I love this one as a gourmand wearer. Has a smooth creamy drydown. I wear this one the most!
i was given a sample size of kefi a little while ago and i pretty much immediately fell in love with this fragrance. i just can't seem to get enough of how lovely it smells, and i recently purchased a full-sized bottle. i can say with confidence that this is my new signature scent. it's simply phenomenal!
Very beautiful and complex, it has a subtle sweetness and lingers on skin for several hours!
Love ALL 5 scent i ordered on the try me size!
I’m so relieved that I didn’t read reviews for this scent before blind buying it because I see it gets a lot of love from the gourmand loving crowd. No shade if you love gourmands- they just aren’t for me. But Kefi has me in a vice grip in the best way possible. It’s got a little sassy at the top, some live deliciously in the heart, and a drydown that has me sniffing myself like a weirdo all day long. Another masterpiece from Madison De Animaux 🖤
Yet again, Im blown away by how much I love the sweet and vanilla-based scents from this house. Kefi is bright and tart yet grounded by the creamy vanilla and sandalwood. Its like sniffing a warm bowl of homemade black currant compote with a splash of heavy cream. Not too tart, not too sweet; perfectly balanced and packed with comfort.
Sooo good m! If you like gourmands youll love this!
I love love love this scent! So special! Perfect for travels this summer!
literally just the perfect fragrance. so delicious i want to eat it
Smells very woody/cedar, but not in a bad way. Husband likes it.
One of my fave cool weather scents.. this is my cozy sweater in a bottle. It’s rich and warm with the ginger and amber. This is also perfectly unisex, like many from this house. This one lingers.. I love that!!
Part of this smelled great but I'm coming to learn that Black currant smells like blood to me. That was the only note I didn't like. Some people probably like it, but this scent was not for me. Lasted a good amount of time though. Decent quality.
Didn't love it right out of the bottle, BUT I think it's great to layer on top of a more subtle fragrance.
this is my dream fragrance that i didnt know i needed until i smelled it! it has a deep vanilla incense like base and a sweet candied ginger note on top that come together to make the most unique, slightly aromatic and extremely comforting fragrance!
Very nice! It's like ginger candy kind of spicy, but sweet underneath. The ginger mixed with black currant reminds me of a pomegranate for some reason. The sandalwood and vanilla on the bottom is like the sweet part of the candy after you eat all of zingy spicy parts and are left with just the sugar. It's a great anytime fragrance! Super uplifting, not too strong! Very nicely balanced. I knocked it down a star because the longevity sucks. Barely made it 3 hours on me.
Great scents and presentation!
This was an instant scrub for me. For one, patchouli is very connected to a certain time in my life, so there's an emotional component, but on me, this smells like old beer cans and sour milk. It was not pleasant. Not up to the par of other frags I've tried from MDA!
My new signature scent, so incredibly good!!
I do not like gourmand scents and I really didn't know how Kefi would suit me. I didn't get any of the forest or greenery that many other reviews mention, but my skin always amps vanilla and amber notes above all. On me, it's vanilla amber with candied ginger keeping things interesting. The overall effect is suggestively edible and sweet, but confident and grounded.
It's becoming a pattern in my MDA journey that each fragrance dries down to lovely base notes, but maintains some complexity throughout the day.
This is my favorite MDA fragrance thus far. You're walking through an evergreen forest on a briskly cold morning, with trees oozing with resins while eating orange slices candy.
The vanilla resins profile puts me in mind of fragrances like Eau Duelle and Architects Club, while the cold air nose feel reminds me of the one in Architects Club and Saint Julep. I feel like I keep chasing this scent profile everywhere, but this might very well be my favorite iteration of it. It was an instant love. I caught it on a shirt in my laundry days later and immediately wanted to wear it again.
I absolutely love Kefi. It’s lovely, warm, spicy and sweet like a ginger candy. I can’t stop smelling it.
A beautiful, warm spicy scent. Reminds me of Mispouffer but a fraction of the cost. A perfect enveloping scent for winter. The sweetness isn't cloying and the sandalwood grounds it. Cozy but also a bit sexy. And it lasts ALL day! Lovely, high quality juice. Wish the bottle had the brand's name on it but that's just personal preference!
Fast shipping, packaged very nicely and fabulous fragrance!
Spicy, but unique. The candied ginger really comes through without being sweet
Absolute work of art.
Vibe: Sweet spice morphing into powdery green vanilla.
Story: Opens like a warm hug with cinnamon sugar fingers, then shifts—powdery, fluffy, and grounded. That vanilla? Less cupcake, more mossy meadow. It’s like a Greek celebration that ends in a forest nap.
Definitely getting a full bottle. This smells so different than any perfume I’ve ever gotten. It’s a little spicy, a little sweet. I can’t stop smelling my wrist and I love catching whiffs of it throughout the day. It’s unique and a little intoxicating. It wasn’t the one in the sample that I thought I’d be drawn to, but here we are.
I really enjoyed this one, I'm thinking full bottle worthy. Wonderful fall, spicy scent with an added touch of sweetness. I'm happy with the longevity also.
This fragrance is making me wish for fall - even though I’m a summer lover. Spicy, sweet but not too sweet, fruity… it’s so good. I’ve been wearing it as a bedtime scent until it cools down some and it is so cozy and comforting. Longevity on me is amazing. Can still smell it the next morning and it lasts forever on my sheets. Can’t wait until the days cool a bit so I can wear it out. LOVE.
This one was a bit of an afterthought- I ordered three sampler sets and needed one more to fill out my order, so Kefi was added. It ended up being my absolute favorite of the 15 or so (they threw in a few extras) scents I tried. Warm, spicy, delightful! I'll be buying this on in the full size.
Beautiful fragrances!!
This one was suppose to be my favorite, the one I was looking forward to the most. It didn't smell anything like the description. Intact, 4 out of 5 of the samples all smelled the same.