title":"2 ML","offer_id":57355746509178,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"5 ML","offer_id":57355746541946,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"100 ML","offer_id":57355746574714,"sku":"6290362345213","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/0891\/4541\/files\/lattafa-fearless-perfume-bottle-against-white-background.jpg?v=1791313343","url":"https:\/\/zaoud.it\/it\/products\/lattafa-fearless-edp","provider":"ZAOUD - Profumi Arabi di Nicchia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}