How does Maison Asrar Monarch smell?
Cardamom and cinnamon give the top a warm, aromatic spice, and peach adds a soft, velvety fruit sweetness. The heart is creamier than the top would suggest: jasmine is a rich white floral, milk adds a smooth, soft, lactonic quality, and coconut adds a sweet, creamy, slightly nutty character. The effect is a spiced peach that turns quickly into a creamy, milky floral, which is not a combination you meet in every note list.
Heliotrope is a soft, powdery, sweet floral, patchouli adds an earthy dryness, and musk keeps everything smooth. The family words say Woody, but no wood is named in the list, so that side probably comes from the patchouli and the base as a whole. The overall impression is a creamy, fruity scent with a powdery, earthy finish rather than a sharp, dry wood, and the cardamom and cinnamon give it a spiced start.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Monarch
Maison Asrar's product page for Monarch gives its family as woody and fruity.
It also puts words of its own on three of the notes: peach (fruity, sweet, craving), coconut (creamy, exotic, soft) and patchouli (earthy, woody, warm).
The label in the shop's photo of Monarch reads Royal Collection.
The note list on FragranceGems' own product page names nothing that this list lacks.
Who might like Maison Asrar Monarch?
Monarch is for someone who likes the idea of peach and warm spice combined with milk and coconut, and who prefers sweetness to come from creamy and powdery materials. Fruity Maison Asrar lines with coconut or milk and a musky base are the closest comparisons by notes.
Monarch and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
Maison Asrar Hilm overlaps in jasmine, coconut, patchouli and musk. Its own notes are mandarin, mango, orange and chamomile, against cardamom, peach, cinnamon and milk here.
Maison Asrar Lolita overlaps in peach, jasmine, patchouli and musk. Its own notes are red fruits, ylang-ylang, blackcurrant and tuberose, against cardamom, cinnamon, milk and coconut here.
Maison Asrar Luna and Monarch meet in peach, jasmine, patchouli and musk. After that the first lists bergamot, magnolia, orange and gardenia, the second cardamom, cinnamon, milk and coconut.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Monarch in Europe
FragranceGems lists Maison Asrar Monarch in 100 ml. The button below opens the perfume itself in the shop; the product page shows the current price and whether it can be ordered today, which this guide does not.
The shop ships from the Netherlands to 25 EU countries. Delivery times and countries are on where to buy.
View Monarch at FragranceGemsOpens this perfume on FragranceGems, an independent reseller.