La Collection d'antiquites 1910

Lattafa built its La Collection d'Antiquites line around dates that mean something, and 1910 is the entry that leans fruity-floral before settling into something warmer. Released in 2023, this eau de parfum opens on apple and rose, a combination that reads more vintage perfumery than modern fruity-gourmand. Aromatica carries the Lattafa La Collection d'Antiquites 1910 decant in Bangladesh in all available sizes, so you can spend real time with a fragrance that changes shape more than its bottle art suggests.

Fragrance Notes

Top: Apple, Davana, Rose

Heart: Cedar, Osmanthus

Base: Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Patchouli

The Scent

Apple arrives first, and it is not the candied kind. Davana pulls it toward something winey and slightly fermented, closer to fruit skin than fruit juice, while rose sits underneath keeping the whole opening from tipping into pure sweetness. That contrast is the most interesting part of the first twenty minutes: ripe fruit against a dry, herbal rose that refuses to soften completely. As the top notes thin out, cedar steps in and gives the composition its spine. Osmanthus follows close behind, bringing a leathery-apricot nuance that reads almost tea-like against the cedar's dry woodiness. This is where 1910 splits opinion a little. Some skin chemistry pushes the osmanthus forward into something fruitier and softer, while other wearers get a drier, more woodsy heart with barely a hint of the apricot facet, and both readings are legitimate depending on how your skin runs. The drydown is where the name earns its keep. Vanilla and tonka bean move in together, thick and slightly bready, and patchouli grounds the sweetness so it never turns into dessert. What starts as fruit and flowers ends as warm, earthy vanilla with enough cedar left to keep it from feeling flat. The transition from the bright apple-rose opening to this base is gradual, not abrupt, so nothing about the drydown feels like a different fragrance entirely. Watching the apple and davana settle is worth doing on purpose, since the fermented edge fades before the rose does, leaving a stretch where rose alone bridges the fruit and the cedar. Cedar and osmanthus do not replace the top notes either, they overlap with the fading apple for a while, so the fruit skin quality lingers under the tea-like apricot rather than cutting off cleanly. By the time tonka bean joins vanilla, the patchouli has already started to surface underneath, so the base builds in layers instead of arriving all at once. Rose reappears faintly at this stage too, a thin thread running through the vanilla and cedar that keeps the drydown tied back to the opening. Anyone paying attention to how the notes hand off from one to the next will notice the davana never fully disappears, it gets quieter, folded into the patchouli's earthiness until the two are hard to tell apart.

When to Wear

This suits cooler evenings, think a dinner in Dhaka once the heat breaks, or a winter trip somewhere with actual cold. The apple-rose opening reads well for early evening gatherings, while the vanilla-tonka base carries it comfortably into late-night settings. Anyone building out a Lattafa collection for the cooler months should have this on the shortlist.

Who Is It For

This fits someone who likes gourmand warmth but gets bored of straightforward vanilla, and wants a fruity opening that has some bite to it rather than pure sugar.

If you enjoy La Collection d'Antiquites 1886, it comes from the same set and rewards a side-by-side comparison, and La Collection d'Antiquites 1505 is worth trying too if the vanilla-patchouli base here works for you. Browse the full Lattafa collection at Aromatica.

Available as an authentic decant in Bangladesh at Aromatica in 3ml, 5ml, 9ml, and 15ml.