Manakara

Very pretty scent, I don't think I'll buy a full bottle because I prefer gourmands and this is not too gourmand, but it is still a beautiful scent overall. I mostly smell the rose note and not the lychee.

The initial scent is lychee and as it dries, I get the rose. However, this has very very poor projection and longevity. The scent will remain slightly if sprayed on clothes, but not on skin. For the price, it's not worth the repurchase.

It smells verryyyyy nice, it's like fruit punch juice; however, at first sniff, you can smell the alcohol and it feels artificial... to me, it's nice and feminine. I won't buy it because its not 100% me, but I can see why people love this fragrance, but I have to say that it doesn't smells that natural as I said.

This is so princess-coded. It is a juicy, fruity perfume! It is so intoxicating and jammy! This also lasts long on me and is one of my favs.

This fragrance is juicy in all of the right ways and beautiful!! It's fruity, slightly rosy, but I get more juicy yummy notes here and the longevity could be a little bit better, however I got a full bottle and it is perfect for summer!!! Lychee but a very sweet lychee and it's so good.

If you want to smell like a sweet, flirty, and juicy little fruit, this is the one! Addictive!

I received a sample of this and had to order a full bottle. The most delicious, sugary, syrupy candied rose-lychee scent. It’s sweet, flirtatious, and intoxicating! Doesn’t smell too mature considering it’s a rose scent, but still elegant. Beautifully blended! Wow!

I own over 200 scents now and can say without a single reservation that this perfume is incomparably classy and ELEVATED. But while also being very lighthearted and fun. Two things you rarely find together. This is definitely going to be a lifer perfume for me. If I could give it more than five stars, I would.

It’s so refreshing to smell something like this where it’s not an overcomplicated messy designer perfume. This perfume is not complicated at all. It’s extremely chic and ELEVATED, but also approachable and sweet. Honestly, such a cool girl perfume. Signature sent worthy for sure.SO happy I blind bought a full bottle

I'm usually not a big fan of rose, but this perfume is so good. The sweetness of lychee with rose is such a good combo. Got a sample and I want the whole bottle.

Irrevocably smitten!! One spritz reveals a complex amalgamation of jammy lychee and rose, an intoxicating marriage that is neither overwhelmingly sweet nor gratuitously floral. The fragrance is a tropical reverie - lush, delicate lychee meeting red, ripe fruits, all enmeshed in soft, creamy florals. It defies the norms of both gourmand and floral categories, thereby creating a genre all it's own.

I must be the only person who does not like this scent (or isn't being paid to like it lol). I was very much looking forward to trying this after all of the TikTok hype, but it didn't smell anything like how they described it online on my skin. (Is it possible I got a bad or mixed-up sample?) Initially I got almost exclusive cedar notes, On the dry down some light fruit notes did develop, but nothing I would describe as "pink" or fruit forward, and definitely not sweet or syrupy. No rose, no tropicals, and no lychee. I think this scent leans much more masculine and I am wanting to have my partner try it. So glad I bought a sample of this first before buying the whole bottle.

Ok, I'm a little sad about this one - I ordered a few samples to be sure and I was OBSESSED with it - literally lychee with a bit of rose, as described. Finally pulled the trigger and the bottle I got doesn't smell like the sample - the color is different as well, which I know can happen, but I don't get the lychee in the bottle at all which is why I wanted it and what inspired me to buy it from the sample. :(

I love this scent so much, I can’t stop spraying myself with it. Girly and beautiful pink scent.

A happy, fruity, pink mood moost. Sweet, playful, innocent scent without any masculine notes at all. I love that type of scent, so it's right up my alley. I think it's especially nice when I layer it with a chocolate scent, and I do that a lot with La Via Del Profumo Amber Chocolate plus this. But it's nice on its own too. It's one of the few perfumes that I'll need a 2nd bottle of.

Love it so much that I am definitely getting fb.MFK impressed me again!!

Wow. Big. Sweet. I get no lychee--and that's why I ordered it. I get no rose, either. I get a big chemical blast of something very sweet and powerful, if you like that kind of thing. I'll pass.

Manakara is a bit polarizing...like all the fragrances I end up falling in love with. My first whiff out of the sample vial was a shriek of alcoholic cherry (expensive alcoholic cherry) and I hated it. Eventually I decided to try it on my skin on a day when I could easily scrub it off. And it bloomed in the summer heat into an edible rose. It has this super-sweet and warm intensity of blackberry, lychee, and rose (plus some expensive smoke that my skin chemistry brings out) that I find so addicting. I can see how it can be criticized as adolescent, but I see it as the scent of Romeo and Juliet if it were a comedy instead of a tragedy. Adolescent can still be timeless.

A friend who recommended "Manakara" to me described it as "smokey prune", which utterly puzzled me when I looked up the notes. However, after I got my sample, I saw what she meant and I think that it is a very apt description. I'd be hard pressed to pick out a rose note and I don't eat or smell enough lychee to know if this is faithful, I'm afraid, but I do know that I love the end result. It is quite unusual and quite striking. I'm surprised so many people find it too sweet - it's sweet for sure, but "sweet" is not in the top 5 descriptors I would choose for this fragrance, and even then, I'd call it sweet-and-sour. If you like it, the great news is that projection and longevity are fantastic, like so many Francis Kurkdjian scents.

I am building my niche perfume wardrobe. In the past, I was totally dedicated to a few perfumes each from the Creed and Lutens houses. Most of my fumes were either skanky or breezy, as in citrusy. Since branching out, I am drawn to the sugarbombs. I don't know why my preference changed so drastically, but it has. I went thru a long period of grief, so perhaps coming out of it I sought out the sweets as comfort. And now I found Manakara. It is so gorgeously up my alley. The sample vial has got my heart set on FB. It makes me feel lovely and innocent...it could hold that pesky black hound at bay, capice? I love how the perfumer managed to combine sweet with the cutest little rose ever. And if this Lychee, a note I knew nothing of, it has won my heart. My step mom, who hates every perfume I have ever worn, said, "whatever you are wearing is soooo sweet...and I love it on you.". We have one of those brutally honest relationships, so if she says it, that's as food as money in the bank. Thus, I am going to have to add this to my growing stash of sweet and lovelies. I am lucky that these types of scents work so well with my chemistry. Luz this stuff!