Andrea Maack

Coven

Eau de Parfum

Femme
  Unisex
Masc
Fragrance Notes

Woody notes, green grass, soil tincture, oakmoss, whiskey and spicy notes

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Scent Bar Staff Video Review for Coven

Video Transcript

Coven is this wonderful fragrance from Andrea Maack, this incredible artist out of Iceland. This is one of my very favorite fragrances by her. I love her line in general. But this is, if you like the smell or like the idea of the smell of damp earth, this is it. This is damp earth in a bottle. This is a spooky haunted forest.

It's perfect for October but it's also great any time of year if you just want that cool green sort of herbal and earthiness. There are woody notes, spicy notes. There is a touch of whiskey that I can kind of detect, just a tiny touch of booziness.

All in all, it's just kind of somber and contemplative and soothing and dark and mysterious just like the rest of her line. I love this. Check it out. Coven.

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This is Halloween, but not in a trick-or-treating way. This is a graveyard after dark wafting with soil, wet moss, dead leaves, burning wood and ash, with a dash of maybe nutmeg and chili peppers just strong enough to keep the scent alive. It reminds me of what my backpack smelled like after a 4-day hike in the Appalachian mountains. It’s transportive and incredibly grounded, but still feels eerie and dark. I put this on today and immediately heard a crack of thunder in the distance. Coincidence?
By   - SVP from Los Angeles on 9/2/2025
This was a lot more green than I was expecting. Going by the name alone, I thought this would be firmly a fall scent, something to wear on Halloween. It's mostly that, but the green honestly throws me off a little. Don't get me wrong, I am very much a galbanum girlie and I love green scents, but I feel like it sort of confuses the genre here. To me, it really just ends up smelling like if the grocery store put the stinky outdoor fall decorations right next to the nursery. Potpourri next to a vase of fresh cut greens. It's not "bad", but I am not seeing the vision. It feels like two very different perfumes layered together in a way that doesn't quite work for me. 5.5/10.
By   - Attorney from Boston on 4/4/2025
Loved the initial smell, petrichor and super earthy dirt, but then it quickly faded to green peppers and lost some of the initial nuance. Wish the initial smell lasted longer.
By   - retoucher from Brooklyn on 11/15/2024
This is the ONLY perfume I have ever re-purchased. It feels like standing in a quiet forest in the middle of the night. I like to smell like I live in the woods, but in a clean way. It’s also very unisex, which is essential for me because I am quite androgynous. Mostly a green scent, it’s also wet, woody, and spicy. The spice fades the fastest, so don’t let it scare you off. This EDP really lasts. A timeless, cool perfume for sure.
By   - Commercial Insurance Processor from Portland on 7/3/2024
Smells lovely in the bottle on first sniff, green and earthy, but on the skin, a sickly overpowering grassy note takes over, heavy and overwhelming. Was disappointed and didn’t meet the over romanticized description that reviewers rave about.
By   - Stylist from San diego on 7/1/2024
This is my favorite new scent. It smells like dancing around a fire with an ancient deity in the old growth forest under a blood moon. I constantly get asked what I am wearing and my husband loves it.
By   - Tattoo Artist from las Cruces on 2/2/2024
Ay ay ay, chiles compadre! No offense, but who wrote the scoop? Doesn’t smell like the forest at all. This is a big batch of chili peppers. I agree with a previous reviewer who wrote ‘all I got was hot Cheetos all day.’ Go for it if you like smelling spicy, Just don’t come back and hate my review if women find you repulsive for giving off ‘Guy Fieri at a hot wing eating contest’ stench.
By   - Highway construction  from Panorama City on 1/27/2024
GLORIOUS. Has a sharp, fresh petrichor scent that lasts and lasts. I don't get as much of the smoke or incense some people mention--there's definitely a little spice, but the scent reads more "clean" to me. I feel lucky this works for me, because I catch whiffs of it all day and smile.
By   - writer from baton rouge on 7/5/2022
Sharp and peppery, with a hint of something synthetic underneath. This seriously lasts all day. It almost feels abrasive, but I keep coming back!
By   - Artist from New York on 1/15/2022
I love the smell of Fresh Cut Grass/Moss, but not on me! I smell like a musty mothball.
By   - N/A from NA on 1/13/2022
I am a new worshipper of perfumes; suddenly, a space is opened in my olfactory life that lifts me up and transports me into other realms. Suddenly, my nose is so alert and focused on this wonderful adventure. I am gaining olfactory discernment, but I'm a total freshman! I didn't realize it at first, but as I study, smell, learn and experiment, I now know that some of those realms are ecstatic. Andrea Maack's Coven lured me into a forest of notes that make me deleriously happy. I feel safe, completely part of the coven in the forest, at one with the natural world that surrounds me. I tried it all day today and ordered a bottle at midnight--the witching hour.
By   - university professor from ORANGEBURG on 12/26/2021
Loved this scent on a friend and bought a bottle for myself. Loved the first hour of scent but ended up smelling exclusively like hot Cheetos. Definitely my body chemistry, because it smells incredible on my friend. Not for me, but recommend for those curious
By   - Graphic Designer from NY on 12/26/2021
If you've ever worked at a bar, you know the smell of the recycling dumpster in summer when the alcohol residue has turned into a sickly soup at the bottom. That's what this smelled like to me -- I can see how people could find it intellectually interesting and obviously it strikes others differently, but I found it really unpleasant. I guess this is a matter of taste because others are enthusiastic but it's a low score for me.
By   - Editor from Washington on 9/24/2021
I'm reviewing the sample as I wait for the FB to be back in stock... Green and mossy... to me it smells like that moment just after a Southern Ontario thunderstorm when the air is "emptied" and the ground -- the grass, the cement, the trees, mulch, everything -- is soaked. There's a strange void here around which the other notes circle that made me keep sniffing. Can't wait to spray it on.
By   - Professor from Toronto on 8/19/2021
Coven was in my first batch of Luckyscent samples ever, just over a year ago. Don't care to count how many I've accumulated since, but it was an immediate favorite. The full bottle is better still. Opens sharp & green with black pepper & crushed ivy before mellowing into a foggy walk along mossy cliffs. There's a cozy glass of whiskey waiting for you at home. Smells like solitary contentment. Perfect for early spring gardening, even if a pot on a fire escape is as close as you can get right now. Does make me miss walking alone through rain-drenched streets, though.
By   - Visual Artist from Brooklyn on 4/26/2020
While I admit that I was initially drawn toward the "spooky" name and scent description, I was blown away by the actual sample (which inspired me to write my very first review in almost 10 years of Luckyscent)! Coven reads as if my dearly departed bottle of Donna Karan Chaos from 1996 had *literally* risen from the grave...loamy soil and damp leaves and wet green moss enshrouding that classic black pepper/cinnamon/incense bomb. It's not a twin but a sister scent, quieter, darker, and less spicy-sweet than Chaos. I'm in love, and saving for a full bottle - Io Evohe!
By   - Artist/Designer from Los Angeles on 2/1/2020
Used in spell work, representing the earth below in its mossy rot wood, the air element of char and smoke.. Conjuring is a word breathed over a drop.. So mote it be
By   - Healer from Cincinnati on 10/20/2019
True story.. Got a sample of Coven along with a few others. When I opened it, I thought: "what is this vile tincture?!?", It stank of old hay and I threw it back in the bag never to be touched again. Jump in time a few months, I open it again, same effect. Horrible! In my disbelief that someone would create a fragrance this stinky, I tried it on me.. Next thing you know, I'm addicted to the stuff!!! It turned into the most gorgeous, dark, yet clean, mysterious, original smells I ever tried. I literally kept my shirt out of the wash basket, so I could continue smelling it! Hahaha! I've never changed my mind so drastically about anything in my life! Bewitched, spellbound? Maybe..... This is the new perfume I was looking for!
By   - artist from UK on 4/11/2019
So I had to come back and leave another review. I managed to get a small spritz bottle and I love this perfume even more now! So incredibly unique and I actually get compliments wearing it. This is full bottle worthy for me for sure.
By   - Chef from Vancouver on 2/2/2019
I got a sample of this perfume. I really liked it, quite smokey on me with a hint of spice. Definitely reminiscent of burning incense in a cauldron. I really wish the samples came in little spritz bottles though. I never feel like I get the true impact of a spray perfume when I'm dabbing/rubbing it on my skin. I'd definitely consider getting a full bottle of it if I could try it out of an actual bottle. Perhaps I'll see if my fave local perfume lady has this in stock so I can try a proper spritz.
By   - Chef from Vancouver on 1/9/2019
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